Mountain View vs. Final Cut 10/8/11

Alex had another basketball tournament game on Saturday up in Sandy. This time they were playing against Final Cut which was a Junior Jazz team. Another win for the Bruins.

Alex went for a backwards lay up.

Rod keeping the stats again for the Bruins.

At the free throw line.

And it goes in.

9 points for Alex

28-40 win for the Bruins.

First Snow

Our first snow fell on the mountains on Wednesday last week. We got some snow in the valley but it didn't stick, luckily.

A gorgeous view of the Timpanogos mountain this morning.

Basketball Tournament 10/1/11

Bruins had a basketball tournament on Saturday in Salt Lake.


Alex


Coach Mark with the players

Rod's keeping the stats. His head is shinier than the floor.

Alex at the free throw line.

Alex and Tyler

We beat Skyline by one basket.

Second game was at Jordan against American Fork.

Tyler and Alex taking the ball down the court

Alex defending

AF beat the bruins 40-33. Luckily this is just a tournament and not regular season games.

BYU vs. Utah State Football Game 9/30/11

Last Friday night we ventured to the LaVell Edwards Stadium at BYU to witness a rivalry football game. Utah State from Logan came to town to claim another victory over BYU. Last year we were in Logan watching the game and left really early because we got beat so badly. We were hoping that we could beat Utah State this time.

And we did. Final score 27-24. We scored at the 11th second left in the game in the 4th quarter. Sweet Victory.


Rod and Alex at the start of the game.


Beautiful mountains and a stadium packed with people.

Famous Robbie Bosco who was the quarterback at BYU in 1983-85.

Red Phone. I kept looking at it throughout the game. No calls were made to the White House or Kremlin or elsewhere. Who is at the other end of that line?

BYU flags were ran through the stadium every time BYU scored.

Cosmo, the mascot.

The beautiful Cougarettes.

Rod and Alex are all smiles after the sweet victory at the last second.

Rod and Alex on TV.

Rod pointing at the camera. So cool.

MV High School Homecoming Dinner

Mountain View High School Homecoming was on Saturday. Alex had volunteered me to cook the Homecoming dinner for 14 couples....that's 28 people. He wanted it to be a 4-course dinner. As previously I have proved that I can't say "no" to my son. So, there I was, slaving over the stove all day since 7:30 on Saturday morning. I had a clear vision how this dinner was going to look like and taste like. The dinner was set to begin between 8pm and 8:30pm, which it did. Everything was ready by the time the 12 couples (2 couples went somewhere else) walked into the park. Rod had decorated the canopies and the tables so beautifully and it was such a pretty sight.

Everything turned out exactly like I visioned. The kids loved everything about it and they had a great time in our park. Luckily the weather was perfect (85 F), no mosquitos and the park sprinklers didn't come on in the middle of the dinner. Bonus!

Alex is dressed up and ready to go pick up his date, Emma Roden.

Handsome Alex.

Alex

The dinner is set before the sunset.

The canopies were glowing in the dark. So beautiful.

Luminarias showed the path to the dinner table.

Dinner is ready to begin.

The whole group arrived. Evy and Emma on the left. Alex and Bryce on the right.

An intimate moment.

First two courses: Caesar Salad and Chicken Soup (Alex's favorites)

Evy, Emma and Sam. Such beautiful girls.

Kevin/Stevin, Stevin/Kevin and Jake (Kevin and Stevin are twins and I can never tell them apart) and their dates.

Alec, Chris and Edgar and their dates.

Omar, Austin and Hogan and their dates.

Bryce, Alex and Tyler and their dates.

Emma and Alex

Emma and Alex

Homecoming Dance Answer from Emma

Homecoming Dance is tomorrow, Saturday night. Tradiotionally here in Utah, the boys ask girls to the dance in many various creative ways.

Alex's invitation to Emma was a poster that said "Now that you have walked the ground that I kissed on, will you go to Homecoming with me?". Emma's front porch and front lawn was covered with candy kisses.

Emma's answer to Alex says: "Hail" yes I will go with you!! Sorry for the delay (she took her sweet time with the answer...I think about 3 weeks. The poster was covered with pebbled ice (like hail). Very creative.

For the Saturday day date, the 24 person group of kids will first go tandem biking up the canyon, then at night, dinner at our house/park (who is cooking? ME) and then they go to the dance.

Junior in High School

There he is. Junior in High School.
Handsome as ever.
We love this boy.