Temple Square

I love the fact that my mom's birthday is in December just for the fact that it's always during Christmas break and that I never have to miss it! This year my dad arranged for us all the meet in Salt Lake to walk through the temple square lights, my mom had no clue and thought that's all we were doing until, we said our goodbye's and she and my dad went to the roof for dinner.
We took the front runner and tracks, which Xander was way excited about although he doesn't really look like it in the pictures, but he calls it a choo choo train! He especially loved the ride back since he got to sit with his cousin Gunnar, those two are definitely partners in crime! We went back our parents house and they destroyed the place... I was still picking up the loot they had chucked down the stairs the next day! And that was after the laundry detergent all over the laundry room/bathroom floor, and mass of toys in the living room. They always get into trouble together but it's so much fun to see what mischievous adventures they come up with. They were lot's of help with opening grandma's presents and Xander couldn't believe the sweater we got my mom, he helped open it and said, "WOW!" and started hugging it, it was hilarious!

09 SUU Football Season wrap up!

SUU had a very good season and the program is improving every year with the new coaching staff. We had a 5 and 6 season, defeating Dixie state, North Dakota, UC Davis, San Diego University and Texas State. The losses were all pretty close calls! Nick had an amazing year and has made great strides at improving his obviously heaven sent talent every season, anyone who knows him, (or at least has seen him) knows that he was born to play the game of football! I was so proud to see my beaten up husband return from games with numerous bumps and bruises and other more outstanding injuries like a hyper extended elbow, sprained arm muscle, sprained ankle, bruised knee bursa, and horrible looking field turf burn (I'm sure I'm forgetting some too)! But he never skipped a beat and never let it stop him, he gives it his all and leaves it all on the field with no regrets! Xander loves to watch and imitate his daddy on the field, he gets down in his stance and you have to say, "down, set, hike!" and he'll take off to tackle someone or
something, or to retrieve a ball. He can already catch and throw a football like a pro, and surprises many people by his drop kick! We love to support Nick, and can't wait for one more year to be there in the stands cheering him on! GARCIA #79!!!

Cal Poly Trip

Every year I planned to go to the Cal Poly game in San Luis Obispo, and every year plans fell through until this year... Cyd and I flew to see our men play and I was in for an even bigger surprise. My big brother Ben and sister in law Yuki decided to drive up and join us for the weekend, I was ecstatic to see them. We had a blast. We went to this Castle and although we walked around forever and our tour guide was totally lame, we managed to have some fun of our own, we thought we were hilarious copying the statues! You can't go to Cali and

not visit a beach, so of course we went! We were amazed with the star fish we found, I don't think it appreciated us detaching it from it's rock and poking at it, but we returned it to a safe nook.







The game was totally nerve racking but we ended up losing by ONE stinkin point! By the end of the trip I was ready to be home with my hubby and little Xander man, but was so happy for the experience and memories!