#1....Again

For the 12th year in a row Brigham Young University has won the "Stone-Cold Sober Schools" award from Princeton Review. Every year Princeton review does surveys to figure out which schools are the biggest party schools in the country (2008 - University of Florida 2009- Penn State). After they list all the schools in order the last school gets the "Stone-Cold Sober" Award. Congrats BYU, for being #1 in something!!!!

Spanish Fork Rodeo

Last week I went to my very first Rodeo. I have never really been a rodeo fan, but it seem like fun. Plus I got to go free, due to the fact that my brother-in-law hurt his leg and could no longer go. We had pretty good seats, on row four, so I got to see some action up close. Some riders got pushed into the fence right in front of us, it looked pretty painful, I'm glad it wasn't me.

Me and John hanging out outside the stadium before the Rodeo began. I can't believe how big he is getting, but we are still best friends.

This was my favorite horse of the night for a couple of reasons...first, I have always liked the horses that were both brown and white. I don't know why but they have always been my favorite. Second....This was a "Dodge Man", basically the cowboys that go and save the riders if they stay on for the eight seconds, then they herd the horse/bull to leave the arena. At one point they were trying to get control of a bull and this horse freaked out and bucked the cowboy off. Then the next bull the horse bucked again, but the cowboy was able to stay on, it was pretty cool.

Before everything started we walked over to where they were holding the bulls, they were pretty calm and nice. John and Sierra would get a little worried when they started walking around. I have definitely never been that close to a bull, they are big animals.

Today in History

40 Years ago today: The United States landed on the moon!!! This is one of the few things that I really wished I was alive to see. By the time I was born we had given up on going back to the moon. I think everyone as a dream of going into space at one point in there life and I'm no different.

I really don't understand how some people believe that the moon landings were fake. I think this is a really cool day in history.

It's up and it's good

Ever since I was little when I would go with my brother to practice kicking field goals, I have always wanted to kick a field goal. It looks so easy to watch kickers do it and when they miss it I think "how could they miss it, it was so close?" I've spent enough time on a football field to know that a 30 yard field goal is not just a kick in the bucket. Tonight a group of friends got together to play some football. Before the game started I kicked a 20 yard field goal, pretty easily. Then I moved back to 25 yards and then I kept coming up a few feet short. We moved on and played the game, it was getting dark the game was tied, we can't end in a tie right? So one of the guys said, "if Becca kicks a 25 yard field goal they her team wins, if she misses we win." I tried to get him to switch to a 20 yard field goal instead, so we settled in the middle with a 22.5 yard field goal. It was a perfect kick right down the middle with plenty of leg. I moved back to 25 yards and same thing, a perfect kick. I didn't want to press my luck, but next time I want to try a 30 yard field goal. Everyone seemed impressed, I was excited and and it felt really good.

I can die happy now...

I got to complete one of my dreams on July 5th. I'm kinda a weird person, and for as long as I can remember I have wanted to sing "God Save the King/Queen" at church around the 4th of July. I thought it would be super ironic and cool, most people just look at me and laugh when I tell them this. But every now and then I get the one person that sees the irony and understands why it would be so funny. Well the day after the 4th was a Sunday and in Relief Society we sang "God Save the King" for our opening hymn. I was soooooo happy, I even used it as my good news for the week. I was slightly disappointed because everyone said "King" instead of "Queen", but I guess I will live, it was still a great moment.

Soccer Camp

After getting home from vacation, I had exactly four days home before I left for soccer camp. I was struggling to be excited about going to camp because it was in St. George. Now for those of you not familiar with Utah's geography, St. George is the south west part of the state---so right next to Nevada and Arizona (so really hot). We left school at 7:00 in the morning for the four and a half hour drive down to camp. After we get all checked in to our hotel and get our schedule we get ready for our first game. We had to play at 6:15 the first day and game time temp. was some where between 105-110 degrees. We had girls just dying after just a couple minutes of running around on the field. The rest of the week was not that hot, thank goodness, but most of the time it was above 100 degrees. In five days, we played 16 shortened games, but the girls were just exhausted by Friday. When I got home 95 degrees felt really nice, so I guess that is one thing to be thankful for and the fact that I survived the whole week....

Animals

While in San Diego we were able to see some unique animals that you don't often get to see. Some of the highlights were seeing pandas and manatees.

The San Diego Zoo is one of two zoos in America that have Panda bears, the other being in D.C. It is unique to go see the pandas because you have to be really quite and there are no other animals anywhere close to them. One of the pandas was asleep, but the other one was eating away on some bamboo.

At Sea World they have manatees, I tried to get pictures of the real animals but the pictures wouldn't come out. Two out of the three had been injured by boats, but it was really cool to finally get to see these beautiful creatures in person.