It’s my fall break and I am so happy to be half way through my semester! I have an entire book to read and a research assignment for my 12 page final paper but I don’t have to drive up there all week!  I also have a very long list of neglected things to do around here, one of which is catching up on here.  All of my senior level courses meet with the graduate courses – which the only difference is they require the graduate students to write longer papers – therefore, it raises the bar profoundly for making comments in class and trying not to sound really air-headed so I can get a lot of points for participation.  That’s my fall sport “Avoiding Stupid Comments”.

The philosophy section of Cambridge Library (B took this on his phone and thought it appropriate right here)

TT’s fall sport is Lacrosse. Because he’s in high school now, they practice with all of the teams even though he’s on the freshman team.  He is loving it, but not all of the coaches.  That’s him with the white helmet as a defender passing the ball over that much bigger dudes head.  He also won’t cut his hair (a battle I’m not choosing) so he’s got what they call “the flow” out the bottom of his helmet. Basically it looks like he’s rocking a mullet.  So far they are three wins out of four games – and that was sad because they lost that one in the last 30 seconds of the game.  Glad the weather is nice sitting out there – knock on wood!

Ari is cheering and loves her team.  I have a question for you all, why do I keep being asked or assumed by other cheer moms that I was a cheerleader in high school?  Do I have that look or do they just assume that because my daughter is one, I must have been one?  Anyhow, little do they know just how ridiculously lame I was and am at any sort of dance, gymnastics or flexibility and I just have to live vicariously through Ari.  This is how I respond “nope I was not a cheerleader, I was a rebellious punk rocker”….. and then I reassess my wardrobe and makeup choices as well as consider putting all of my earrings back in the multiple holes in my ear.

Ari is on the right going in for a back flip or hand spring or something.. This is the varsity and jv team together.

This is the jv teamOne Sunday Master D and Maddie baked us a delicious peach pie and lemon merengue. I think they could win a baking as a sport contest too!

B had another mountain biking adventure with several business associates, this time here in UT. They rode all over corner canyon up to Jacobs ladder and then headed up to Park City and shredded several trails up there while staying at the shack.  I need to get some photos from him, but that may be a challenge since he dropped his phone on Highland this morning coming back from biking and by the time he checked the find my iphone app and figured out where it was, it was mangled in the road when I went up there to get it.  I don’t know how it even sent out a signal in order to be found.  

Lelu is busy with running and taking yoga this semester and forcing me back to Bikram with her a couple times at a nice new place she loves between Draper and Provo.  This is my mantra to keep me going….

Aub is killing it with Pokemon Go – no really – it’s a sport now too!  Thought this was pretty clever..