week 5 results

With BYU and USU both on bye weeks, other less familiar teams took their toll on certain people in the standings (myself included). Dex came out of nowhere to take the top spot this week. He was eerily dead on in all three contests. Here are the lastest results:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pGlbc_um5DZHM6Go_WMg7Ew&hl=en
Jim has moved into 1st place on the season, with Jason a close second. I'm down on the list quite a ways.

For next weeks games, Both BYU and USU are back again (playing each other on Friday).
Utah is hosting Oregon State (on Thursday). Yes, its that Oregon State who last week beat #1 USC.
The 3rd game is a choose your high school game. Kearns is at Bingham, or choose Union at Uintah.
Since the games this week are coming up fast (on Thursday), get your picks in quickly.

I think I'm going with BYU over USU by a slight margin 52 to 10.
Utah over Oregon State 34 to 20.
And Bingham over Kearns 34 to 23.

Week 4 Football Results

Another good week for our local teams, everyone won! How 'bout those Aggies eh! Take it to Idaho! Weren't they ranked or something?
Anyways, this week was a good week for Jeffrey! Only18 points! Way to go, 1st place! On the season Jason pulls into 1st place. Too bad for Tunka, since he didn't participate, that hurt. Bumped him down a bit in the season standings.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?hl=en&key=pGlbc_um5DZEKZ4xN0Qc6fw#
Next week we have a bye week for BYU. They'll need the rest too, I'm sure, what with all the competitive games they played the last couple weeks. They could use the extra time to prepare for the Aggies (who also have an extra week to try to find a way to score against BYU)
So next weeks games are:
The big one: Utah hosting Weber State - Coach Mac returns to face off against his protege.
TCU is at Oklahoma
and the 3rd game choose from UNLV hosting Nevada (don't look now, but UNLV is 3-1)
West Jordan @ Bingham (Thursday) or Union hosting Park City.

Hailey must be a true Wardle

Lately I have been hearing someone talking in the middle of the night. I finally figured it out, that Hailey talks in her sleep. I have been told by two of my sister in laws, Erika and Leslie, that their husbands talk in their sleep. So I guess Hailey takes after the Wardle's in this aspect of life. Oh well, I guess there could be a lot worse traits to have.

Week 3 Football Results

Congratulations this week to Dad for winning the predictions this week! Here are the results.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pGlbc_um5DZEvwlxdNj5UVw&hl=en
In a week where BYU and Utah looked absolutely dominant, especially BYU, the person with the biggest predicted blowout for BYU wins the whole shebang! Dad predicted a 41 to 17 win over UCLA. That was enough to clinch the victory! On a side note, I'm no longer going to ask the young'uns if they are sure that they think BYU will score 90 points. I don't think that is out of the realm of possibility anymore.
Also, on the year so far, Nick has moved into 1st place with an average finish just under 5th place.
For next weeks games it looks like BYU is hosting Wyoming
Utah is at Air Force
and Utah State has a winnable game vs Idaho

Websites I can't live without

It just amazes me how much technology really changes the way we live. The internet is really an amazing thing, it replaces so many of the sources we all used to go for things. So I'm dedicating this blog to the websites that I can't live without. Please add more of your favorite sites that I have left out.

For starters, I have to mention Pandora.com. All of the music I like is right there. If I feel like some 'soft' music to listen to at work, or to relax with at home, its there. All I had to do was get it started with a song or artist I like and build from there, giving songs I love a thumbs up or ones I hate a thumbs down. Same thing for a good Rock 'n Roll mix (when I just need to blow off some steam), and if I need some good modern alternative, or flashback to the 80's, I've got it all! My stations are getting to know me pretty well. If you want to share a station with a friend, have something prebuilt for that person to modify as he/she like, you can do that! Now how cool is that?

Then I've got to mention Snopes.com. Have you read the quotes attributed to or seen the list of books banned by Sarah Palin while in office in Alaska? Have you seen the amazing 'supposed' photo of that tornado? Have you heard the claims that this product or the other causes cancer and the FDA is doing nothing about it because they are in this companies back pocket? How about the one about needing to register your cellphone number with the 'Do not call' list because next week all the cellphone numbers are going to be released to the telemarking companies?

Well Snopes.com is there for all of us to check out and verify all these claims that are constantly being circulated around the internet. So if you get one of those emails thats been forwarded ... and forwarded ... and forwarded, that you can't seem to believe, just check it out on Snopes.com. Its probably there.

