Spring Break Part 2

So after a day at the pool it was of to Disneyland. Disneyland is a great place to go especially with young kids but if your an adrenaline junking and like the big fast roller coasters it is a bit of a let down after Six Flags. We had fun at Disneyland though, we hit all the classics like Space Mountain, the Matterhorn, Splash Mountain etc. And not to brag or anything but I got the High Score on the Buzz Lightyear ride. We had to practically had to pull Karrie away from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.Just look at the excitement and joy on the faces of Mariah and Riley as we get on the "It's a Small World"ride.
The next day we went to Huntington Beach. The water was still pretty cold but Payton and Riley and Ace got in it all the way. The rest of us went in up to our knees. Ace loves the water and got mowed over by the waves a few times before he caught on and learned to get out of the way. We also flew a couple of kites I had found at the store. If we only had a beach and ocean in Utah it would be perfect.
Well after a long day at the beach we went and ate at Chilli's then headed back to the hotel. We took an air mattress and they Kids took turns sleeping on it. Micah and Riley were on it this night. All the kids got in bed and we went to sleep about 11:30-12. Well at 2 am Payton came up on my side of the bed and said "Dad I just threw up in the Bath room" she was very calm trying not to wake everyone up and I thought oh it couldn't be that bad so I went into the bathroom and yea it was that bad. She at least threw up right on a big towel that was on the floor so clean up wasn't to bad. Well she felt a little better so I put her back in bed with Mariah and gave her a garbage can just in case. Well about a 1/2 hour went by and I heard her jump from bed and run towards the bathroom she did not make it. At this point I moved Riley out of the bed with Micah and put her in with Mariah. They were next to the bathroom. Well again about a half hour after she went back to bed she was up again. She was so sick she was actually sitting on the toilet and throwing up in a garbage can at the same time. At this point I woke Micah up and told him to go get in my bed and I spent the rest of the night with Payton on the air mattress. She got sick one more time that night. I am not sure what time it was but the last time we went back to bed it was starting to get light outside. Oh I forgot about 4 am I decided to go and find her a Sprite in the vending machine. Well I took my wallet headed to the machine and I had no $1 bills or change so I had to go down to the lobby from the 10th floor and get change. I went back to the vending machine by our room put my money in and the Sprite was sold out. Now this is a huge hotel 1600 rooms so I walked to the other end of the floor and the vending machine was not working, I finally found one on the 9th floor. What a night! Well the next day she felt better but was drained. I was a bit tired myself but she wanted to go to California Adventures so off we went.

It was a fun day and we were all done by 6 p.m. We had gone on every ride we wanted to at least twice. Then on Saturday Mariah, Micah, and I went to an Angels game. We had a great time I had forgotten how much I use to love baseball when I was growing up. There is just something about a Major League game. The game went by really fast and we enjoyed some snacks. You have to have a dog at a baseball game right? Even Mariah loved the game. She was asking me questions all through the game.

Wow 19 years!!

Karrie and I just had our 19th anniversary on the 24th. I am not sure how 19 years could go by so fast. Karrie was 19 yrs old when we started dating. Since I love to travel with Karrie and believe me I don't know anyone that likes to travel more than Karrie, I thought I would post 19 pictures of places we have loved to travel to together. In no particular order.

Lake Powell so many memories

Trip to Omaha, Iowa, Missouri (my mission) my sister was living in Omaha at the time.

Fun trip we had to Long Beach

St. Thomas one of my favorite places.

Disneyland of course!

Puerto Vallarta Mexico fun trip with my family 21 of us

Bahamas

A cruise I don't remember where we were at the time

Aruba Palm Beach might be the best sand I have found, spent the whole day in the water.

Puerto Rico another place I love to go. This Castillo El Morro

Yellowstone

Seattle, this was a work trip for me that Karrie came with and we had a lot of fun.

This is us on the World Trade Center south tower six weeks before 9/11

Xel Ha Mexico six months after we were married.

Cayman Islands Sting Ray City.

