Here is a laugh for anyone who has had a bad day or just needs to smile. Enjoy!
I got faked out!
..life as NICU parents...
12 years ago
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
BYU Sports
Today I put my studies aside and went to both the BYU swim meet and the basketball game. Katherine and I went to the swim meet and it was nice to be around the pool with my sister. We both decided that even though we are glad to be taking a competitive swimming break, it is hard to be out of the pool and up in the stands as spectators. Hopefully the year after next, we will be cheering for Stephen winning big in the Stephen Richards building. Yes the building on campus that houses the pool is called the Stephen Richards building. With his current time, Stephen, now 17, would have placed 3rd in the 100 Breaststroke at the meet today. We hope to be the rising cougar's biggest fans. Katherine also said that it wouldn't hurt to have Stephen on the team setting her up with his fellow teammates.
After a short break and lovely dinner out with friends we headed over to the Marriott Center for some Cougar basketball. I love basketball season. Our team is pretty good and of course BYU fans are the best.
After a short break and lovely dinner out with friends we headed over to the Marriott Center for some Cougar basketball. I love basketball season. Our team is pretty good and of course BYU fans are the best.
There were many important people in attendance at tonight's game. Cosmo was there and I was really excited to get my first picture ever with him. Even Elder Oaks and Elder Nelson were enjoying an evening out in Provo with the Cougars. To my surprise, Elder Oaks is not much of a cheerer but Elder Nelson really gets into it. We beat San Diego State 77-71.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
My Best Friend's Wedding
This weekend my best friend Annie got married in the Salt Lake temple and although I am thrilled and so excited for her to be happily married, I am also distraught at the fact that I am now down a best friend. I will be holding interviews for potential new best friends this week. If you plan on getting married anytime within the next 10 years don't even bother.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Ringing Out 2008
My New Years Eve was probably one of the most interesting that I have had in a while. Emily, Tiffany, her friend Laura and I were in Georgetown at the Marriott for an evening with the young single adults and lets just say that we wont be doing that ever again. When we arrived around 10:30 we were sorely disappointed. First off, the decorations consisted of two lackluster balloon arches on either ends of the ballroom which were weighed down by red Coleman coolers. We thought, "Hmm ok the decorations are bad but at least there should be some good food." Que disappointment #2.
We get to the food table and there is a shambled and sloppily put together spread of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Yes we went to a New Years Eve party that served PB&J. At each of the ends of the table there were 2 gallons of juice and a very small water cooler. After the 2 gallons of juice were gone they were gone and none reappeared for the rest of the night. There was no water in the coolers and it took about an hour to get someone to refill them. It was a complete disaster. We really could not imagine how some person was like, YES! This will be a great thing to serve at the dance. I would have been more understanding if we had spent a lot of money on the ballroom and there was not money in the budget to cater...or heat up some Costco Taquitos...but the room was donated by Brother Marriott himself. We spent no money on it.
Not only was the food and decorations terrible, the people strange, the lights up, but all in all it was just not an overly pleasant place to be. I thought by 11 o'clock we were going to have to start counting down the seconds until 2009 because the dance was so boring...3,600...3,599...3,598...
It was about that time when we decided that we were going to sneak into one of the other parties being held in a different ballroom across the hotel. We were not really sure what the party was...maybe something political but it was a lot better than ours. There was an open bar, good food, lots of music and drunken dancing. We were pretty sure that people were paying around $1,000 a head to be in attendance but the 4 of us just slipped right past the check in and the security. It was only when we were leaving that we noticed that everyone else around us was wearing brightly colored wrist bands and that there was large security detail walking around. Needless to say we had a pretty good time at that party.
Other than crashing the politics party, the only good part about the night is that we all looked really good. We just hope that the YSA dance is not indicative of our year to come but washing our hands clean from the year that was 2008.
Happy New Year!
We get to the food table and there is a shambled and sloppily put together spread of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Yes we went to a New Years Eve party that served PB&J. At each of the ends of the table there were 2 gallons of juice and a very small water cooler. After the 2 gallons of juice were gone they were gone and none reappeared for the rest of the night. There was no water in the coolers and it took about an hour to get someone to refill them. It was a complete disaster. We really could not imagine how some person was like, YES! This will be a great thing to serve at the dance. I would have been more understanding if we had spent a lot of money on the ballroom and there was not money in the budget to cater...or heat up some Costco Taquitos...but the room was donated by Brother Marriott himself. We spent no money on it.
Not only was the food and decorations terrible, the people strange, the lights up, but all in all it was just not an overly pleasant place to be. I thought by 11 o'clock we were going to have to start counting down the seconds until 2009 because the dance was so boring...3,600...3,599...3,598...
It was about that time when we decided that we were going to sneak into one of the other parties being held in a different ballroom across the hotel. We were not really sure what the party was...maybe something political but it was a lot better than ours. There was an open bar, good food, lots of music and drunken dancing. We were pretty sure that people were paying around $1,000 a head to be in attendance but the 4 of us just slipped right past the check in and the security. It was only when we were leaving that we noticed that everyone else around us was wearing brightly colored wrist bands and that there was large security detail walking around. Needless to say we had a pretty good time at that party.
Other than crashing the politics party, the only good part about the night is that we all looked really good. We just hope that the YSA dance is not indicative of our year to come but washing our hands clean from the year that was 2008.
Happy New Year!
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