April 1st and 2nd, 2011 - 112th and 113th Days

I love Fridays.  Especially when there's not a lot at work to do and it's payday!  Friday afternoon we went to Cedar to watch Logan and Hunter play soccer.  I'm going to miss going to my kid's games when they all leave the nest.  Our Varsity played first and we beat Cedar 2-0, then our J.V. won 1-0.  So, it was a successful day, and there was no yelling at the ref.  I didn't even feel the need to say ANYTHING negative.  In fact, I told Nicole I'm going to only be positive at all soccer games.  She said, "You mean, if someone is really playing bad, you can say, 'That person is not nearly as horrible as they were last week!', or something like that?"  I assured her I was going to be much more positive.  If someone made a really bad play, I would just sit and smile, and say, "Good try, good try".    It was much more enjoyable, but it was also probably easier due to the fact we were crushing the other team.  My goal may be short lived when we play Snow Canyon next week, we'll see.  After the game, we went to Cafe Rio and Ordered dinner.  Hunter wasn't very hungry so he ordered a kids Quesadilla.   When I got up to pay for the meal, the lady at the counter said, "Oh, the kid's Quesadilla is free".  I said, "What?"  She said, "It's free, the kid's quesadilla's are free".    I said, "Great, I'll have 32 of them please!"  She didn't give me 32 of them.  Apparently, you only get one free with your meal.

On Saturday, we woke up and started doing yard work while listening to conference.  That doesn't work too well, especially when your neighbor starts up his leaf blower.  It's definitely harder to listen to talks over a leaf blower.  In fact, it didn't really make one of the talks better.   If it were sacrament meeting, it may have made some of the talks better, but conference is a different story.  Just kidding, don't send hate mail.   During the break, Kerry and I took off for a 30 mile bike ride, and I think Kerry was trying to kill me.  He had apparently not only eaten his Wheaties that morning, but I think he ate the entire box!  I was feeling good, he was feeling like super biker on roids!  About half way through, one of my legs fell off, and I had to stop and sew it back on.  Luckily, the sight of my leg on the ground made him stop as well, and I got a little reprieve.  Once I returned home as a hurting unit, I tried to again watch conference while doing yard work.  This time, the entire neighborhood was out talking, riding bikes, etc, and so again, my conference time was not quality conference time.  That night, my boys and I got to attend the priesthood session, and we happen to sit in the one place in the cultural hall where the air conditioning unit was blowing directly on us.  It was kind of like listening to conference while someone was blowing cold air on you.  Wait, it was exactly like that!  My eyelashes only froze to my eyelids once, however, so I was able to get something out of the priesthood session.  Luckily, my neighbor wasn't standing next to me with his leaf blower, or that would have put me over the edge.  After the session, Logan and Hunter and I went to Larson's Frost Stop and had hamburgers and french fries, and glaciers.  A glacier is ice cream in a slush.  It's about as good as anything you can think of, maybe better.  There we were, all three of us in suits, eating hamburgers and drinking glaciers.  I sometimes wonder what it's like for people visiting our city after conference.  They're probably thinking, "Why are all the people in suits and ties, even the young ones?  This must be a very interesting place to live!"  Things I learned, 1st, Listening to conference while your neighbor uses his leaf blower is like trying to talk on the phone while your wife uses the hair dryer right next to you.  You can tell there's talking, but everything is pretty garbled.  2nd, Cafe Rio gives free quesadillas to kids!  I think next week I'm going to take a bus load of orphans into Cafe Rio and say, "I'd like my 56 free quesadillas please".  3rd, Don't go riding bikes with Kerry, the madman Kimzey, when he's eaten an entire box of Wheaties and taken roids--he will destroy you!  4th, It's harder to listen to a speaker when you're freezing cold.  Your mind becomes numb, and you're more concerned about your fingers falling off, then getting spiritually edified.  5th, Larson's Frost Stop has killer glaciers.  6th, I like going out with my boys, they're good kids, and Hunter looks like Giorgio Armani in his new suit and skinny tie (at least that's what he says).