Remembering Jaime

On this day 6 years ago I'll never forget the news that I recieved, my best friend had been killed in a tragic car accident. Wow, I can't believe how fast time has gone by, it only seems like it just happened yesterday. Not a day goes by where I'm thinking about her and all the good times that we shared together. I always wonder what life would be like if she was still around. So today is a day for you Jamie and know that you will always be in my heart. I miss you and love you!!!

Happy New Year's

I flew back from Salt Lake on New Year's Eve to spend it with Doug. As long as we have been together, last night was the first time that we have spent New Year's Eve together. It was nice just to hang and chill with him. We watched a movie and then watched the count down with Dick Clark.

I can't believe it's already 2009 but I do hope that things go good this year and my resolution is to work on some personal flaws and goals. I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year and that you may uphold your resolutions.

Jazz vs. 76er's

I know I live in an area now where there are plenty of sports teams to watch (Golden State Warriors/Oakland Raiders) but I will always be faithful to my home team (Utah Jazz). Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I'll go to some basketball games out here but it's always nice to be on the home side and not on the visitors side. Oh and with a winning team (sorry Dougie)!!!! Teresa and I ended up in the nose bleed section of the Jazz game but it was still fun being there. It was a good game through the first two quarters but in the second half the Jazz went on a scoring spree and ended up beating the 76ers 112-95. After the game was over Teresa and I wandered down onto the floor to get a couple photos. I was hopin that we might get close to one of the players but no such luck.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

There are so many benefits of being a teacher and one of the comes during winter break and getting 2 weeks off. I flew back to Salt Lake on Christmas Eve to be welcomed by lots of snow and chilling cold weather. I rode back with Teresa and Colt to Idaho only to be welcomed by lots of snow and freezing cold weather. Don't get me wrong, I grew up in the snow and cold weather but now that I live in California I have grown attached to the sunshine and warm weather during the winter months. I do get depressed though when Christmas comes and there's no snow because for me it's not Christmas unless there snow.

Christmas was nice and I got wonderful gifts but when it came time to go to my aunts house for our traditional Christmas dinner it was disrupted because of the drifting snow and closed highways. I was so bitter and I told my family, I didn't fly all the way from California to get snowed in. It's one thing to come home and drive in the snow, but it's another thing to come home to snow and not be able to go anywhere because you're snowed in!!!! So basically all we did on Christmas day was lounge in our pajamas, ate food and watched TV.

I was getting antsy and I was so happy to hear that a snow plow had cleared the highway but before we could get to the highway we had to plow our own driveway. Dad and Colt got a head start but we soon realized it just wasn't a two person job, so it turned into a family activity where all of us were out shoveling snow. It took us a good hour to get to the street that gets us to the highway. Don't worry Teresa's car got stuck but thanks to mom's jeep we had a path to follow to shovel snow.

Finally we were out, but once we were out we weren't sure if we would be able to get back in so we ended up having a slumber party and grandma's house in Pocatello for a few days. It's been a while since I've had one of those.

We went to the movies (cinematic adventure) and went and saw Marley and Me and Seven Pounds. We went over to my aunts house and had a traditional Christmas dinner a few days later with leftovers, but they were just as good. It was nice to visit with my aunt, uncle and grandma. It's been such a long time since I've seen them. Oh and my aunt has such the cutest dogs, Missy and Joey (maltese) in their winter coats.

We didn't know what the weather was going to have in store for us so I went back to Salt Lake with Teresa and Colt on Sunday. The roads were terrible and there was supposed to be another storm coming through and I didn't want to take the chance of being stuck when I have a flight to catch on Wednesday. All in all, I had a nice a Christmas even if we did get snowed in and it was nice to spend time with the family.

Stanford vs. Rutgers

It's been a while since I've updated so here goes. Back in November, I went to see a women's Stanford basketball game. I coach at one of the high school's here at we took some of the girls from the basketball team. I didn't get the chance to see all of the campus but what I did see Stanford has an amazing campus and oh the facilities!!! At the time the Rutgers women's was ranked #3 in the nation and Stanford was ranked #8. It was an awesome game to be at even though Stanford ending kicking Rutgers trash (81-47)!!! Can I tell you that Jayne Apell (#2) is such an awesome post player and can dominate anywhere on the floor. I really don't watch to much women's basketball but it's great that I live in an area where there are two great women's basketball teams. Cal Bears or Stanford??