Mr. Right he is not, Mr. Smart he is

So I don't know what is worse, the fact that I watched the Bachelor finale with my wife, or the fact that I didn't care that he didn't give the happy ending that our society so desperately craves. I read a good article (if there is such a thing regarding a forced reality show) on why the Bachelor did the right thing. I agree. Janna thought he should have at least kept one of them around to see if their relationship progressed and I do see the logic in that, but why continue to invest so much into something you don't see going anywhere? I am glad he didn't succumb to the pressures that were around him and throw in the towel. He followed his gut and usually when we do that it is the right thing to do.

Friends

While at BYU I made many good friends. There are many I still keep in touch with and there are a few that certainly we don't get to see enough of. Mark is one of those friends.

Life, Weather, Traffic, and Humor

Well I figured it wouldn't last. The temperature at worked went from 57 down to 46 degrees from 7am to 8am. After that I watched the barometer rise from in the 20 percent range up to 48%. This means the front has rolled in. With the wind it feels like it is about 27 degrees. Hopefully the snow holds off until we can get out of town tomorrow. I am supposed to get out of here around noon and hopefully we can get on the road before 2pm, otherwise we will be facing a bear of a traffic jam just to get out of town.

We are getting settled in the new place. It took me several days to get the dish up and find the right satellite. Unfortunately I had to do it in the dark since I rarely get home in the daylight. Janna keeps telling me she is ready to start painting, but I don't want to start that until all of the boxes are unpacked. Otherwise I will have 2 projects staring at me simultaneously.

Since it is Thanksgiving this week I have thought a lot about what I am grateful for. First is my family. They bring more joy to my life than anything. Having a wife who is willing and able to put up with me and raise our boys is priceless. Last Saturday she went to a get-together to sell Mod Bod clothes and was gone for about 5 hours. I asked her how much she made and said, "good, that's what I charge for watching the kids." Yes, of course I was kidding, but she responded with, "how much do you make every week?" I answered her and she said, "good, that's what I charge for watching them." Very funny.

Moving

We moved into our house this past Saturday. We are down to a van full of miscellaneous lamps, boxes, the crib, and "stuff." We really need those lamps though since none of the bedrooms have lights. Ugh. Luckily our headboard has lights and our bathroom lights up our room well enough to get our bed set up. We inherited a really nice king-size bed that the boys have been sleeping in along with another large (seems bigger than a queen) bed in the 4th bedroom.

One of the only things that has been rough on me is that I cannot find my boots for work. They were getting pretty roughed up and worn out, but I wanted to get boots when I was ready. We have a Red Wing Store close to work so it looks like I will be stopping by there at lunch.

I like having the house. I don't have to fight for a parking spot. I don't have to pay an extra $50 a month for a garage spot. We have leaves to rake up in the front yard when we get a rake. We have to get a couple garbage cans, the city doesn't provide them like they do in a lot of places. Oh well. We got $400 in gift cards to Lowe's from our Real Estate Agent and Lender. Those will be used quickly. Our bathroom will be one of the first projects we tackle. Luckily it is only about 32 SF so we will only need about 20 SF of tile. We will have to paint it and do something about all of the patching in the shower. Maybe we will retile the shower too. I would like to get some 18" tile and do the floor and shower together. The previous owner didn't clean anything so there is a lot of dust and grime--pretty gross. I don't think she had dusted in years.

So anyway, we are just about done. Janna is going back to the apartment to clean today and turn in the keys. Stone has been a great helper. He loves to fill the boxes with whatever is available. We just need to get him out of his shell and get him new friends and a preschool.

Season Over

Well the season ended on a loss, but despite that it was fun. Unfortunately we only had 7 guys from the roster at the game. Scott A was able to get Dan and Nate to come play but without the consistency of the regulars it is hard to be consistent as a team. It is somewhat frustrating because we work so hard during the season and then bomb as a high seed come tournament time. The guys who were there played hard and our defense still did pretty well, but Scott didn't get a lot of reps at QB until the end of the season and that was who we had for Saturday.

The Ballers ended up winning the tournament. They played consistent all day. Their line did a good job of controlling the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. They won by about 4 or 5 TD's. Good to know that we were only down 14 - 6 with a couple of minutes to go.

