You had to wonder what was gonna happen when you have the same mascot as your opponent. It started out crumby and that's how it ended. Fouls were the name of the game tonight, at least where gonzaga was concerned. I hate to say it, and I don't usually feel this way, but Butler was getting the benefit of the doubt with the foul situation. I have never seen so many offensive fouls away from the ball before. Wow. Anyway, that's the way it goes. The Zags got further than all but 1 other team in this tournament. I think that is great, even though I wish it would have turned out different. You can't win them all, but it sure would be nice if ya could.
This afternoon the Gonzaga Bulldogs take on Butler in the championship game of the NIT tip-off Championship. I really don't know anything about Butler, not even where they're from, but, I bet I am gonna find out at 4:00. I'm kinda nervous. Either way, the Zags haven't failed to suprise us already this season. All I can say is "Go Zags"!!!
Gonzaga Update!!!!! We just beat the #2 Ranked North Carolina Tar-Heels 82 to 74. Can you believe it??? We were ranked 23 or 24. Better believe that ranking will go up. Go Zags!!!!
(Danielle came home from school with this essay, I thought it would be nice to share it with you all, I'll type it like she wrote it....)
On thanksgiving my family celebrates together. If we celebrate at my house I have to get out alot of chers. We have alot of family.
We eat mashed potatoes, with gravy, turky, green beans, corn, stufing, and craynberry souce. For desert we have pumpcin pie with whipt cream. For a drink we have water, pop, and other drinks.
After we wach football or basketball.
( I wonder what she means about "other drinks"????? :-) )
Today the Gonzaga Bulldogs are in New York City awaiting the tip-off at Madison Square Garden against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Wow. The small college team out of Spokane is playing the Tar Heels at the famed Madison Square Garden. That is so cool.
My brother has been a Tar Heel fan for as long as I can remember. I can still picture him in his light blue jersey. I know he is gonna watch the game tonight. The question is........Who is he rooting for??? All I can say is...."It better be the Zags." No, really, I don't mind if he sticks to his "first" team. But, I bet he doesn't......
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
(www.coolfunnyquotes.com)
An Illinois man left the snowballed streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.
Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor dead.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
Your Loving Husband.
P.S. Sure is hot down here.
Mess with me,
you mess with the whole trailer park.
( Oh, I thought that was way funny, those were the good old days!!.)
A guy goes to a girl's house for the first time and she shows him into the living room. She excuses herself to go to the kitchen to make them a few drinks. As he's standing there alone, he notices a cute little vase on the mantel.
He picks it up and as he's looking at it, she walks back in.
He says, "What's this?"
She says, "Oh, my father's ashes are in there."
He turns beat red in horror and goes, "Geez, oh..I..."
She says, "Yeah, he's too lazy to go to the kitchen to get an ashtray."
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss
It is getting closer to the holiday season, and I thought there was no better time than now, to let you all know about my all time favorite book titled "A Choice to Cherish", by Alan Maki. This author doesn't write many fiction novels, I think he only has two. I really wish he would write more. I have seen some of his Non-fiction works, but I am not a non-fiction fan.
So, the book takes place in Montana among the Bitterroot Mountains by Darby, south of Missoula. This place is truly beautiful to see and Maki makes you want to go there and take it all in. The main character is Alan, who's grandfather is ill, and needs to be taken care of in his last days of life, in his home. Alan flies in to Montana to take care of him, reluctantly at first, and then learns, through a series of journal letters, how they became estranged, and the stories that went along with that estrangement.
All of this is centered around the Christmas season, and it makes you realize that sometimes the greatest gift is JUST to have your family. I love this book, it makes you want to run and hug everyone you may have not seen in awhile, and let your heart give forgiveness to the ones that you need too.
Alright, that is maybe a cheesy title. But, that is the feeling I STILL have in the pitt (No pun intended, even though Brad Pitt is in it) of my stomach after watching the movie "Babel" last night. Yuck-o.
Don't let my opinion about this show sway your decision not too see it, or too see it. ( I guess I am kidding myself if I think I have that kind of an influence over your decisions or something.......duh.)
Anyway, it was not good. When I was reading the reviews in the paper and in magazines like "Rolling Stone", they were all good reviews. They all went on and on referencing the story in the Bible about when the people tried to build a "stairway" to heaven and how God got mad and made everyone speak different languages so no one could understand each other.........Ok, I get that. I just don't get the connection. Yes, the title of the movie is "Babel". Yes, the story in the bible was about "Babel". Yes, the movie depicts people of different languages and language barriers. That is the only connection I got. The rest of the movie was pretty much what I would consider gross. I can't understand how this made it to the big screen, let alone getting rave reviews. Ok, maybe I am just not "deep" enough to understand the full meaning of the picture. I COULD tell how all the people and their lives tied in together, kind of like the movie "Crash", but, all the extra "details" ( I guess you could call them) were just plain YUCK-O.
Now that I have totally confused you all, if you decide you want to see it, be prepared for a different, weird, emotion filled, (not in a good way) movie. I don't know, too each his own, I guess.
What a terrible day for football. The weather at the field in Silverton was awful. It started out raining, it ended snowing. It was soooooo cold. Those poor boys were playing hard on that cold, wet field.
