Spookfest #7 – Football, Family, and Forget Not

Saturday, the Morrills and the Leavitts traveled up to Nephi to play little league football. So we decided to have a BBQ. We started out the morning watch Chandler play on the 8th grade team:

The morning game was very pleasant. It was cool and there was a nice breeze going. After Chandlers game, we went home for a little break and returned for Connor and Garrett’s game:


Brandon was one of the coaches and he was VERY serious:

As soon as the game started, all the little kids jumped on Kade and forced him to be their horse. They loved it and Kade was such a sport:
 

After the games, we had some lunch and ate ourselves sick. Everyone started to take off around 5 and I went to the Relief Society Broadcast. President Uchtdorf gave an excellent talk reminding us not to forget things. I was so excited when I got up the next morning, I was going to make a cute handout, but as I got online there were a ton already out there. This was my favorite:

It was an awesome day full of family, football, and forget-me-not’s!!

Charity

This past week I had turned my attention to learning more about charity. For most of my life I always thought “Charity suffered long and is kind.” Then when we were reading in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 in the very last verse: “… the greatest of these is charity.” In Moroni it also says that “And except ye have charity ye can in nowise be saved in the Kingdom of God.”
That was very powerful to me. You can have faith and good works, but if you do not have charity, you won’t be saved. So I’ve been pouring over everything I could get my hands on to learn more about Charity. In the Bible Dictionary it defines charity as “The highest, noblest, strongest kind of love.”
I want that love. I want to be able to love in Christ-like proportions. So, to help remind me I made this:

This is my favorite quote on Charity by Elder Uchtdorf. I want to teach my children to develop charity in their lives and I want to mirror my thoughts and actions so that I can live a life full of Christ-like charity.
p.s. If you want that print, you should be able to click on it and it will bring up a larger image!

Spookfest # 6- The Good Life

A few weeks back I saw that One Republic was going to play a concert after the RSL game on September 16, so I hopped on KSL to see if I could find a good deal on some tickets. And we found some!
Jenny and Justin are HUGE One republic fans, so when I told them they were coming to Salt Lake, they found a killer deal on KSL too. So we headed up to the concert with them.


They had to stop at Walmart on their way up to pick up some diapers, so we found a way to pass the time:

 
Mace and Verena and Monica and Kurt were meeting us up there and we decided that we would wear our Fed Up shirts. We had lots of people ask us what we were fed up with.

We got to the Rio Tinto stadium pretty early, so we went to the tailgating party and scored some free swag:
 

With out tickets we got unlimited concessions, and Matt hadn’t eaten anything all day, so we wanted to go in and start partaking of the free benefit. We find our seats and discover that only certain foods were on the unlimited list.

But we managed to totally get our money’s worth. At the tailgate party, we got some free sling bags and by the end of the game we had those full of drinks for Matt to take to work. Anyway, back to the game.
Jenny and Justin were actually a little closer to the field in the section next to ours, but we found our seats:

Matt really liked the way the stadium was layed out:

Shortly after the game started, everyone else showed up. They went to get some food while we had little Jet. He was terrified of the pom-pom:

Matt was really into the game:

Number 5 was Matt’s favorite player. At half time, we went to stretch our legs a little bit:

This was the view from the club seats:

You can see the two temples in the background:

Then we went back to our seats:


an waited for the half-time festivities to subside, and the game to begin.
There was the cutest old couple in front of us who had their RSL scarves and would dance along to the music and cheer on their team. They were so cute. I tried to get a picture of them dancing, but by the time I got my camera out they were done:

RSL pulled off a 1-0 win against Sporting Kansas City. But I don’t think Kansas City was the sporting. They would tackle and slam players and kick them in the shins. Most of the 2nd half was spent with one player or another laying on the ground “wincing” in pain. But somehow, after everyone managed to make a big deal about it, they managed to get back up and finish playing.  After the game was over, they invited everyone out onto the field for the concert. Matt didn’t want to stand up so we opted to get seats closer to the field. Jenny and Justin met us on row 2:

But before we could sit, the chairs had to be disinfected :)
 
Then, One Republic came out onto the stage. There were awesome. They played all their popular songs and a new one from the album they were going to start recording called “Life in Color.”
 
Mace was REALLY enjoying himself:

And he TOTALLY didn’t care that he had a 7:00 AM meeting the next morning:

It was a little disappointing that they only played a handful of songs, but they were all awesome! Then we slowly made our way up the stands:

and to the car:

It was a really fun night, and Matt wants to go back and see more RSL games with concerts included of course! And it made it even more fun to have friends and family to share it with!!!

Spookfest #5 – Full Moon Madness

Sundance! When we went up to see Sound of Music we saw ads for Full Moon Lift Rides. So we looked at the dates, and checked our calendars and headed up last night. Once Makena got wind of our little excursion, she wrangled herself a date and joined us along with Verena’s brother. We loaded up the car:


And we headed to Chilis for dinner.


After dinner, we headed up to Sundance:



We each got our own chair lift and we were on our way.


It was chilly and with the clouds, it made the moon creepy. A perfect setting for a spookfest activity:
 


We spent the ride laughing, reminiscing, and dreaming of the future. After our ride:


Then we slowly made our way back to the car:

On the way home we stopped at our usual place, Sonic, only to find that it was closed. It was pretty late when we finished our full moon ride. So we got some Horchata at Betos. After we placed our order we turned the corner to the pickup window and discovered this:

Yah, that’s a tip jar:

Then, we slowly made our way back to Nephi winding through the back roads talking about movies like the Saint, Night Shift, Say Anything, and Young Frankenstein.  It was a great and spooky night.