HOMECOMING

GO AGGIES!!
I admit that I'm not really a big football fan and I've never been to a USU football game, that is until now. I went to the homecoming game with my family and actually had fun. It was perfect weather and even though the Aggies lost it was a close game. I think we just might go back next weekend and watch another game.
Saturday was also my 17th anniversary and the end of a very busy week. We celebrated homecoming week at the Brigham City Campus with an activity Friday night and a tailgate party before the game Saturday.
Our Friday night activity was at Nelson's Corn Maze in Perry. We had a pretty good turn out of students and their families who came to go through the maze and eat doughnuts and hot chocolate.
One of the highlights of the tailgate party was a man named Charlie Perkins who recently made a huge donation to our campus. It was a privilege to meet him and I noticed that the kids were all drawn to him; he was always surrounded by an assortment of children, especially little girls. I think that kids recognize goodness in a person without even thinking about it. Had I not known anything about Mr.Perkins, I would have known he was a good man by the way the kids were drawn to him.
We left for the game complete with painted faces, foam fingers, pom-poms, t-shirts, mugs stadium blankets, and all kinds of cool stuff donated by USU Community Credit Union who was our sponsor for the tailgate party, so my thanks go out to them for an awesome party! http://www.usuccu.org/
So, that description of my weekend only begins to tell you what my week was like. Besides getting ready for those events, we are already very busy with Angels For Christmas, I spent about 18 hours working on it, and I'm having so much fun with it that I'm probably neglecting other things I should be doing, like studying for the two exams I had this week. Fortunately my marriage and family relations class involves what for me is largely common sense and duplication of things I've learned in other classes, so I was able to get an A on it with only a minimal amount of review right before the class. I guess I'll find out later how I did on my geology exam. I did manage to squeeze in a one hour review session with some other students right before the exam so I hope it helped.

The last couple of weeks I've been spending lots of time getting started with
**Angels For Christmas **
which is a huge undertaking, but I'm so excited to be on the committee and be involved with it. Can you think of a better way to get in the Christmas spirit than by spending a couple of months making sure that all of the children in your community will have a good Christmas? This is a great project and not only helps make Christmas a happy occasion for hundreds of kids, but also creates the opportunity for anyone in the community to get involved whether they want to adopt a family and shop for gifts, or buy a single gift for one child. Last year Angels For Christmas provided gifts for over 800 children in Box Elder County. There is something that anyone can do to help out. If I've inspired anyone to want to help now is the time to start thinking about it. We will have a website with more information in about a week, but if anyone has questions now, you can email me.

Vacation

This week I did something that I usually go to great lengths to avoid doing.....missing classes.
I just had an opportunity I couldn't pass up, so I missed two classes in order to spend 4 days at Lake Powell with my family. To give credit where credit is due, my hubby works at Thompson & Son Cabinet and his boss took us and a couple of other families that work for him to his houseboat, he even provided the boat for water skiing, wave runners, and all of the food(which was wonderful.) We all had a fabulous time. The weather was perfect, 80's during the day and not too cold at night, and the water was 70 degrees

My kids played in the water, made sand castles and mud pies, and tried out the knee board.



I tried unsuccessfully to water ski. Here is the proof, that I tried ...and failed!


We slept up on the deck every night watching the stars and listening to the coyotes. This was one of the funnest vacations that we've had in a couple of years, and as mush as I don't like to miss classes, it was worth it. I even took a couple of pictures of the landscape that I thought would be good examples for my intro to geology class.