Utah Flash

According to wikipedia.org, the Utah Flash "are a team of the NBA Development League that began playing in 2007... The Utah Flash is the affiliate team for the Utah Jazz and the Boston Celtics."

So naturally, one of our RAH activities was going to one of their games since they play in the UVSC McKay Events Center. I wouldn't think that the Flash would play there, but they are relatively new and the attendance for games are pretty low still. But they'll probably grow over time.

They hooked our guys up with those noise maker things that you bang together, as well as a bunch of free shirts. Not everyone got a shirt unfortunately, but the majority of the 35 participants in attendance got one, so not too shabby! We also won a pizza... too bad a 12 slice pizza doesn't exactly feed 40 people (that's 35 + 5 staff). Anyway, it was a pretty intense and close game... With 1.7 seconds left the score was 100-99 in favor of Idaho. The Flash has possession of the ball, the Flash player shoots... and... and... aiiiiiir baaaaall. The buzzard blows. (Did I really write buzzard? Um, I meant buzzer... thank you, Alyssa). Idaho wins by 1. Sad day. It's also sad that I can't name any of the players. But not that sad because even if I did know any of their names, YOU probably wouldn't know who I was talking about... am i right?

Anyway, we had fun, and our seats were relatively close (that's part of our group pictured below), and so overall it was a pretty exciting activity.

The Circus Came to Town!

My friend Andrea and I decided to go to the circus last Saturday night. It was the Jordan World Circus (I'd never heard of them however) and they were performing at the UVSC McKay Events Center.... which to me is a very unlikely place to host a circus. Of course, they host a lot of things in that building that I wouldn't think would be there... Anyway, it wasn't just the two of us, there was actually a small group of us... including a couple of kids even!

I don't think I've ever been to a circus before... well not that I can remember so this was very exciting for me. They advertised lions to be at this event and yet that was such a lie. No lions anywhere to be found. The elephants were pretty sweet though. It was adorable when they hung onto each others tails! People could pay to ride the elephants, small horses, or camels before, at intermission, and after the show.

The show consisted of the typical circus things... a tight rope walker (one pictured above doing a back handspring), unique talents (like the lady pictured above hula hooping like 25 hula hoops), flexibility, acrobatics, trick horse riders, animals doing human things.... and after the show, I decided that the circus is really a completely random event that displays super human strength, unbelievable human tricks and talents, and animal training that might be borderline animal cruelty...

This is the aeronaut people who displayed their super human strength. The picture on the right is the guy holding the girl on a rope thing by his teeth... hey Clarence, how do you get teeth that strong?! There were lots of other acts that happened, like one girl was swung around and around on a pole super fast by her neck somehow, and animals -like poodles and camels and horses-trained to do interesting things, oh and clowns that were really obnoxious... but for some reason clowns and circuses go together, and several other things that you just have to see for yourself.

I would have to say that the best part of the show were the trick horse riders, and the elephants. Of course, the elephants were only adorable until you see them up close... and then the only thing that I could think to say was, "they're so.... WRINKLY." Hahahahaha.

Chillaxin' with Ashlyn

Heather and Ashlyn came to Utah for Taylor's wedding and it was great to see them! While Heather was busy doing wedding related stuff on Friday evening, I got to play with Ashlyn for an afternoon. She was loads of fun. We explored the parking lot of my apartment complex for about an hour - it was mostly stair climbing - before heading inside to play with toys and eat some food and read some books. Here are some pics and videos of the cutie patootie. She's such a funny little cheeseball but she knows exactly what to do when that camera comes out!

Alyssa has this toy for when her nephews come over and Ashlyn played with it most of the time she was here. Jason also mentioned that she likes Ramen so I decided to feed her some... to entertain myself if nothing else.

A Jolly Good Time

In Springville, they just opened up a place for tubing/sledding, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and other similar winter sports. So naturally we did a Saturday activity there last week. It was pretty cold but the sun eventually showed itself (when we were done), but we still had a blast. All the participants went at least once - most went multiple times - and there were just a few wipeouts but no major injuries. I took all the pictures, so unfortunately there are no pictures of me going down, but I did go and it was fantastic!

Happy Heart Day!

Normally I choose to celebrate my half birthday, which happens to fall today on heart day! However, I've come to realize that celebrating your half birthday isn't really wonderful when you are getting older. Oh well! So, at FHE on Monday we decorated valentine's cookies. My friend Luke created this lovely cookie as his valentine to me...

And so this morning, I treated myself to his genious creation.

Yeah right! Like I actually ate the cookie... true i did stick it in my mouth, but I just couldn't eat it... way too much frosting, way too many conversation hearts, way too many sprinkles, and a load of M&M's... which if i had to eat anything off the cookie, it would be the M&M's. Unfortunately, that is not very appetizing to me at the moment... or ever.

Tuesday = Bowling

Every Tuesday we go bowling in Orem. We usually have about 55-60 people bowling. We actually use the entire bowling alley (16 lanes) to accomodate all our people for one hour every week. This gives them enough time for one game and a lot of socializing and the participants love it! I decided to take a couple of videos of them bowling because it is quite entertaining. They all have a unique way of bowling. This video is Jed, he bowls like this every time and it's just great!



Scotty got a score of 177 last week, which is WAY better than I can bowl.



There's a couple other videos but they are too big to download right now... maybe you'll see them another time? Here's me and Rex... every Tuesday Rex comes to bowling with crazy sunglasses and a different hat. Also hilarious.

Salt Lake City Oveniter!

Well, another fun adventure with RAH RAH RAH! An overniter in exotic Salt Lake City which included a dinner at Applebees and a hotel stay at the fabulous La Quinta Inn. The highlight of the trip, and the main purpose we did an overniter to begin with, was to attend the Utah Jazz game. Thankfully the Jazz won against the Sacramento Kings or that would've been one sad trip for the 15 participants who came.