This is for you, LANCE!!!

Max Hall:

"I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them," "I hate their program. I hate their fans. I hate everything. So, it feels good to send those guys home. They didn't deserve it. It was our time, and it was our time to win. We deserved it. We played as hard as we could tonight, and it felt really good to send them home and to get them out of here, so it is a game I'll always remember."


Hall also said, "I think the whole university and their fans and organization is classless. They threw beer on my family and stuff last year and did a whole bunch of nasty things. I don't respect them, and they deserve to lose."


"Last year at RES my family was spit on, had beer dumped on them, and were physically assaulted on several occasions," Hall said in the statement. "They had to endure extremely vile comments personally attacking my wife, my mother, other family members, and our religion. They had to be escorted to their car by local police."

I probably shouldn't comment too much on this matter since I am a BYU alumni and my brother also played football for Utah. Our family is pretty much split in two. But I will say that if someone attacked my family in that same manner, I would be saying the exact same thing.

Either way, all that matters in the end: SCOREBOARD.

Unleashing my Thoughts

In-N-Out opened in Orem today. My little sis works there (shout out, Lonsters!) and it sounds like such a great place. What a treat for her.

The Office, Vampire Diaries, 30 Rock, tonight is my tv night. I am watching it while I fold 4 loads of laundry. Kids in bed. Matt at a meeting.

I am learning to sew!! Learned some basics today, thanks Emily. I can't wait to get started on some things that honestly, with my experience and expertise, will probably look like dirt. Oh well, gotta start somewhere right?

New Moon Party on Saturday! Can't wait.

Sometime in the near future Matt and I get to go to Flemings. I am salivating as I think of it. He completed a big, hectic project for the head honcho at work and was richly rewarded. Thanks Matt :)

I am taking my baby trip in January: see baby Noah in the LC, and baby Jane in the SLC.

That is all for now, guys! TV night begins in a few. I promise sometime soon to have a better, more fun blog post, but things have been busy this week. Love to all!!!

Sweet Kids

Most of the time I just sit back and watch them interact with a smile on my face, but this time I had to pick up the camera and capture it. They sure do love each other. Reagan will bring Nolan things all the time and he could just sit and watch her and laugh at her all day.

Okay, occasionally she gets a little perturbed and will give him a little nudge with her foot, but no doubt a special bond has formed.

Fun with a Chair

Here's a good game to try: get your office chair, strap your infant in with a belt and push him/her around the house. It is so much fun. Everyone enjoys it.

Emotions

Shock

Nolan was fussy from hunger and as I started feeding him, I said playfully to Reagan, "Regs, why is Nolan so fussy?"

She responded "because you kicked him in the face, mom!"

What a liar.

Love

One of my very best friends gave birth to her first child on Monday of this week. What a sweet day that was! I got to hear the love as her husband, the new father, left us a message on my machine about Noah's birth and the pride in his voice was unmistakable. It was music to my ears! Then I got to see some photos and one was of the new parents gazing down at their child. I must have sat and stared at the picture for a full 5 minutes, I was overwhelmed and reminded about that special feeling. I showed the photos to Matt who said, "Look how ecstatic they are!" A picture is worth a thousand words. Congratulations Lori and Nick!! :):):)

Happy, Funny, Frustration

Nolan has become super de duper attached to me this week. He wants me to either hold him or be around him all day long. At first this made me happy. It is a good feeling to hear someone crying, then start smiling and laughing when you walk into the room. Then that got old and it started becoming somewhat funny...but that didn't last long either. Now I am slightly frustrated. I really can't get anything done unless Nolan is either in my arms or if I am playing on the floor with him. So yeah, not much is getting done. But I still love that kid, separation anxiety and all.

