Busy Times for Matt

Poor Matt has been pulling some really grueling hours for the last couple of months, last night he didn't get home until 11:30 p.m. because that is when City Council ended. He has been going to work at 6 and 7 in the morning and then working his complete day and it will be awhile longer until his schedule lightens up!



Streetscape is coming along great (see the title link for all projects.) The city just put in new generators (and boy are they impressive- huge, I got a one on one tour, ) and renamed the power station in honor of the Fort that was in Santa Clara during Jacob Hamblin's time.

They are also building a 2 million gallon water tower in the south hills which is providing great rock for Matt's weekend projects.

The City Council just appointed a new mayor as of January 7th, since Mayor Drake is now a County Commissioner. We really like Mayor Rosenburg. He and Matt are good fishing buddies (well, they went to New Mexico on a fly fishing trip with Kyler and some other guys.) And so there really wasn't any stress with the new Mayor coming in. They also appointed a new council member since Rick was a councilman, Jerry Amundson is in our ward, is a member of the Bishopric and was on the Planning Commission so he is very familiar with Matt and Matt is very familiar with him- so no stress there either.

But the most exciting project (for Matt,) is the new city hall that they broke ground on and are excavation now for the basement and foundation. I am so excited for him to have an office that is his, decorated by me (and him,) and to have all the directors in one place (Jack right now is in the power station.)

When he is home on the weekends he has been building his own project in the backyard; a really nice firepit and patio in the back of our yard. It is going to be really great. I hope it is done soon because even though it is warming up, it is still chilly in the evenings and I am really looking forward to our nightimes outside!


Matt also has one project waiting for him in the house - painting the kitchen. I was going to do this, but he said that I was doing the primer wrong and so he has taken over. The only problem is that it is going to be a while longer before he gets to this one since he wants to get the firepit done first- since that one was his idea. Which will help him to relax when he is at home- so I don't blame him for wanting to get that one done before the kitchen...