Kids are Great!

Meranda is helping her cousin Annie by watching the Double T's (Elliott and Wyatt) while she is working.

Elliott is 2 going on 22 and on Tuesday asked, "Meranda, how was your weekend?"

He cracks us up!!!!

Yes - I am a Diet Coke Expert!!

Every morning I stop at "Stephs's" Holiday station on 3200 West and 35th South for a Diet Coke. I guess you could say I'm a regular.

So this morning as I am filling up my 32 ounce cup, and I notice that the Diet Coke coming out does not look like Diet Coke. It is "light and foamy" - more like a REAL Coke. So I taste it and decide that this is NOT Diet Coke. I taste the real Coke and it tastes the same as the Diet Coke. BIG PROBLEM for me!!!

I ask Steph to check her tanks and sure enough there was Coke syrup hooked up to the Diet Coke dispenser. She changes it, but because it takes a while for the BAD Coke Syrup to filter out, I am stuck with choosing Diet Dr. Pepper this morning!

The good thing is that Steph paid for my drink this morning. The bad thing is that it was Diet Dr. Pepper!!!!

Editorial Comment

I was going to write a "Letter to the Editor" but have decided to write a blog post instead.

So if you read my last post, one of my comments was "Max Hall bugs me". That is now an understatement - Max Hall REALLY bugs me!

What happened to "We won the game. It was hard fought, but we won and I'm really happy about that". But Max couldn't do that - it would be too easy. He personallly attacked thousands of people with connections to the University of Utah. He offended me, my husband, and about 20 other immediate family members. As my sister Jackie pointed out, it's nothing new - those attending the U have been looked down on forever because we went to the "evil" University of Utah. Apparently if you go to the school down south, you have a stronger testimony and you get a better education. NOT!!!!

The stupid comments didn't start with Max Hall and they won't end with him. I guarantee that someone will continue the "rich BYU tradition" of making comments that put down other people and try to make themselves out to be the more worthy/blessed/deserving, etc.

Oh and one other thing - what's up with the "Beer got thrown on me/my family" folklore/myth. How many times do we have to hear that? Beer is not sold in Rice Eccles stadium and for the few that "smuggle" it in - I guess if they want to waste it on BYU fans that's their choice, as we all have agency to choose! Likewise, many a Utah fan has had things thrown on them by BYU fans - like tuna fish sandwiches, tortillias or twinkie's...but I guess that's better than "beer" - WHATEVER!!!!!

There, now I feel a little bit better.......

Random stuff

Yes - Donny won "Dancing" - I gave out a shout......


Parker and I went to McDonalds after the ortho on Tuesday, order totalled $4.94, drove up to the window to pay, handed the women my debit card and she said "From a five???" Must have been a long day!


Going to the WC (Wayne County) for Thanksgiving - cutting down Christmas tree - debating on whether to take the 4-wheeler - might be a bit too cold for that.....

Evan's birthday this weekend - a big one......

I hope the 'U' wins the football game.....Max Hall bugs me......

Meranda has the "Bruin Challenge" next week....she's the reigning bench press champ...she hopes to retain her title....

Preston has been home from the mish for 6 months...he has been out teaching with the missionaries this week and enjoyed it very much.....

Great Examples

This week I've reflected on the "true grit" of my parents. Neither one of them have the best of health, but they try to make the best of it!

They want their independence. They would like to be more mobile. They don't really like asking for help and they do more than would be humanly possible for most people in their situation.

This week they made the trek to Summit/Cedar City to Grandpa Stapley's funeral. It was a long ride but they made it - thanks to Judy for tagging along. When I talked to them Tuesday night, they were giddy - they were out of the valley - they didn't have to make their beds or cook their food.

They were exhausted when they got home on Wednesday but it was a "different" exhausted. They are great examples to me.

I hope I can have that same determination/grit when I need to get through difficult times!!!!

We Saw the LIGHT!!!!!!

Here is the Redneck version of Tuesday around midnight ---

"There we were, driving along I-15, minding our own business, when FLASH - we saw the blinding light!!! Holy cow - what was that? Had Tooele army depot just been blown up or was it a gigantic UFO?"

We were on our way home from Grandpa Stapley's viewing in Summit - we had just driven into the valley around midnight when the sky lit up like it was the middle of the day. Evan saw a red streak - and I had a little bit of a panic attack. Then we remembered about the meteor shower - it was so cool!!

DWTS - Donny style.....

I spent alot of time in the 80's watching the Donny & Marie show on Friday night.....I loved everything about Donny - his good looks, his great voice, his patience with Marie and of course his purple socks.

I bet most every single "mormon girl" had dreams of marrying an Osmond - weird but true!
For my birthday one year, Evan bought me tickets to see him perform in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"- it was awesome!

Now I'm watching Donny on "Dancing with the Stars". He definitely has a following and is consistantly an audience favorite - probably because of those girls that are now "women" and are voting him on each and every week. Last night he danced to one of his hits "One Bad Apple" - I've been singing it to myself all day.......My kids think I'm weird....Oh well.....