Have to mention Wikipedia. I'm sure if you are old enough, you'll remember doing book reports on an assigned subject and have to go to the library and get out those encyclopedias to look up and copy the info for your report. Or if you were lucky enough to have encyclopedias at home, you could skip the library and do it at home. Assuming, that is that you can find that dang 'J' volume in your bookcase, after it didn't get returned when your brother was using it to look up something stupid. Its probably still stashed away in a drawer somewhere yet to be found. Of course those encyclopedias were at least 25 years old back then (they are about 50 years old now). I actually had a teacher whose favorite book was the J volume of the encyclopedia (Mr. Deneris, perhaps some of you remember him) Ahh .... another blog for another day. Anyways, Wikipedia, very nice. Has taken over the encyclopedia need very well, I can find out info on just about anything there. And if its not there, Google is there with plenty of info.

How about imdb.com? Have you ever needed to know what that actors name is, or what else has he done? Or what movies is he working on now? Well, imdb.com is there to the rescue, 'nuff said.

O.K. not technically a website, but google earth is something not to be taken lightly. Want to zoom in on Kim Jong Il's pad in North Korea? Go for it! How about seeing what it looks like from the top of the Sears Tower? Want to see what it looks like around where you are going to go on vacation? How about some nearby restaurants? Ever seen the cool stuff they're building in Dubai? You can even load other databases to it to see thing on the map you want to see. Like all the geocaches in the world. Google earth is just amazing. Scary really.

Speaking of geocaches, if you don't know about those, go to geocaching.com and check that out. It can really be a fun family activity or scout activity if you have access to a portable GPS unit and maybe some cheap McDonalds toys. They say its a sport or hobby whereby they use multimillion dollar government satellites to find tupperware in the woods. Lots of good funs things to do with it, like travel bugs. Ask me where my travel bugs have been and where they are now. I've got pics. I'll have to put them on here.

Here's one for all those that like to cook, or just want to get something on the table quickly for dinner while using up some of those thing in your fridge that will go bad soon if you don't use them up quickly. Ever tried out myrecipes.com? I'm sure you've seen the magazines at the supermarket with all those good recipes, Cooking Light, A Taste of Home, Sunset, etc. Well myrecipes.com has put all those thing out there online for you to search. So do you have that red pepper and chicken in your fridge that you need to use up? How about Red pepper Lemon chicken? Do you want to do organize your recipe box? Put that great recipe from your aunt Bonnie in your own recipe section for easy reference on the website. Do you want to add the recipe to you box in your kitchen? Print out the one you found on a 3x5 card. It even lists all the nutrition information. Very useful site!

O.K. this one costs a little for the subscription, but very useful information. I'm talking about consumerreports.org. If you are shopping for a car, a dishwasher or just want to know the best peanut butter to buy, its all there! With more information than you can shake a stick at!

What other sites do you refer to all the time?

Scott's birthday

Today is Scott's 36th birthday. Wow! It just seems like yesterday that I was meeting the cute returned missionary who was visiting Tucker 21. It's amazing to think that he is now all grown up with a real job and 3 kids. Scott is a great husand, a great father and pretty sexy too. He rides his bike about once a week to stay in shape. So if you see him today, be sure to tell him Happy Birthday.

Week 2 Football Results

Here are the results from this week
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGlbc_um5DZEvwlxdNj5UVw
Congratulations to Jason! Tunka is leading the season average at this early part in the season with an average finish of 3.5 place!
Quite the games this week, especially BYU - I think they lucked out on that one. Can you believe USU's offense? Putting up 24 points against a very good Oregon team has to count for something, doesn't it?

Put in your week 3 picks now
UCLA @ BYU
UTAH @ USU
and for the 3rd game -- you get to choose between
#5 Ohio St @. #1 USC
Dixie @ Weber St
Jordan HS @ Bingham HS
Union HS @ Salem Hills HS

Good luck!

My predictions -- i'll put myself out there first
UCLA 34 BYU 28
Utah 41 USU 20
Jordan 26 Bingham 34

Hailey's first day of pre-school

So today was Hailey's first day of school. When I asked her to get dressed, she quickly did so, but she was having a hard time putting on her backpack. When I tried to help her, I noticed that it was extremely heavy. She had about 4 juice boxes, 8 small bags of chips, and 2 packages of fruit snacks. I knew that she had put a couple of these in her backpack, because she sees Jeffrey put these items in his backpack in case he has a low blood sugar, but this was quite a bit more then I thought possible. I had wondered where all the chips had gone, but just figured that the kids had eaten them all as snacks. When I showed Scott, he couldn't even hold all the stash. So now we just have to try to convince her that she doesn't need to bring all that to school with her.

Week 1 Football Predictions

The first week is in the books, and it was one to be remembered! The Utes taking it to Michigan is one the shouldn't soon forget!
Here are the results from this weeks predictions: Congratulations to Jim! Some great picks there! I believe a Kit Kat is coming your way!
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGlbc_um5DZHKtf91oq-WLA
You'll notice this week that I've included a bonus of 5 points for picking the right winner.

Week 2 Games include:
BYU @ Washington
Utah vs UNLV
USU @ Oregon

Get your picks in soon