Happy Thanksgiving & Go Utes

We had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner with the Cook family and Jonny and Haley.  Even though our numbers were few, it was very fun.  We are blessed to have such a wonderful family!  The rest of the weekend proved to be very exciting (and a little lucky).  Congratulations to the Jazz and the  Utes!

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At the Basketball Games

Can you believe basketball season is here?  We are in the "busy" months of Utah sports, the thick of football and at the start of basketball.  The last two weekends Jono has been out of town (one week for business in Seattle, the next playing golf at fabulous So. Cal courses and cheering the Utes on to victory against SDS), so I took the kids to two home games.  Bud was camping for the first game (brrrrr), so it was just Rosie, Coleman and me.  They had fun sitting on the front row, something usually only Bud gets to do.  They goofed around with Swoop and Coleman caught a ball from the cheerleaders.  Coleman also got on the ground and stretched along with the players before the game and before the start of the second half.  

The next week Bud and Rosie sat in the floor seats and Coleman and I sat in the stands.  Bud and Rosie were nervous to sit there alone and didn't say a word or move at all the first half.  They loosened up by the second half and were smiling and cheering.  I really missed Jono, however, when I had to drive home in a blizzard!  Go Utes!

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Reflections

Bud and Rosie always look forward to entering the Reflections contest, and this year Coleman could enter also!  The theme was "Together We Can" and they each made a 3-D creation out of clay.  Rosie's title was "Together We Can Adore Little Things" and she molded lots of cute creatures and put them on a glittery board.  Bud spent hours and hours creating a clay zoo with penguins, monkeys, elephants, alligators and giraffes.  Coleman's theme was fishing and he made a lake with him fishing, a flying and swimming snake, and a forest with one tree and lots of rocks.  They all turned out great!      

Unfortunately, not everyone in our family won; (they are all winners in my eyes), Bud and Coleman won, but Rosie didn't win.  Even more unfortunate, is that Rosie also didn't win last year but Bud did.  (Remember last year she made her own trophy out of paper and had me take her picture.)  She handled it as well as could be expected, and after a twenty minute crying session, she told me she wanted a trophy for her birthday to make her feel better.  Here are the pictures:

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