It seemed everything was going ok at the end of the first half when the score was 8 to 16, salmon river. Then after the half, the injuries started. 2 of our mullan boys went to the ambulance. Another one had a sprained ankle from a previous game and was forced to play with it. When players get injured on a team like mullan, when you only have 11 or 12 guys to start out with, its not a good thing. So, the second half was terrible. Turn overs, penalties, and cold wind all played a factor in the final outcome of the game.
First year Coach Corey Miller quoted in the Spokesman Review....." We were picked to win one game all season, and we get 3rd place in the state (1A division). So, we did alright." I think they did better than alright. Great job boys. You played hard all season, and it showed!!!!
Ok, I am starting to wonder the answer to that question. I think it was because back in my days in elementary school, we were still learning "easy stuff", and now days, it is crazy the stuff they are learning. Example of a second grade homework question:
How many chairs (4 legs) and stools (2 legs) might there be if there are a total of 78 legs.
OK, my daughter has NOT learned division. I was thinking this was the way to figure out this question. But, she can't use that. So, I was stumped. I had to turn my daughter over to my smart husband. (He actually did good in math) They didn't just need to find the answer to the question, but show how they came up with it, in a 2nd grade way. I think they figured it out. (Unlike me, I still have no clue.....)
So, I was looking at the other questions on her math homework and I will share with you one that totally cracked me up!!!!!! They want you to answer the questions and then tell them how you solved them. Sorta like a proof......so here's the question and how my daughter answered it.......
A. _______ + ________ = 12
B. _______ - 4 = 14
C. 8 + _____ + _______ = 26
So, she fills out the answers to those problems and then down below it asks another question...
1. How did you find the answer for C. ? (her answer) By thinking.
Oh gosh, it's true, but for some reason I don't think that was the answer they are looking for. But I also think her teacher will chuckle when she reads it.
Look what we woke up too this morning. Yup, snow. It took a few minutes for Neiko to figure out what the white, wet stuff in the yard was. But, after tasting it, I think he may have figured it out. He took quite a liking to it last year. I think he is glad it will be part of his daily diet soon......Silly dog.
They did it!!! Tonight was the talent show that Danielle and her friend have been preparing for, for weeks. They have been practicing every tuesday and thursday for a month. They did such a great job. They performed a basketball type hip-hop routine to the High School Musical song "Get your head in the game." They were super cute and we took tons of pictures. Way to go girls!!!!
Alright, sorry it's a little bit late. When we were in Las Vegas the tiger boys had to make their second trip in down to Kootenai in 2 weeks. As you read in my previous post "Not a good night", it was NOT a good night. Kootenai won at the half, 50 to 0.
So, in that post, I stated that it was a bummer they had to go back down there again, to basically, lose. Well.........the unthinkable happened. My dad called me while I was sitting in a casino in Vegas, and he said "Guess who won the Kootenai/Mullan game last night????" And I said......"Kootenai???"" and he was like "Nope". So, after a bunch of "oh, my gosh", and "your kidding"... I got the scoop. It was a cold, rainy night in Kootenai, Kooteani fumbled alot, the tigers scored alot, they fought hard, and they won. Done.
So, Kootenai is out, Mullan is in, and I take back my previous prediction. So, Mullan will play on saturday and all I can say is......I hope it rains.
It's about time!!! (No, I'm not talking about Brittney and Kevin, although it's probably true with them, too...) I'm talking about the voters. (Not necessarily the ones here in Idaho, we are still in the dark ages over here....That does not include me, of course!) Yesterday they shouted their message loud and clear. Let me tell you, It's been a long time in waiting, for me, atleast. Don't ya just love change????!!!! I know I do!!!!
No, we didn't go to New York. Sorta looks like it though, huh!!!! Nope, this is the New York, New York Casino in none other that LAS VEGAS, baby!!!!
We just got back from a 4 day trip to the city that never sleeps. Well, let me tell you, I believe it. I really don't have a clue how I stayed up that late down there. I could never have done it here at home. Someone told me that in Vegas alot of the Casino's pump oxygen into the air (more than in normal air) and it helps to keep people up and less tired. I don't know if that's true, but I do know that at 2:00am I still was not REALLY tired. Weird. And, if that isn't weird enough for you, they actually have Oxygen bars. Yes, Bars. People sit down and put a tube in their nose and get oxygen pumped into them. Strange. I have no idea if it works. I wasn't gonna try it...??!!!
We attended two shows. One was the Cirque show titled "Love", and it was themed around the Beatles and the Beatles music. It was sooooooo awesome. In typical Las Vegas fashion, it left us wanting more. It really was a shocking show. We couldn't believe what lengths they go to in order to put on one of these shows. They really go ALL-OUT. It's unbelievable. Just when you think you have seen it all, you see more.
The next show was a comedy show with Brad Garrett ( Off of everybody loves Raymond ) in it. He was so funny!!! I don't think we laughed that hard in a long time. It was a super fun show.
So, even though we had a blast in Vegas, we are glad to be home. Oh, and no, we didn't win any money........Bummer..
Here's the cute little goblins. Danielle was a corpse bride and her friends were skeleton's and pirate's. They had tons of fun and ate WAY to much candy!!!! Oh well, you're only young once!!!!