Curaco

Key West

Jamaica

St. Johns (Cinnamon Bay) OK this really is one of my favorite places

Micah is now legal

Well as of today December 17th 2008 Micah is now legal to start driving.(with a parent).
And he wasted no time in taking advantage of the newly printed driving permit. He drove Karrie home from Farmington. Tonight we went to dinner for Micah's birthday and of course he had to drive. I think he is a lot more prepared than Mariah was, he has had a motorcycle for a few years and has on occasion drove around the neighborhood or home from church. I just hope he is not over confident. It was really weird sitting in the passengers seat and looking over and watching Micah drive. I can't believe he is old enough to drive, I am not sure how the last 15 years have gone by so fast.

Jaguars???? More like Kitty Cats!

O.K. in my last post about our game against Olympus I said that they were the worst team we had played in the whole seven years Micah has been playing football. Well after playing the West Jordan Jaguars today, I am really not sure which is the worse team. Yes they were that bad. FYI in the season match up between Olympus and West Jordan, Olympus won 7-6. Well our game started today with them kicking off and us returning it for a touchdown. The score was 21-0 at the end of the first quarter. I actually felt bad for those kids, they only had 3 subs on the sideline maybe because of UEA. And they only had 1 coach. It was a fun game for our kids because everyone got to play different positions and more of our lineman got to run the ball and score. One of Micahs friends (who's nickname is the "The Stripper" because he strips the ball from the other team) has been on the same team with Micah since they were 8 and has always been an X player until this year. Today he got to play quite a bit at running back and scored a touchdown and the extra point. On the extra point he dragged at least four Jaguars into the end zone. Micah had a really good day he ran one in for a touchdown and then he made an interception and returned it to the 1 yard line. It was fun to watch the kids who have never scored before get a touchdown. They sure deserved it. We ended up winning the game 55-6. We did however suffer our first big injury of the year, one of our running backs got tackled and fell on his shoulder and broke his collar bone.

Slaying The Spartans!

Wow what a difference a week can make. After have been in battles the last two weeks with Bingham and Riverton we had Olympus this last week. We had heard that Olympus was not that good, they had beat West Jordan 7-6 but that was there only win. So last week we made sure everyone on our team would have a starting position on either offense or defense. They were pretty good size, but then again we are not that big so everyone tends to look big. Well we got the ball and scored, we kicked off and they ran the ball back to the ten and I am thinking oh crap. Well we held them on 4 downs and got the ball back and drove down and scored again. We scored almost at will the half time score was 34-0. In the second half we moved our players around to spots they had never played before, two of our lineman who are not X players got to run the ball and they each scored a touchdown which was pretty cool. The final score was 47-0. In the 7 years I have coached these boys this was by far the worst team we have played.

The Misery goes on!

Well this week we had Riverton and we knew it would be a tough game, last year we beat them by a point. We lost 6-0 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! The Refs were a lot better this week, although one did signal a touchdown for Riverton once when they crossed the 10 yard line. Our defense played really good again only giving up one big play for a touchdown. It is hard to lose when you only give up six points, the last two weeks we have only given up 13 points total. Today we did not help ourselves at all. We had a big punt return that got us down to about there 20 but it was called back for a block in the back. So instead of being 20 yards away we ended up being more like 60 yards. Then we had a big pass for a first down that got called back because of a hold. We just made to many mistakes on offense today. We have not scored in two weeks!! I was impressed again with our boys, they just keep fighting until the end, they don't give up and they leave it all out on the field. Oh I forgot to mention it was pouring rain the whole game. So after Micahs game ends at 3:30 we have about an hour before Paytons soccer game, so we hurried and ate at Sonic then it was off to soccer. This soccer complex in West Jordan is GIGANTIC. You have to drive to the different parts it is so big, unfortunately the parking is not so big. Well this tournament that Paytons team is in has some really good teams and we played one of them today. We lost something like 6 or 7 to 1 I stopped keeping track after the first 10 min. we were the first team to score on them however. Payton played goalie for the first half and it was non stop action for her, she did a real good job. She is fearless and dives onto that ball with no regards to all the feet trying to kick it.