Fall is for Football!

As the summer comes to a close we would like to share some of the fun activities that we did that really weren't cool enough to post about. Actually, they were cool, but we just didn't get around to writing about it. Here's a recap.

A rainy spring day on campus. The trees were starting to bloom and kind of looked like palm trees.

Bridal Veil Falls

Laughing as the Mexicans try to make their way up to the falls one Sunday afternoon.

A pool that I completely wish was in our yard all summer.

Early morning hot balloners

Our vacation in McCall

Sleeping on the X-15

Grotto Falls through the Nebo Loop in Payson, Utah.

My nipples...

... are freezing!!

Steven gets his mission call!

Opening it...

... and the look that he knew he had made fun of too many Mexicans during his life. Payback will be a bitch! Just kidding.

On the set of the BYU football commercial - to be seen on an ESPN channel near Provo.

My totally sweet haircut that was not cut by Mallory.

A bunch of Kenyan kids singing during the tailgate party before the BYU/Northern Iowa football game. They were really pretty awesome!

A spare football helmet I found at the stadium while prepping for the UCLA game.

Drew and I head butting with the helmets on...
... may explain my slight retardedness... but has nothing to do with my thumbs!

Yeah... just another helmet.

Apparently Mallory likes to try on football/baseball equipment too!!

The Presidents Loge at Lavell Edwards Stadium

Cecil's view.

Finally, it was my birthday last Sunday, Sept. 7th. I hit one of the last milestones ever in my life. I turned a quarter-century old and am now fully eligible to rent a car (without paying extra fees). Anyway, Mallory kept asking me what I wanted to do for my birthday, and since it was on a Sunday I didn't really care. She kept coming up with ideas and what not and finally we decided that I would have some friends over for cake and ice cream. Anyway, Mallory told me that it would be lame because she has this misconception that I don't have any friends. Well... just because she never sees them doesn't mean I don't have friends. Therefore, I had to prove to her that I have more than "3 friends" as she previously thought. I invited them over to prove her otherwise. We ended up having 17 people over and we played Rock Band and had some awesome "Better Than Sex" cake that Mallory made. In all, it was a lot of fun and now Mallory knows that I'm not such a loser. Here's a partial team picture of the event:

Mallory Is One Hot Prego Girl!

For those of you who didn't know and for those of you requesting more posts ... here is some news: Mallory is pregnant! Yep ... I knocked her up! She will be 13 weeks tomorrow. Notice the little widget we added. You can click on it to see all the various dates. We are super excited and can't wait to meet the new creature. (We're not quite sure it's human yet!) Last Tuesday we got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. It was really exciting and made it a bit more real for me.

We have already started to brainstorm on names, although nothing is serious yet. We'll find out at the end of October whether she will have a boy or a girl or a mixture of the two or a seamonkey. We will get serious about the naming situation then.

For the meantime, we have posted a poll that we would like all readers to try out. We want to know whether you all think she is going to have a boy or a girl. I would add in seamonkey, but I have a feeling that everyone would pick that one instead. Therefore, no seamonkey choice. We may add another poll in the future discussing names, but I should probably get the Boss' permission first.

As for the rest of the things going on in our lives - school just started again. We had a two and a half week break from the summer semester. We both are getting really close to graduating. Mallory is taking six classes this semester and I am taking five. Once we finish we each just have two classes left to cruise through until graduation in April.

I started doing some work with BYU Athletic Marketing this summer. It has been a lot of fun. I work a lot with the football team and the womens soccer team right now. In July, I helped out with the filming and script writing of two football commercials. Right now we are doing a lot with local businesses and trying to get them to help out with promoting BYU Athletics.

Mallory got a job working at Utah Valley Hospital over the summer. She is the secretary of the operating room. She is in a love and hate relationship with her job. She likes the fact that she can watch cool surgeries whenever she wants, however, she doesn't really like working long hours a few days of the week. She misses her hubby too much!

Finally, I went golfing last week at Hobble Creek and got an eagle on hole 7. Actually, it was a birdie because I hit my tee shot OB and had to hit a provisionary ball. But, on my next shot I knocked it in from 160 yards out! Not bad. A guy that my brother-in-law, Brad, knows was golfing with us. He's trying to get on the Nationwide Tour and was pretty impressed. Oh, how the golf gods love me!

Anyway, sorry for no pics. We will try to update this more often and with pics of Mallory's tummy!