Glenn Beck's Conversion

I have scene this video clip on a few websites. It is Glenn's conversion story to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! Pretty moving and worth the time it takes to watch it! If you don't know who Glenn Beck is check out this website http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/glenn.beck . He has a news show on CNN! You'll probably recognize him.

Just to give you an idea of how much my family LOVES BYU and especially BYU FOOTBALL, my Freshman Year my dad bought me a shirt with the words to the BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY COUGAR FIGHT SONG on it! He wanted to be sure I knew the words to the song! The greatest thing about the shirt was that on the front the song was written upside down so that the person wearing it (ME) could read the words. On the back it was written right side up so people standing behind could read the words! It was hilarious and taught me the words to the song!

It has been many years since I have had much reason to sing the Cougar Fight song because the Football team has been so horrible....UNTIL NOW!! The past two weekends the Cougars played at AIR FORCE in Colorado Springs and at CSU in Fort Collins! My parents came to town and we all went to the games! The Cougs won both games, by A LOT! It was soooooo great to be able to walk back to our cars with our heads held high! I'm not sure how many times we sang the Cougar Fight Song but just to give you an idea, Spencer had it memorized by the end of the CSU game (and he didn't go to the Air Force Game which was the week before!)

Here are some pics from our fun Football Weekends! GOOOOOOOOOOOO (with your arms rolling as you would when singing pat-a-cake at the "roll it and roll it" part) COUGARS (punch your fist into the air) :-)

Halloween is one of my favorite days! I don't know why. I think maybe because everyone is so nice to eachother. The anticipation of costumes, candy, parties and fun makes everyone feel good. It's the one time of year you can dress up, look crazy and even act a little crazy (on purpose or not) and no one thinks you are weird. It's the night of the year that neighbors come out and actually talk to eachother, even if its just to say, "Oh what a cute costume your daughter has on!" It's just a fun night. This year our costumes ranged from Pink Power Ranger, Darth Vader, Will Turner (from Pirates....a good story for that one to come), and Clark Kent/Batman (yes, a good story for this one too!). We took the kids to a party on Friday Night, they had the classroom parties and then of course Trick or Treating! We have a TON of candy at our house....a very dangerous time of year for Me! AHHHHH!! Anyway, the story of Will Turner is this. Spencer wanted to be Jack Sparrow. I convinced him to be Will Turner since every kid on the block was planning to be Jack Sparrow. He agreed and so I set off to find the Disney Will Turner costume. I should've have researched it a little more before convincing my 8 year old to be Will Turner because when I visited the Disney Store I was told that Disney doesn't make a Will Turner costume! "Oh Crap! Now what?" So the resourceful mom that I am, I decided to "google" it. It took me to EBAY! You can find ANYTHING on EBAY! And to my joy and elation, someone was selling a Will Turner costume. I figured it must have been one from the First Pirates of the Carribean movie, so I bought it with the "buy it now" option. When the transaction went through, I realized I paid for it in euros not dollars. Upon more investigating, I learned that it actually is a Will Turner costume from this year "Pirates" Movie and that Disney makes the costume in England, but not in the US! So as it were, Spencer ended up being Will Turner and was the ONLY kid at his school and in Spencer's words "probably in the whole United States". He was very pleased and so was I, since i'm the one who opened my big mouth about it anyway!

So the next story is about our Clark Kent/Superman/ Batman (AKA: Garett). Garett wanted to be Superman this year. So as we were looking for costumes, it turned out that every kid on the planet who wasnt' being Jack Sparrow was being Superman. But Garett still wanted to be Superman. As I went to buy the costume, I stumbled upon a "CLARK KENT" costume. It's a suit coat, dress shirt and tie, but when you open up the shirt, there is a Superman costume that comes with it. We also had to get the wig and the glasses, to make the outfit complete. Honestly, the stinkin' cutest costume I've seen in a long time! Garett totally wanted to be this for Halloween. He LOVED the costume, until we got to our Ward Halloween Party, we walk in and all the people in their efforts to oooohhhh and ahhhhhh about his costume start laughing. A natural reaction when you see it! Garett was mortified. He thought people were laughing at him because he looked funny and they didn't like his costume. I felt terrible and tried and tried to convince him they were laughing because they LOVED his costume. He eventually believed me and ended up having a great time at the party. Then the day of his class party came. As he walked into the classroom I whispered to his teacher, "Whatever you do DON't LAUGH", unfortunately, I said it too late, Garett noticed her giggling and I had to do the whole explanation all over again. Between his teacher and my, we were able to convince him that she LOVED his costume. He was awesome walking through the school for his little parade holding his shirt open so people could see his Superman Crest underneath! As the time drew near to go trick or treating that night, Garett announced to me that he was going to be Batman so people wouldn't laugh at him. Exhausted from all the parties and all the tears from people laughing at him, I decided not to fight him on it! He ended up being Batman, had just as much fun and looked just as cute...So, without any further adui (sp??) here are the Halloween pictures!