Griff Pics

Here are some pics of the Griff-man I had on my phone.

Can't remember where this is, maybe Walmart??? I just like that Griff actually puts his "hoodies" to use. :-D

The kid still loves the Carousel ride at South Towne Mall. I'm pretty sure he was twice the size of any other kid on the ride.

Post haircut hanging out at Lifetime fitness. The kids' section over there is amazing. I actually don't feel bad leaving him in there for an hour while I work out because he has so much fun! Seriously, you gotta see it!

This is the funhouse mirror in the entrance to the dressing room. Griff has grown at least 6" over the last year (according to the marks on the wall at Gma and Gpa H's house) and 1.5" - 2" just since Sept '08! So he needed new church clothes. He was cracking up making himself look taller then fatter.

This is the dinosaur skeleton at the University mall. They added this to the playtree area and it is seriously a lawsuit waiting to happen. I can't believe the mall put this in. While we were there I saw no fewer than 4 kids fall off the rib bones and one kid I thought for sure had broken his arm, but apparently he didn't. It's only a matter of time. Griff mostly stuck to the slide on the playtree, which is pretty harmless except for the little kids trying to climb UP the slide :-D

Griff and Buddy

Payce and Gwen's dog Buddy loves Griff. The lighting was bad (again - man winter stinks!) but the video is pretty cute. If I had a bigger place and Griff was around more I'd totally get him a dog. As long as HE cleaned up after him (we'd have to teach him to ring the bell to go out, like Buddy!)

Griff and Quincy

We were up at Sean and Stacy's and we had some delicious Little Caesar's Pizza (it MAY have made Quincy sick, but she was fine and cute before that).

Quick pic of the cousins (the room was too dark for my phone camera apparently and the kids look like they're in a Liz Taylor "White Diamonds" commerical or something??? Anyway, you get the idea.

New Sweater

Thanks Amy for the new sweater, I like it and I'm wearing it today because it is FREEZING!

I need a shovel for my driveway and walks, it's crazy - my dish is frozen solid as well. January in Utah - Time to go to AZ or CA or the Caribbean! :-D

Griff and Unkie Sean fishing!

Sean and Stacy were nice enough to watch Griff while I went to the football game (see below :-D ) and Sean took Griff Fishing down on the Provo river. Sean has gotten into fly fishing and he lent Griff a regular pole. They didn't catch anything, and the excuses from Griff have included: "All the fish were in the deep end," "Sean didn't know what he was doing," "And the fish just weren't hungry." Yeah, he's a pretty funny kid.

Here are some pics Sean took and sent to me:

Utes take out the Beavers!

I went to the Utes game on Thursday 10/02 and it was EASILY in the top 3 or 4 sporting events I've attended in real life (D-Backs World Series win over the Yankees, Sun Devils win over #1 Nebraska, Utes Fiesta Bowl win over Pitt to be the first team to break the BCS and this - so top 4)

Utah about to score to go up 13-9 in the first half

My friend Rich Kent was out from Virginia and he's a huge Ute fan, like myself, so he was a worthy recipient of my other ticket. He and I were college roommates for a while at the U. We had known each other from Mtn View where were the only guys in Basketball class that weren't on the basketball team (yeah both of us should have been and we got screwed, so the coach let us in the class to "make up for it" whatever, my year they went 2-17 LOL). Anyway, I digress.

Rich, in his "Where's Waldo" Utah shirt and me in a tall hat! Jeez!

This game was all Utah in the first half for the most part, other than giving up a late touchdown. The second half was a different story and saw the Beav's go up by 8 with only 2:11 to go. All the "fans" that left missed the greatest 2:11 I've ever seen in sports, quite possibly. The Utes ran a pefect set of downs AND got the 2-point conversion to tie the game with 1:29 to go. The Beav's then proceeded to play for OT I guess cuz they gave the ball back to the UTES!!! With Louie Sakoda??? One of the, if not THE, best kickers in the NCAA right now???? CRAZY! We thought the Utes would get him a few yards and let him try a super long kick, but they actually pulled the trigger on a play down the field and IT WORKED!!!! They Utes were on the 20, and Sakoda (to the deafening chants of LOUIE, LOUIE, LOUIE!!!) buried the 37-yard FG to WIN the game, the place was crazy - as loud as any stadium I've been in and we all ran out onto the field, it was a blast!

Out on the field after the HUGE win!

What a great game, good to see you Rich, glad you could catch a great game!!!!!

Here's some video:

Utes vs Wildcats

After driving 6 hours on a beautiful Saturday to go to Idaho and back, I got back in time to go to the Utes game against Weber State. This was the first game I've been able to go to, I missed the first home game due to being in AZ for the ASU reunion. So, I was pretty excited to go.

The seats I got are pretty good - 1st row on the east side, looking at the south end zone. It makes it a bit hard to see the North end zone action, but anything south of midfield is pretty awesome. The crowd around us isn't super animated, but it was just Weber State. Some guys in our area had more fun making fun of the WSU cheerleaders that were right in front of us (super annoying after a while) because the game was in hand before halftime.

So, hopefully the rest of the games will have the same outcome! 5-0 is a nice start for the Utes, they may have a test this week with OSU, who just beat #1 USC again!

I got some video of a touchdown pass, though the quality doesn't appear too good. Still gives you an idea of where the seats are. It was pretty dang fun, and I'm excited to go to the rest of the games!