THE Big Game

So you may think I am referring to the big game that took place today between BYU and Utah - no I am not, I do not care to mention that game at all because it was so frustrating. The big game I am referring to was our all girl flag football game Saturday morning against the Butterfield Stage ward. It was a showdown! My friends Jen and Kristen put together teams from each of their wards for a little friendly powder puff football game intended to be fun and light hearted - mmm that was out the door when they started smack talking.

We practiced 2 times, for most of us it was our first time playing football, so we had a whole lot to learn and then a whole lot to remember - you know all of that base right, sweep left, reverse, fake reverse and throw type plays! Our coaches Chad and Jason were studs! We showed up and I admit I was pretty intimidated by their uniforms, their numbers and the amount of spectators they had to cheer them on.


They probably had us beat on style - mind you I thought we looked good, but we were intent on having them beat in skills!

The rules are there aint no rules! Really there was blocking and let me tell you it got pretty physical!

This is Jens little victory dance - maybe it was after her awesome interception!

Kristen our QB has a great throwing arm. She was so nervous at the beginning because there was a little pressure on her being the quarterback but it was for no reason because she had an awesome game!

Oh yeah thats Brandy with a touchdown!

Hmm are we high fiving and celebrating again - maybe another TD or interception!

This was serious stuff - I really had to concentrate to remember what I was supposed to be doing each play and where I was supposed to be running!


Really any chance I had to sit - I was sitting, I felt pretty out of shape and realize that football gives you a bit of a workout. We all left pretty sore and tired - and in my case in need of some advil.

Our victory pose - we beat them 3 touchdowns to 1 and it felt so good! Who said winning isnt everything huh?
It was a great day and a lot of fun - there were all smiles at the end, so fun playing with and against friends. Bring on the next ward we are so ready!

TWILIGHT

So last night - well actually this morning at 12:01am was the long anticipated moment of the 1st of Stephanie Meyers books Twilight being released as a a movie. Along with every teenage girl and a lot of young mothers -we have been huge fans of the series for some time. We gathered a group of 25 ish and bought tickets weeks ago. The hype has been building for a long time, plans were made to meet at 8:00 for dinner and then stand in line. All day long news reports from the mall came in that people started lining up at 6:00am and that 12 theaters were sold out - we expected complete mayham. By the time high school let out, there was a long line. We finally decided to stop stressing the line, it is what it is, and then just show up when we were ready. After getting dinner to go we hopped in line and ate our CPK in line!

The line of 1000s moved fast and by miracle of all miracles by the time we got to the front for the mad dash of theaters, they had just opened a new one and we had our choice of the best seats in the house with our whole group together - aah relief and how great was that! I actually felt bad for all the people that had been there all day! O.K. so now we had 3 hours to kill in a theater! It was spent by chatting and wondering into other theaters, there were so many people we knew all over the place (and a ton of teenagers) that it was just a big socializing session.


As a bunch of old mothers not used to staying up so late we kept laughing at how ridiculous we were - and tired! There was a lot of Diet Coke consumed let me tell you! The big moment arrived and I will spare you my whole critique but just say that it was very entertaining, it pretty closely followed the book, some of the characters were great, some I had a hard time with, parts were done really well, a little too much makeup was used but all in all it was good. Well - so good that I have tickets to see it again this afternoon! But let me explain - Chad would not let me take Hayley until I had previewed it first - much to her disapproval. All of her friends were able to attend the midnight showing and she has been pretty upset about it. I am completely fine with her seeing it, so straight after her early release today we will hit a matinee for a little mother daughter time. I have a feeling I will enjoy it just as much the second time- oh and I look forward to seeing the part that I missed because I had to run - and I mean sprint to the bathroom in the middle. How sad am I! So as we piled out of the theaters, dissecting the characters and movie - we couldnt pass up one more chance of a picture with the little billboard ( most of the gang had dispersed as you can see)!


A great night and entertainment - but it left me with no closure completely wanting the next one to come out - I guess we will be doing the same thing in about a year!

Seriously So Blessed

Really I am Seriously So Blessed have you ever checked out her blog, she cracks me up. Her blog is a complete spoof on the mormon mom, blogging phenonmena. She is witty, clever and so sarcastic, I love it! Anyway a few weeks back she was having a giveaway from her sponsers, all you had to do was leave a comment and then your comment would be randomly chosen to be the winner - and guess what - I WON! Hooray for me! I won a new blog header from making day dreams - in her words I was lurking on your blog and you seriously need this! Well I have been working with the people and they have been so great asking a million questions on what I wanted and what I like. I wasnt much help, I just kept saying that anything was better than what I had and what I could do. She not only created a blog header but also the wallpaper and all the pictures down the side, how great is that! So do you like my finished product - isnt it so cute, I love it and feel seriously so blessed that I have the cutest blog page in town - with no help from me!

Pick me pick me!

Last week on one of the many days off that the kids have this month we hit Sea world - our passes are sadly coming to an end - aah do I get them again for next year - decisions decisions! Anyway we went with the Billings and had the fun-nest day. I have found someone else who like me dreams of becoming a dolphin trainer. We decided this was our day to be discovered and be asked to work for them, sadly it didn't happen, but we did find out that the try outs are in February. I think we are going to go, just for fun and see if we can do everything that is required - like swimming from one end to the other under water (for 2 swimmers it doesn't seem to hard but we shall see!) We decided that it wasn't too late for us to have our dream come true when there was a very pregnant dolphin trainer and a Shamu trainer that was obviously much older than us!

When we were leaving the skies, like they were all week long, were just brilliant! We stopped in the parking lot and had to take some pictures - yeah why not do some high school musical jumps in the parking lot of Sea World!







If you have been to the Shamu show lately you may recognize what we are doing - da da da da da Shamu Shamu! It is the little hand movement and song that you do during the splash time when the kids got saturated and Sue and I stayed nice and dry underneath our poncho! We are not dumb!

Halloween Wrap Up

As always we had an excitement filled, sugar packed and crazy Halloween! We started by carving pumpkins in our garage - ghetto I know but cabinets were being installed in the kitchen and they were loud. We usually use templates for our carving but I tore the house apart and could not find them anywhere - I blamed it on my dumb kitchen problems! Chads parents and Brad and Chelseas family joined us for dinner and then Hayley and Trent went to the Baughs for a party and to trick or treat with their friends. It makes me so sad that they are growing up so fast and we arent doing it together as a family like we always have, but I knew that they would have a ball and they did.


The family halloween shot with our carved pumpkins




The girls took the kids out first while the boys manned the door and got in some good BYU football talk as well as I am sure some politics - BLAH, so over it! I made Chelsea and my mother in law dress up a little and they were happy to oblige!



The power rangers and monkey did great and scored pretty good on the candy


My little candy corn was accompanied by Maddyn and they went out 3 separate times, having a blast and hitting the jackpot.


Jason (our neighbor) had a cool setup at the front of his house. Nate was sitting dressed like this and scared the pants off so many people. He even chased me to my house with his axe! Luke was petrified until I explained that he went to church with us and when no one else was around I made him take off the mask. After that Luke thought he was great and even wanted a picture with him.

I was so glad Hayley and her friends made it up to our street, they were having such a good time together. Again Claire you are welcome for the picture!



I saw this on a site today and thought I would copy. This is what is left of our candy - besides Hayleys which is in her room the stinker. I think it looks so much cuter than one big pile, so much easier to find the candy that you want!