5-6-2018

Friday, I took my lovely wife, Diann on a date. We went to Costa Vida (one of our favorite spots) and because of discounts credits earned, spent $4.00 on dinner. Then we went to Pine View Cinemas and saw The Avengers: Infinity War in 3D. We had a good time but remembered why it has been so long since we saw a 3D movie--it gives me headaches and makes Diann feel nauseated.

Yesterday, I ended up watching my little guy, Malachi for most of the day. Diann took about three hours taking my three oldest to their all-day play practice. Then, later on, she went to the store, and I stayed home since we were watching the Hinton children. Overall, the day provided some much-needed bonding time with my little baby. In the evening, we went to Elena's dance recital. Elena did great. In fact, everyone did a very good job there, and we had multiple nieces and nephews in other dances, so it was relatively entertaining. However, it ran for over three hours and definitely had me antsy by the end.

Today, my nephew/brother, Tyler blessed his baby at church. He lives across the street from us and is a great young man. We just need to get him to church more often. This is only his second time coming since he moved here, and he has yet to stay past Sacrament meeting. I would love nothing more than to see him take his young family to the temple.

I also went to stake choir practice today. This will be my second time singing in the stake choir. Since the Stake Presidency asked certain couples to sing in the choir, we have a fuller choir than I have seen at a conference yet. It should be a good experience. In the past, however, I have not enjoyed singing in church choirs. I thought it was all choirs until I joined one of the elite college choirs when I was going to Dixie; I thoroughly enjoyed that experience.

5-1-2018

Just a couple of weeks ago, I found out that a boy from liahona had overdosed on Xanax since he had gone home. He went home early; when he went for a home visit he never came back. He learned a lot at liahona, and he tried to do well for quite a while. But when life got hard, he gave in to the temptations and the old patterns that he used to fall into. His name was Zachary Padilla.