Sunday, December 23, 2007

Cami's Toys





As Cameron gets a litte older, she is finding great joy from her baby toys. Her newfound love is a little light-up bear on her baby gym that plays music. She also still really enjoys the teddy bear mobile on her baby swing. She is actually starting to make little laughs - it's so much fun!

Chris will now talk about the BYU-UCLA game -

Or as I have come to call it , "The hand of God". What a fantastic finish! Since we were snowed in last night and Carrie grew tired of the subject after an hour our two I spent a good portion of last night on the BYU message boards to get fan reaction from the game and share in the general joy. It was time well wasted, but I came away with knowing one thing for certain, BYU fans have grown spoiled.

When I attended BYU from 02-04 we had the following win totals, 3, 4, then 5. That was it, it was awful football and I witnessed every painful minute of it. We couldn't beat Utah to save our life, we never went to a bowl, firecrowton.com was my favorite Web site, and I wondered if it was even worth it follow the team considering how poorly I felt each Saturday.

Well, those days are gone. Back to back 11 win seasons, conference championships, bowl games, and most importantly back to back wins over the apostate school from the north! All of this in a year were the offense was completely overhauled, our quarterback took his first live snap in 4 years, and our defensive back 4 featured 4 walk ons. You would think fans would respect what a miracle this season was the great finished we had. Nope, all the talk was about how we should have won by more and how playing UCLA was beneath us. I couldn't believe it.

Let's all be realisitc, this year was a huge success. We're not BCS ready this year but we may be in the future if the schedule stays doable and we continue to have breaks go our way. Let's not ruin the memory of this year by thinking we should have been more. Let's be grateful for what we have and enjoy the success and remember what it was like to be wishing we only could play a 5th place PAC 10 team at the end of the season.

That's my soapbox. Now enjoy the Cami photos.

P.S. - PSU -35, A&M 14 and it won't even be close. Tough luck Aggies.

1 comment:

Leslie said...

Hi! I happened on your blog one day. I live in Kansas too. I can relate to how you felt at BYU. Our poor Chiefs! I think your baby is really cute.