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ort we finally made it to our rental car which stunk of smoke but we were too tired to really care during the pep rally someone broke into our rental car and stole my laptop my suitcase with all my clothes and benjamin s kindle returned the rental car on thursday at 7 am only to find out they charged me a 300 cleaning fee for the smoke smell unbelievable still fighting that charge posted by tomthack13 at 10 20 pm no comments happy new year 2017 happy new year sunday january 1 2017 the christmas season has come and gone and our attention is turning to the new year time to renew our goals and resolutions and push for that continual personal and family improvement i ll admit i haven t been as excited to set new goals this year i m not sure why i think part of it was that 2016 was such a great year in so many ways it will be hard to beat but we had a good priesthood meeting today in which we talked of the importance of sincerely trying and putting forth an honest effort in improving i shared a quote in priesthood that my brother james shared with me from cs lewis the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge when the man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left within him when a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less the great divorce needless to say the lesson was just what i needed to motivate myself in creating this next year s resolutions while tomorrow we will conduct a family night putting together our family s resolutions tonight i will focus on my own resolutions fortunately i had written down goals recently for my 40th birthday so now i can just expound on those some new goals spiritual 1 daily personal prayers and scripture 30 minutes 2 daily family prayers and scripture 10 minutes 3 monthly temple attendance 4 weekly family night 5 100 home teaching 6 magnify ysa calling by getting to know all ysa in our ward 7 daily reflection and improvement physical 1 dinner with family each night 2 60 minutes daily exercise 3 weekly random act of service 4 fried food no more than once per week 5 daily vegetables and fruits 6 monthly one on one dates with savannah benj and jacob 7 lose 10 pounds to 185 lbs career 1 excel in sales management position 2 30 minutes per day continued education 5 days a week 3 3 sales per month 4 temporally secure 5 build 2 spec homes 6 purchase rental property posted by tomthack13 at 10 02 pm no comments sunday november 13 2016 eve of 40th birthday yes i officially turn 40 years old tomorrow never did i imagine i would ever be this old or maybe i did imagine it but that i would have had everything figured out in life well i certainly don t have many things figured out but wow has time flown by it seems like yesterday i was graduating from olympus high school and heading to capistrano for senior trip since that time the concept of time has sped up exponentially here s a quick timeline going simply from memory 1995 summer senior trip to capistrano family trip to hamburg to pick up james summer working at dr tidwell s dental office start fall semester in mining engineering at u of u fill out mission papers 1995 dec 1998 jan serve in russia st petersburg mission 1998 return home start back immediately at u of u try to figure out how to adjust back to normal life as well as what to do with my life start dating 1998 june heidi lynn vanwagenen shows up at my door aaron and i go on double dates he takes heidi and i m wishing she was my date all night long i ask her out the next day 1998 august i propose to heidi at the top of little cottownood canyon just as the sun is rising we dance to her favorite singer at the time celine dion on the top of the mountain she says yes 1999 2001 marriage work finish up schooling at byu join army 2002 2004 basic training at ft jackson south carolina advanced training at ft sam houston tx bought 1st home in kearns for 114 000 deployed first to ft lewis in washington then to ft drum ny worked as dental technician 2005 returned to remodeled by heidi house finally conceived and had savannah sold home moved in to rental property with grandpa and grandma van changed profession to real estate 2006 bought 2nd home in woods cross 2007 benjamin born nearly lost both heidi and benjamin due to full ruptured uterus and artery doctors worried about permanent brain damage 2009 start building new home in kaysville 2010 new home finished on heidi s birthday jacob born april 3 only 4 lbs 11 oz 6 weeks early 2011 2016 love raising this family back to my imminent 40th birthday while it does seem like 40 is over the hill i ve decided i certainly don t feel old and this is a perfect time to re dedicate myself i m going to start fresh so to speak and recommit myself to the things that matter most today while at dinner at my parents i asked my dad for a father s blessing it s been several years since i ve received one from my father it was a great experience part of what made it great was to have all three of my children see their dad receive a father s blessing from his father just as they ve received from me i hope it s something they always remember so that as they grow older and become parents they too will continue to ask for a father s blessing new goals 1 daily personal prayers and scripture 2 daily family prayers and scripture 3 monthly temple attendance 4 weekly family night 5 60 minutes daily exercise 6 30 minutes per day continued education 5 days a week 7 weekly random act of service 8 temporally secure posted by tomthack13 at 9 39 pm no comments sunday november 6 2016 brotherly elders quorum november 6 2016 brotherly elders quorum i m continually impressed with the amazing insight i find in our elder s quorum i ve never felt more charity in a quorum before meaning insights and comments are shared that truly seem motivated by pure love love of the lord and a form of brotherly love towards each other today jordan stephenson opened up about the challenge he personally has been facing with a daughter who has an un diagnosed neurological disorder we were reviewing elder ballard s general conference talk to whom shall we go https www lds org ensign 2016 11 sunday morning session to whom shall we go lang eng there is a paragraph in there that compares life to a steep climb and that many of us may need to take a rest re evaluate and reconsider our pace but he urges us to stay on the trail jordan was working two jobs after his undergraduate degree then started the master s program and was called into the bishopric he had always believed that you always accept a calling because the lord will provide a way to accomplish and fulfill it after a while the bishop called him in and said he felt like jordan needed to spend more time taking care of his family and that he was going to release him and not give him a calling for a while i felt this was a perfect example of what elder ballard was referring to in his talk posted by tomthack13 at 8 53 pm no comments bedtime chats november 6 2016 bedtime chats with dad one thing i know i will miss when the kids have grown out of this stage are the nightly chats at bedtime while benjamin and jacob s nightly chats are aligned with the simple goal of procrastinating going to sleep savannah s have evolved into thought provoking discussions tonight she was letting off some steam about how her friend edi doesn t act like much of a friend at all when edi s other friends are around the discussion evolved and i felt