Happy Thanksgiving

Three days ago it was Thanksgiving Day.  We have had most of this week off from school as a break to celebrate Thanksgiving.  I stayed here in Utah for the break, but had a lot of family come to Utah from states such as Florida, Oregon, Idaho, and Arizona.  A lot of my cousins were here which made it fun.  For the first time on Thanksgiving, we played basketball instead of football before the meal.  We usually have our annual Turkey Bowl, but it was just so cold this year that we decided to keep it indoors.  The actual meal was delicious and consisted of lots and lots of food.  There were many pies for dessert and I'd have to say my favorite pie is cherry pie.  Along with Thanksgiving comes football.  There were so many good football games on this last week.  The most exciting was probably the Boise St. - Nevada game.  Boise missed a short field goal as time ran out and the game went into overtime.  Boise then missed another field goal and Nevada made their field goal for the win.  I feel bad for Boise's kicker.  BYU killed Utah, but the refs were unfair and controlled the outcome of the game.  The Utes are the luckiest team in the history of college football.  It is ridiculous.  They had so many lucky breaks that went their way.  Anyway, I guess it's back to school now.  Next thing to look forward to: Christmas!

Ninjas Unite

I write this post as an update to the post Todd posted last week.  Sorry about all the "post" words in that last sentence.  Anyway, after one week, and after many battle wounds and carried out strategies, I am proud to report that our army of ninjas has increased from 1 to 11.  After we received our ninja last week, it was quickly stolen and we were sadly left with zero ninjas.  It was then we began to fight to try to capture more ninjas.  Our next door neighbors, at this point, had a total of 10 ninjas.  They had successfully stolen all of them from different apartments.  We tried a few times to steal their ninjas, but they were always on guard and tagged us at any attempt we made to swipe their ninjas.  In order to get some ninjas, I agreed with the guys in this apartment to go out and help them steal ninjas from apartments that still had their ninjas.  The agreement was that I would get half of the ninjas that we ended up stealing as a group.  We only came away with two ninjas, so I came home with half, or one ninja as we had previously agreed.  Before I went to bed that night, I went back to the 10 ninja apartment and looked for any way to steal some ninjas.  There was no way because their whole apartment was sitting in the front room guarding the ninjas like Dwight Howard guards the hoop.  But, suddenly, as I was sitting there watching TV with them, I saw a perfect opportunity to do some damage.  Now, I don't mean to leave you hanging as the reader, but I'm afraid I must continue the rest of this story next week.  So, stay tuned and read next week's post to find out how the story of the ninja wars ends!  

A Great Weekend for Sports

Here I am again writing in my blog after a great week.  This week has been great.  In the sporting world, however, this week has been even greater if you are a BYU or Utah Jazz fan.  First, let me start with the Utah Jazz.  The first word that comes to mind when thinking of their last 4 wins is "miraculous."  The team has been on the road for the last 4 games.  They started down in Miami where they played the Heat who proudly boast their "Big 3."  They then traveled north in the same state to take on the Orlando Magic.  From there, they traveled a bit east to battle it out against the Atlanta Hawks.  And then, just last night, they were in Charlotte playing against the Bobcats.  The amazing Utah Jazz won every single one of these games!  These aren't just any teams, but they are the best teams in the Eastern Conference, and we beat them in their own arenas.  I love the Utah Jazz!  What is even more amazing is that we were losing by double-digits in the second half of each game.  The persistent and hard-working Jazz players continued to fight and never gave up.  They always came back to win the game.  The most impressive come back I have seen was against the Heat.  At the end of regulation, Paul Millsap scored 11 points in 28 seconds to send that game into overtime.  Incredible!  Secondly, BYU's football and basketball teams both were victorious in their games.  The basketball team defeated Fresno State 83 to 56 in Provo.  The football team defeated Colorado State 49-10 in Fort Collins.  I am proud to be both a Cougar and Jazz fan!

Convincing Win

Well, I can't believe that a week has gone by since Halloween.  Time is really flying by fast.  This week was definitely a good one.  I was quite pleased with how well I did on a couple of Physiology quizzes that I had this week.  I owned the heart.  Something else which made the week quite dandy is that BYU football came away with a convincing win yesterday in Lavell Edwards Stadium.  We clobbered the Rebels of the University of Nevada Las Vegas 55 to 7.  I was hoping for a shutout, but they scored on their last drive in the fourth quarter.  This is probably because we were playing out second and third string defenders.  Jake Heaps played well and was the MVP of the game.  We were finally able to get a passing game going.  Heaps was finally able to complete some longer passes.  He threw a great pass to Cody Hoffman for about a 50 yard touchdown pass.  Josh Quezada also played well as he rushed for 3 TDs.  They were his first three rushing touchdowns of the season.  He had a touchdown reception in their first game against Washington.  I thought our defense played exceptionally well.  Before UNLV's last drive, the defense had held them to less than 100 yards on offense.  Hopefully we can continue playing like this.  If we do, we might just find ourselves bowl eligible.  Also, if we continue to get better, we might have a pretty good shot at beating the U of U up in Salt Lake.  After all, it was finally proved that they are extremely overrated after being embarrassed on their home field by TCU yesterday.  TCU annihilated the Utes 47 to 7.  I guess their easiest schedule in college football won't pay off after all.  Let's go Cougs!