It's a Wonderful Turkey Bowl

I guess it has been a few weeks since I last posted.  Last Saturday Adam was in charge of the annual Turkey Bowl for the men in the ward.  It's an Elders Quorum activity that includes breakfast and flag football in freezing weather.  You can guarantee that whatever Saturday in November is selected for the event there will be rain and/or snow in abundance.  This year was no exception.  Families were invited to come to the breakfast and watch the big game.  The Elders invited the High Priests and Young Men to participate and plenty of trash talk between the warring quorums occurred in the weeks prior to the game, but it was the Elders who came out victorious for the 5th year in a row. (Lest you think that the High Priests had no chance there are quite a few young High Priests around here).  For me this is one event that is plenty entertaining.  First of all the breakfast just screams "Elders Quorum is in charge".  All of the food groups were represented, the McDonald's sausage mcmuffin food group, the donut food group, and the banana food group all washed down by hot chocolate and Tampico.  The guys shuffled in wearing sweats and cleats and as soon as they saw a large box filled with sausage mcmuffins on the serving table their faces lite up.  Yes, it was a man-fest and they were in the right spot!  The wives chuckled and the kids were in heaven. It was a breakfast of champions.  It rained steadily during the entire game and then turned to snow soon thereafter.  Perfect timing.

Yesterday we went to Arches.

Just kidding. We went to Desert Star Playhouse where they have this cool mural painting on the wall.  My parents were also there.

My cousin's daughter Cassidy is in the Christmas play "It's a Wonderful Life" at the Desert Star and we all went to see her.  Here she is with the kids at the end of the show in the lobby.

She did a great job and the kids enjoyed seeing her up on stage.   Aside from the fact that Korinne drank a large glass of water at the beginning and had to go to the bathroom 4 times during the show everything went well.  At the Desert Star there is a point in the show when someone from the cast comes out and they recognize everyone in the audience that is having a birthday or anniversary.  Unbeknownst to us Grandma had let them know that it was Korinne's birthday coming up and we were all mighty surprised when they called out Korinne's name from the stage and everyone started looking for her.  It was a lot of fun.

Before the matinee show we ran a few errands with my parents.  We decided to just pick something up for lunch and after looking over all of our coupons decided on chicken from KFC.  My mom and I both had coupons on hand and my Dad was mocking us and our coupon ways. He hasn't had a lot of experience using coupons but since he was the one driving the car he had to handle the ordering. It soon became clear he was out of his element. A drive thru and coupons--this just isn't how my Dad rolls.  By the time he was done speaking to the lady over the speaker at KFC we were all laughing so hard we were trying not to cry.  My favorite quote of the exchange was my Dad saying, "Yes, I have a coupon (pause) and I know how to use it!"

I snapped a picture to document my Dad at a drive-thru with a coupon. Hardly ever happens ya know.