7 Out of 10 Stars

Ashlee "Eve" gave last night 7 out of 10 stars. I think she had a hard time focusing on Brother Wilcox's lesson. This guy is so learned and very smart; I think he's just too smart for this class. Before we read a verse he's got us reading two other chapters in Isaiah and Ezekiel... just to set the mood. When I try hard to follow him and focus, instead of scoping out the hotties and not-hotties, I enjoy the tangents.

I personally gave the night an 8. We stacked our chairs and wandered around for a bit, looking for Todd & Shane, or Aaron and Austin. Really anyone we knew but didn't see anyone. We didn't even see creepy Larry! A little crestfallen we wander over to the hot cocoa line. I made brief chitchat with the guy behind but not much more. Then up comes James (from two weeks ago).

Tangent: Last weekend and the weekend before I went out with James. He is NOTHING to look at. I saw going out with him as practice spending time with a guy alone. He is a great talker - he could talk to himself for several days before he got bored. Two things I learned about James: 1. Evidently after a girlfriend and him break up, the next guy she dates she marries. 2. He's very good at complimenting me (which is what I really needed from the relationship). 3. He's good for emotional support. 4. He claims to have kissed 100 people - to which I almost choked on my drink.

Anyway so James comes up trying to act all cool and totally makes an arse of himself. It was awesome. After he walked away Ashlee looks at me and says, "did that just happen?!" HA ha oh man. We stand talking about what our issue must be and around the corner comes Hal.

Hal is 34, living at home, he's a computer programmer but is finishing a degree in...something engineering. Biology? Agricultural? Micro? I don't remember - do you Ashlee?

Anyway, he seems like he's half asleep as we're talking and [this is my favorite part] and I say "Can I ask you something?" to which Ashlee's eyes get as big as saucers. I later found out she was thinking 'Becka! What are you going to ask? Oh my gosh don't ask something crazy!'

I asked Hal why he came over to talk to us. I explained we haven't had a good track record and wondered why he chose us of all the people in the room. He said it was because he came through the door and saw us not too deep in conversation and said hi. Easy as that. After another 20 minutes of conversation we gave him our numbers to do something later. My second favorite part of the night was later he couldn't remember our names (no surprise anymore) and only remembered I was from Bountiful and Ashlee from Clearfield. So I suggested he just call us Miss Bountiful and Miss Clearfield.

I really wanted to be entered in his contacts list as Miss Bountiful.

Mama Sue needs your help

My mom is finally getting around to painting the front door of our house. It's Georgian out front - very traditional. The problem is they just moved from a VERY modern house in California. Mom is still clinging to modern and is making a great effort to make it fit in this house - if you ask me she has shoving a square peg in a round hole.


We've polled the neighbors, family members, home teachers on the door and everyone is split. What do you guys think?

White trim around the door, sides, and window:


Or white trim around the door, sides, window, and lower panel:


Mom is begging for opinions.