Summer Travel Plan Proposal

Aisuru Minasan,

Your Mom and I just sat down and tried to come up with a potential travel schedule for our summer. As you all know I have some vacation time issues because of last years requirement to use up 27-days. This schedule takes Spencer's baptism, Paul and Hollie's blessings, and your Mom's desire to spend a week with Grammie and Papa sometime. This is our best effort and hope you'll be able to use this as a framework for your schedules too.

20~23 June Kevin & Holly in Chicago for Spencer's Baptism
23 June to 7 July Holly in Salt Lake
3~7 July Kevin in Salt Lake (Paul and Hollie's blessings on the 6th)
19~29 July Holly to Marysville

I know it is being somewhat presumptuous of us to set the schedule before you've set the dates, but your Mom was getting a little stressed about getting some kind of schedule laid out so we could try to fit some stuff in for us.

Kate, you and Jonathan are planning on coming over here in August and so is Adam. You all are welcome at the same time, overlap, or at separate times...you're just welcome, so let us know a couple of days in advance so your Mom won't have to stay up late getting the "house in order" for a visit.

I love you all and hope this helps...

Dad

I came across a great quote from Elder Bednar today…guess I missed it last year in the Ensign.

You and I can be prepared with 'the words of faith and of good doctrine' (1 Timothy 4:6) and initially cleansed through the ordinances and covenants administered by the authority of the Aaronic Priesthood…

"Proper preparing and cleaning are the first basic steps in the process of being born again.

"…You and I are born again as we are absorbed by and in the gospel of Jesus Christ. As we honor and observe the covenants (D&C 42:13) into which we have entered, as we 'feast upon the words of Christ' (2 Nephi 32:3), as we 'pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart' (Moroni 7:48), and as we 'serve [God] with all [of our] heart, might, mind and strength' (D&C 4:2), then:

"Because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters' (Mosiah 5:7)."

David A. Bednar, "Ye Must Be Born Again," Ensign, May 2007, 20-21)

What a week...

As you all know my Dad was given an imediate evection notice from Sterling House. We received the certified letter last Saturday. I talked the folks up there to let Dad stay until Wednesday morning. I was anticipating moving him to the Pueblo VA Community Living Center Wednesday morning. Well, just as plans began to come together for tomorrow's move, I received a call from the admissions director at Pueblo today at 2:00. He told me that their doctor in reviewing Dad's charts from Sterling House, she noted his frequent diarrhea and decided he needed to have a stool sample sent to the lab and get the results back before he could move in. The test takes 72-hours and he can't move until the results are back. I left work and drove to the VA clinic, Bijou and I-25 before they closed at 3:00 to pick up a sample kit. Then I got to sit with him (3.5 hours) until he had the urge. On my way to the VA I called Sterling House to let them know and if it was in anyway possible he might be able to spend a couple more days there. They're so nice there and they said yes. Now, just pray with me that the tests come back okay and he can go down not later than Saturday. I'm just not sure how much more of this I take of this. If it wasn't for Holly and you guys I think my life would suck.

Pray for us.

Jichan

Oh Boy!

First, we're happy, Adam and Sammi are here. Second, we have a storage locker full of crap... again... We just can't get rid of the junk, just as we get it mostly taken care of, we get more. I think this is going to be the last load of stuff. Kim, we have your table near the door and as soon as I can figure out a good way to get it back to you, it's on the way.

I know we haven't written anything for a long time; sorry. We've been going pretty fast the past month or so. My knee has actually gotten quite a bit worse the past two weeks. I was pretty crippled last week by the time I got back from my trip to Dayton, Ohio. I called the doctor and got my appointment moved up a week. I'm going in next Monday.

This week I had to go to Denver Tuesday thru today. We only drove to the exit just before 470 (the road to the temple) We parked and took the light rail downtown. I'll tell you, that's the way to go downtown. Parking is free, and it only cost $8.00 round trip. Parking at the hotel we were going to was $20.00 per day, and we would had to fight traffic all the way downtown.

Holly is in heaven with Sammi around. She's upstairs right now giving Sammi a bath.

I sure wish we all lived closer...with eight and soon to be nine little guys, we'd love to be nearer to them all...I know that's not realistic, but we get to have our wishes.

I really want to get us all together next summer ('09)...start thinking about that.

We promise to be more regular about posting. love you all.