National Anthem, Short Week, Thanksgiving and family time.

Week of 11-25

Monday night was pretty busy: Coop got his cast off, then we met Sal at the Roy Tree Lighting ceremony where she conducted her Freedom Elementary Choir.  It was cute having almost 100 kids singing a couple of Christmas songs while wearing their Santa hats.  After the choir performed, we were walking back to the car when Cooper did his best Elf impersonation and yelled “Santa’s coming!!!” really loud when Santa got there. Then he yelled, “Santa!!! I know him!!”  It was pretty funny. After, we headed over to Spare Time for a bowling activity for work.  We had good dinner of pizza and then bowling.  Coop was within 6 pins of me with his left hand, but my first game was 115.  We stopped at Lance and Teresa’s to hear about the Green Bay Seattle game that they were able to go to last week. Lance was in the middle of teaching a FHE lesson to his own and extending family about how he does not like Thanksgiving, but he then went into why because it has turned out to be selfish rather than full of gratitude.  It was very well done.  The girls went to the RHS play of Little Mermaid and seemed to enjoy it.  Coop and I watched a shoot out on MNF between the Rams and the Chiefs.  It was a good night.

Allie sang the national Anthem on Tuesday for a girls’ volleyball game.  She had practiced several times, she was ready.  When you get the microphone and all the attention is on you it is pretty nerve wracking!  She started then made a mistake then got going for a sec and made another mistake, then her AWESOME mom quietly walked up within 10 ft of her and sang with her to help her get back on track. Al kept her composure and then NAILED the rest of the Anthem.  She got several compliments on how well she sounded.  She was a little embarrassed at the end on making a few mistakes but I told her, that her keeping her composure and then finishing strong was SUPER impressive.  We were very proud of her.

Maggs got a full ride presidential scholarship offer at SUU!  She’s not sure if that one is on her list, but it was pretty humbling to get that kind of offer for her.  She was pretty stoked.

Sal and I had the opportunity to clean the Ogden Temple Tuesday night from 9:30 to 1:00 AM.  I was not negative about doing it but I was not doing back flips either. Yes, I can do backflips in my mind!!!!!    It turned out very good.  We hung out with some folks in our stake we did not know that were fun to chat with and it was a good experience all around.

Our Thanksgiving was very relaxing and nice!  We went to Jeff’s house. His family minus Cole, is in the Dominican with Joyce, so Cole and Jeff were the hosts with the mosts. We had Denise, Roger and Michael.  Lisa, Kory, Shane, Heather, Parker, Ethan, Jared, Keegan, Jake, Kaden, Jamie and Clare.  We had a TON of food: 2 turkeys, prime rib, salads, shrimp, and a ton of other good grub along with a huge selection of pies.  We had our family pictures taken by Kory and we hung out more and then headed to a family movie, yes family movie Creed II.  It was a little slow but it was fun to hang out.  We saw Maggie’s friend Odessa Anderson and her family there.  They were surprised we were going to Creed. I thought it was awesome!  Sallie may have dozed a bit.

We have a fun family tradition the kids have come up with.  We watch “Christmas with the Cranks” and make homemade pizza on a Friday sometime before Christmas.  Well, the tradition continues.  Allie and Cooper made pizza on the Traeger grill.  Cooper loves the grill.  They made half pepperoni and half turkey alfredo.  It was very good and we watched the movie while we ate.  Family time is a good time until Cooper stabs Allie with his raptor-like toenails on purpose. GT—good times, what up?!

Sallie went Black Friday shopping.  She wasn’t going to, but then she woke up at 7:00 and decided to go.  Well, she was gone for like 6 hours, so I guess she was successful on her list, but not on our checking account.  Sallie does enjoy the hunt for a good deal.  It seems like an adrenaline rush for her with getting a good deal. 

Coop and I set up the lights outside and we are getting ready for inside as well.

Awesome Seats, Great Games, and Voting

Week Ending 11-12-18

The weather has definite gotten colder and pre-winter is here.  Coop is doing really well with NAL he is one of the top point getters in the rounds he is in.  Maggie had her first swim meet and did four events at the end one of the boy captains wanted to get a picture taken with all the Captains so she got a pic with the other captains we thought that was pretty cool.

Sal’s brother has been away for a little more than a year and we were able to go see him on Tuesday night, he is staying with his Sister Denise and brother in law Roger.  He looked really good and we had a little family date we went and the girls dropped off their ballots, yes girls.  Maggie voted this year pretty crazy my baby girl is technically an adult (I voted earlier in the day with no lines) then we went to Pollo Loco for a little dinner then we checked out Krispy Kreme and spent 8 bucks on 6 doughnuts then we got a dozen for free because of the kids good grades, so that was fun, then we stopped off at the store and picked up a couple of things for Michael.  He was appreciated and he looks good, we are hopeful that he will do well.

Sal and I had a last-minute opportunity to go to a Jazz game and sit in the Toyota Club, we sat on the 10^th row and had access to as much food and drink as you can handle.  Yum!  I am feeling the effects of my winter weight gain I have every year right now!  It was the first win at home for the Jazz and it was fun hanging out with Sal.  Donovan Mitchell had a really nice dunk at the end of the first half, I was going to more free food when he did the awesome dunk, I heard the crowd roar and went back and the half had ended, Donovan you have to wait until I get back to do awesome dunks!

The kids went to YM and YW did a talent show and went mini golfing.  Maggie had a meeting for Sterling Scholars on Thursday that I slid down to, Coop needs to have one more cast for the next two weeks. Then it should be healed up pretty good.

Roy High plays in the State Semi Finals for football today down at Rice Eccles I think I am headed down to it but I am not sure. Maggie is headed to it so I think I will see here when I am there.  Today is Friday and tonight Coop and I are headed to the Jazz Celtic game it should be pretty fun!

The NAL game went good Roy Junior High won again in impressive fashion.  Coop and I went to the Boston Jazz game on Friday and it was AWESOME!  It was a good game from the get go.  Gordo Hayward got the business the whole time which I thought was fine.  Coop and I stopped at Crown Burger in Layton and then got to the game a little early.  We had great seats and sat behind an obnoxious Celtics fan.  It was entertaining for a while then it got a little nerve racking when it was almost a fight.    The game itself was great and we had a good time.

Then on Saturday I was able to go to the Ute game my buddy Bruce. We met in Bountiful then had lunch at a restaurant by the stadium and then we saw a great game with the back-up quarterback and running back for the U.  It was a great game the Utes won we met up with Bruce’s boy, Ninoah and he gave me crap for wearing a glove and a mitten I told him it is the style and it is trending on twitter not sure if he believed me!  It was all in fun!  I got a little sick on Sunday just trying to battling it.

Have a great week!

Chris