Jazz Fever

We love the Jazz at our house. We don't have cable and so we only get to watch the games which are on KJAZZ, only about twice a month. We get pretty excited when we see that a game is on TV that we can actually watch. Brandon is always trying to get me to take him to a game, we tried over christmas break and couldn't get tickets. On Friday he came home from school and said, "please will you get tickets for the Jazz game tonight"? It wasn't hard to convince me. The only problem was that I am pretty cheap and was not about to pay a $15 processing charge on $5 tickets. If I am going to pay more than $5 then I better have decent seats. Well after I told him we couldn't go he asked me to check one more website. Sure enough we found $5 tickets with only a $1 processing fee.

We didn't care that they were playing an easy and not popular team, the Oklahoma City something or others. Our seats were up in the rafters, but we didn't care. We moved down closer and used our binoculars. At half time we tried to move down on the 7th row, but someone beat us to those empty seats. As we were walking back to our original seats we passed where Thurl Bailey does his halftime show. We were able to go up to him and get pictures. That was exciting, he was very nice.


Our neighbors have told us about how they wait for the players to drive out of the parking lot and where to wait. Well that is right up my alley so off we went to wait for the players. It was freezing outside, but we stood there waiting. About 15other fans were also waiting. Some of the players are very nice and stop and sign autographs and some just drive on by not even looking in the direction of the fans that keep them employed. The first player to stop was Brevan Knight, he was cute and nice. Then Ronnie Brewer and C.J. Miles stopped. Brandon kept saying, "we can't leave until Korver comes out". Oh don't worry I was not going anywhere until he came out. Well he finally came and he was so nice and soooo cute and it was just fun, fun, fun.



We got back in the car after 45 minutes of standing in the 30 degrees weather. We were freezing, but it was so worth it. These are the kinds of memories that I love having with my kids. Jacob insists that we take him next time so he can also meet Kyle Korver!

Super Speller

Brandon has inherited my love of reading. He cannot go to bed unless he has a "good" book to read, neither can I. Well this love of reading leads to a natural ability to spell. I rarely ever have to practice spelling words with him. He just knows how to spell. I used to know how to spell.

Well a few weeks ago he came home from school and said that he took 2nd place in his class spelling bee and would now go onto the school bee. I was so excited for him, that is until he came home with a list of a bunch of hard words to learn. So here comes out the kind of Mom I am. The first few days I said, How about if we practice some of your words, he said No, I will later. O.K. whatever. I then decided he had enough homework, piano, scouts, and basketball we didn't need to add practice for the spelling bee to the list. Well today was the school spelling bee. He invited several people to come and watch him. He was excited and nervous. I was just nervous! He was #33 so the first round took a little time to get to him. His first turn and they say your word is "falsetto". I said "Oh crap he isn't going to know that". Well he did know it. Yea I was so glad he made it one round. A lot of kids got out in the first round and before his second turn. His next turn and they said your word is "diatribe". What is that word?????? He misspelled it. Dang it. Oh well, that is what happens. On the way home I tried to explain that spelling bees really are not fair. I understand that is how they have to do it, but the winning word was "tissue"!

As I was leaving I was talking to another Mom. She said her daughter had studied so hard (she got out a few people before Brandon) and was upset. She then said between the Geography bee and the Spelling bee they were wiped out. I said "Oh, I am so glad Brandon wasn't in the geography bee". Her daughter then piped up, "Ya me and Brandon tied on the class geography bee and he said he didn't want to go on to the school bee". Hurray for not being in the school geography bee!