REGION 1 CHAMPS

ONWARD LANCERS!, ONWARD LANCERS!, BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE!

Last Friday, the Layton Lancers took 1st Place in the Region 1, 5A Division in Football. Today, on Halloween, Layton High beat Hunter High in the first game of the playoffs. Colton played well. He did come out of the game for a few plays due to a leg cramp. They play Skyline High next weekend.

Firth Family Fright Night

It was the annual Firth Family Fright Night last Saturday. We have this party every year in the Cabin behind Andrea's House. We have a costume contest with a traveling trophy up for grabs, a lot of gross Halloween food, a round of Gestures and we top it off with at very active, dangerous and no holds barred game of Monster Mash. It is played like fruit basket. This year we moved the game outside in the dark. It was a new twist and we usually play until someone gets hurt. It is getting more livelier with the boys getting bigger and more aggressive.

Laurel and Megan won the trophy away from the Odles. (We had it last year for the costumes of Deal or No Deal) This year Laurel came as a teacher/witch from Harry Potter and Megan came as Moaning Myrtle.

The Odles came as Garden Gnomes. Maria was a Gnome Maker, Britton was a Gangster Gnome(Hangin with my Gnomies), Colton was a Gnome Wrecker, Jackson was Gnome Field Advantage, Dave was a Gnomo.

The Speirs were The Wiggles.

The Bitton's -non Harry Potter crew were all Bodies in Motion Aerobics Instructors

The Birds were Thing One and Thing Two

The Draper Speirs were Buzz Lightyear and the gang

The Larsens were Non-Participators and Goofy

The Firths were Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head

Kendall was Batman

EAGLE PROJECT

Yea! Number 2 son just completed his Eagle Project. Colton made a bulletin board for Ellison Park. It is to put information on about the Football Games. The city will put it in the shed when there isn't any games going on. It was a great project that Colton can be proud of. Thanks to Grandpa Firth, Dave, Mitch, Kendall, Nicole, Britton, Brian, Jackson and Megan for their help. Thanks to the city, Dave Price and Bruce Logan for working with us. Just one more to go!

MISSIONARY STUFF

Just to give you parents of young boys an idea, we were told on Monday from a salesman at Mr. Macs that from start to finish, it costs about $1600 to buy the clothes, luggage and accessories to send a boy out on mission. Missionary Mall is pretty comparable to that cost. FYI

I guess it is payback for all those dance dresses, however, my boys always felt "better" going to a dance in a new outfit. (MAYBE THAT WAS THEIR MOM'S AFFINITY TO SHOPPING) Not to mention day dates and dinner costs. Oh well. There is always the wedding that we get out of paying for.

ANOTHER FYI: I recommend Body World, especially for those wanting to go into the medical field. It isn't gross, it was interesting and if anything looked fake.

LUCKY JACKSON GOES TO ARIZONA

A week ago Thursday morning, Jackson was so lucky to travel with Grandma and Grandpa Firth and Megan to Arizona. He got to miss 3 days of school! He went to see his cousin Elli get baptized in our church. He had a grand time. He swam, played, got to go to see The Wiz musical. They celebrated cousin Mary's birthday while they were there. He loved the heat. He totally missed our first snowfall of the season here in Utah. Thanks to Uncle PJ and Aunt Amy for helping him get there, it was a trip that he will always remember. Congratulations to Elli.

NOT SO GOOD

Unfortunately I have to announce that LAYTON LOST TO VIEWMONT. It shouldn't have happened, Layton is a better team (That is not just the football mom talking.) Colton played well. I was VERY upset at some of the varsity players filming Layton from Viewmont that came and sat on Layton's side during the JV game and taunted the fans including one "old man", that was going to get "whip lash for turning around so fast" in shock at what they were saying. (OLD MAN=Dave) and other names to various "mothers" sitting nearby, not to mention yelling crude and derogatory things to Layton players by using their names, which would side track our guys. After they cheered and whooped it up when one Layton player was hit extremely hard and was down on the field, we told them to go to the other side. Of course, they wouldn't, which only antagonized them. It started some bad feelings to fester inside of me towards the opposing team. Boy I wanted to show them up on Friday. By the way, I did find in one of our pictures, one of the boys and I saw the other one that next night. He was number 80 on Viewmont. All I can say is Viewmont obviously studied every play that we had because, they didn't play offense on us, just defense. Score 9 (three field goals) to 0. Next, on to Weber.

EVERETT WASHINGTON

Here are the Georges putting up their guesses.

Jacks0n and Adam trying to peek through the envelope.


Britton posting his guess.
Britton reading the letter.

ABOUT EVERETT WASHINGTON: Everett is the county seat and largest city in Snohomish County, Washington located 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle. As of the 2000 census the city had a total population of 91,488, making it the 6th largest in the state and fourth-largest in the Puget Sound area. Because of growth and annexations, the population as of April 1, 2008 was estimated to be 102,300 by the Washington State Office of Financial Management.
Everett is home to the second-largest marina on the west coast of the United States and is the western terminus of the western segment of U.S. Route 2. It is also home to Boeing's assembly plant for the 747, 767, 777, and the new 787 in the largest building in the world by volume at 116.5 million cubic feet (13.3 million cubic m).
In 1984, Everett was selected as the site of a U.S. Navy Homeport, Naval Station Everett. The Naval Station formally opened in 1992 and on January 8, 1997 welcomed the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Everett is also home to the Port of Everett, an international shipping port, that brings trade, commerce, jobs and recreational opportunities to the city. The mission home is in Mill Creek Washington.

CALL

I will post pictures tomorrow. Britton received his mission call to serve in the Washington Everett Mission. He leaves January 7th 2009 for the MTC. Britton seems to be excited. He played tennis with a boy from Layton High that is also going there in November. That was fun to know someone going also. Maybe I will sleep tonight without dreaming that someone stole his call from the mailbox.

One interesting side-light. We had a map set up and everyone here choose where they thought he was going. Two people chose Washington...The Stake President and the Bishop. They promised that they did not know beforehand. The Church is true.

Oh by the way, Britton chose Washington (DC). Maybe he needs to train his inspiration a little.

Friday

It is here! It came today, unfortunately we can't open it until 10:00 pm tonight due to the fact that Colton has a game at Clearfield. So if you want to come, start gathering about 9:45pm tonight at our house. We have waited 19 years, I guess a few more hours won't kill us.

Thursday

Today is Thursday, NO CALL TODAY. We are trying to be upbeat.

No Call Yet

Today is Wednesday and there is no mission call. We will keep you posted.