Utah Jazz & Jerry Sloan

I love the Utah Jazz and go to as many games as I can, but this season I haven't been able to go to as many because of work and school. Thankfully my parents love me and so for Christmas they gave Ben and I tickets to see the Jazz play the Chicago Bulls this last Wednesday. It was such a good game!

 The score was pretty close up until the last quarter then some stupid moves gave the Bulls more of a lead, well there had been some stupid moves throughout the whole game but you don't really pay attention to them until the last quarter. We enjoyed watching how the fans reacted to Carlos Boozer and screaming "Booz" everytime he got the ball and cheers erupting when he missed a shot or got fouled.

It was fun to see Kyle Korver and Ronnie Brewer back again and they were two of the players that had some good plays against the Jazz. However the fans didn't give them a hard time for leaving the team. The Jazz bear was up to his usual tricks spraying confetti over fans and acting like he was going to pants the referees and camera men. During half time he came out on stilts with giant golf clubs and hit balls into the audience. Ben also got to see the mini "1/2" Jazz bear for the first time. Overall it was a great date night and counted as our Valentines Date!

Yesterday when I got to work I was in the break room and the TV was on Fox Sports (as it always is because I work with so many sports fanatics) but what surprised me was what was happening, Jerry Sloan announcing his resignment. I stood there in unbelief. It was only the night before that Ben and I had watched him coach. I still can't believe that he isn't going to finish the season. I have decided he was forced into resigning because of all the losses this season. Its the end of a Jazz era. Jerry is the only Jazz coach I have ever known and he did so many great things during his career. I remember going to his 1,000th win in 2008 with Danielle and now I can say I was at the last game he coached. I will miss watching him on the sidelines!

What a deal!

 Ben and I are all about good deals and saving money. I used to tease my mom for saving random coupons from the mail or taking ads to Walmart to have them price match Harmons to save a dime on grapes or something equally ridiculous, but now I am doing the same thing! I go through all the coupons that come in the mail and check every ad.  Since there is just two of us we don't have to go shopping much so most of the time we wait until the WinCo coupons come. (I just read this to Ben and  he rolled his eyes at me)

 I think I'll move on since Ben thinks I'm lame. Another awesome deal that we ran into this week was getting a $700 High Definition Canon Camcorder for... $200!! What a steal! I work at Best Buy and when a product reaches the end of its life and we'll no longer carry the product we sell our shelf display for 10% off. So I sold the shelf display of this camcorder and the guy returned it the next day because he decided he wanted a sony instead. Well since we had closed out the license for the product we couldn't put it back on display or send it to the service center so my management was going to lose money every day the camcorder was there so I asked my manager what he would sell it for if I wanted to buy it. After much bargaining I finally talked him down to $200 which was well below what I thought I would get it for. I love good deals!

Life continues

So Ben and I have been super busy lately! We didn't even kiss at midnight on New Years because Ben was working. Some of the highlights of the past month were:
- Ben shoveling the snow from our house to the church at 8 am so I didn't get any snow in my high heels because we walk to church each sunday
- We went down to Price and stayed with Papa Del & Rusty. It was a lot of fun and we learned some new card games.
-We visited Ammy in Ephraim and tried Whips (snowcone/ice cream) in Mount Pleasant.
- I was the "WOW" employee of December at my work
- We had dinner at the Van Wagoner's with Grandma Bolton and got to hear a lot of neat stories about her
- We invited Ben's family and went and saw the pop sensation Walker Brothers perform in Midvale (they're my uncles if anyone didn't know) :D

A lowlight of the month is both Ben and I got sick and spent a couple days at home which wasn't any fun. We are anticipating a much better February though!