Just another week

Today was the day that Kelsey and I got to introduce ourselves to the ward in talk form.  It's funny how the church does that.  We're so glad you're here come speak to us!  It went well enough and now it's over and now shouldn't have to speak for a while we hope!  Only problem was right after I got asked to teach a lesson in Elder's Quorum next month.  Great! Love getting to teach.

It has almost been a month since Kelsey and I got married.  That is bizarre to me.  A whole month has just gone by in a flash.  We're moved into our apartment, hung up pictures, reorganized, and made many trips to the local stores for things that we've realized we forgot.  It's fun moving in and starting a new home.  We get to go to Home Depot, get memberships to Costco, and figure out banking and all kinds of details.  

In the last month and a couple days we have been extremely busy.  We moved all our stuff(at least the stuff that fits) to our apartment, we finished wedding preparations, got married, went on a honeymoon to Hawaii, started another semester of school and work and much much more.  Quite the month if you ask me.  All grown up! Well not really.  But trying to get there!  Life is fun, life is great!

Cougar Disappointment

Year's past this was the week that I'd have been camping out for big BYU Basketball games.  Luckily this year wasn't one of those years.  Couldn't have been colder for those poor souls out freezing on that concrete.  That being said it makes it all the more exciting for those students knowing what they've sacrificed waiting for this game.  It provides a whole lot to the environment and anticipation of everyone.  In fact last year at the Saint Mary's game, students may have gotten a little too invested.  I remember walking out of the Marriott Center watching students get handcuffed after throwing things on the court.  It was a little bizarre.  Well this year for the most part students and parents behaved themselves despite bad calls and frustrations on the court.  The thing that bothered me the most though is all of the basketball coaches BYU seems to employ in the stands.  It's amazing to me how quick we go from utter happiness as a player drains a three to screaming insults at them.  I have a question for all these fans: Do you think that player doesn't feel horrible for having screwed up in front of 24,000 fans? Let me tell you as one who screwed up plenty of times in front of 24 fans, it sucks.  Players feed off of emotion and the emotions in the Marriott Center are so bi-polar it's insane.  A home court advantage is so great because you shouldn't be worried about how your fans are going to react.  The home fans are supposed to always be cheering.  As a player lines up a shot on his home court he shouldn't ever have a thought of, "If I miss this man am I going to hear it from the fans."  Now I'm not saying we can't be upset.  These guys and girls down there have put themselves in the spotlight and are doing what most people dream to do.  But as fans if we want our team to win, we can't be booing and screaming how idiotic that last play was. Believe me when I saw they know even more than you do, no matter how much you may know about basketball, how idiotic that play was.  At BYU there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. 

So this is my first Blog ever, I've never even really looked at a blog before so I don't really know what these do.  My wife seems to enjoy them.  So I guess this whole marriage thing means that I should give it a try. Right? Or maybe that's not the reason at all that I'm blogging.  Maybe I just really got into the whole spirit of this blogging trend (word courtesy of my wife) and decided I should just give it a whirl. Really though that just doesn't sound like me.  There is a slight possibility that one of my teachers has asked me to create a blog for credit in his class.  Of all the options that seems like the most likely one if you know my personality.  I'll leave it up to whoever might stumble upon this blog to decide though.  I don't really know who would even read this blog.  I'm not that great of a writer. I probably am not going to tell many people about this blog, so in all reality I'm really writing this to myself.  It's pretty interesting I guess, this whole blog thing that is.  Maybe by the end I'll actually enjoy this and write something about my life, but as of right now this is all we are going to get.