DEAR BRENDA

Dear Brenda,


Yesterday you got mad at me because I hadn't updated my blog. How was I supposed to know that you used my blog as your lunchtime entertainment? That you like to read about the adventures of Heidi and Clayton as you eat your tuna fish sandwich (with relish). I guess "how I was supposed to know" isn't worth dwelling on, as much as how I will remedy the problem.


Let me tell you about last weekend ok? Friday night while you were home doing feet (btw - when can you fit me in?) or watching some NASCAR race, Clayton and I were joining the Harry Potter to watch the latest movie. Now you know that I am not a Harry Potter lover (don't worry I'm expecting hate mail from probably everyone who reads that last line), but I love my husband and he does enjoy Harry (not like that you sick-o!) so in order to achieve my self proclaimed status of "Wife of the Year" I got us tickets. We went, we watched, we left. It was too dark and depressing for me. I like my movies with fluff and hearts and love and rainbows ("so bright! so vivid! what does it mean?"...if you don't get that check out double rainbow guy on youtube). However the C-man seemed to enjoy it. Oh yeah and by the way...going to a theater with assigned seats is the ONLY way to go. Forget this waiting in line for a seat crap. Assigned seats are a beautiful thing.

After the movie we checked out another new frozen yogurt place. Yes I know these places are so popular that they could rival 7-11 in store quantities. We tried out Farr's Fresh in Ogden. There was one thing about this place that was different than the others. In addition to self-serve frozen yogurt they had self-serve CUSTARD and self serve ICE CREAM! Brilliant. I really liked it and would list it as in my top 5 favorite Utah FroYo places. However, I did eat more of the custard and the ice cream than the yogurt so I did leave feeling a little more guilty...just a little. Or maybe my guilt had something to do with Clayton's small cup of custard/ice cream/yogurt and my GRANDE Mt. Everest sized cup of custard/ice cream/yogurt. Yeah that was probably it.

Oh and guess what else, Brenda...they had a fire place inside! How awesome is that!?!

Ok so remember last week how I told you that we were going to run this fundraiser 5K for Tyler Nielsen an Iraqi war veteran who lost his job at ATK and then found out that he had colon cancer? Well Saturday was race day. Sadly we haven't ran a race all year so when the wind and rain woke me up at 4 am on Saturday morning I knew that it wasn't going to be fun. This was the first race where Clayton and I didn't run together. He had set a goal of finishing in 20 minutes (9.3 mph on a treadmill...he accomplished his goal several times on a treadmill that week) and I ... well I didn't really care... until I saw the Bear River High School basketball team there and decided that I wanted to beat them. The race was cold. Very cold. Very windy. Very rainy. Very cold. Clayton finished in just over 21 minutes and I finished in 22:15 and YES we both beat the high school basketball team! If you want to read more about Tyler and his story or donate go to http://www.conqueringcoloncancer.weebly.com/.

After talking to my mother-in-law one time about the 5 temples in Utah that we have not been too she commented that she was shocked that after all our Provo BYU games we had never done a session in the Provo LDS Temple. So we thought, "Hey we have time to kill before the last BYU home football game so why not!?!" So we did. Coldest. Session. Ever. Not cold as in spiritually, but cold as in temperature. Seriously. so cold. But warm in spirit!

This picture was taken by the missionaries. they are obligated to do service, right?

I know that you don't like BYU Brenda, but please find joy in my joy that they won. And yes it was a cold game. And yes we packed mucho hot chocolate. And yes my dad informed us that too many sweets gives him gas. gross.

Well my dear friend, Brenda...I hope you have enjoyed your latest installment of our weekend activities. And I'm going to heed your advice and do my thanksgiving "I'm thankful" post right after I finish making my Thanksgiving pie.

Till then my friend...much love and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Love,

Heidi

ps. I updated last night too so I think with Thanksgiving tomorrow I think you should be covered until Monday