We went camping to Payson for the annual Labor Day campout. Dads friend Darren Hirsche passed away this past week of Huntington’s disease. The disease is hereditary and affects the brain cells. We went to the funeral saturday morning and then straight out to camping. James rode up with the Lynn’s friday night. We were planning on going to the viewing for Darren Friday night but right before dad got home, I realized that I needed to take Jacob to the urgent care because we couldnt get the bleeding to stop for 3 hours on a weird thing on his finger. It looks like a blood blister but it isn’t. It just would not stop bleeding. They had to caulderize it to get the bleeding to stop. It is a temporary fix. We will have to go to the dermatologist to get a more permanent fix for it. Dad went to the viewing by himself.
Last Sunday Christian, Shanna & Charlotte came over! Charlotte was being so silly and of course we were being silly to see her laugh.
Dad and I rode 30 miles on Monday and The picture is of us riding back to our car on the trax. It was a little cooler this week. It was really nice though. We rode our bikes on jordan river trail from Gardner village to legacy parkway trail. We saw a lot of homeless people and graffiti and bad smells and a little sketchy part of town. I would not go alone.
Tuesday we rode 22 miles and went all the way to the north end of Mountain View corridor trail which ends at 4100 south now. It is very hilly. There is one really long hill at the end that is 2 miles Long I think and Dad says it is 1000 ft change in elevation. It was hard but I did it and that was my first time to do that hill.
Charlotte and Shanna went with me and we went to downtown SLC on Gallivan Avenue to this fun little Hipster Vegan restaraunt for lunch. The restaraunt is called Pulp Life Style Kitchen. They have smoothies and açaí bowls and other salad and hot bowls. They have all really good ingredients. It was pretty busy and really crowded and we had Charlotte in a stroller but we managed. It was yummy. On our way out of downtown we bought pastries from a vegan French bakery called Passion Flour Pattiserie! Croissants, macaroons and a scone. They were yummy.
I got this picture this week of the HHS soccer team with Jacob in it from last spring.
Shanna might send you this picture but I wanted to as well just in case she doesn’t. Charlottes expression is so hilarious. Shanna had a little play date with other moms and babies in her ward. Cute!
I bought some toys from Francine Wright’s toy liquidation sale. Charlotte loves them.
Elder Orson F. Whitney (1855–1931) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught that everything we experience teaches us valuable lessons: “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven” (cited in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle [1972], 98).
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