Speak Impediment

I have never been one who is good at conversations. In fact, conversing on the phone is one of my all time greatest fears. I credit some of this fear to a mix-up in the wiring of my brain in the vocabulary retrievement department. Sometimes the perfect word to use in a conversation just won't come. I know it exists in my head, and it teases me by sending words that are close, but not really.

Here are some examples. I was cleaning up my house and the next thing to do was vacuum the floors. I told Scott, "I'll just be in the other room; I have to rake the carpet." Just today as we were driving down the street, the sun was glaring off the snow and the wet roads. It was bright, so I pointed to the sunglasses and said, "You can put on those headlights if you want to."

I think this vocabulary retrievement disability was inherited by my mom. One of the examples I remember from her: She was cooking chili and it needed to be stirred to keep from burning, but her hands were busy. She turned to my sister and said, "Amber, can you rub the chili?"

Cousins!

My sister from New York and my sister from Vernal came over yesterday for lunch with their kids. They look so sweet and calm in this picture, but it was wild! I don't think our apartment has ever been so alive! It was lots of fun, though, especially spending time with my sisters. We spent the afternoon at the Bean museum.
When Bryson, 3, saw this amazing display of butterflies on the wall below, he ran up to the glass and pointed to the one little photograph of a butterfly in the bottom right corner and got really excited. "Look, Bitta, look, a butterfie!" I zoomed in the picture so you could see the one butterfly he saw... It was pretty amusing.

Yummm

Scott's Cookies

Valentine Boxes

Isabah (her legal name is Alisia) came over last night to decorate her valentine box for school. Decorating those boxes was one of the highlights of my elementary school years! We liked it so much in our family we used to decorate two boxes, one for home and one for school. Then we would make our own valentines for each sibling.

The trump of all boxes was in fifth grade, my last year making a valentine box. My brother helped me install a few christmas lights that would flicker on every time someone gave me a valentine. It was pretty cool.


Ahh... makes me want to decorate one myself.

Double Dribble! (Deja Vu?)

Two games in one week! Scott's in heaven! I scored some free tickets to the BYU basketball game against UNLV today and it was awesome! I'm such a bigger fan of college sports than of pro. There's just so much more electricity in the air, the fans are more motivated and loyal. It's contagious! Scott and I both wore our "cougar blue" and we beat the #25 ranked UNLV team. No, we whooped them! For over half the game BYU was up by at least 20 points. UNLV didn't have the lead once. Ironically, our seats were at approximately the same angle and height as they were at the Jazz game.

Go Jazz!

We had some friends who hooked us up with discount Jazz tickets on Wednesday night. They played against the Spurs, who have the third best record in the NBA, and won! It was a fun, high energy game. It was also my very first pro basketball game. Pretty cool, eh?