Saturday, January 31, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Our Week
Teresa's at the doctor now, probably the last of the family's string of sickness dating back to before Christmas. We think she has the flu and pink eye. Despite that, she chose to re-paint the upstairs hallway yesterday while Dan was away for the morning playing with a friend. That's dedication-- it looks a lot better. Teresa has basically painted every room of each of our previous three houses, and she's jumping into touching up this one.
Hal goes to piano this morning, and Courtney is at a Young Women sleepover. I did a little Scout work this morning, now that I'm the Scoutmaster in the ward. We've got a campout coming up in Wisconsin at Sol R. Crown campground, which is just over the Wisconsin border.
I'm working on learning Spanish, which is my new year's resolution. I've been listening to the tapes that Mom got me in the car, and practicing with Courtney and Hal. It's going to take a little while, but I'm making some progress.
We're bummed that the Chicago temple is closed for so long. It used to be our date every Friday night to go to a session, but when the pipes burst from the cold, it sounds like they had some damage and had to close it. Looks like early March opening-- in plenty of time for our family temple day / get together on April 24th and 25th. I hope lots of you can make it!
I'm enjoying my job here-- learning a lot by interacting with our business leaders around the world. It is very different from anything that I've done before, and very challenging. The coordination is the major challenge. Abbott is doing well despite tough economic times, which is a blessing. Our international infant formula business exceeded all of our forecasts for 2008, which was good to see. I'm preparing now for some upcoming training for salespeople in Latin America and a global marketing meeting in Singapore.
Hal goes to piano this morning, and Courtney is at a Young Women sleepover. I did a little Scout work this morning, now that I'm the Scoutmaster in the ward. We've got a campout coming up in Wisconsin at Sol R. Crown campground, which is just over the Wisconsin border.
I'm working on learning Spanish, which is my new year's resolution. I've been listening to the tapes that Mom got me in the car, and practicing with Courtney and Hal. It's going to take a little while, but I'm making some progress.
We're bummed that the Chicago temple is closed for so long. It used to be our date every Friday night to go to a session, but when the pipes burst from the cold, it sounds like they had some damage and had to close it. Looks like early March opening-- in plenty of time for our family temple day / get together on April 24th and 25th. I hope lots of you can make it!
I'm enjoying my job here-- learning a lot by interacting with our business leaders around the world. It is very different from anything that I've done before, and very challenging. The coordination is the major challenge. Abbott is doing well despite tough economic times, which is a blessing. Our international infant formula business exceeded all of our forecasts for 2008, which was good to see. I'm preparing now for some upcoming training for salespeople in Latin America and a global marketing meeting in Singapore.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Christmas 2008
We got back last night from our trip to Lafayette and Frankfort, and had a great time with family there. Singing together at Christmas is always one of my favorite things, and I got to join around the piano at Wesley Manor to sing with Pat, Amy, George, and Stan. Mom and Marleta were on the piano. Pretty amazing to see how many kids were there. Had Marleta & Larry there + there kids and Grandma Simpson.
The trip home was much easier than the trip there-- not much traffic, which was good.
The house is still in a Christmas mess of toys, puzzles, and food. Dan woke up this morning and declared "It's still Christmas!"
Courtney was going to go to her first Young Men/Young Women dance at church, but she did not feel well so she stayed home and worked on her talk that she's giving in church today. I'm giving the Primary lesson today on "We can be kind to animals". I've got the animal memory game copied out of the manual, so I'm well on my way to being ready. Will enjoy our last week of 11:30 church until we start our 9:00am church time in the new year.
I was up late last night with Teresa and the boys putting together a Monsters Inc. puzzle, which was much harder than it looked when we started. We've also been playing Spore, which is a very fun, but long and somewhat violent PC video game. I've gotten used to staying up late and waking up late during break. Will need to get back to my early morning routine sooner or later.
Here's a picture of the kids and Dad at Pizza Hut in Lafayette, and a picture at Wesley Manor in Frankfort.
The trip home was much easier than the trip there-- not much traffic, which was good.
The house is still in a Christmas mess of toys, puzzles, and food. Dan woke up this morning and declared "It's still Christmas!"
Courtney was going to go to her first Young Men/Young Women dance at church, but she did not feel well so she stayed home and worked on her talk that she's giving in church today. I'm giving the Primary lesson today on "We can be kind to animals". I've got the animal memory game copied out of the manual, so I'm well on my way to being ready. Will enjoy our last week of 11:30 church until we start our 9:00am church time in the new year.
I was up late last night with Teresa and the boys putting together a Monsters Inc. puzzle, which was much harder than it looked when we started. We've also been playing Spore, which is a very fun, but long and somewhat violent PC video game. I've gotten used to staying up late and waking up late during break. Will need to get back to my early morning routine sooner or later.
Here's a picture of the kids and Dad at Pizza Hut in Lafayette, and a picture at Wesley Manor in Frankfort.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Allison baptism
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Having the missionaries over tonight for Christmas eve, along with Travis, a new member of our ward. Got some more snow, and Teresa and I spent a bit of the morning shoveling the driveway.
Sunday was Allie's baptism, which included Rachel Butler, another 8-year old girl. She looked very sweet in her white dress. The dress came out of the water a bit during the baptism, so I had to do it a second time. I held her near the bottom of the font for a second to make sure that she was completely submerged. She later said that she did not mind because she is very good at holding her breath.
I'll always remember what a cold evening it was for her baptism. The kids were freezing going just the short distance from the van to go into the church building. It was below zero, and even colder than that if you count the wind chill. I don't really believe in counting the wind chill, though, because wind is so highly variable from one spot to another (are you in an open field, next to a wall, or near a group of trees?) I think it's all just a scheme by the media to make the weather sound more exciting.
Anyways, the baptism was very nice, and it included the song "I Feel My Savior's Love", sung by Courtney and Allie with Megan and Rachel Butler.
I worked home yesterday because nobody was in the office and the snow was so bad. I'm off now until January 2-- yay! It's been a busy time at work.
Merry Christmas!
Having the missionaries over tonight for Christmas eve, along with Travis, a new member of our ward. Got some more snow, and Teresa and I spent a bit of the morning shoveling the driveway.
Sunday was Allie's baptism, which included Rachel Butler, another 8-year old girl. She looked very sweet in her white dress. The dress came out of the water a bit during the baptism, so I had to do it a second time. I held her near the bottom of the font for a second to make sure that she was completely submerged. She later said that she did not mind because she is very good at holding her breath.
I'll always remember what a cold evening it was for her baptism. The kids were freezing going just the short distance from the van to go into the church building. It was below zero, and even colder than that if you count the wind chill. I don't really believe in counting the wind chill, though, because wind is so highly variable from one spot to another (are you in an open field, next to a wall, or near a group of trees?) I think it's all just a scheme by the media to make the weather sound more exciting.
Anyways, the baptism was very nice, and it included the song "I Feel My Savior's Love", sung by Courtney and Allie with Megan and Rachel Butler.
I worked home yesterday because nobody was in the office and the snow was so bad. I'm off now until January 2-- yay! It's been a busy time at work.
Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Christmas Party with Santa
Had a 14th birthday party yesterday, and celebrated by watching Madagascar 2, which the kids enjoyed. They are big fans of the first movie. The evening consisted of a Christmas program at church, including a chance to visit Santa!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
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