Minnesota Trip

This summer, I went on an RV excursion from Boise, ID to Minneapolis, MN and back.  We stopped in Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore, and Jackson Hole.  I made a trailer to the full-length movie I made documenting our trip.  Unfortunately, the video is too big to post to YouTube!  Watch the trailer, and if you like what you see, ask me to see the video.

Click here to see the trailer

BYU Starts and Texas Trip

As BYU Football starts to a 1-1 start, I feel like I may have a stroke any second due to the incredible amount of stuff going on.  This fall is my first full semester back at BYU (I went to Spring and Summer too, but let's face it, those don't count) and I am busier than I've ever been.

Just so everyone has an idea of how my week goes, here is my weekday schedule:

Mon, Wed, Fri: 

10am- Help with debate at the high school

12:30-9:30pm- Work

Tues, Thurs:

8am-6pm Class

On Thursdays I have a meeting at 9pm.

So yeah, I don't have too much time to breathe, but I'm keeping up so far.

BYU Football

I'm not really in the mood to write about BYU football after the loss, but let's just say that traces of Robert Anae and his conservative approach was really hurting us against Ole Miss and Texas.  Nobody seems to stop us but ourselves.  Our offensive line is huge yet we can't run, we have a pretty good QB yet we only throw underneath.  We need to see some serious improvements this week to beat the Utes.

I am pleased with the defense although I would love to see us blitz about 5x more than we are.

Texas

This week I got to go to Texas and see Brett and Leah!  It was so much fun.  I flew out of Provo Municipal Airport and got to Fort Worth early Friday afternoon.  I had my first Whataburger experience (which featured an excessive amount of ketchup at Leah's end of the table) and then re-injured my leg while walking to go play frisbee.  After playing some intense frisbee (we had a record of I think 24 consecutive passes without a drop), I came home and had some crisp, cool, refreshing water from the tap.  Ok actually it was lukewarm and tasted like it came from the lake.  Brett and Leah are going to get a filter pitcher soon.  Later that night, we went to a delicious Mexican place with only two menu options: enchiladas and fajitas.  Of course I chose fajitas.  They were really good.

The next day we drove out to Austin.  The fans were actually really nice and didn't say anything to us.  There was a really good number of BYU fans, I was surprised.  The stadium was enormous and we were pretty high up, but I still thought our seats were good.  The game was fun even though we lost and hopefully we can pick it up for the rest of the season.

On Sunday we just watched some NFL until I had to fly home!  It was a great trip, especially seeing an expecting Leah.  They are both really excited to have their baby, who is due in February.  I am also excited since it feels like I'm going to be an uncle!  I think Brett pretty much confirmed that if it's a boy, they will name him Paul and if it's a girl they will name her Paula or Paulina or Paulerette or Paulita or Pollyanna.  We will see.

Happy birthday to Brett and Leah!

Below are some pics from the trip.  Enjoy!

Champions of the World

After years of attempts, trying to beef up rosters, and increasing our fan base, we finally won the BYU Intramural Championship of the World.

It wasn't an easy path, but between everyone putting forth amazing efforts, heroes were born and the most coveted T-shirts on campus now belong to a fine group deserving nothing less.

Here are some pictures from the season along with a tribute video made by Haley Bennett:

Here is the video.  Props to Haley for doing this!