Mascot Bowl

FHE was the Mascot Bowl. It was actually fun. I know I sound surprised and I was. Here is what made it so cool:
1)Sky divers brought the game ball in from 5,000 feet.
2)Mascots were there from the local colleges and sports teams PLUS some national teams.
3)The Jazz Bear was right in front of us walking on the fence and he *boom* fell. I hope he had a cup (or two or three) to protect his posterity.
4)The concession stand made dinner for me.
5)We were there as a family
6)We sat by the Crowley family
7)We saw the Sheltons, Owens, Hydes, Sheffields, and Hoopes
8) See captions below.

We saw our future son in law play. Which one will it be? #23 or #33???? The highest bidder will win our love. Paige's love is secondary.
From left to right as best I can remember: Pioneer Pete, Grizz, some other critters, Cosmo, Buzz the Bee, a bird or some sort, and the Phoenix Suns Gorilla. I don't watch sports, OK??
C. Bolerjack and A. Harrington.
Frank Layden
Our babysitter.
The Denver Bronco neigh.

The only downer of the night was that we bought some raffle tickets to win a year of free meat. Sadly we will be vegetarians for the next 12 months.

Tag!

Rachel tagged me last week and I've been thinking about this over the weekend. The subject is 6 Unspectacular Quirks About Me. I have plenty of quirks so it's been hard narrowing them down. Unspectacular? I wouldn't use that word. I would say I have annoying, obsessive, with a sprinkling of irrational quirks. Here are some that may or may not be a surprise....depends on how well you know me.

1. I'm left handed. BUT the only thing I do left handed is eat and write. All sport, scissor, & watch wearing activities are right handed.
2. I have a all encompassing fear of heights. I can do 2 or 3 rungs up a ladder and then paralyzing fear sets in.
3. I love my calling. I love teaching ss to the 17 years olds in our ward. Each of them contributes and they listen so well. Could it be the treat bribery? No, it's my engaging method of teaching......not! It's a little Molly Mormon to love your calling, right?
4. Unlike Rachel, I don't feel the laundry experience is complete unless a load of laundry sits in the dryer for at least 24 hours. It's like a curing process. In fact if anyone brings me freshly dried laundry I order them to go put it back in the dryer for a few hours.
5. I love Egg Beaters. Bruce thinks they smell like...oh...I forget....something like smelly feet but I still love them.
6. I eat oatmeal for breakfast nearly every day. Not the good kind with lots of brown sugar. It's the high fiber, high protein, low sugar, low fat, low taste kind. I'm a tad obsessed with it.

Not sure of all of those qualify as quirks or not. Questionable behavior? Yes.

Lick 'em and stick 'em

So when I made my totally cool, radical, mormon muchies (graham crackers and frosting) last week Berkley got a hold of the bowl. Afterwards we had her tested for diabetes.

Lacrosse isn't for whimps...

Connor started Lacrosse. His first game was last night and they did pretty good. Connor looks very tough in his gear. I wouldn't want to run into him in a dark alley...unless I needed someone to test a suspect spider web. His stick (or finger) would come in handy (see previous post).

"I'm waaaaiiiiittttiiiinnnnggg......"
"Never fear, Connor is here!"
"Excuse me, do you mind if I borrow this ball.....pretty please?"
"If you would only share I would have to push you around."
"***hhhmmmppffff***** Maybe next time they will think twice before messing with me."

Arachnid Education

Kim left a comment on my blog which made me think of something I learned years ago and I have never forgotten it. A co-worker who used to live in Arizona always had encounters with **gulp** Black Widow spiders. She told me how to identify their web. We all see various webs around the yard or in a dark corner of the basement but the 'home builder' is not always visible.

You know you have a black widow web when:

1. The web structure is very erratic, messy, a variety of webs going every which way.
2. If you run something through the web (i.e. a broom handle, your husbands finger, etc) it will crackle. You will literally be able to hear the web breaking.

If your web meets both of these requirements you've got a serial killer on your hands. EVERY time I've done this I've been correct and found the suspect. I'm judge, jury and executioner. The legal system around our house is very swift.

Good luck Black Widow hunting!

The Office Premiere

The Office premiere is tonight. No phone calls please.

Heebie Jeebies!*!*!*!

Bruce calls this morning and says, "Did you get my email?" I look in my inbox and see an email titled "Look what Berkley found." Innocently I opened the attachment to find this glaring back at me.


How in the heck did this un-invited guest get into my living room? More importantly how did Berkley know it's name? Bruce said he could hear her downstairs saying "Mantis" over and over again. Bruce said it's one of the biggest and greenest one's he's seen in a long time. How comforting.


I've noticed a lot of grasshoppers this year so I'm sure he's had plenty of buffets to attend.


I'm thinking he got in through the back door which was left slightly ajar this morning because the dog was out and he will just push the door open when he's ready to return. It saves our door and door jam because otherwise he scratches until someone lets him in. I'm sure the door was open for a few minutes before it was shut.


I just imagine this mantis, sitting on the doorstep, tilting his head sideways thinking, "Hello, anybody home? Your door is open....Hmmmmm...I think I'll just mosie on in and see if they have any good arachnids or any Melanoplus differentialis I can eat. **That's the scientific name for grasshopper. Mantis' have a college professor look about them, don't you think?**


Bruce's last words before he hung up the phone - "I put him on your bed."