WOW- What a way to end the season by going undefeated and by beating a National powerhouse like Alabama, who was ranked #1 for 5 weeks. I could not believe the way Utah took control of the game from the start. Micah was up in Park City snowboarding for a few days and staying with some friends at one of their Grandparents house so Karrie and I watched the game. Karrie is so much fun to watch a good game with because she gets so excited and in to the game. Let's just say it was not very quiet at out house that night. One of the best things about Micah playing football for the last 8 years is that Karrie has grown to like football. She will actually sit down and watch a football game with me now. I know pretty awesome. Last night we watched the Florida-Oklahoma game for example.
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.
Click to enlarge photo My Dad called me today and asked if I could help him get a picture off of his computer and onto a disk so that he could go and get prints. He is a little bit challenged with the computer. I asked him how he got the pictures on the computer but he could not remember. Since my Dad has done so much for me in my life I love to be able to actually help him with something. The pictures were of a trip he made to Africa about 2 years ago. He has over 2gb of pictures. I am not sure how many exactly but a lot to say the least. And the pictures are incredible, he took some great shots. Many of the photos look like they were taken by a professional. So I thought I would put a few on my blog.
Karrie goes out of town and leaves me in charge. Karrie went out of town last Thursday with the Blogger Mom's and they were gone until Sunday. So that means that I was in charge of everything for almost 4 days wow. And you know what everyone survived. It's actually not the first time I have been left in charge Karrie did go to China for about 10 days. There were no kids harmed, no fires (well unintentional fires), no damage to the house, etc. I think it went pretty good. Well here are the highlights: Thursday Mariah put together all the stuff she needed to ask Acey to the Christmas dance. I ordered 5 Pizzas thinking Mariah's friends would eat like Micahs, I was way off. So we had pizza for the next 3 days. Friday morning I got up and got the girls off to school which is know big deal except when it comes to doing their hair. Luckily I have had some practice and I can do a pretty mean pony tail. So good so far, well here is where some may question my parenting. Friday just happened to be the state semi finals and Cottonwood and Pineview just happened to be playing at 10:30. I decided that Micah and I need some bonding time and they were having a long assembly at the Jr. High. So Micah and I headed up to the U to watch some football. It turned out to be a great game and Micah and I had a great time. So Friday night I asked the girls what they wanted to do and they wanted to go to Carl's Jr.'s, so off we went. They ate a little and played a lot. Saturday I had to turn in all the pads for are football team. We also went and saw Madagascar 2, my Dad came and brought Kobe and Jet (Payton and Riley's cousins) and my girls were so excited to see them. Then Sat. night Kelly invited us over to watch the U game. Kelly smoked some meat and it was great and the Utes won. Sunday Mariah gave a talk in Sacrament and did a great job. And we all waited for Karrie to get home.
While Karrie and I were in St. George we got a call from Payton to inform us that she had got a "4.0 on her report card". Since they don't give letter grades in elementary she got all 4's which is the best grade you can get. She was so excited to tell me and then she wanted me to pass the phone to Mom. I am so proud of her, she really works hard on her school work. I am so glad she has such a inner drive to be the best she can, it is one of the positive things about her having such a competitive spirit.
OK here are my two pictures taken from my laptop files.
This is a picture of Micah, we had been fishing in the river that comes out of Panguitch Lake. One of my favorite memories of this trip is: We were driving towards the lake after we had left Panguitch. It was really dark and we were driving through a canyon trying not to hit any deer. Thats when we saw this sign that said "You are not on Highway 89" Huh!!!! tell me how many road signs have you ever seen that told you where you were not????? I mean most signs tell you information like how many miles to the next city or which road you are on. But a sign telling me where I wasn't, that I figured out on my own. So if your ever down there watch for that sign.
This picture is not the best quality it was taken with our waterproof camera which had just come out of the salt water. This picture was taken in 2006 in Aruba Palm Beach to be specific. This was such a fun day we got of the cruise ship and found the local bus stop and figured out which bus went by Palm Beach. We had been told that Palm Beach was really nice. The bus ride was only $1 each which was such a big difference from the cost of a taxi on the other islands. On the bus Karrie and I met a couple who had sailed there boat from Florida to Aruba. Wow how cool would that be. The beach was awesome, we have been on a lot of incredible beaches through out the Caribbean but the sand on this beach was so soft and smooth and white. The water was beautiful and you could walk about 75 yards out and still touch. There were tons of fish and we snorkeled and played on the beach all day.
OK this is my last post from Friday Oct. 24Th as you can see we had a very busy day with a swim meet and a soccer game. It was also an anniversary of sorts for Karrie and I. It was twenty-one years ago that Karrie and I went on our first date. Wow 21 years is that possible? Karrie was 19 and I was 21. Our first date was very spur of moment. My brother was getting ready to leave on his mission and my parents had thrown a party for him. It just so happened that the party fell on the same night as a Jazz game. My parents had season tickets so my Dad and I were going to sneak away from the party and go. But once the party got started my Dad felt like he should stay so he gave me the tickets and said I should go. But with who???? Well at the party was Robert my old priesthood advisor who I had played a lot of basket with and I thought he would love to go. So I went over to ask him, he was sitting at a table with several girls one of which was Karrie. I asked him and in his great wisdom he said that I should be taking a date not him. Well at that time Karrie said that she was going to go but came to the party instead and I said something like well do you want to go? And she said sure and off we went. In hind sight this was my first glimpse of Karrie's spontaneity and her adventurist attitude. I still remember the Jazz were playing the Philadelphia 76ers and Karrie says I don't remember anything. Other than shutting the car door on her foot the date went really good. At least from my perspective. Little did I know that night that Karrie would be the last girl I would date. I had known Karrie in high school and we had been in the same ward but I really had not seen her in over 2 years. I remembered her as a sophomore with short hair and now she was 19 long hair and she looked great. I think the first thing I noticed about Karrie was her beautiful dark brown eyes, they drew me in and have never let me go. I Love you Karrie
UNDEFEATED!!!!!!
