viewmont

today was full of football games...as usual.  we played viewmont this week.  sam's team took care of business.  isaac's team never loses, but they did this week.  by one crappy point.  it was a tight, hard-fought game, but we came out on the bottom this time.  this is only our second loss in two years.  it was a heartbreaker for the kids, but i think it's okay to lose sometimes--it will make us stronger when we play viewmont in the play-offs. 

isaac, sam, and i went down to the byu game in the evening.  the game started at a very late 8:30 and since i had to get up at 6:00 to catch a plane, we cheered them on for three quarters and then left.  byu was able to hold on and win without us.

opinions

i have so many strong opinions about what happened at the bountiful/east game tonight. 

juicy, controversial & (did i already say this) strong opinions?

but i'm not going to share any of them.  my good friend, steve brown, once told me that if you have an opinion, no matter what it is, people won't like you.

not that many people like me anyway, but i'm still not sharing.

we lost 27-0.

and we have to play wx next week.

ok, it wasn't written in the stars

so excited to be going to new york city with craig.  and i was really excited to see the yankees in the alcs.  sadly, the yankees were eliminated from the postseason tonight by the detroit tigers so now we are left with this:

bleh.

written in the stars

ahhhh, it's the postseason.  my favorite time of year.  although i'm totally bugged that the football people think it's football season.  i guess it is, but it's still baseball season and it's the most important part.

i love it so much that yesterday i hurried through my work-out and all my errands so i could be home by noon when the first game started.  there were four games on yesterday.  so pretty much a solid ten hours of baseball.  love it!

if the yankees keep winning, craig and i will get to go to a game in new york this weekend. 

and the tv theme song for the tv coverage is so cool.  although i looked up the lyrics and there's really only two cool lines...the lines they play over and over again.  in fact, some of the lines are not repeatable, but i do like...

oh, written in the stars, a million miles away...
seasons come and go, but i will never change
and I'm on my way.

go yanks.

fitness choices

all the kids at my house are complaining about mondays today.  that bangles song manic monday has been hummed and sung several times today.  it's hard to switch gears back to school sometimes.

today i started a new fitness choice.  i'm going to a new gym and working with a personal trainer three times a week.  i have to whip this butt back into shape.  i just have to.  things are getting ugly and i'm down to just a couple pair of pants that fit.  woe is me.  it's interesting to me the hope i felt when i made a decision and went for it today.  i lifted for an hour and then took jeter for a 45 minute walk.

general conference

conference is a beautiful thing.  my favorite talk was given by a japanese seventy who talked about a boy and his father who both served in the same mission in japan.  the son baptized this japanese general authority.  yep, missing me some evan.  but news out of japan continues to be so great.  even though i want to, i really can't complain.

the mom that was recently baptized by evan and his companion works for nu-skin, so she tried out some of her goods on elders parry and hollister.

and the yankees lost.  i'm gonna be so bummed if they aren't playing next weekend in the alcs when we're in new york.  craig said it would save us $380 though on tickets.  so now i guess i'm a little torn.

taking care of business

yep, we played the woodchucks today.  big game for the little guys in ute conference.  big game for the high school too, but that's in two weeks.  sam's team has a real rivalry with wood cross.  it's bigger because a lot of these kids played baseball together.  the woods cross kids definitely bring their worst language and their worst sportsmanship.  it was a beautiful thing though, as sam's final score was 39-13.  and i wished we had scored more points against them.  some of them are straight-up punks.

isaac played wx too.  there wasn't quite the same tension, but we still wanted to pound them....which we did...42-6!

 love this picture of these little guys sporting their red all standing together.  intimidation.

several high school players have brothers on this team, so isaac and his friends had quite the audience of braves.

oh, and utah lost.  it's always a great day when utah loses.