24 hours

I recently had a conversation with a good friend and it got me to thinking. If you could do anything at all, anywhere, and with anyone, for just 24 hours; what would you do and why? I'm interested in seeing what your comments will be.

Daddy Daughter Day

Tuesday was a fun opportunity for me to spend the entire day with Tristyn. In the morning she had a field trip with her class up to the environmental center. It doesn't seem like that long ago that I was up there with my class. We were able to go cross-country skiing, which was Tristyn's favorite, and snow shoeing. They fed us a hearty school lunch in between. That night Cream of Weber took us to the Jazz game, and since Tracey was working I got to take Tristyn with me.

The weather was perfect, it was a beautiful day outside.

Chillin' at lunch

Snow shoeing experts

It was the Jazz bear's birthday so there were some mascots from other teams that came to the game. Tristyn got to meet the one from Minnesota.



The only bad part about the day was the Jazz losing. It was sure fun to spend the day with my little girl (who suddenly isn't so little anymore).

Things to avoid.... and why!

The other day I got home early from work and decided to go for a little run. Tracey warned me that it probably wasn't the best time to go running since it was raining like crazy outside. I told her not to worry, it couldn't be that bad. About halfway through the run a duck came waddling up to me laughing and said here's your sign, it was then that I started to see the wisdom in her advice. I then started thinking of the other things I'd learned the hard way to avoid and came up with a top ten list of those things and why. So here they are in no particular order:

1. Lettting your daughter have a large jewelry box even if it is a gift.........because then she thinks she needs to fill it up.
2. Shopping at Wal-Mart........because it's Wal-Mart.
3.Throwing snowballs at an un-marked police car.....do I need to expound on that?
4. Putting your son's hair in pony-tails, even if it is crazy hair day at preschool........because it's your son!
5.Talking back to your wife.......because you may end up with a black eye(see picture below)...Just kidding- it's actually from basketball.
6. Driving a Ford pinto in a blizzard.......because you may end up with frostbite in strange areas when that pinto can't quite make it through the snowbank you tried to drive it through and you have to walk home.
7. Driving an Ford pinto anywhere.......beacause it's a Ford pinto.
8. Trying to doorbell ditch with a snowball that has a rock in it when the doorbell is located next to a large picture window........because you may miss the doorbell.
9. Running in a torrential downpour in shorts in the middle of January......two reasons here, because you may end up with hypothermia, and frostbite on your legs- and you may end up with chaffed nipples consequently having to wear band-aids on these same nipples.
10. Betting on a "sure win" football game with money that you don't have......just trust me on this one- don't do it.

Warning

Warning: This is what too much honey on your Wheaties can do. Notice the increased muscles, the extra energy, etc., etc., etc.! Don't say you haven't been warned!