Strawberry Days Parade & Backyard Fun & a little more

6-19-2010

Dan was still at the RAGNAR race so I took the girls by myself over to the Strawberry Days parade in Pleasant Grove. Rick & Cheri (and her family) had saved spots so that was nice. They even had set up the canopy so we had shade!! The kids didn't really want to go, but they ended up having fun. They were worried about not getting candy because they aren't aggressive enough to get any, but they came home with plenty of candy, which made them happy!!

After the parade I borrowed my dad's truck and ran down to RC Willey to pick up Dan's Father's Day gift - a new BBQ. I was excited cuz they even built it so he wouldn't have to. Well I get down there and they said they had given it to someone else, they offered to build it but I couldn't get it until Monday. I decided to just take an unbuilt one and not deal with it. When I got home the salesman called me and said he was just told what had happened, apologized and said the paper work had been blown off and they had one there that I could just got swap them. I decided against that too. It was too big of a pain with borrowing a truck and Dan was on his way home. So he got to build it himself anyways.

While we were waiting for Dan to get home the kids played in the pool out back.

Warning: the next part is lengthy and mostly for journaling purposes!

Dan got home between 3:30 and 4:00 pm. His excitement and adrenaline wore off pretty quickly once he was home. He was sitting at the computer trying to prepare a talk he had agreed to give the next day. It just wasn't working so he went to bed at 5:30 and said he'd get up at 4:00 am to prepare his talk for sacrament at 9:00 am. He ended up waking up at 3:30 so he got up and drank a red bull and started his talk (so much for sleeping in on father's day). By the time I got up around 6:30 or 7:00 he was already tired and had to drink another red bull. He still wasn't ready when it was time to leave so he told me to go ahead. Before I left when he tried to print his talk we discovered the computer upstairs was dead. During the song preparing for the sacrament, one of the counselors in the bishopric came down to make sure Dan was coming because he was still not there and he was the first speaker. During the sacrament the counselor let me know that he had walked in. I guess why he was so late is because once he got his laptop hooked up to the printer, he found out the printer was out of ink and he couldn't find any ink cartridges (if I had been here I knew where they were and the rest of the problems would have been eliminated). He then remembers that we have another printer in the basement, so he emails the talk to himself and goes down to find the computer turned off. He turns it on, of course it takes an eternity to warm up. Then the internet won't work. Long story shortened, he does finally get it printed and makes it to church. He was so tired though that he had a hard time keeping his thoughts straight, but I'm proud of him for doing it!!! I wouldn't have even accepted the "invitation" to speak with his busy weekend before hand.

Now let me back up a little - the whole week prior to this didn't go exactly as planned and he had very little sleep. Monday was Makayla's birthday- he had to work a little late. We had family movie night. Then Tuesday (because the weather was better) we took Janika & Makayla to the Veteran's Memorial Pool for Makayla's birthday. They have 2 fun waterslides. We all had a lot of fun. When we were ordering some dinner Dan realized he had missed several calls from work (actually both works). He ended up going back into both of them - his regular job for an hour or so. Then over to his side job until around 7:30 the next morning. Then he had to go straight to his normal job. I don't know how he does it. Because he was going out to dinner with his team on Thursday night then leaving Friday morning for the RAGNAR race we had planned to have date night Wednesday. I didn't know if that would happen now, but Dan said he was fine and we went. What a trooper. Thanks honey!!