True . . . .

Guess what!

What?

You can't have a camel for a pet.

Why not?

They spit.

(Thank you Libby)

Brainwashing your kids

We are using a projector to enjoy some movies this Holiday Season. As he is setting it up and checking it out he starts a Star Trek episode. As soon as the music and the logo comes on the kids about explode with excitement.

"STAR TREK!!!!!!!'

Attitude

Last Sunday Mike and I were sitting up on the stand with the choir after the sacrament had been passed and I had arranged for a young woman to sit with the kids. She brought a friend with her, its ok, I promise, both really good kids, 18 yrs old and in our sunday school class. They were doing a pretty good job, the kids weren't bugging anyone. Actually really good for my kids. At one point Henry dissapears. I finally notice him rolling around under the benches. They keep trying to get him to sit up and sit on the bench. Not happening.

Then Libby disapears. So girl #1 says: Libby come sit on the bench please.

Libby ignores her

Girl #2 says: Libby you need to come sit on the bench please.

Libby: I heard her the first time thank you very much!

They both die trying to control their laughter.

I just can't wait anymore!

I don't know how people do it! I can keep a secret. But how do you keep a secret that you want to tell people and you are just too excited? Well, we are going to have a baby in July! (due July 8th, but knowing me it will be a June Baby!)

We aren't telling the kids yet, so please help us keep that secret. I just don't want them complaining for the next 7 months that the baby isn't here yet!

Window

On Monday I was getting on the freeway and heard a pop, and also kind of felt it. Scared me. I finally got turned around enough to see that my side back window was shattering. I could hear it shattering too. I was worried that the window would fall out and I would either have a big mess in the car or get in trouble for littering on the freeway. So I pulled over and assessed the damage. I could see that the whole window was shattered and staying together somehow. I called Mike and asked him to bring tape so we could tape up the garbage sacks I had. This way if it did end up falling it wouldn't make a mess anywhere. While I was waiting an officer and two strangers stopped and offered help. There wasn't anything any of them could do but I was very impressed with their willingness to help. How often do I just blow by someone who has pulled over? I finally made it home and put Mike in charge of figuring out how to fix it. I drove it to work on Tuesday and after school got in my car to come home. I closed my door and heard glass falling. Yup, I now had a big hole in my window. What you see is after it grew. I got out to check how much had fallen, got back in, and shutting my door created another smaller hole. As I was driving I kept hearing glass falling, it was staying in the sacks and the two holes had combined into the big hole you can see through the sack! So I stopped and traded Mike cars cause it was causing me too much stress to keep driving it. He got it fixed, so now my window is fine, but wow! The weird things we have to deal with sometimes.

GO UTES!

Utah 31, Oregon 28

AWSOME GAME

enjoy the pictures

GO UTES!!!!!

I am going to try to upload a slideshow of the pictures that I took on our trip to Michigan. (there are almost 200 pictures, sorry!) Here is a recap of what we, my brother David and I did.
On Friday we flew to Chicago. When we got there we went and found some Pizza. From what we were told it is Chicago style pizza. I don't care if it was or not. I think that is the best pizza I have EVER had. mmmmmm. That was at Gino's East. There is a picture of the restaurant, just in case you were wondering what it was.
Saturday we got up early and drove through Chicago via the freeway, wait, I am going to call them freeway's out of habit but they are mostly toll roads. That was fun, NOT. I managed to snap a couple pictures of downtown Chicago as we drove past. There are better pictures later because we were later able to go downtown. On the way we passed some cars that were on their way to the game also. They had Michigan flags and what-not on their cars. So we put a jersey on the back of the seat so they knew that we were Utah fans.
Once we go to Ann Arbor we went to the mall dressed in our Utah garb for the game. It was fun watching all the people in their Michigan stuff whisper behind our backs. "They are from Utah!" (Really?) Then we walked the2 miles from our hotel to the game. We had some people honking at as and other things. We just waved back :)
As you know we won the game. I got a lot of pictures of the stadium and all the people there. It was amazing to have 108,000 people so quiet when I can't get 30 students to be quiet. I am definitely going to have to study this further.
Sunday morning we again got up early so we could drive down to South Bend via Ohio. I think we both wanted to add another state to our lists. So I got a lot of pictures at Notre Dame. I even got one of them painting the helmets, sorry they don't do it by hand.
I even managed to get a picture of the McDonald's in the middle of the free way!! And the train that runs down the middle of the freeway. Very odd for me. We drove around downtown Chicago for about an hour. We weren't planning on having time to do this so we were just driving and seeing what we could see. Probably missed a lot. Chris if you ever read this there is a picture of a building that I need identified. I have no idea what it is, but it sure looks cool.
Before we went to the airport we stopped for lunch. Where we were was just outside of the airport. The planes kept coming in. I can't believe how low they come in over some buildings. So I had to take a couple pictures of that. I am crazy, I know.
Oh and in case you haven't hear yet, we beat Michigan, 25-23! They managed to keep their lead, YEAH!!!!!



Here is an email that David sent me. We are such good sports:
How was everybody's trip back to Utah (or various locals)? I enjoyed the game here in Ann Arbor (I grew up in Utah but now live here in Michigan) from the 2nd row up on the south 5 yard line (It does pay to have connections).

Couple of compliments for all you fans that went to the game from the people here:

First I have heard several comments from coworkers and others around her(e), about how impressed they were that Utah had so many fans make the trip to Ann Arbor. While its been over 10 years since I last was in the "Big House", according to several here, we had as many, if not more fans, than even some of the Big-10 rivals bring in.

And second, I have heard several compliments from the people here how friendly and pleasant most all the Utah fans were.

Anyway It has been fun and thanks to all you who made the trip.

Name has been removed to protect the innocent
Michigan Ute Fan