It is hard to justify keeping your starting QB when they don't consistently show. Maybe I'm old school, but when I commit to something I don't choose to do something else when others are counting on me. There are some things that take precedence, like a family member in the hospital, wedding, honeymoon, work making you come in, generally things out of your control. Other than that, it is few and far between. I can't back you when you choose to not come. It doesn't matter if you are Joe Montana, sorry, if you don't show you aren't helping the team.

I guess it doesn't matter much since it sounds like a large chunk of the team won't be back. Travis has his semi-pro team, Jon & Andrew are moving, Marcus is going on a mission, Dee is hanging up the cleats. I have been approached by the Ballers to play receiver for them and play on their indoor team as well. I am not sure what I am going to do. I really want to start playing volleyball again and I have a chance to get on a few different teams if I want to. They will be a lot closer to our new house too. I guess I'll have to wait and see what works out.

W, 27 - 0

We fully dominated this team. They are no longer called Fly or Die, I'll just refer to them as Die, because they didn't Fly.

We started the game on defense and forced a punt after they got just one first down due to a penalty "impeding the runner." Man, tuck your shirt in already. They didn't want to tuck their shirts in, yet cried the whole game about us grabbing their shirts.

Our first drive moved the ball all the way down the field after they pinned us back with a good punt. We unfortunately were stopped when the double pass was intercepted.

Again our defense was stout with Travis getting an interception on the next play. Tim proceeded to run the ball well with excellent blocking by the Offensive line and receivers downfield. Die got the ball back with just a couple of minutes left in the half down 6 - 0. They tried to muster a good drive but due to Andrew beating the double team, they were going the wrong direction.

Andrew got the first sack of the game, which nearly brought their QB to tears. Their QB was heard saying "no one sacks me ref, you know that." The next play he threw a swing pass that went for a 2 yard loss. The final play of the half Allen called Lion, which was the perfect blitz call for that play. The half ended on my 10 yard sack of that same QB who "never gets sacked." Good call Allen.

The 2nd half we came out on fire. Scott A. led a TD drive that ended in his run to the promised land. Again, good blocking and controlling the line of scrimmage was key. Travis took the reigns and led 2 TD drives with great play calling and mixing up the receivers. Travis had a nice downfield bullet that almost went through Tim's chest and another bomb that Kyle's gloves stuck to. Man those gloves are amazing. Travis also took away a 2 pt. conversion interception thrown by Scott. The guy had it in his hands and Travis went over his head and wrestled the ball from him.

Travis threw Marcus a nice TD for our 3rd score and for our 4th score he had me run a 2 step hitch and go I guess you could call it. The defender nearly fell on his face. Beautiful call. Andrew caught the PAT and also had the interception to seal the victory led by another great defensive call by our Defensive Captain Allen Welch. He had me blitz and Andrew drop back into coverage and he was able to step right in front of the pass. Andrew had a nice game.

Next week is the tournament. We play on the WEST FIELD at 9 am VS. Ambush. They are 4-3 and were a very solid team in the spring that beat us 14 - 6 that season. It is win or go home, single elimination. See you there.

Game 6, W, 19 - 0

I wasn't at last weekend's game so I have nothing to report other than I know we won over a terrible team and 2 TD's is not going to do us any good if we are playing anyone decent in the tournament. I heard the defense was again strong and the offense was good in the 1st half and not in the 2nd. A couple of red zone picks kept the score low by both QB's. I will just chalk it up to an off week and hope that if I were there it could have been better. I sure hate missing games. It drove me nuts not being able to be there. Not only did I miss the game, I nearly missed Stone's birthday party. That would have been worse than missing the game.

This week we play an average team. They barely beat the crappy teams when I watched them. They beat the Lions on the last play of the game. All I really want to do is mess up the QB's hair. He has it all spiked up every week and I want to just get him really good once and mess up the hair. If we get everyone to this game we should do well.

We found out today that the tournament is scheduled for Saturday, November 3 (weather permitting). I hope it goes that day because I am out if it is the following weekend. We close on our house Nov. 9 and are moving Saturday Nov. 10 so I am out if we get rained or snowed out and they push it. I think it would level the playing field with a lot of teams if we played in the crappy weather.

Anyway our defense should have at least 3 picks and our offense needs to kick it up a notch.