Pride

I was so proud of my Regs the last couple of weeks. We have had colds and fevers galore and Reagan has remained completely untouched throughout the onslaught of germs. Halloween weekend we all had colds, except R. We got over those, then I strangely lost my voice. Then Nolan woke with a fever Monday and we didn't feel too well until Wednesday. Anywho...my point is Reagan was sooo goood during all this. We didn't venture out hardly at all and I had to pay most of my attention to Nolan this week because of his fever. She didn't complain once. She smiled and told me she loved me! Thanks, my little Reagan.

Guilt

I totally love The Vampire Diaries. Yeah, I said it and you can laugh all you want. I probably would if it was someone else. I happened to be bored one evening and the pilot aired. I watched, since I enjoy Twilight, and honestly, I thought it was cheesy and dumb. But I watched the second, the third episode, and so on. And I am so dang hooked. Matt laughs at me and calls it my "soap opera." It pretty much is, since this is my first venture outside the world of comedy tv.

Relief

Our medical benefits start tomorrow. We have not had any medical insurance since October 1st. I have been holding my breath, waiting for that broken bone, that fall that would land us in the hospital paying mega bucks. But all we had was Nolan's doc app't Monday for his fever. Not too bad. Well, so far, I guess we actually have 10 more hours to go.

Excitement

I sure love the holidays. Maybe a bit too much, but I am looking forward to a season at home with my little family. This will be the first year since having kids that we will be on our own for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am already planning our traditions and food and decorations and all that is merry and bright. I can't wait to set out my nativity and read "Snowmen at Christmas" to my kids. And Matt and I get to play Santa this year, can't wait!

Funny!

If you saw the first Twilight movie, then watch this SNL short with none other than Taylor Swift as Bella. Its hilarious.

All Things Halloween!

The wednesday before Halloween, Matt's coworkers nominated him (the "new guy") to decorate their mini pumpkin for the contest his building tenants do every year. We had just a day and a half to do it and so I thought, hey I've got some acrylic paints, we can paint a cute face on it. Not so. Matt informed me that people go all out for this and it should be something pretty good. Well, we hummed and hawwwed over this and Matt came up with the excellent idea of doing The Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba. Reagan and I spent most of Thursday afternoon and evening putting this creation together.

Reagan tries on Elphaba's hat!

Our finished product, Miss Elphaba herself. Man, she looked so good. I thought we would win fo' sho'!!! Not so, again. While she was definitely well-liked by everyone, she did not win. Matt says if she had a backdrop maybe we could have. I still don't think we could have.

Here are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place pumpkins. The second place is pretty awesome, such an original and creative idea. They should have won 1st...or maybe 2nd, after Elphaba of course.

The Saturday before Halloween, we went to Boo at the Zoo! at the Oakland Zoo. Slightly overrated, but free since we are zoo members. The best part was watching elephants eat pumpkins-see photo for proof if you can get past the monster-sized poop in it.Perhaps even better was Reagan willingly and enjoyingly riding the skycoaster with Matt. She waved happily to me from the top and posed for cute pics for Matt.

Excellent view of the bay, with the city fog and everything.

On Halloween day, we carved our pumpkins, another annual gift from the "Pumpkin Fairies" (aka the McClellands!) Reagan immediately said she wanted a princess face on her pumpkin. So we looked some templates up on the computer and one was a tinkerbell. She wanted that. I said, whatever, I am doing the Cinderella. Matt said, you all are bogus, I am going for Mickey!!! Well, they turned our pretty dang good, except Tink looks like Peter Pan and I did have to toothpick a piece together. I felt bad throwing them away today, but they were starting to grow hair.

It's been a week of sick and colds for us, so Halloween night we put Nolan to bed early and Matt, still sick, hung around the house and answered the door for all ZERO of our trick-or-treaters. Nah, Nate kept him company and we went around door to door with the Laura and her kids. We also found the Dickman's along the way and it was just a jolly good time. The kids were so cute and fun this year, I think Halloween is only going to get better from now on out.

Anxiously waiting...

...trick or treat!! We visited Grammy Lou's house.

I can't believe it is now November! Wait, what??