BYU Wins!
In a nail-biter final game of the year, BYU beat Utah in overtime 26-23! It was such a sweet win! They ended the season 10-2! Max Hall redeemed himself from a year ago, when Utah intercepted him five times in a 48-24 blowout in Salt Lake City. Max made some pretty seering remarks about Utah’s program and their fans. He said the following: “I think the whole university and their fans and the organization is classles. They threw beer on my family and stuff last year and did a whole bunch of nasty things. I don’t respect them and they deserved to lose.” This got him a reprimand from the conference, but he didn’t care. 🙂 I got this graphic from a buddy of mine and thought it was absolutely hilarious:
This victory over Utah gave BYU 10 wins per season for the 4th straight year. We are excited to see who they get to play in a bowl game this year. It is projected that they will play in the Poinsettia Bowl against Arizona. Go Cougars!
We hope you all had a very happy Thanksgiving! We sure did! The day started off with Angela and Brittany running the 2009 Naperville Turkey Trot 5K. They had a great time and although it was a little chilly, it could have been much colder!
For an activity, we drew a featherless turkey and had everyone write what they were thankful for on paper feathers and tape them on the turkey. Kirstyn was in charge of that and she had a great time collecting the feathers. It was fun to read what everyone was thankful for!
Today, the Comcast cable installer came and hooked us up with new internet access (cable with up to 20 Mb download), new internet phone, and a huge cable package of over 300 channels (HD included), and an HD DVR! We are very excited! We were on Dish Network, AT&T DSL, and standard phone service and were paying about $30 more per month. The only thing we’re missing is the BYU channel! The phone is working wonderfully well, despite my concerns of being internet-based. We’ll see how this goes!
Tonight Sarah and Brittany had their Young Women in Excellence program. What a wonderful program! The cultural hall at the church was decorated to the hilt and on the walls, each girl had a side-view of their silhouette. We all had to go around and match these to their names. It was very interesting and fun! 🙂 They hold this every year and the young women in our ward look forward it. They seem to always outdo themselves from one year to the next.
We had a great second day of SIMposium in Seattle! It was full of great keynote presentations, breakout sessions, and good food! I learned a lot of great things not only about Information Technology but about leadership in general. There were a lot of CIOs from around the country that we were able to talk to and participate in sessions with.
When we arrived, they had a cocktail hour to loosen every one up. 🙂 Then they had a great buffet of food to eat. After eating (and more drinking for some), we went into the museum and looked around for the rest of the time. We saw all kinds of things from Michael Jackson’s jacket and silver glove, to Jimmi Hendrix’s guitars and memorabilia, to Eddie Van Halen’s red and white striped guitar, and much more. In the atrium, they had a “guitar tree that spanned all the way up to the roof (shown to the right).
After listening to them, there were a bunch of the group who got together and decided to go into the mock concert stage (sound room) and make a recording together. In honor of the bead necklace concept and nuts (long story, I won’t elaborate here), the group named itself “Rusty Nutt” and performed. Here is a link to the video: 
