First Week of School

The summer was fun, but like all good things, it had to end. It is a good thing for school to start, it is nice to have things to do again. It would be nice if I wasn't soooooo busy this week. Life is always crazy the first week of school, but anyone involved in a fall sport, then it is insane. Here is a replay of my "wonderful" week:

Monday: Up at 5:45 am- at school by 7:00, school until 2:10. After school I had soccer practice until 4:45, then I got to drive home in crazy 5:00 traffic. I didn't go to FHE, due to the fact my feet hurt and they were going on a hike.

Tuesday: After school we ran out to catch a bus to take the soccer team to our game in Salem Hills, which is outside of Spanish Fork (hour on the bus). We played our games, varsity lost, but J.V. came from behind to win. We pulled up to the school at 9:00 pm.

Wednesday: Basically the same a Monday, just a regular 10 hour day.

Thursday: Our second game that was a good distance away. After rushing out to catch the bus, we find that our bus was not there. Finally 15 minutes later the bus pulled up and we had a 45 minute drive ahead of us to Stansbury. Varsity won 5-4 and J.V. won 2-1, but both teams suffered some rather key injuries, which will hurt us next week. We got back a little earlier this time around 8:30, but I had to wait for all the girls to get picked up. So I had my second 15 hour day in one week.

Friday: Since we have so many injuries we cancelled practice, it was so nice to be able to go home after school. I did go to the football game at night with my roommate, Alexandra...and we lost 55-0 to Brighton.

Saturday: Up at 6:45 (after waking up at 5:45) got ready and went to our Stake Activity, a Fun Run. I'll be hones, I only went because I helped plan it, you guys know that I'm not a runner at all. We had a 5K and 1 mile walk. I was standing at the turn around point at the 1 mile walk....so much fun.

Week Two of Soccer

This week we had two more games (that makes four BEFORE schools starts), and the were pretty opposite. Tuesday we played Grantsville, which is a smaller more country school. It became pretty clear very quickly that we run up the school almost as high as we wanted to. So the varsity team played the first half and the J.V. team played the second half, the final score was 12-0. I really had games like this, it doesn't matter which side I'm on, I hate winning and losing by a blow out. Then the next day we played a much tougher team and it was hard to get everyone moving again. West scored on us early and late (after some key injuries) and we lost 0-2. We played fairly well in the middle of the game, so we will take that as a positive thing that came out of the game. J.V. didn't do as well and they lost 0-5, but they played hard.

Note to self

If you want to get sick, I've come up with the perfect formula for you:

• Don't eat breakfast
• Go on a hike
• Get car sick on the way down the canyon

If you do these three things there is an 85% chance that you will be sick or your stomach will just be really mad at you. Then if you need to extend your sick time a few more hours there is one final step:

• Eat something dumb for dinner (like a hamburger for example), this will make your stomach mad at you all over again.

This worked wonders for me, I thought I would be nice and share my wonderful knowledge with the rest of you.

Taylorsville vs Hunter

Thankfully game two went much better than our first game. We started the game off fast with an early goal off an deflection and from there we never looked back. Varsity ended up winning 4-1, for the last ten minutes we were able to get some J.V. players in the game, to give them a chance to play varsity. I am super proud of the J.V. team, they played really hard against Maple Mountain, but nothing could bounce there way. We finally broke our goose egg and scored THREE goals. This is amazing since we didn't score any down in our eight games in St. George or our first game of the season. I'm hoping this will help there confidence and maybe we might get a lucky bounce here and there.

Taylorsville vs. Maple Mountain

Well the 2009 soccer season has officially started, yesterday we played Maple Mountain High School down in Spanish Fork. Maple Mountain High is a brand new high school opening up this year and I was very impressed with there team. The varsity lost to Maple Mountain 3-2 and JV lost 3-0, but the story was the wind. The wind is always stronger down in Spanish Fork than it is up in Taylorsville, but we had wind gusts up in the 40-50 mph range. It is really hard to play a game outside in wind like that. In fact the wind picked up a tent we had and blow it up and over a fence. Sadly in the process of blowing away one of our girls was hit in the head. She had a small cut, but head wounds bleed a lot. Eventually we had to wrap stuff around her head to keep a bandage on, she looked funny, but it worked. I wish we could have started the year off with a win, but I think it was growing experience for us. We have our second game this afternoon vs. Hunter High School. Wish us luck....

10 Years Already

I had one of the wow, I'm getting old moments today. I know I'm not old yet, but when you have those 10 year anniversary were you remember exactly where you were 10 years ago it makes you think. 10 years ago today was the day when the tornado hit downtown Salt Lake City. I was living on the other side of the country and thinking that I would never live in Utah. Thinking back I was a freshman in high school talking to my geography teacher about it. I can't believe it was ten years ago when I started high school, my life is going by so fast. Some times it seems like my life is flying by with nothing to show for it. Then I wake up and get on with my life.

End of the Summer

My favorite time of year is quickly ending...I'm looking forward to another year of teaching, but I enjoy sleeping in and staying up late. This summer was way more fun than last year, I have made some good friends and we hang out and do stuff all the time. They are not going to be happy when school starts and I won't have any kind of social life. Here are some of the highlights of my summer:

• California Vacation- It was fun hanging out with Susan and getting to see Rob and his family. I loved all the cool animals I got to see at Sea World and the Zoo.
• Moving- although moving is not a fun experience, both of my roommates were getting married so it was vitally important for me to move. Now I live closer to some of my friends, which means I'm more likely to be social.
• Baby Shower in Rexburg- I went up to Kari's baby shower in Rexburg. It was weird, I haven't been in Rexburg since I left in 2007. I didn't get to do everything I wanted to do, but I got to see my old Bishopric and see some college friends again.
• Lagoon- For those of you not familiar with Utah, Lagoon is a "Theme Park" or so they say. I describe it as an over priced state fair. I go once a year, when they give out stake discounted prices. I went with three friends and we had a blast, we made fun of some of less exciting rides and came up with some awesome inside jokes.
• MLS All Star Game- Real Salt Lake has a new stadium and they got to host the All Star game this year, they played Everton FC. It was a great game, in went to a shoot out and Everton ended up winning, but I loved every second of it.

Soccer has already started, that is how I know school is really about to start. This year looks like it is going to be a good year for the Taylorsville Girls soccer team. We actually had enough girls tryout that we had to make cuts, that is the first time in a long time that this program had to make cuts. Our first games are coming up this week, it should be exciting.