C'mon Utah!

Utah vs. Arizona

@ American Airlines Arena, Miami, Fla.

Tipoff » 5:10 p.m. MDT

TV » Ch. 2

Radio » AM 700

Records » Utah 24-9 (12-4 Mountain West), Arizona 19-13 (9-9 Pac-10)

Series » Utah leads, 28-20

Last meeting » Arizona 73, Utah 43 (Dec. 17, 2005)

Line » Utah by 1

About the Utes » Making their first tournament appearance in four years, they're riding a four-game winning streak, and have won 12 of their last 14. ... Senior C Luke Nevill averages 16.1 points and 9.1 rebounds. His 90 blocked shots are only eight fewer than the entire Arizona team. ... Coach Jim Boylen is hoping to become the third straight coach to win his first game in the NCAA Tournament.

About the Wildcats » Making their 25th straight tournament appearance, they're aiming for a third straight win over the Utes. ... Junior F Jordan Hill leads them by averaging 18.5 points and 11.0 rebounds. ... They were just 2-9 on the road. ... Interim coach Russ Pennell replaced legendary Lute Olson when Olson retired.

(information courtesy SLTrib)

I Heart Basketball and Not Ward Dinners

Yesterday morning started out with Willie's Jr. Jazz game. His team was in their tournament championship game against the arch nemesis man-child's team. Willie played a litte disoriented during a few parts, but did really well for most of it, even though he was a trooper just for playing with strep throat. The team won! That was the best part! Congratulations Wolverines!

In other basketball news . . .

the Utes have had a bit of an ugly conference tournament, but pulled out a win anyway. Thursday's game was really ugly, but at least we got to watch it. I was totally bummed because I turned on Friday's game that wasn't there because it was only on some super digital triple 5000 cable channel. Then Saturday's game was on a completely different channel yet again. I got to watch the first half (which wasn't very pretty either) and then we had to go to the ward party that I signed us up for. I called my mom and had her send me updates throughout the game, though, so that was good.

What was the ward party? It was an assigned seat social. Every table had a theme. You bring your own food to go with the theme. Our theme was "Our Mission To Mars." Our menu consisted of:

-- the red bird of mars (BBQ crockpot chicken)

-- craters of mars (mashed potatoes)

-- galaxy fruit salad

-- blue romulen ale (I guess that is some sort of Star Trek reference)

-- rolls (I don't remember their code name)

-- Mars mud pie

The party ended up being not near as terrible as we thought, but we still had to miss the second half of the game. Oh well. Another couple at our table was late because a 16 year old girl drove into (and totaled) their parked car sitting in front of their house. Oops. I guess there are worse things than missing a basketball game.

Happy Anniversary #2

Happy Anniversary to Us!

Today, March 9th, we have been married a whopping 2 years! Although it snowed today, it was a very pleasant spring day on March 9, 2007. What have we accomplished in a year?

bought a house

added to our house the following - lots of paint, a new dryer, fridge, and dishwasher, a new bathroom, kitchen wall, new countertops, and a furnace

went on a few trips - to the Redwoods, Disneyland, Bear Lake, Park City, Bryce Canyon, Idaho Falls, and Yellowstone

have had several jobs - LDS Hospital, Intermountain Hospital, Tooele High School, Murray High School

James earned his Associate's Degree from SLCC and started his Bachelor's of Nursing program at the U

Elder's Quorum counselor, Elder's Quorum President, Primary Teacher, Primary Counselor

and this last week . . . bought a piano

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So in our class today we talked about communitable diseases and food borne illness. We were then shown a video that show the proper way to cough and sneeze. In light of the bug that seems to be going around I thought that I would share.

ENJOY

Students Say the Darndest Things

Conversation of the day:

Student: How long is 25 to life?
Me: Um . . . 25 years . . . or longer.
Student: Dang! I thought it was like 2 years.
Me: Why are you asking?
Student: My cousin just got that.
Me: What did he do?
Student: Attempted murder . . . or maybe murder . . . something like that.

Other thoughts:

I have a student with some very interesting special needs. He's a good kid, but a little wacky . . . ok, maybe a lot wacky. A colleague of mine sees him a few class periods after I do. When he is on one, I usually warn her. Today he was fine in my class, though, so there was nothing to warn about. Here is an e-mail she sent me this afternoon.

"Where was my early warning service today? :)

At this point in class he has undressed himself, twice, and turned his shirt inside out. He also declared to the class that the movie The Forty-Year Old Virgin is his destiny and wailed that, "I am lonely! Oh so very lonely!" He has offered hugs to each and every person to walk into the room (the poor counseling aide was so confused), and sang commercials while we took the vocabulary quiz. Oh boy - one more hour to go. :)"