...Cold, Wet, Saturday Afternoon Weber State Games.

Ok, so here is how it went. It was about 2 months ago that I told Kim I would really like to have season tickets to Weber State football and basketball. Why Weber State? It's a 20 minute drive and I figured tickets would be cheap. The kids don't know the difference between Weber State football and BYU football. Heck, they don't really know the difference between Weber's Wildcats and the Washington's Redskins. So, one fine Saturday morning while out shopping for a new king mattress, we stopped by the Weber State ticket office. Turns out I was right, as usual. Weber tickets were cheap......dirt cheap. Football Season tickets for all five home games were just $85. $85 doesn't sound too bad right? Until you figure we are a family of six. But thats ok, cause at Weber State, you don't pay $85 for one season ticket, you pay $85 for 8! I did the math, its about $2 per ticket. Basketball is even a better deal, $150 for 15 home games with 6 tickets per game. Sure they aren't the best seats in the house. To be precise, they are the worst seats in the house. But still, $1.50 per tickets for college basketball? Go Wildcats, go!!! The St. Clairs are now officially Purple and Black wearing wildcats fans. And why not, they need more fans, we need cheap entertainment. A match made in heaven. Season tickets to basketball and football for the whole family, for less than what it would cost to take all six of us to one Jazz game.

Home game number two was yesterday, Saturday the 6th against the perennial powerhouse Sacramento State Hornets. It was a beautiful day. 40 degrees with heavy rain, turning to snow. Did we wimp out and stay home? NO way, we are the St. Clairs.....we are like the Mormon equivalent to the Griswalds. So we bundled up, grabbed our tarp and blankets, and of course, contraband concessions, and headed to Ogden. Weber State took control early, and was ahead 13 to nothing early in the second quarter, when one of our children decided that it was just too dang cold. Meltdown number one. About 5 minutes further into the 2nd quarter came meltdown number two. Well, we were all cold, and wet, and although it was a great game, we decided to pack it in at half time. By the time we got the soaking wet 400lb acrylic blanket I bought in Tiajuana down off the hill, it was definitely time to go home. We all survived quite nicely even though two kids were sure they were going to freeze to death. Truth is, we all had fun...at least for the first quarter or so.

Conference was great, what we saw of it. We tivo'd the 2nd session, so we will be knee deep in conference catch up today. For those of you who don't yet have HDTV, I never thought I would say this but, Conference in HD is better. More like actually being at the conference center in person. Now you husbands have a valid excuse to go out and buy that new flat screen HDTV set youv'e been wanting. It's no longer just about football and movies, it's about seeing every detail on the prophet's face when he speaks. So wives, please don't stand in the way of your husbands spirituality. Let him have his giant screen TV. It will make him a better person.

Well folks, it is way past time for bed. In my next edition, you will meet our new neighbors, sort of. The mystery of how many kids, what age and what sex they are, has been answered. Until then......

Jared