Smoked burgers

Dear family,

We love Emma, and enjoyed celebrating her birthday today.  It was fun to see how joyful she was with each of her birthday gifts.  Much love to all!

Love,

Dad

Friday, January 8, 2021
9:56 pm

Today was Emma's birthday.  She was so excited that she couldn't sleep past 6:30.  She helped me pack lunches this morning and told me all about her plans for the day. 

Work was a day.  I worked on preparing our new video banking service to be deployed later this month.  Randy and Mom helped me do some testing.  Mostly worked, found a few kinks still to work out.

The roommate of one of my employees tested positive for COVID today.  He immediately left to take one of the new rapid-response tests and we disinfected everything while he was gone.  His results were negative, and the sick roommate moved home until he recovers.

We grilled burgers for Emma's birthday dinner tonight.  They were good.  Julie does such a good job making the patties.  Mom and Randy joined by Facetime since they are still in the final days of Randy's quarantine; Dad is improving, but slowly.

Thankful: I am thankful for Christlike leaders and hope to be like them.

Ministering: I hope I ministered to Emma on her birthday.  I also texted a couple members of the ward.  It feels like that's about our best option during COVID. 

More later…

Everyone loves playing with Emma's birthday gifts!