Snow in Tucson

Heavenly Father must have heard my complaints on Saturday. I was complaining that there is nothing to do in Tucson.

So we were all excited to wake up to snow Sunday morning. Thank goodness we don't go to church until the afternoon. Unfortunately,the snow was all gone by noon.

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Hi, I'm Mario Perez and I am a Mormon

After church, Eric came home and told me that Mario had been selected by the EQ President and Bishopric to fill out an application to make one of these commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQGuDslF9Uo

Sorry, I don't know how to make it a clickable link. So you'll have to copy and paste the link.

I laughed. Why would they select Mario? He is your typical Mormon. He doesn't really have some cool story like the Harley rider. But pretty cool. Tucson has been a test market for these commercials and billboards so we see them all the time here. I wonder if our family gets to be in the commercial if he is selected to make one. Mario asked if me if I think this will be his "big break."

Wrestling

I broke down and went to watch Eric wrestle yesterday. It was pretty intense like Mario told me. Seeing kids pick each other and slam them to the mat is pretty scary. Then there was one boy laying on the mat for a couple minutes before he got back up and continued wrestling. I am glad that wasn't Eric because I would have probably embarrassed him by running over there. One kid had to leave due to a bone injury in his face. I must have been in the bathroom when that happened because I missed it. If that all isn't enough, there is a designated blood-wiper-upper. Why blood is involved in wrestling is my question.

That may be my only time watching, but I am glad I did it once. Fortunately Eric wasn't body slammed. I took video of the match and I think that helped me not to be so nervous. I was too busy trying to focus on the video. Here are a few pictures. Eric is in the lovely red spandex.

Sewing

Erin needed a poodle skirt for a daddy-daughter activity. Melissa knew nothing about it but out of the blue sent me the link to a really easy pattern. So Erin and I made a couple skirts using that great, easy pattern. Thank you Melissa.

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Girl Crazy

Well my 13-year-old is definitely girl crazy. I am hopeful that there will always be cute young women in our ward so Eric will always be excited about going to church. He always surrounds himself with beehives. He is not shy about telling Mario and I how much he likes them. He won't mention which ones in particular, but we have a pretty good idea.

Last night we went to a high school orientation at the middle school. This district gives the students a choice but one high school is limited to 225 freshman and that's the school Eric wants to go to. It is solely based on a lottery system. So I told Eric not to recruit kids from school to go there. In fact, he should tell all the girls he is going to the other high school so there won't be competition getting into the school he wants. His quick reply was to tell all the boys to go to the one without a limit and tell all the girls to go to the limited one. So then the limited school will have a 2 to 1 ratio of girls to boys. We find out the first week in March if he gets in to the school of his choice. It is a no-textbook school which is what enticed him. So he will use a computer for all his classes. Plus the wrestling program is better at that high school. It was my choice because I heard the teachers are harder and it is 3 miles closer to home.

What am I going to do with this girl-crazy boy?! He has 2.5 years until he can even double date. And of course the double dating will be with his parents!

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Anne of Green Gables

So I am a little behind. I think you are supposed to read Anne when you are about 11 or 12. But I never did. So now Erin and I are reading them. I even bought myself a Kindle so I didn't have to borrow one from Eric anymore. I am loving the books and all the little messages that it teaches little (and in my case-big) girls.

I was reading Book 4 last night and came across a paragraph that made me laugh. Actually I laugh a lot while reading it, but this paragraph touched me more than the rest. She is writing a letter to her fiance, Gilbert.

"Gilbert, darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!"

I am not adventurous and I am afraid of everything! So I just laughed when it got to the last part about the mention of twins. I found it hilarious that she lumps typhoid and twins into the same category as typhoid.

Proof that I am Nice

I get so frustrated when my pictures come out sideways. I wish I knew how to change it, but I don't.