Football and fall

Today was Jeremy's last football game for 7th grade. He played defense only, which was a change from the last games. We lost the B bracket championship to north sevier 16-8. Oh we'll, their overall record this season was 4 wins and 6 losses, better than last year. We saw lots of improvement from the team but also the same mistakes all year long. One of them being not putting the right kids the right positions. Jeremy did great on offense in last weeks' games but once our injured boys were back, Jeremy was relegated to something else.

Cameron has one game left and then playoffs. His team has only won once so far and that was last week. He is amazing thrower at quarterback. He loves it

Tyler's JV team is doing awesome. Their second loss came at the hands of manti. Thursday. It was a close game with each team scoring nearly every possession, but manti came out on top in the last minutes of the game. The varsity lost their first game in region to manti yesterday, by only one touchdown. Manti has an amazing rushing game. One of their players rushed for over 300 yards. He just gets behind his blockers and goes. We couldn't stop him.

 We just found out Tyler is #12 in sacks in 3A south. Interesting ... Hasn't played varsity much. More on that later.  (He hasn't played varsity enough to get stats of any kind, nor has he sacked anyone in any game,  hmmm.....)

Each game we go to has the most extreme weather. Today was beautiful. I think I got sunburned. During Tyler's game Thursday we froze and got soaked by rain.  Last Saturday was a sunny cold day. The night before that I could see my breath all night long. Cameron had a game cancelled because of cold and rain, but the JV were still playing in it. Tyler doesn't think he has had a game in sunshine all season. It's been overcast or dark or rainy or cold or snowy right before. Jeremy had a game postponed as well due to lightning.  What a great time, fall. with the weather changes occurring hourly.  I think the first snow was Oct 3 or so.  Didn't stick, but it was visible for quite a while.

We love fall and we love football. (Glad it's nearly over though). Basketball is here already.

Reading old posts

I just decided to read some of my old posts. I'd say I've gotten better at posting and adding pictures with captions. It was fun to read them from the  last 4 years. try it you might like them too.

20 years

Its hard to imagine that 20 years has passed by so quickly.  I don't feel that old.  We've had so many adventures together.   We've graduated from college, got real jobs,raised and still raising 4 handsome boys, endured a few surgeries, moved from the big city to the middle of nowhere, spent hours in the car traveling to school, games, practices, traveled the world or at least the west coast, as much as possible.  We have a few gray hairs (one of us more than the other), we grew up and learned some things the hard way. we learned to compromise, love more.  In any case we love each other more than ever before.  Here's to 20 more.

These are just a few of the many, many pictures we have taken. (the rest are not digital so scanning is in order and will be done someday)

wedding day 9/14/93

engagement picture-1993

20 years later-2013

BYU bowl game in Las Vegas 2007

San Diego 2012

2008 Escalante State Park

Zions -2008

Yellowstone again-2009

Disneyland for Jen's 40th birthday-2013

Timpanogas cave 2013

5 minute trip to Grand canyon-2007

I love you THIS MUCH

bear canyon 2013

I love you too.

We spent our anniversary at Jeremy's football game in Gunnison. At least they won for us:) Chris owes me a date to the temple and dinner out (somewhere else besides SUBWAY)

football season in full force...and other news

May I just say it is so nice to leave work and be home in 5 minutes or less...  I LOVE IT.  I can say, "I love my job" again.  I can't believe what a change this has been. I am more mature, more experienced, and a better teacher thanks to Independence. However I don't have the stress of driving, hurrying, and working in the school. The changes that were made last year have not been good to the teachers. I believe half of the faculty and staff at independence has changed. The day before school started, there was not a new teacher to take my place.  I am happier and slightly more relaxed at JHS. I miss my friends at Independence, but I just don't miss working there.

Jennifer in her classroom at JHS

In other news. Tyler and Jeremy are still safely playing tackle football. There have been injuries to their teammates, though. Tyler is now starting JV offensive lineman due to an older boy tearing ACL  in the last game.  Good for Tyler, bad for the other kid. Just last night in Jeremy's game, a boy on our team was tackled hard by two bigger boys. He went down and they called an ambulance for him.  Jeremy told me today he had 3 small brain bleeds  (bruises) and a can't use his brain for the next little while i thought it was a neck injury and he has  that too. He spent the night in the hospital.  The Freshman have had a broken collar bone and a few concussions. JV team has also had a concussion or two and a broken wrist.  Someone tell me again why I let my kids play such a rough sport.Cameron has his first flag football game yesterday. (I don't know if I like the rules they are using this year, though). Cam was playing QB for most of the game. He did pretty good. Pray for continued good health.  In any case, the boys love playing ball. (see pictures and updates on scores, etc, on football blog)

Derek is officially loving being a UTE and part of the MUSS at football games. He has an awesome roommate, but I haven't met him yet.  He is taking 4 classes: precalculus, victorian history 3000 level, geology of national parks, and writing. He has two institute classes, mission prep with his roommate and BofM. He is a referee for intermural soccer games at U and trying to get FIFA certified to be a ref for all soccer games. I think he has settled in pretty well and we text every few days. I miss having him around though. Who would have thought?

 

 

 

Derek in his dorm room. first year at college.

First days of school were great. No stress commute, got to see all of them go to school. Now its nearly midterm. (and grades aren't due soon...that's an independence thing)

Tyler second day of school as a 10th grader

Jeremy second day of school as a 7th grader.

Cameron second day of school as a 5th grader

Tyler is driving a bit. This was his FIRST time ever driving on the second day of school. I was glad it was only a mile.  Definitely needs lots of practice.

it's official, Tyler has a driving permit.

 Jamberrynails are still fun to wear. I change them up whenever I want.  Not overly ambitious to sell them but I need to be.

in honor of JHS homecoming this week

utah vs utah state game

french tip

Shoulder surgery

This is what Shoulder Stabilization surgery looks like. 6 weeks recovery. then therapy to strengthen and add more flexibility back to shoulder. He will get to play sports in January.

School is here

School Starts August 22. I hope we are ready. Derek is moving to UofU on Aug 22 as well.

Family Pictures

20 years later and still smiling. 

After our last family picture turned out less than stellar (A photo in our front room for the 5th year in a row), I decided I wanted a nice one professionally taken. Derek has his senior pictures done by a lady in our ward and I loved them sooo... I asked her to take our whole family's picture. I scheduled it the first of summer and made plans and marked it on the calendar so NO ONE had an excuse to not be ready for it.  Then Derek's surgery was scheduled a week before the date of the picture. I worried, but waited to see what would happen. Then Tyler finally got his Eagle project going and it was done on picture day.  All in all everything went well.

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