Back to reality

I returned from my weekend of sleeping in and eating out at restaurants without having to order a kids meal. It was divine. Alicia and I had a great time in SLC. We shopped and shopped and shopped. We thoroughly enjoyed our late mornings. The sealing was absolutely wonderful. The spirit was so strong and testified how important families are. It was great seeing all of Shelly's family and reuniting with them. It's always fun to go away for a while but it's even better to come back home again. I loved seeing my family Sunday night.

Since coming home it's been a whirlwind. This week is jam packed with things to do. Barry subsequently was named Head Boy's Basketball Coach last Friday, so he's been stressing and trying to organize the team and the summer. He's enjoying the job but also realizing that his work is cut out for him. He's also been busy doing a little girl's basketball camp along with a little kid's football camp. Those are in the morning and then he jets off to open gym in the evenings. On top of that we decided to get a screen door for the front door and he enjoyed assembling that yesterday and finished up around 10:00pm. It's great and allowed much more light into our cave and cools the house down a lot more.

We are also in talking phase about getting a motorized scooter for Barry to commute to school with. The one we're looking into gets about 80 mi/gallon. Yesterday Barry stopped to put gas in his car and put $30 in and it didn't even come close to filling it up. We figure that we would spend about $20/month in gas on the scooter. Well worth the purchase. We had some friends that bought one and they love it and I've also been seeing more and more people around town driving them. Cutting back on gas consumption could make a huge difference in our monthly budget. We'll let you know our final decision, which could be by today!

Covet not

I'm feeling a bit jealous this morning. Barry is sitting on an airplane going to Las Vegas for a basketball clinic. He's going with our good friend Jared Welch. I couldn't go this year because we couldn't find anyone to take our kids for 4 days. Most of the time Barry will be inside at his conference but I would've spent that time at the pool reading in the 86 degree weather. They will have lots of fun seeing all the sights but I still wish I could be there too. Instead I have to stay home and be mom.

Ha! Barry just called from the airport and they were supposed to leave at 7:00am this morning but the hydraulics on the plane are defective and they will now have to wait 2 hours till they are fixed.

Warming the bench

At games Jared sits on Barry's bench mostly so that he's not running around for 4 hours but also to cheer the girls on. Payton of course loves to sit on the bench too. Payton's favorite part is going in the huddle and saying "defense!". I think it's a great way for Jared to learn about the game and get more involved. He had so much fun being part of the football team this year we thought that we'd continue it into basketball season.

Payton also likes to sneak into the Varsity huddles too. We strongly advise against this! Varsity is way too intense for him and it's not dad's team. Barry also enjoys having his boys sit on the bench with him.

Defeated

Last night Kadet basketball faced off against the Doherty Spartans. Barry has yet to beat them in his entire coaching career. Last night he came very close. We were up by 2 with about 16 seconds to go and we were inbounding the ball. Barry's timeout speech was to either ice the clock or if they had an open lay-in to take it and seal the deal. We had a girl with a wide open lay-in and unfortunately she traveled and turned the ball over to which the other team went down and scored to tie it up. In overtime the other team nail two 3-pointers and we ended up losing by 8. Dang! Although it's disappointing Barry's theory is that he's never seen a JV team go to state, so they'll just use this loss as a learning experience and try to get 'em next time.