a long wild night

i cant believe the all star game went as long as it did. it ran 15 long innings and was really only inches away from going more. after having multle plays at the plate and after stranding multiple runners in scoring position, justin morneau of the twins was finally able to slip by brian mccann's tag at home and score the winning run. i found it all pretty exciting...though i probably would have gone to bed if the game would have gone into the 16th. i mean, the game was only like 10 min shy of lasting 5 hours. pretty crazy for an all star game. like i said though, it was all pertty exciting for me and i actually enjoyed watching the entire game. the pitching was dominant, the hits and homeruns came at key times, and the drama of sitting through inning after inning, though tiring, was still very suspensful...especially since terry francona was out of bench players and was exteremly limited on how long he could pitch his final reliever (who he was forced to put in the game at the top of the 15th). im sure all of the american league dugout was starting to wonder what they were going to do if the game went in to the 16th, 17th, or 18th innings. maybe francona could have gotten a field player to come in and try his hand at pitching...or maybe bud selig would have been forced to call the game a tie or something (which would not have been cool...baseball is not soccer). anyway, despite being long, i thought the all star game was overall pretty enjoyable to watch.

boom!

so i got in a wreck a week ago. goodbye red explorer and hello new car...wherever you are. i got hit as i was turning through an intersection as the light was turning red. luckily the other driver got away with only scratches and i came away with just a headache. right now im just waiting on allstate to figure everything out but i kind of wish it would all just be over with and buttoned up. im tired of wondering how it will turn out. i guess allstate is still debating over whos at fault since the light was turning red. hopefully i wont end up being liable...or at least be given shared liability. we'll see, ill be fine with whatever as long as i feel im being dealt with fairly.

coybin

check it out, this is my nephew corbin. he's been real fun to have in town.

update

what better way to celebrate having staci and coybin (aka corbin) in town than by buying a new wii game! thats right, yesterday me, stacer, and coybin decided to put a couple of best buy gift cards to good use and buy guitar hero! its definiately a pretty sweet game. i had only played it one time before so you know it was fun to rock the joint with staci for a little bit...not to say that coybin wasnt giving us sufficient entertainment though. that little guy is so cool...ill have to post some pictures of him when i get a chance.

oh yeah!

thats right...guess who just won tickets to the "80's regeneration tour" at his work party! you know im gonna be kickin it with flock of seagulls, the human league, abc, belinda carlisle, and naked eyes. (dont worry, i had to look up some of these guys on the internet to know who they were) oh yeah, this is gonna rock!

boating!

today cush was nice enough to take a few of us out on the boat. we all headed down to utah lake for the day and had a blast. we skied to start out the day while the water was still calm and then wakeboarded. it was awesome. i love going boating so thanks to cush for the good time. here are some pics of me heid cush and trevor...notice im the only one not getting air on the wakeboard...gotta work on that.

nephews in town

its always fun when the nephews come in town. jay and rex are such cool kids. this weekend was chad and lindsays anneversary so they came up and dropped the kids off at 'grandma and grandpas' so they could celebrate a bit...personally, i think grandma might have died and gone to heaven while they were both here...both she and dad love it when the kids are in town. as you can see from some of the pictures, saturday it was 'thomas the train' day out at the heber city railroad station. i was able to go up with mom and dad and the kids and ride the train and see all the 'cool' thomas stuff. like most kids his age, jay loves trains and especially thomas the train so he was sure happy to be there. it was so fun to see him jump around and get excited to look at all the things and actually ride a real train. - there was even a real life size thomas the train replica at the train station sitting on the tracks, so you can only imagine how pumped jay was to be there! - i think the prize of the trip however was the thomas balloon that grandpa got jay. both he and rex couldnt stop playing with it. funny how the little things entertain the most. speaking of rex, i cant believe how mild mannered and cool he is. he is so much fun to play with. he laughs and smiles over just about everything. it was really fun to have him and jay come in to town.