Friday Night lights

Most guys when they think of "Friday night lights", they think of football. Well this is only the case half of the time. Tracey was good enough to go to the BYU football game with me last Friday night so I thought it would be only fair to accompany her to her version of "Friday night lights", which happened to be a Reba McEntire- Kelly Clarkson concert. She had been hinting about how fun that would be, so I surprised her with tickets. She has always loved Reba (if you look closely in the picture that is her on the front row swinging a bra). I went for the people watching experience. There were people from every walk of life (some of which was a painful walk). The two guy "friends" that sat next to us was an extra special treat. Overall I will have to admit it was a fun evening, although I think I still prefer the guy version of "Friday night lights"( however I can't wait to wear my new Kelly Clarkson t-shirt).

(Sidenote: BYU 21 UNM 3)

Basketball time

We recently had a basketball hoop installed in the back yard. The kids have loved it so far. It provides a great place to ride scooters and bikes, and even shoot some hoop every now and again. Dad looks forward to lots of fun times with the kids, shooting hoop and creating some memories. Those are some of my favorite memories, shooting hoop next door at the neighbors with my Dad or friends in the neighborhood. We hope to get many fun hours of use out of the new hoop. (Plus it makes you feel really good lowering the hoop enough to dunk on your kids).

Sweet memories!

Today was picture day for Tristyn! She went to bed with curlers in and woke up with a frizz! After a little drama from combing it out, Tracey made it look beautiful as always. Now I just got to worry about the boys I'll have to chase off. She's our little princess. After Tracey got her all beautiful, and we dropped her off, I took Ty to pre-school. As we got out of the car he saw this little girl in his class and ran over to her. He was so excited! Her name is Montana, and Ty calls her "Hannah Montana". He ran over and held her hand and they walked into school together all giggling, and flirting(Is flirting possible in pre-school?). I was so glad I had the camera with me. I could hardly take the pictures I was laughing so hard. We're blessed to have these little ones in our life, they bring so much joy! They just have a way of loving life that is so refreshing. I am grateful for such beautiful children!

Raspberry beret

Our ward's time to volunteer at the D.I. came around again, so I got volunteered by Terry (paybacks for volunteering him last year). Truthfully it's a lot of fun helping out, as few experiences can provide as much fun for free. I was assigned the dock where we would unload the cars that pulled up with donations. After carefully reading the work contract I got to work. I think we saw everything come through there except a raspberry beret (which I had my eye out for). I got to hear all about Merrells plans to open up a 30 different sauce hot wing restaraunt. Dave and I spent some quality time looking at the magic eye book that came through (I wish Dad had been there, he's the best at teaching people how to see those). I saw lots of people I knew dropping off donations, garnering comments like "oh, I didn't know you worked here..." My favorite was when Dave (magic eye book) picked up a bandana that fell out of one of the bags, said "I've been wanting one of these", blew his nose in it, and stuck it in his pocket. All joking aside it's a neat program that they have, and a fun opportunity to be of service. I even got all Tracey's christmas shopping done (just kidding honey). I'm already looking forward to next year!

(sidnenote: BYU 34 USU 14)