OOPS

John joined a city league basketball team and even if he won't admit it, he's very excited to be doing something fun and athletic. This is the warm-up session before the game. They were all very limber after this. (Note the shoes Drew and Alexis, even though you can't see hers, are wearing, they have huge feet!)

John's team warming up. They didn't win, but they sure did try. They only had five guys there and the other team was filled with really big guys. They didn't lose by a whole lot though, so that was nice.

As you can see from the picture, we were all really excited to go to Disney on Ice. I bought tickets earlier this week, and we got VIP seats. That means I paid a lot of money to watch people dressed up skate around an ice rink. Anyway, the kids were all excited. I left my morning class early so that John could take off half a day of work to come home and help us get ready to go. All day the kids talked about it, we even borrowed a cape for Drew so he could be a Prince and Alexis could be the Princess. I started dinner in the crock pot so that when we came home we would have a nice hot dinner and we could relax the rest of the night. We left two hours early so that I could take a quiz at school and then stop by the Disney store to get Drew some Mickey ears. FYI - the Disney store does not sell Mickey ears, you have to call Disneyland and order them, how silly is that? Anyway, finally we were on the road. On the way up, John and I were talking about how I think it is more important to give your kids experiences than things, IE excessive toys. When we got there, we found some cheap parking, a block and a half away, and we unloaded everyone, coats, diaper bag, well you get the point. We walked to the Energy Solutions Arena and it was dark. Yes, the only people we saw were janitors. So, we looked at each other for a minute and John remembers that there is a Jazz game tonight, obviously it's going to be hard to watch people ice skating on a basketball floor. John runs to the car to see what our confirmation slip says, and he calls me and says: "You are a special spirit, boy have you done it this time." I'm thinking great, we're supposed to be at the E Center and now we aren't going to make it on time. Lo and behold, I have the wrong day. Yes, it's NEXT Friday. How special can one person get? Remember how I was telling John about experiences being important. Well, his next question is: "Since we're already here, can we go to the Jazz game?" How can you say no after that discussion? We ended up having to go buy Alexis a new shirt so that she didn't have to wear her princess dress to the game. I had Steph turn off our dinner, we went to a food court instead, and then we took them to their first Jazz game. They did really well. I think Madison liked it the best, she was so enthralled with all the sounds, colors and movements going on. Alexis and Drew loved the blow up bear that was knocking the refs on the head. Overall it was fun and exciting, but not exactly what we had planned for!