impressed to share with her the importance of controlling where and what we want to focus on within ourselves and in others we talked about mom s back and sickness problems and how if that s all we focus on the relationship gets worse and life gets harder and more miserable or how we can focus more on jacob s fun excited and humorous attributes rather than the constant barrage of whining we talked about mark and ali and ruby who has cancer mark and ali seem very happy and have joy in their life they are happy because ruby appears to be acting like a normal active 3 year old and isn t lying around sick in bed all day they are happy that they have had and continue to have time together as a family it would have been easy for them to get mad and complain about how life isn t fair interrogating the world of justice with the why me rhetoric but instead they are experiencing the joy and peace that comes from choosing the right having faith and living the gospel posted by tomthack13 at 8 53 pm no comments monday september 19 2016 when the going gets tough here we are at the end of another summer i would say fall but it doesn t really feel like fall here yet although i have watched you ve got mail a couple of times already and it feels like fall so it might as well be fall the colors in the mountains are changing and i am hoping we can get up there to see them up close and personal before it s too late we had quite the eventful summer it was a short one not quite 2 months because the kid s school is transitioning from year round to traditional my siblings surprised my mom and dad in disneyland to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and it was the best time ever really and truly everything went off without a hitch and it was two days of pure van wagenen family happiness holly mindy and i shared a hotel room with scotty and we had such a great time good good memories hmm what else we went to bear lake with the thackeray family and that was heaven literally that trip helped get me out of a dark hole that i had fallen into figuratively speaking of course it was beautiful the kids loved spending time with their cousins and it s safe to say that now two years and counting it s going to be a very loved family tradition immediately after returning from bear lake my back decided to not cooperate and i was down for about two weeks that first week was also the first week of school so thankfully i have a very loving husband mom friends visiting teachers who stepped in to take care of meals and house work during that time the kids have great teachers this year all three of them as a mother you have many worries about your children but the time they are not physically with you tends to be the most worrisome how are they being treated how are they treating others who are their closest friends are they good influences on them are they making good choices the list goes on and on really and i have to say that is what keeps me awake at night and as they get older that worry doesn t ever really go away it just changes the way it manifests and i know it only gets more difficult and complicated from here savannah is involved in ballroom at school ballet piano and tumbling but it s tumbling that she loves the very most and she s very naturally gifted her ankle has been hurt on and off for the past three months and she is getting really frustrated with it and because she s frustrated and hurting i m frustrated and hurting i recently heard the phrase making the decision to have a child is momentous it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body it really is so true when they have triumphs you are on top of the world if they are sad it causes you to be sad benjamin is currently in the throws of competition soccer and loving it it took us awhile to get that fire burning in him but he plays well and loves it i couldn t have hand picked his team and coaches more perfectly salt of the earth kind of people benjamin is my child that is my tester my smooth talker my stubborn one i think his mind often times goes faster than he is able to process and respond appropriately so on most days i try to my best to be patient and it really pays off patience can be exhausting though but he knows how to melt my butter and for 3 years running i have had his primary teachers tell me how much they love and adore him jacob my 1st grade boy he is learning and growing so fast his whining after 4 years is starting to decline he s our funny boy the one who likes to tell a joke or tease you and tries to keep his best poker face about him he is in his 3rd year of recreation soccer and with benjamin s help has become quite good he continues to be a really good artist and pays great attention to detail he also loves his kisses and snuggles and has from the day he was born i m doing okay was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea and will be on a cpap machine forever more i ll keep you posted on that in the future signing off for now posted by heidi and tom at 5 30 pm no comments monday april 25 2016 tap tap is this thing on long time no talk yes it s me heidi the originator of this blog i m laying on my couch with an injured back writing my sacrament meeting talk for mother s day and i decided to pull inspiration from my blog turns out there s some good stuff in here the last blog book we had printed was back in 2011 so i am going to find a way to have a book printed until we are all caught up in case you re wondering i m 39 will have been married 18 years this year and feel like i have grown a lot over the past few years i still love indian food think my kids are great and love where we live we have now been in 3 different wards since we moved here six years ago and so much has changed about our neighborhood but i still love it jacob started kindergarten this past fall and i now have or should have 3 hours to myself every day having my last child go to kindergarten was a bit of an emotional roller coaster i spent the first few weeks spending those hours outside of the home so i didn t feel the obvious void of being the only one in the home now that we are approaching the end of the school year i find that i am enjoying the quiet more and more but that s not to say it s quiet all of the time i find that my time is not only filled with motherly duties but helping my neighbor and good friend nanny by watching her kids as well as helping holly watch the twins i figure this is a good time in my life to serve others and i love the baby snuggles i ve been able to get over the past few years i have struggled with not being able to have more children and i mean struggled i ve looked into adoption too expensive and fostering that s still not out of the question but the older tom and i get and the older our children get we are finding that we are settling into being a family of five and being content about that not to say that i don t miss having babies in my home but i also don t miss diapers juggling small children in the store and wiping children s bottoms there are positives and negatives to our family makeup but i m choosing to view the positives more and more what else hmmm why don t i catch you up on each child savannah 10 almost 11 is my biggest helper and will always be my favorite girl she is kind making lots of new friends and has really come out of her shell this past year i owe a lot to her teacher mr nash who has really been an answer to prayers good man and amazing teacher sava...