Hey Brother,
Man, what a week it has been!?!
First of all, I had the week off. But then I also volunteered to help the Gardner's out. I house and 2 dog-sitted for them. They have 2 dogs, both girls, named Sailor and Chloe. Sailor is a Mastiff, only 8 months and she is so big already, bigger than Chloe, who is already full grown I think. I watched their house from Tuesday-Saturday. They went up to St. George for the holiday. It took them 8-9 hours to get home from there on Saturday, crazy. They were surprised I didn't eat them out of house, haha. I did eat all the chips. A whole container of chocolate milk and some apple cider, and like 6 or so bags of Tuna Creations, not to mention two or three packs of Nutter Butters. If I was there more throughout the week, like during the day, I probably would have eaten them out of house. I was mostly there mornings til like 10 and nights. I slept over each night. They said I could use the Master Bedroom, but I just slept in the boy's room with the fan on me.
Thanksgiving was really good. Sarah and Dad were at it in opinions of like Trauma and Mindsets and stuff like that. So much so that mom had to shush them up. But it was good. We had Lucy and Jesus over and we played Spoons which Lucy won and beat Dad (because she had three 7s to begin with). Then we played one round of Menos Nueve, which I won. I was sad though, because Lucy and Jesus had to leave after that round and nobody wanted to play it anymore. We just talked for several hours, mostly about Sarah's life growing up, but also about Dad's conversion. When the Peruvians were here, we talked about where Thanksgiving originated. Food was great. Dad's turkey was obviously the bomb.com. Sarah brought green beans. We had potatoes and gravy, stuffing, Papa a la Huancaina, etc. It was super good. Oh, and of course we had Sparkling Cider. Mom only had a little bit, of course.
On Saturday, Sarah and I went to a family's house on Thoroughbred St who set up their house for Christmas lights every year. They are part of that block in Alta Loma that has their lights up with the whole neighborhood, and where people come from near and far to see. It was pretty fun. My favorite part was setting up the countdown clock, which was 30 days and several hours, minutes and seconds.
After that, Sarah and I went to Koreatown to visit with two of her good nonmember friends, Jonathan and Erika. They cooked omelets for us and we had a nice time chatting about everything from driving to how Sarah and I met and about working in the school system. The drive there was way cool, and reminded me about our drive we took from the Griffith Observatory to the temple. It was quite fun.
Then we drove home and got there in time to watch the last three quarters of the BYU vs Hawai'i football game. It was good. We won. Sarah's been really good, but she was tired from the drive home and so she fell asleep on my shoulder in like the last five minutes of the game.
Unfortunately, while I was at the Gardner's house, my car died. It just wouldn't start. Fortunately, after like 6 or more hours of waiting and thinking it was the Starter (which would've cost $300) it turned out to be the battery, which only cost $120. And much more fortunately, the Gardner's payed me $200. So, it all worked out.
We are getting invites sent out this week. Yay! Sometimes, I don't know how women do it. I do not think of half the stuff about the wedding that Sarah has to think about. She's pretty great. I do love her.
Well, I love you. You know:drop a line or two, if you can. I'm anxious to hear about the #LighttheWorld initiative. I was also impressed by your contributions to the #ThinktoThank initiative. Sorry I didn't really participate.
I love you so much.
Your brother,
John
