New Furniture

It took quite a bit of effort to finally get all the furniture in the house and assembled. We didn't realize how much work it was actually going to take. But the furniture is in and pretty much all of our stuff is moved over. It is so nice to finally have bedroom furniture that we picked out ourselves. We had been using furniture that my parents gave me for Christmas when I was 5 or 6.

We stayed with Andrea and Brent again in St. George on our way to and from the tournament. While in Vegas we stayed at the Rio and even made time to hang out by the pool for a little while. It wasn't quite warm enough to swim in the pool, but we did take a dip in the hot tub.

On the basketball side, BYU lost to UNLV in the semi-finals. It was a tight, hard-fought game. I hate it when I feel this way, but I truly feel the refs decided the game in the final minute. They weren't great during the game, but were even worse in the deciding moments. On the other side, BYU played their first round NCAA tournament game today and won...99-92 in double overtime. They fought hard and we able to come out victorious over some adversity.

Busy Times

I really will get better at posting. We're headed down to St. George and Vegas this weekend for two purposes. We are going to St. George to pick up the furniture we ordered last month. We're then going the rest of the way to Vegas to watch some of the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament. BYU has a tough road this year. Assuming we make it to the semifinals, we'll face UNLV on their home floor. If we make it through that game, then we'll most likely have UNM in the finals (just the #8 team in the country).

While we're down south I hope we get to see Lauren and Jimmy's new baby boy (Julian). It always seems as though we are running too and fro. I'll be sure to make more time to write moving forward.

Catching Up

We've been running all over like usual. A friend gave me a couple tickets to the BYU basketball game against TCU. Ade couldn't make it but Dan came and it was a blast. The seats were way up high, but we had the whole row to ourselves so we could spread out and be comfortable. The best part? BYU won by 20.

Too bad they ran into a buzz saw last Saturday. UNLV whooped us pretty badly. They hit their first 9 three-point shots. Even their center was draining shots from down-town. BYU is a good team, but there are just some nights when the other team just can't miss.

Thursday night we are heading down to St. George this weekend to have a little getaway. We won a $250 gift certificate to a furniture store last year...and just haven't had time to use it (since it is in St. George).

BYU Basketball

Our good friend Henry invited us to go to the BYU basketball game on Saturday up at the Energy Solutions Arena. They do games there once or twice a year (not sure why). Anyways the tickets were in the third row so we were just above eye-level with the players.

BYU won and we had a blast. Elder Oaks was directly opposite us in the same row. It was fun watching him clap along to the fight song.

It snowed a bit Saturday and it is supposed to snow pretty much straight through Wednesday. It's beautiful, but it always takes a few days for drivers to remember how to handle snow on the roads. We're headed up to dinner at "The Roof" in Salt Lake City for a Christmas Party. I hope that traffic is reasonable.