Turkey Bowl with SR2

Thanksgiving morning the guys all went at played in the Turkey Bowl with the ward. Papi went as the photographer. He got some pretty sweet shots. Thanks Papi.




Church ball can get a little rough.

Monte took down Brett Higbee like a man.

But he helped him back up.

"Run Monte, Run."

Chancellor and Dallin are ready to run but both are secretly hoping they don't have to.



If you look very close you will see Chancellor running.



Does Monte not see that guy is way bigger then he is?


And so this is what happens when you mess with someone bigger the you are.





People at church were suprised to see the crazy animal side of Monte. It doesn't come out alot but when it does you better watch out!

Banjo Chancellor

Chancellor is a video game lover. Up 'til about six months ago all he played was Mario type games. He has a great child like nature. He then stepped up and got an Xbox 360. Now he buys M rated games and shoots people. When he was just starting out he had a Nintendo 64 (still has it but now it's Jack Jack playing) and his favorite game was Banjo-Kazooie. So you can imaging his excitement when Xbox announced the arrival of a new Banjo-Kazooie for the 360 and if you special order it you can download the original version onto your 360. He practices very hard. At school they call the him the Banjo-Kazooie master and ask him advice on how to get to the next level. We are very proud of him and his mad skills.

He played for hours and loved it.

Chancellor played Water Polo

Chancellor is a freshman this year. His friends on our summer swim team told him to play water polo and so he did. He never played before and didn't know anything about it. He'd never even watched a game. He didn't really ever get it totally (neither did I) but he did have a great time. The worst part was he had early morning practice mon, wed, and fri at 5:30am. So he would go to practice 5:30-6:30, shower get picked up by 7, go to seminary, go to school, then practice 3-5 every day after school. Once games started they were 2x a week. It was quite a schedule. He did a great job keeping it all together.

Jacksons hate of shots

Today the family got flu shots. Lets just say Jackson really doesn't like shots. They are so, so, so stupid! He had to get shots awhile back and that is when we learned of his dislike. Jackson said "That man stabbed me!" He needed more a bit later. The nurse told him if he wouldn't calm down that I would have to leave and she would have to have someone else come in to help. He didn't calm down. I had to lay on him. For 2 weeks he would tell me how he hated shots. He told Lani the babysitter that I said we were going somewhere fun and we didn't. He was mad he got tricked. I didn't say that. I avoided this questions about where were we going and why were we at the doctor.

Rise Against concert 11-7-08

For Chancellor's birthday I took him and his friends to a concert. It was very fun. A bit of a different crowd then our last concert. It was harder. It was totally crowded. We sat in the back because there were so many people on the floor. One of our favorite moments was when the singer talked a bit about the elections and discrimination and thanked everyone for voting No on prop 8. We all just sat there for a minute feeling a little uncomfortable. We got over it and enjoyed the rest of the show.

Dallin, Kristi, Scott Rodriguez, Brandon Herring, Steven Thayer, Ryan Spalding, and Chancellor.

Opening bands were Gaslight Anthum (which we missed because we were late because of all our football friends), Thrice (a bit hard for me), and Alkaline Trio (they loved).

Mosh pit.

This was about the coolest thing I ever saw. It was just a sea of people and they were all bouncing and swirling around like a vortex. I told the boys they should go in the mosh pit. They did. All but Dallin. He stayed to keep me from going in myself and getting hurt. They stayed in for one song and loved it. They said there were all these big, sweaty, shirtless guys. Chance went to school and told about how he moshed and someone told him 'That's not real moshing. It's not real until someone dies."

The crazy moshers.

Doin' the Rise Against fist pump.

Dallin and Scott enjoying a nice Hero of War moment.

Dallin likes to loose his teeth in unique places. He had 1 baby tooth left so he thought it would be cool to loose it at the concert so he decided to pull it out. He got a paper towel and tugged and pulled and out the bloody baby came.

Trenton's 2nd grade play

Here is Trenton's 2nd grade musical. It is Mastering Math A Sherlock Holmes Problem Solving Mystery. He was a teacher. He is quite smart looking.


That's some fancy footwork.



Trenton takes a bow.

Nice job Trenton. You were awesome!

Trenton is the Star Attraction