I bleed purple!

No, purple is not for Weber State. It is a mix of Utah State, Utah, and Ohio State. Neal and I are in Utah for Christmas. I learned from my friends that Utah was playing Utah State in basketball while we were here, and convinced my dad that it would be a good family outing. When we were little, my dad would buy two season tickets and go with a different daughter on a "date" to all the games. We loved it and became big Stew Morrill fans in the process. Monday was a great game. The teams were tied with 2.4 seconds on the clock and Utah State had the ball (I was cheering for Utah State, a sore subject with Neal, who was wearing his red). Utah State inbounded the ball, missed a shot, then tipped it in off the rebound. The crowd erupted. Everyone cheered! Then we all noticed that the clock still read 2.4 seconds. The timer hadn't been started!! I thought the play probably took more time than we had, but after a review of the tapes, the refs gave Utah State the basket and Utah the ball with .1 seconds on the clock(i.e. one desperation shot from beyond half court). I have never seen an ending like that before. It was a little bit of a bitter sweet victory because we all had to wonder what would have happened if the clock had been started like it should have, but I left with a smile on my face.

My Latest Projects

In Relief Society General Conference, President Uchtdorf encouraged women to be creative. I know I am lacking in the artsy skills, but I am pretty good at following directions, so I decided my version of "creative" would be sewing.

I copied Fraulein Maria and made myself a dress out of curtain fabric. (This fabric was never actually a curtain, but it is upholstery fabric that was on sale). The dress took a lot of work, partly because it had a pattern that I didn't want to turn upside down or stripe the wrong way and partly because I had to surge everything because the fabric frayed a lot. It turned out pretty good for my beginning skills and cost less than $10. This is me wearing the dress with Neal on our two year anniversary.





My other project was to sew my sisters pajama pants for Christmas. It was so fun to give them out last night for them to wear on Christmas morning. I love my sisters!