What a Stud!

Today was the T-ville JROTC drill competition. I'm so glad it wasn't stormy like James' last competition. He participated in the Individual Exhibition (left: this is how they begin and end their routine.. by asking permission to enter or leave the competition area), 4-man exhibition, and Exhibition with Arms. I have to say that James got better as the day wore on. I won't know the scores until after James gets home from Guard. He and another soldier got permission to show up late to Guard this weekend so their whole team wouldn't suffer. That's why the ACUs were hanging in the back of the Escort in the last post... cuz as soon as he was done competing, it was time to high-tail it to Camp Williams. And I am SOOO glad the promised storm didn't ruin the day.

Notice the rifles in the air!

New Car or Bust!

At the end of January (31st to be exact) James was in an accident that totalled one of our cars. Fortunately it was the oldest car. We've been without and have had so much going on which prevented us from even looking for another third vehicle. We looked casually at Craigs List and KSL.com but nothing panned out. Finally, about two weeks ago I paid for a Carfax subscription and started running VINs on every half decent car we saw. It's a good way to weed out cars that have problems. Then, last Saturday, we went out car hunting with a list of cars in hand. We started at the south end of the valley and worked our way north. On the second to last stop we found this little Escort. It's a '97 and everything is manual from the windows to the clutch and works well. The seats are even comfortable... bonus! If you look close, you can see James' Raider team shoulder cords hanging from the rear view mirror and his ACUs hanging in the back seat. It has been claimed.

Easter Sunday

Easter was about as early as it gets this year. In fact, the last time it was this early was 95 years ago so only people like Ruth Cole were alive then and being only 2 years old, I doubt she remembers anything about it. We were lucky to have a beautiful day but being so early, everyone is at some stage of the gamboo. Sami had been up all night vomiting her guts out so I can understand why she didn't really get into the spirit of picking up Easter eggs. She was finally coaxed into it with this game where parent and child go up, down, up, down. It's amazing that both Sami and Marc weren't hurling after that! A nice Easter present for me was that Tasha and Emma tried on the dresses I have been making them and are so excited for them to be done. I just have to hem them.

Dell Schmell

Last night I heard a news ad that said Super Dell was running for Mayor. Of course they didn't say where and I didn't watch any more but went to bed instead. On my way I was thinking he was probably running for Mayor of Eagle Mountain since that place is as messed up as he is and can't keep a mayor. When I saw the news story this afternoon that stated Super Dell is running for Salt Lake County Mayor, I just laughed and laughed. I can't believe what a maroon this guy is. Then I looked at the comments to the story and there are a few who really think they'd like to vote for his guy. Who's the bigger maroon? Super Dell, or the person who votes for him? I'd say we are really in need of some chlorine in the gene pool. And then some uncle or someone related to Super Dell made comments to try and say how great a guy SD is but couldn't spell, had bad grammer and couldn't even make his sentences flow. Yeah, that makes me think the comments are from an intelligent life form. I'm still laughing at the thought that SD thinks he can be mayor of SL County. If he made it, I might just have to move out!