Feb 11th, 2014
Dear Elder Dahlquist,
Yesterday was Calvin's 11th birthday! For the celebrations he has had several fun
activities. Saturday Dad and Kari took him to get his own present. He chose to
get Healey's. He can't really use them which was very frustrating to him but he
is still happy about them. You know he
likes name brand things…perhaps you trained him to like name brand things. You
know Dave and I don't! I will be
interested to see if he learns to use the wheels or if he has given up on that and
will just use them as regular shoes.
Sunday we had family dinner. Calvin chose to have chocolate
trifle for dessert. Dave still doesn't eat trifle after an unfortunate incident
with barfing lots of trifle last time he got a stomach virus. We had Hawaiian haystacks for dinner. Calvin
isn't very passionate about food (except for happy meals) so when I was
planning dinner he just asked that I try to make something he likes because he
didn't have anything in particular that he wanted me to make besides trifle.
Next Saturday we're having a bowling birthday party for him.
We invited a few church friends and a few school friends. Should be fun.
I got an email from your friend Trevor Brown. He says you
are the best friend he ever had and that he has never known anyone to treat
women so well. How sweet! He said he just got back from his mission. Glad he
was able to go back and finish. He has probably written to you also but still I
thought I'd pass along what he said.
This Friday is Valentine's day and also Tressel's 5th
birthday! The kids are excited to have hot dogs and sing happy birthday to him.
I love the tradition of celebrating Tressel's birthday on Valentine's Day. It
takes away the stress of celebrating the (lame) commercial holiday that most
people are stuck with! Tressel is such
a part of the family. I had a friend offer to keep him for a year while we go
to Houston but I think the girls would be too homesick without him so I guess
he's coming along.
Speaking of Houston, we're spending lots of time trying to
get ready to go. Dave is spending HOURS of time
and THOUSANDS of dollars trying to get his medical license in TX. It is ridiculous!
I am looking for school for Calvin and a home. I have a great home that we can
rent for next year if I get schooling worked out for Calvin in the area I want
will be perfect. It is about 15 min from the medical center which is nice. The
commute/traffic in TX is terrible so it'll be good to be close. I love the
mormon world. I found the house through
a Karen Davis's sister's friend who put
me in touch with a great contact in TX. He emailed the ward and we can take
over the lease of another medical family graduating this june. So we know the
ward is good, the school is good and the
neighborhood will have lots of mormon families. I'm excited. I really hope the school situation for Calvin
works out. It might fall into place just right and there are about a million
ways it could not work out. I have high
hopes though.
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