BIrthday 2011

I have mixed emotions about my birthday this year. I have never enjoyed having my birthday on General Conference; I enjoy my birthday and I enjoy General Conference, but not together. It is something I will have to deal with for the rest of my life... I know. I'll someday figure it out. So my family came over to watch Conference (since they don't have t.v.), and the talks were good, the music was good, the food was good. After dinner, I went with a few of my family members to the Grizzlies Hockey game. It was a lot of fun.

There were different mascots there, running around and it was almost more fun watching them than watching the game. During the first intermission, the mascots all came out on the ice and did a bowling game (it happened to also be Grizzby's birthday - he's the mascot for the Grizzlies). The pictures are fuzzy... but this is Swoop (Utah), Bear (Jazz), and one I called Little Willy (he was there with Willy from UVU). There was also the drum line from UVU dressed in green suit things... they were cool looking. I tried to get pictures of all the mascots that were there, but they weren't always in the best place for a good picture. So there was: Grizzby (Grizzlies Hockey), Bear (Jazz Basketball), Swoop (U of U), Rocky the Raccoon (Rocky Mountain Raceway), Willie (UVU), Little Willy (UVU), Harley (Utah Blaze), Leo the Lion (Salt Lake Real), and for this intermission, there was Jack the Kangaroo (Jumpin' Jack Cash). So many people remembered my birthday this year, and I am grateful to those who did remember - the day of, or later. I am blessed to have such wonderful friends and family who love me and look out for me. I don't necessarily like getting older, but if I can have my friends and family around when I do... I think I'll be ok :)