10 quarters

Oh hi kid!

News flash! Joe can vomit! A lot! We found that out tonight. He didn’t quite make it to the toilet. Holy frejole can that kid puke. It splashed over every surface of the upstairs bathroom. I was first in, I used three towels, Mom followed up with two towels and fists full of paper towels. He seems fine now, poor kid.

Yesterday was a football marathon day. I probably watched more football yesterday than I ever have in one day. We did start the day by clearing the leaves at grandmas house. It went pretty fast with the four of us working, though uncle Tim and Jordan put in a token effort. After, grandma took us to lunch at Hires. Mom ordered a burger and...she really liked it. 

We got home and did our housework, the watched the Utah game. I’ve told you about all I can about that. It was an all time great game though. Uncle Tim and Jordan and the bergs came over. I invited them to stay and watch the BYU game with us. I was glad they did. In between games we watched the first half of the Oregon USC game. Because of our loss to USC, I was forced to root for Oregon. USC came out strong, I thought they were going to win it easily. But then Oregon came on...strong. Honestly, I’m a little nervous for the championship match up, if it ends up that way. After, we watched the BYU Utah State game. Mark had arrived by then, and he sure cheers. It’s almost as he’d never seen BYU complete a play before. BYU won pretty easily, but mostly because Utah State is especially bad, so so bad. We had a pretty fun day all in though. But it may be a while before I can bear to watch 10 quarters of football, my name’s not Roger, or Jacob after all.

Thursday was Halloween. At work several people dressed up and we had a nice potluck lunch. Obviously I didn’t dress up. It seems as if adults have stolen the holiday from children. First it was neutered for children by the advent of trunk or treat, then they stole it for themselves and took it into the workplace, it’s ridiculous. We had a fair number of trick or treaters come by. Mom and Joe had fun passing out candy, Jake helped out a little too. 

Did I tell you I got a second job? Well, it feels like a second job. Bike tire tube jockey. The rout the boys take to work on their bikes is full of those goats head thorns. I’ve tried patches, slime tubes, thick tubes, tube liners. Nothing has helped. We’re out there literally every other night. If the bike riding elders have any tips, we’re open to anything.

Joe just barfed again, poor kid.

Tonight we were watching home movies from when we lived in Lehi. You’ve always been such beautiful happy kids. I’m so grateful for you boys.

Well, before I get any closer to THAT mode, I’ll sign off.

Pops 

Love-YA-I-tell-YA! 

P.S. someone passed out in church, I didn’t see it. Hope they’re okay.