Animal Eye Care

We saw this last night. I had to take a picture. We love our pets, but I don't think we would go this far.

Junk Yard Wars

Our combined mutual (church youth group) activity was "Junk Yard Wars". We brought "clean junk" to our church cultural hall, then split into 5 teams. The teams had a relay race to collect their junk, were armed with a giant roll of duct tape and started creating.
The final creations were impressive considering what they started with and how little time they had.

Here are the results in no particular order:




Exciting Rice Palace

Awards: Most Intricate Detail and Best Special Effects (They popped a plastic bag before their presentation)























Leaning Tower of Love

Awards: Tallest, Most Romantic/Spirit















Bill Mormon and the Science Lab

Awards: Most Creative, Least Junky


















The Pei Wei Shelter

Awards: Most Useful and Most Charitable

















The Battle Car

Awards: Most Functional and Most Lethal

Mormon Riddle

An Elders Quorum President, Relief Society President and Primary President are at the church and need to attend a meeting at the Stake Center several miles away. They only have one car, and it only has two seats. This will take them more than one trip.

How do they get to their meeting without the Elders Quorum President riding alone in the car with one of the sisters?

Glossary for Non-Mormons:
Elders Quorum President - Men's worship group leader (A man)
Relief Society President - Women's worship group leader (A woman)
Primary President - Children's worship grou leader (A woman)
Stake Center - Church building with offices for leadership over multiple congregations (like a Diocese)
Sister - name or prefix used for women in the church, i.e., "Sister Jones"

Banana Pancakes and the Chipped Tooth

Shelly is in Utah visiting her mother, so of course something was bound to go wrong in her absence. It was Thursday and I got a phone call from Zack. He chipped his tooth.

It was hard getting the complete story on what happened, but I think it is Jack Johnson's fault. Zack and his friend's were listening to music and the song "Banana Pancakes" came on. They decided they had to have Banana Pancakes. I have to admit that Zack and his friend's are creative.

As Zack leaned over to lick the whip cream off, his friend pushed his face down into the plate, just at the wrong time and Zack's tooth chipped on the plate.

I was at work and our usual dentist was on vacation, so I couldn't do anything Thursday but make a couple of phone calls. I had Friday off, but Zack had a basketball tournament the next 2 days. I was hoping to wait till Shelly got home, but Friday morning I decided to be responsible. I found another dentist and I was quite impressed. I had to ask Zack which tooth was broken.

Good Job Dr. Chalk!