Football!

Hooray!!!!

The fall BYU football schedule has been released!!! Football season is the best time of the year. We are still debating whether we can afford the time and money to buy season tickets this year. However, how CAN I NOT GO?!?!? I'm torn. Both my brothers will be at BYU this season and as their older sister it is my duty and obligation to show them they BYU football game way! Sigh, we'll see what happens. Here is the schedule for each of you to see:

2010 BYU FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME TV

Sat., Sept. 4 Washington Provo, Utah 5:00 p.m. MT CBS C-HD

Sat., Sept. 11 Air Force USAFA, Colo. 2:00 p.m.   MT VERSUS HD

Sat., Sept. 18 Florida State Tallahassee, Fla.3:30 p.m. ET ESPNU

Sat., Sept. 25 Nevada Provo, Utah 4:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Fri., Oct. 1 Utah State Logan, Utah 6:00 p.m. MT ESPN HD

Sat., Oct. 9 San Diego State Provo, Utah 4:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Sat., Oct. 16 TCU Fort Worth, Texas 3:00 p.m. CT VERSUS HD

Sat., Oct. 23 Wyoming Provo, Utah 12:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Sat., Nov. 6 UNLV Provo, Utah 12:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Sat., Nov. 13 Colorado State Fort Collins, Colo. 12:00 p.m. MT Mtn. HD

Sat., Nov. 20 New Mexico Provo, Utah 4:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Sat., Nov. 27 Utah Salt Lake City 1:30 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

You should probably memorize all these dates and times because I will be unavailable during each of the games...

Wohooo! I'm ready for the football to begin. GOOOO COUGARS!!

Rise and shout the Cougars are out

Along the trail to fame and glory ....

Just for one minute

It's been a trying year. I'm tired. So tired. Really, I don't have that much to complain about so you probably should stop reading now if you don't want to hear my whining about how bad my pretty good life is. I know I should be looking for the positive in everything, but for just one minute I need to cry about the bad to get it out of my system. Just one minute of it.

I don't want to name of each individual thing that has stressed me out or that has caused such a hard year, because it'll all sound petty and stupid. All I know is that RIGHT now I just don't want to face the rest of this year. I just want to curl up in a ball, pull the covers over my head and ignore everything until it all goes away. I'm tired of wishing that I could go back home to Washington and stay with my family because that's just running away and won't take care of my problems. I'm a big girl now! Now I have a little girl that will run to me with HER problems. I just want some relief. Just one month with no pressure about anything at all. I don't want anything else to drop in my lap, or hit me in the face. As for now, WOE is ME. Wa wa wah wa wa. Sigh.

All right, my minute is up. Sorry guys. Time to keep trucking. What else can I do? Things are good and will get better. Now I don't have to whine to everbody all the time, after all, I just took my one minute. You are all relieved of your sympathetic duties :)

Graduation Ceremony

Brigham is soon going to be done with his Bachelor's degree in August and the ceremony for his achievements was on May 9th. Brigham didn't want to attend his graduation but his good wife insisted that he would be grateful he went and took pride in his success. Also, it would be a good example for his children as they one day look at the pictures. There were times during the six hours we were there, that I may have regretted my demand of attending, but over all it was so worth it! I felt so happy for Brigham and his accomplishments and I was grateful that we were there celebrating.

These are the graduates filing in. John Huntsman Jr. spoke at the commencement ceremony and he gave an excellent speech Brigham truly enjoyed.

Lydia did really well for the first ceremony that everyone attended, but by Brigham's individual department of Humanities commencement she was ready to get out of there! Luckily, she was manageable. After she had eaten through her cheerios, pretzels, and graham crackers she ran around, tore a whole in her tights, and made her mom very tired with her whiny demands for freedom.

Overall she was very good for a one-year-old sitting through five hours of ceremony. This shows two of Brigham's greatest achievements, his degree and his daughter. What a good man and daddy!

Brigham with his Mom and daughter. It was good to have lots of support from family.

Of course, most people know that we, in general, dislike the University of Utah. While they provided a decent and convenient education, BYU is like a BILLION times better :) So we sat in the Y section and got our pictures taken next to the big Y to show our true loyalties. It was hard seeing so much red and black; it hurt my eyes. But an education is an education.

This is Brigham with his dad and brother, Jake. Jake swore after it was all over that he would never go to another college graduation again. Haha, I know how you feel Jake, but it's good to honor our family!

Our cute little family next to the "Y". Congrats Brigham/Daddy, we love you!

I bought Lydia a new toy that would hopefully entertain her a little longer during the graduation and this little graduation owl was cute and fit the occasion.  She really enjoyed it :)

Congrats on all your hard work Brigham, you've come so far and I know you'll do great things. I hope you find your passion and enjoy doing whatever you do as you work hard. I am excited to take the ride with you and work together on the rest of our lives! Love you!

Ready!

Lydia loves her bath and will play in the tub for a long time. One day when I got her ready for her bath and we were waiting for her tub to finish filling, I turned around and she just grinned at me and I thought she was too adorable to not document. With her hair out of its recent pigtails and just in a diaper, Lydia excitedly chatted as she followed me around while I prepared her bath. She just looks like a cute happy little girl with her messy hair, and I love this picture :) You can tell she's trying to take off her diaper so she's completely bath ready.

Here you can kind of see her cute pot belly as she runs around the house. She's got a nice buddha belly that sticks out nice and round. We love it :)