Tag: Savannah
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A meal and some perspective
“A good man learns from his mistakes. A great man learns from the mistakes of others” and I would add that a father hopes that others will learn from his mistakes. The big thing for today was going to meet Savannah and Aaron for dinner. I’ve been planning this since Savannah talked to me about…
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Amateur counselor
This morning I talked with Savannah about her concerns with how Aaron is trying to beat his own burdens mainly in isolation. We talked and I arranged to go visit both of them in a couple of weeks. At the end of my work day Bill called to talk. That was good because I’ve had…
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A good day together
Savannah and Aaron were here today and it was good to have them around. We got to play games as a family and Laura and I took the two of them to lunch and talked about trailblazing the family transition from everyone living under one roof to people living their own separate lives while still…
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Surrogate parent
Alex informed me that Ezra played a game we have forbidden on Alex’s VR. When I told Ezra that would be a problem he informed me that Enoch had been playing another game that should be equally banned. I brought up to Alex that Enoch was not allowed to play that game and he point…
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Savannah Christiansen
We had a wonderful wedding and reception today. Alex was able to join us and the biggest problem we faced was that my car (which Savannah and Laura were driving) overheated in Draper and I had to go pick them up and get them to the reception center, plus we had to manage the remainder…
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Final preparations
As of this morning there were still a couple of details to wrap up in preparation for the wedding. We had a package that needed to arrive from Amazon with items for the hot chocolate bar and film for the camera that will be with the guest book. On top of that Savannah needed to…
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Christmas preview
We got a preview of Christmas today. Savannah and I were finally home, Aaron came to visit (which he won’t in Christmas) and we opened a few gifts as well as Aaron helping me bring in the new couch for Laura while she was napping. We also managed to do Savannah’s lunch with Dad (Aaron…
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Savannah’s in laws (to be)
Today Laura and I went up to Layton to look at wedding decorations and scope out the ballroom where the reception will be held. When we went out to the ballroom we also got to meet Aaron’s parents. I had met Matt (his dad) on Saturday but this was the first time meeting Julie (his…
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Savannah engaged
Savannah got officially engaged today. We saw her and Aaron yesterday while we were in Logan for the pumpkin walk. Aaron took the opportunity while Savannah was playing with the kids to ask if we were okay with them getting engaged and let us know that he intended to propose today. He even showed us…
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Savannah engaged(ish)
Savannah asked Laura and I tonight “what if I were to get engaged?” I say “ish” because she says it’s not official yet but as I questioned her to know clearly identify where things stood it’s essentially official in that she and Aaron have an understanding but that Savannah (at least, who knows about Aaron)…