Just another day... wait the UTES killed the Y... oh yah!

Well today started off like most other Saturdays... a long list of "honey-do's". Becky and Vela were out the door early to attend the Relief Society enrichment activity on emergency preparedness. For the last 2 days we have played guinea pig in a mock disaster situation. We were contacted Thursday afternoon and recruited for the experiment. The situation was that the electricity and gas were out, water service unavailable, and no access to stores. This was an eye opener to say the least. We have spent the last year pretty focused on this topic so we survived it okay. The good: we had plenty of food and fuel to cook with(mmm...dutch oven and a mean chicken soup on the propane stove), and kept warm with a kerosene heater we picked up on ksl.com for $20. The bad: cold water bath by bucket for adults and a wet-wipe wash down for the kids (Friday night we actually boiled some bath water since we had all the equipment out already). What we learned: if the water is out remember the toilets take water to flush, having a handy dandy siphoning pump is nice, we need to stock up on the kerosene, it's nice to have a good water supply, the years of dutchoven experiments have paid off, fill the propane tanks for the BBQ before winter, and everyone is ready for bedtime much earlier than usual in a dark house with no TV or computer (6:30 for the kids 8:30 for the adults). We sure were grateful to wake up this morning to a warm bath and breakfast cooked in the kitchen. Well, while the girls were out little Hema helped dad tackle the "honey-do's". We ran by the post office for mom, stopped at 2 stores, then finished the window trim in the kitchen and front room. Little Hema went for a bike ride while dad got up on the roof to change a bulb that an observant little Hema noticed was out last week after we got all the Christmas lights up. When the girls got home it was GAME TIME! We got decked out in our UTE gear and hit Iggy's Sports GRILL in Sandy. When I tell people we often watch the games at Iggy's they are concerned that we would take our kids into a bar environment. IT'S A RESTURANT... I think people get it confused with Lumpy's which is a sports BAR. Now, as a resturant they do serve alcohol but we don't endulge in such things (smile!). Any how... the UTES kicked BYU's trash! 'nuff said! We did see an amusing T-shirt, many BYU fans were wearing shirts saying "Fully Investested -- BYU", there was a tiny grandmother sipping on wine with a shirt saying "Fully Intoxicated -- UTAH". Well I hope to be the better person and just be humble tomorrow at church... but if I hear another person say "if it weren't for the 6 turnovers then it would have been a different game"... a... duh... I think I will puke! We had a blast and it is always nice to come away with a victory, sure makes the night a pleasant one.