A new wall

Since the first pictures Candice saw of our house (before we even bought the house), she ademately HATED the recessed arches in our living room wall.  I promise her that we would fix the wall eventually.  Well... I finally kept my promise.  Here is the finished product:

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After

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After

The beadboard/wood paneling covered up the arches nicely!  We also painted the walls a darker color - we were not a fan of the pink/beige/peach-colored walls.  With the bedrooms, bathroom, and now the main living area painted, we only have the broom closet and laundry room to paint and we will be done with that color!

*Candice gets credit for the decor.

Utah Man Am I.... GO UTES!!!

That is a great pairing!!!

Do we all realize the significance of this event?!  I don't think so. 

Instead of shooting for a Mountain West title every year - and a trip to the Las Vegas Bowl... we are now shooting for a trip to the Rose Bowl (The Granddaddy of Them All) in Pasadena, California!  If we don't make it there, we have a nice consolation prize with the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. 

We will no longer be chastened by our lowly Cougar brethren who tell us, "you HAVE to cheer for BYU for the good of the conference."

We will no longer be watching the Utes blow out the Wyoming Cowboys, New Mexico Lobos, San Diego State Aztecs, or the Colorado State Rams.  Instead, we will watch intense competition with the Cal Bears, Stanford Cardinal, USC Trojans, Oregon Ducks, and UCLA Bruins. 

Instead of scrambling to find the Utah game on a hidden, grainy, mostly-unknown cable TV station, with homer announcers, we can now watch the utes in HD on national television.


Utah in the PAC 12.  Utah athletics will never be the same!

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I am sitting at the airport waiting for my flight to Boise. I thought now is a good time to update the blog....

My real motivation for updating is that I am going skydiving tomorrow. This might be my last contact with the world ;)

Candice and I finally received our wedding photos back. It thought I would post the good ones/funny ones that some of you might be interested. Here they are (I may need to do several posts to get them all up):

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