Dejong Design Associates

This week was my first week back to work since I left Encana. I'm now employed as a summer student at Dejong Design Associates. They're an architectural office located on the barracks just off Crowchild Trail. So far it's going fairly smoothly, I spend most of my time using a program called "Sketchup" to build 3D models on the computer. Unlike most of the jobs I've had (and I've had not a few), I didn't win this one with my good-looks and charm. My good friend Dave Walker happens to work there too and he's pretty much responsible for setting the whole thing up. I'd like to thank him publicly for getting me this job, but I wont. No, I think he's the type who would appreciate a personal thank-you, in the form of a lifetime of friendship, and by friendship I mean casual greetings in the hallway and a yearly Christmas card.

Lucy Jane Williamson

Last Tuesday, May 3rd, Heather and Tyler had a beautiful baby girl! Her name is Lucy and she was 7 pounds and 4 ounces. Both mother and baby are doing great and everything went pretty smoothly. It's their first child, my parent's third grandchild, and Tyler's parent's first grandchild. Tammy and I now have 2 nephews and 5 nieces between both our families and our baby is next on deck. We're excited that our baby will be so close in age to a bunch of its cousins and that they'll all be living so close. Congratulations Heather and Tyler you're going to make great parents!

Stake Conferance Broadcast

Today was the Stake Conferance broadcast featuring President Monson, Elder Bednar, and Elder Jensen of the Seventy. I really enjoyed the talks given by all the bretheren and their wives. I love hearing President Monson talk about his time as a Mission President in Canada as I served in some of the places he talks about. My first Mission President was an AP under President Monson and my second one was an AP under Elder Ballard when he served as Mission President there. I also served as a District Leader for seven months in a town called Branford Ontario (known to most as the home of Wayne Gretzky) and our area included the town of Mount Pleasant where Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon came and baptized a congregation of people which I beleive included John Taylor. Everytime I hear talk of that area it makes me want to go back and visit. I loved it out there. Maybe sometime in the future we'll have to take the kids down to the Hill Cumorah Pageant, tour all the church history sites, and make some stops in Ontario on the way back.