At work I sat and contemplated what I would be for the longest time! At first I thought I'd be a Frisbee player, but then I thought, "I'm already a Frisbee player-duh!" So I came up with several options, consisting of Katniss Everdeen (credit to Mitzi for the idea), Hermione Granger, mad scientist, Princess Leah, and finally settled for rock star. I ratted my hair into oblivion, put tons of makeup on, and I even painted my nails green! I wore skinny jeans, a ripped up t-shirt, converse shoes and waltzed around with a guitar hero guitar. I looked a bit like this:
From there we romped around Rexburg for a bit, including a lap around the stadium and a breeze through Walmart. They were giving out free candy there, so we sort of trick-or-treated! We came back to our house and watched a scary movie. There were guys dressed up as zombies outside our apartment who walked by and started banging on our door and scaring us! That was funny. =] Enjoy the pics from our adventure.
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| the Christmas section is up folks! |
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| running a lap around the track in our costumes |
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| This is a sucker, not a cigarette |
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| Grace and Lauren dressed as tourists |
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| The roommate |
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| Go Chase! |
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| can't touch this |
Wednesday and Thursday at work it was my job to call the mayors and county commissioners in the south/central/east Idaho area to have them RSVP to a luncheon for next week the East Center is putting on. I ended up calling Dad which was funny.
Moving right along...Friday night my team played the Vikings. Last time we played them we lost 10 to 5 or something, but we learned a lot and I prepared my team with many motivational speeches about how they are so beatable. The wind was blowing from the southwest, and it progressively blew harder as the game progressed.
By half time the score was 2-1 to the Vikings. One of their points wasn't even a real point, but they got it according to a stupid foul rule. That communicated to me that they were scared of us and I felt great about it. If we were just any old team, they would've let something stupid like that slide. But we're not any old team, and we were a threat to their undefeated record. The second half we lit it up defensively coming back with 3-3 score. With two minutes left they had the wind with them but our defense was the best I've seen yet and we held them off. A turnover happened mid-field, I picked up this disc and rushed it up the field. My girls picked up on it and we scored into the wind!!! The score was 4-3 with two minutes left!
Before we pulled to them (kicked off) I gave my team a serious pep talk. It went something like this: "We are winning this game right now! I want to see you girls go hard for two more minutes!!" We were able to hold them off! For them to tie they would've had to score into the wind as well, which they did not do! When time ran out I was euphoric!! We had just beat the undefeated team!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could've cried I was so happy. The best part about it is their team is loaded with girls who have competitive experience. Really only three or four of my girls have experience. They had like, one new girl maybe. All others have played before and are excellent players. I am so proud that my team of newbies was able to take them down!! I've got six girls who had no competitive experience before this season. Right as we finished the snow began to set it. Looks like the next two weeks of Ultimate are going to be frigid! But I have my eyes on the championship.
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| I think I look like a cartoon in this picture |
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| I love the way my earing and CTR ring are blingin' out in this pic |
There were a ton of injuries as well! One of my players almost got a concussion, one girl on the Vikings got hit in the mouth by the disc, another girl got hit in the face by my hand (oops!) and my hand currently looks like this:
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| blue fingers and knuckles |
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| look how black all my knuckles are (these pics do this injury no justice) |
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| nice comparison picture |
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| cleated! |
On one possession, they had the disc and they had the wind with them. They had a blitz up the field and my girls were not there to play defense. They had several girls headed down the field to help get it to the endzone, so I ran as hard as I could to the endzone and split the two girls there. The handler tossed a nice put to one of the girls in the endzone, and so help me, I was not going to let her catch it if it was the last thing I did! I ran the disc down with the other girl, and before she could get it I laid out and knocked it down. As I came down, I brought the girl with me, and we tumbled to the ground. I tucked my head into my right shoulder and brought my left hand up. Her cleat rammed into my hand, but it was either my hand or my face, so I'm very thankful!
This happened with fifteen minutes left in the game, and honestly I didn't think a thing about my hand because the adrenaline of getting the disc AWAY from their endzone was my number one priority. On another injury timeout I happened to look down at my hand and I saw that it was seriously bulging. That was when it looked the sweetest, but I couldn't take pictures because my camera was lost. After we won it continued to swell, and it got HUGE! I have better pictures on my phone for how swollen it was. Everyone was asking if it was broken, but I can move all my fingers and clench my fist so I'm pretty sure if I had a broken anything I couldn't do that. And I am a big pansy about pain so I'm pretty sure if something was broken I'd be crying. I'm also typing this post so I'm confident that things are intact. The layout was totally worth it because we won, so I feel great about it. The swelling has gone way down, and I'm hoping it will be better by this weekend for our final regular season game.
I went for a walk in the afternoon and went up to the temple. I got some pretty cool pictures of the sunshine as it came out for the first time in a few days.
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| I love America! |
I want to get married here folks! That night I went to the Acrobats show. These crazy Asian people do these acts with their bodies that are insane! I have a ten minute video of a guy progressively stacking chairs up to the ceiling of the Hart auditorium, and then holding himself up with one hand, his body horizontal, with the chair on a tilt! It was insanely unreal. I had a short video to give you all a taste but it won't work. Fail.
That night our friend Bryson threw himself a birthday party that we went to. He is a super fun guy and he's also a really good guy, so we love him. I stayed for a bit and then played a game of Settlers. I only had three points by the end of the game, and you start out with two! It was a rough game for me and I was happy when it was over.
Today has been one of the best Sunday's I've ever had. It was fast Sunday, and I was able to have so many good insights. New goal; be full of gratitude! When I am full of gratitude, I am happy. In Sunday school we seriously had one of the best discussions about trials. We can't understand the hard times other people are going through, and we most certainly are in no position to judge them for how they handle the things that are apparent to us. We never know the things that are going on in other people's lives that are between them and the Lord. I met a girl who is going through her parent's divorce (her father is leaving their family for a Russian harlot, and he's served in many church callings previous to this disaster), her best friend doesn't want anything to do with her because her jealousy has poisoned their relationship, and she has an abusive boyfriend who's on a mission! He will write her the most inappropriate things and it breaks her heart! But she's in love and we all know how smart we all are about our situations when we're in love (AKA, not smart at all). She has school and all the stress that comes along with that on top of everything else. Let's be mindful that everyone has different experiences, and pray that we can all come out of our trials closer to our Heavenly Father with increased knowledge to benefit us in future endeavors.
We also had a fireside tonight by President Packer. What I love about him and Elder Holland is they both just say it how it is. They are specific and straightforward with their counsel. He talked about the atonement and repentance, and he encouraged us to repent. Throughout all of my meetings today I've written about five pages in my church journal. I fasted for help and guidance in my personal life, and I know the Lord really blessed me with some insights and tender mercies today. I love this gospel with all my heart. My neighbor criticizes my mom because he says we use the gospel as a "crutch."
But what he doesn't understand is the gospel is an integral part of who I am. It's the blood and guts, the muscles and the tendons! It is who I am. I know the gospel of Jesus Christ is the plan our Heavenly Father has provided for us because he loves us with all his heart, and he wants us to be happy! He knows that the only way for us to be truly happy is to follow this plan, even when sometimes we take steps to follow His plan and initially we feel pain. We must have faith that good news is on the way. Be patient. The Lord is on our side! I know the Lord is mindful of us in our trials. Jesus Christ knows exactly what we're going through. We must remember that the atonement is for us. It's not just for our neighbors! It is for YOU. Let the truth of the gospel change your life.
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