We have been enjoying/downloading some of my favorites from back in the good old days when I used to stay up late and listen to the Dr. Demento show with Tyson. Our favorites are Yoda (of course) and Star Trekkin. I still can't located a copy of "Eat too much" by Guns N' Moses. Here is our favorite YouTube version (careful it is really loud)...I am sure it doesn't take a great imagination to see why the boys are in love with this video.

Fabulous Fall...

There were so many fun pictures it was hard to pick a few but I didn't want drive my loving readers crazy with too many!!


Check out the squirrel behind Hyrum...







An ode to John...



And to finish off, this is a nice little series of typical Hyrum :) Pretty funny...

Why Undefeated is special no matter who you are...

I think Tyson or Blake should write an article (a real article) on why being able to go undefeated in a season should earn you a trip to the championship no matter who you are or what you are ranked (unless there are 3 or more undefeated teams, then the top two should go). USC is a perfect example this year. USC is a great team, an amazing team and they probably deserved their number 1 ranking. They destroyed Ohio (another great team) and it looked like calm waters all the way to the championship....but they didn't make it. Even USC can't go undefeated and this should be a great argument for teams not in BCS conferences. Going undefeated no matter who you play is still an amazing feat. It may be that you don't play many ranked teams but as we saw last week obviously being ranked or not ranked doesn't mean that much when the game gets going. "Undefeated" is still elusive enough whether you are #1 or number #35.

PS - I am going to try and not make a blog of just Harry Potter, The Office and BYU Football but it seems that those things keep creeping in ;) It's that or pictures of the kiddos because I ain't doing anything else that interesting.

Fall Days....

We have been waiting for this...the leaves, weather around 70 degrees. Today was perfect! It was just under 70 this afternoon. I did the pictures large so you can appreciate the leaves! Beautiful...

Tales of the Beetle Bard

I know not everyone is quite the Harry Potter fan that I am...therefore this post might be very boring to you but "Tales of the Beetle Bard" is being released on Dec 4th. The price on amazon has gone down even more (I already pre-ordered but still get the lowest price). I am very excited because it has a whole section of Dumbledore's research ;) At least we have it to tide us over till the movie. I looked at the original that amazon bought for a ton of money when it was auctioned at Sotheby's. All the proceeds of the book go to a charity in England.

Sorry but I had to do it ;)

I am a Jedi Knight, like my father before me...

Well, the boys are making some good progress, so I'll show you how it is going. First off, Matthew began training Joshua in how to really 'feel' the force, and Joshua was able to catch on in no time:



Joshua made such incredible progress that Melissa and I decided that the time had come for his first real lightsaber, so we stayed up late last night constructing one. Needless to say, Joshua has been playing around with it all day. He says it has a lot of the force in it:



Ever the little Anakin, Joshua couldn't let his father show him up:



I just hope he doesn't burn himself doing those kind of stunts.

Hyrum finally began to show some interest and has started off alright:



Not quite as aggressive as the other boys, he has already started to use the force to help him in giving Seth some stroller rides. This is what I really like to see:



You'll notice Matthew trying to get in the shot with some more Jedi tricks.

I've always felt like the force was strong with little Seth, and I caught him doing this the other day when nobody else was around:



Well, it has been an exciting couple of weeks around here, and I'm really proud of my little Padawans. Still, even the force doesn't stop a quarrel now and again:



Other than that, Joshua and Mom have been working on his constellations project which is pretty amazing. We're watching the CU - Florida State game intermittent with Wii Star Wars. Seems like kids always prefer video games to real life! Anyway, may the force be with you!

May the Force be with you!

Now that we've mastered the use of the light saber, we've been focusing more on harnessing the power of the force. Math is probably the best at using it so far. I'm OK at it. We'll keep you posted as we gain more skills.

Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica....

Tonight is the night...every child will be in bed by 8:00 pm...
But until then, a few to enjoy....(the video is long but so funny)

Pam Beesly: There is a master key and a spare key for the office. Dwight has them both. When I asked, "what if you die, Dwight? How will we get into the office?" He said, "if I'm dead, you guys have been dead for weeks."

Dwight Schrute:	Second Life is not a game. It is a multi-user, virtual environment. It doesn't have points, or scores, it doesn't have winners or losers.
Jim Halpert:	Oh it has losers.

Jim Halpert:	Question. What kind of bear is best?
Dwight Schrute:	That's a ridiculous question.
Jim Halpert:	False. Black bear.
Dwight Schrute:	That's debatable. There are basically two schools of thought--
Jim Halpert:	Fact. Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Dwight Schrute:	Bears do not... What is going on?! What are you doing?!

Sickness takes it's toll...

I had been doing good with my exercise. I was swimming a 1600 about 2-3 times a week. I know...that still isn't very much but it was pretty good. Then everyone got sick and we went through two different colds with each person getting it right after the next. So it was about 2 1/2 weeks before I could take Seth and Math back to the gym. We finally went back and I busted out a 200 IM without any problem but then by 600M I was feeling the pain. I know...so sad (don't laugh Brian ;) Do you really think it is fair that 2-3 weeks off should cause such a fall...Maybe my body is just getting too old ;)

11th really!!!

So I guess now that at least our 11th ranking is deserved...(as we are still BYU, there is a good chance to blow it and lose to some one like Utah St.) If we beat Utah and TCU then I think it would be a travesty if the BCS keeps us out. Also...Utah St...think we have a good chance to keep them scoreless again!! DE-FENSE!