There is something you should know about Utah Mormons. They are fond of wearing brightly colored matching t-shirts at family reunions,when they travel en mass to amusement parks, or take the whole clan on vacation. Usually there is some “Catchy” little saying on it like “The Furgeson Clan! Doing GREAT In 2008!!!!”
It makes me shudder.
My mother is coming on our trip to California with our family and she came over today to help me prepare.
“Do they still have that custom made T-Shirt shop on main street?”
“No. It closed down…..WHY DO YOU ASK??”
“Oh, I thought it would be fun to get matching bright pink shirts that say, “I Love Wheat Storage” to wear to Disneyland and embarrass you to death.”
Who knew my mother could be so diabolical? So sinister?? So witty???
She totally just went up in my estimation.
Cool.
That’s not just a Utah thing. My fondest memory of the Minnesota State Fair is seeing a family wearing matching black-and-white dairy-cow patterned shirts.
Oh, I know it isn’t only a Utah thing. We just seem to be rather “Enthusiastic” about it as a state. :)
THAT said, I AM going to go out and buy UBER bright shirts (Non-Matching) to put my boys in at Disneyland so I can spot them easier (And I realize that this is why many families do the matching shirt thing as well. I’m just not a fan.)
I loathe the matching shirt thing. My grandmother always tries to get all of us in matching red t-shirts for family reunions, gatherings, etc.
My in-laws wanted each sibling and their family to wear a specific color for the family pictures we took this past weekend, but another sibling suggested that everyone just wear blue, yellow or white for the picture so that nobody clashed really badly. That was a much preferred solution.
I had no idea Laree had that kind of, um, spunk, in her!
haha! too cool! my mother would do something like that. except, she’d go further, and put my picture on a t-shirt and tell everyone that i was her child. yep, she’s done it before.
Is there some significance to “I Love Wheat Storage”? Remember, I’m from Minnesota…ufda!
Food storage, especially that of barrels of whole wheat, is legend amongst Mormons.
Sigh.
I like to dress my little guy in neon green or orange when we go someplace he can get lost quickly. Better than a bright t-shirt? Bright hats.
What a funny mom!
So that’s why my father-in-law from Ogden always makes us all matching t-shirts. With all kinds of fun acronyms. Luckily we only take pictures and don’t really go out in public.
Tell her she can borrow mine….
Well, I’m just jealous that you’re going to Disneyland! So I’m going to picture you in those t-shirts and imagine the stories you would have to tell when you got home.
When Craig came along with me and my two young cousins to a 4th of July parade, I made us all where matching Old Navy Flag shirts. This was before we were even engaged! He should have run while he had the chance.
Our moms should talk.
I have lived in Utah since 1969 – the T-Shirt thing was news to me. Guess I should crawl out from under the rock ore often.
My mother has a store that makes all of that stuff now. I absolutely deplore them. She got me a jacket for graduation and asked if I wanted my name embroidered on it. Now, since I am not afraid of hurting my mother’s feelings, I told her what I thought of it.
*shudder*