Diltsman

My wife and I hiked the Y today.  The Y is a letter on the mountain just east of BYU campus.  40 14'49.11" N 111 37'22.40" W. My wife is 7.5 months pregnant.  I carried our son in a hiking pack that some members of our church lent us.  It was a very nice pack, and I was able to put all of the weight on my hips.  My pack was about 30 pounds, while my wife's was about 15 pounds of water.  For some reason people were more impressed by her hiking than they were by me carrying our son. According to Google Earth, the trail is ~0.95 miles each way, and rises from 5172 ft elevation to 6104 ft elevation. My son warmed up to the hike by about 1/3 of

Today shows that God really does take care of us. We were planning on getting our transmission replaced this coming week (using our tax return).  That would have been $2,000+ to get it done.  Well more than the value of the car, but considering we couldn't afford to buy a car that is any better, we figured we'd at least deal with a car where we already know the issues. My brother and his wife brought over dinner tonight.  She is from Peru, and is an amazing cook.  We also had my sister over.  It was good fun. As my brother we getting ready to leave, he mentioned that he had to give me my birthday present three weeks early.  I figured, ok,

Tonight's dinner was really easy to fix.  We had a work party.  They expected 20 adults and 20 kids.  I think they ended up with about 3/4 of that.  I really get along with the guys I work with. They had steak for the adults and hotdogs for the kids.  Really cheap steak...Filet Mignon...  Yeah, not so cheap, but if work is paying for it, I'll eat it. We had it at the park just south of town.  My son really enjoyed the slide and swings.  My wife, she enjoyed the filet mignon.  All in all, it was a blast.