Friday the 13th

I never believed in the curse of Friday the 13th before today.. a few days ago Orlando Pace was dropped by the Rams, leaving Torry Holt the last player from "The Greatest Show On Turf", today Holt got released. Now the Rams have 3 receivers left with any game experience at all, and the oldest one has only played for 2 years, and his first year was on the practice squad.
Then, to top it off we got destroyed by Temple City in our ward basketball game today, it was our first loss.

Track for Zak

Here is Zak's track warm-ups:
Now, his track uniform (?):

His shorts are size XL as there were no more smaller sizes by the time his turn came up to get his uniform.

Zak got his PR of 9' at his first track meet last Thursday.

T.O. Released

Terrell Owens has been released. Apparently the Cowboys just couldn't handle him anymore. What team do you think would take him now?

M A S H

Kylie did a M A S H for (about) me after dinner tonight. Apparently I will:
marry Marshawn Lynch
have 2 children
live in a house
and drive a lawnmower

In Other News:

• Kylie's softball game was cancelled because of rain
• Zak could NOT finish his plateful of spaghetti tonight!
• Zak has a track meet tomorrow - I am sure he will be quite dashing in those shorts

Recycle $$

Remember I told you about my exploits in collecting water bottles at Kylie's softball game?

Griffin and I turned them in today. We got $6.15.

Kylie has another game tonight, then another on Wednesday.

Pants

Griffin is growing, and I can't seem to find pants that fit him well. So, this morning I went out "shopping" in our own boxes. I found many pants, some of which I HOPE fit him. Most of them had initials on the tag....cj and stc.

What a saver I am.

(for those of you a little lost on this....that is 20 years of saving. It has paid off.)

The graphic is NOT a real photo, but a drawing. I did it myself. I did it with Paint.net....just so you know. You many use the likeness. You have my permission.

ETSY Shop

I opened that ETSY shop today.
We'll see if anything comes of it!

If you'd like to check it out....go here:
bagsandsuch.etsy.com

Update

I figured it was about time for an update. The last two weeks have been REALLY busy, but I've gotten through all my midterms so now things are much better. Last Wednesday, my friend Heather was able to get free passes to Sundance through her brother-in-law, so I went to an earlier section of my Systems Audit class to be able to have the afternoon off. I had a great time, but I had a pretty hard face-plant. I was looking for a certain run off to the side and my board plowed into a little mound of snow. If it was powdery snow it would have been just fine, but it was wet, heavy snow that stopped me immediately. I basically did a front hand spring with my face instead of my hands. I was dazed, but I felt just fine. Heather came up and said I had a cut on my face, but I thought it must have just been something tiny, no big deal. When we got back to the car I had a big bloody gash between my eyes and by my nose.

The next day I went to this fancy etiquette dinner with my friend Liz, she had to write a paper about it or something. She had bought a new suit and was really excited so we took some pictures that night also. Liz's roomate Julie photoshopped my face very well, but since I know mom loves pictures of her children's injuries, I had her send me an unedited one. (you'll need to zoom in. It looked a lot worse on wednesday before it scabbed over)

Edited:Elizabeth also thought it would be really funny to take a fake engagement picture and then change her relationship status on facebook so everyone would think she was engaged. I told her that is just something girls do to try and get attention, but she really wanted to, so here was the result.

Weapon Vollyball

This evening, they made up a game...Weapon Volleyball.
They played with much glee.
Notice each face.
Played between the living room and the dining room. That 1/2 wall was their net.

Two States

Shockingly, this post is NOT about Zak's hair, or it's height.

Zak has 2 states: Just before he gets sweaty
and
Sweaty
and it is constantly changing throughout the day.

Here he is in the morning...just before he is sweaty:
(as a side note, I NEVER noticed his hair before I looked at these pictures to put them in the blog. Hmm, I guess, to me, this is just usual.)This is Sweaty...he has just come home from playing basketball. They won: 54 to 24
Zak pwnd

I was really trying to get the sweaty shirt here.

Here is Quinn before the game:

Quinn after the game:


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Here is our family crest:

Griffin quite enjoyed the shirt stickers. He said he really likes shirts.