The follow-up story...

So, as a follow-up to the "Young Marrieds" Fireside, since I know you have been waiting in anticipation all week to hear this... after all was said and done there were 6 gallons of chocolate and 2 gallons of white milk, about 8 doz. cookies and some bananas left over. No donuts or grapes! They had about 120 people come, but it lasted for over 2 hours! Although it was really informative, 2 hours after being in meetings all day, is about an hour too long! Several people left around 8:30 PM because they had baby-sitters that they had to get home (it was a school night). So Jeff's planning would have been fairly accurate if everyone had stayed for refreshments. Jared, Ryan and Amy all took cookies and milk home so we only ended up with 2 white and 2 chocolate milk and 2 doz. cookies all of which the boys enjoyed for the rest of the work week!

This was Justin's response to the email I sent him about the fireside:

"I hope you´re enjoying the 12 dozen donuts and milk (I literally laughed out loud in the Internet center when I read about Mom wanting a centerpiece with the cookies and milk---and just so you know Dad, I was thinking about putting the gallon of milk on the table as well)."

Obviously, I haven't taught him enough about women!

The stake is having a "Young Marrieds" fireside tonight and Jeff was assigned to do the refreshments, so that meant a trip to Costco yesterday where we bought 18 doz. cookies and 4 gal. of milk. We really don't have any clue how many people will be there. But they figured about 15 couples from each of the 4 wards, so that would make 120 people, maybe! So we bought the cookies and some of the milk at Costco and then went to Walmart to get 10 gals. of chocolate milk. While there Jeff was feeling a little unsure about our ability to feed that many people with only 18 doz. cookies! Remember these are not a bunch of Priest that would take 4 cookies each, or a bunch of High-Priest that, because of their cholesterol level, are taking their lives in their hands to take 1 cookie! Thus the dilemma, too many or not enough! Jeff chose to err on the side of having too much so he proceeded to buy 12 doz. mini-doughnuts, and for those crazy young-marrieds watching their weight, some bananas and grapes! Then there is always the differing opinions of the "presentation". There was talk of just putting the cookies and doughnuts out on a table (no tablecloth) in the plastic containers they come in, with the gallons of milk sitting next to them for each to pour/spill as they will. Now, if this was just for the men I would say, "have at it", but their wives will be there, away from the kids, this may be their date night for crying-out-loud! I guess you know where I'm going with this, no plastic containers on the table, platters of cookies, bowls of doughnuts and fruit, and cups (already poured) of milk, and of course a centerpiece of some kind. For all of you that don't know, you may as well learn now, that when women are involved it needs to be soft and pretty with plenty of chocolate! So I'll let you know next week if there were protests because of the lack of refreshments or if Jeff and I ended up with 10 doz. cookies, 8 doz. doughnuts and 7 gal. of milk for the two of us to eat!