Northland Ward Chili Cook Off

I entered Kix candy (my favorite) in the competition, and also made corn bread while Sheri made chili.  However the big prizes were taken by families I home teach.  The Tulua's one first in the chili cook off, while another family I home teach, the Stokes, took third.  Grand babies were there, and my pictures of the event focused on them.  They had a great play area.  I held Asher while I ate.  He is a funny little guy.  Bronnie and SKylar are pretty funny as well.

BYU Stanford NIT Basketball

Grandpa is visiting; and he is a big BYU fan.  So we went to the BYU game together since they were playing close.  It was a very good game.  The song leaders signed the National Anthem.  The jazz band members bounced up and down, the saxophones more than the trumpets.  The refs stunk.  They didn't give Yoeli Childs a chance, putting him in foul trouble early, and then fouling him out.  It was those crazy rebounding fouls that did him in, two of them at the first of the game.  However Elijah Bryant had a good game, and almost carried BYU to overtime, but not quite.  Stanford had difficulty shooting foul shots, but shot a lot more than BYU, over twice.  BYU had a hard time making threes.  BYU was short handed under the basket, and by the end of the game were down to just one big man.  Crazy thing is they didn't charge for parking, and the tickets were only $20. 

San Jose's Hula Hoop Tunnel

This is one of the strangest things I have ever seen.  It is a tunnel of lighted hoops, which is located in front of the San Jose City Building.  It follows the sidewalk.  I was in about the middle, by the street crossing.  This was afternoon so it doesn't show very well.

Blossom Season in Manteca

Almond Season is a special time of year in Manteca.  The orchards are beautiful.  This year it has also been very cold.  Wednesday it hailed.  I had to take ice, almost like snow, off the windshield.  I was able to make a couple snowballs with it.  A Facebook friend posted a picture of ice on the blossoms.  It has been cold as well.  I asked a home teaching family about the danger to the almonds.  He raises almonds as well.  He said during blossom season the ice can actually protect the blossoms from the cold.  However, in a couple weeks, when the almonds first start to develop, they are more susceptible to the cold and the crop would be affected. 

Tony's Last Pack Meeting

This last Saturday Tony's Pack meeting experience was very eventful.  This was his last Pack Meeting as Tony has now turned 11.  It was the Blue and Gold Banquet with pizza.  They had an Olympics theme.  Tony won some of the events.  Then during awards, Tony received his arrow-of- light.  The meeting concluded with Tony crossing the bridge.  Tony ran the Olympic torch past all the other dens.  My pictures aren't the greatest, especially of the zip-line crossing.  I thought I was making a movie, but my phone wasn't on the right setting.