Football and Fall

Victory!!! Yesterday the BYU football team won their first game of the season against Northern Iowa. The Cougars had a great first half, but the second half was not so pretty. I think the team will have some things to work on at practice this week, and then hopefully they can get their A-game on when they head to Washington. It was so fun to go to the game with Dad yesterday!!! We were glad that our seats were in the shade because it was very hot outside. I love LaVell Edwards Stadium--you can see the whole Wasatch front from the stands, and there's nothing quite like the excitement in the air and the ambiance of a BYU football game. Hotdogs also taste better at football games for some reason. I love stadium hotdogs. The Cougars won 41-17! Northern Iowa's mascot is the panther--just like Eastern Illinois University. Maybe it's a Midwest thing? Last fall when I was at EIU, I felt very out of the BYU football loop, so I'm glad to be back in it this year. I LOVE BYU!!!

Speaking of fall, it definitely feels like fall outside tonight. There is quite a storm blowing through, and the temperature tomorrow is supposed to be 20 degrees cooler than it was yesterday. It will be a chilly Labor Day. Speaking of Labor Day, I am going to need to labor at Camp Floyd on Labor Day. That's okay though because I'll be taking the end of this week and first of next week off for Mom's and my trip to DC!! So I'm glad to get in work hours when I can. It's supposed to be quite rainy and cold tomorrow, so I don't know if we'll have many visitors, but we'll see.

Today at church the Primary kids were CRAZY! I only had three kids in my class, but even they were waaaaaay too much to handle. They were literally bouncing off the walls. Our lesson was entitled "Love One Another," but I quickly learned that to five-year-olds, the word "love" means only two things: marriage and kissing. Tanner asked Nauvoo to marry him several times during class today. No matter what I did to try to turn the conversation back to the lesson, there was no changing their train of thought. I was pooped by the time church ended today.

Poor Southern states that are going to get slammed by Hurricane Gustav! They haven't even finished cleaning up from Katrina yet--and that was three years ago. I snapped these pictures in May 2006 when my Natchez ranger roommate Jessica and I took a road trip down to New Orleans. As you can see, even nine months after the hurricane hit, much of the downtown area was still in disrepair. The thing Jessica and I couldn't believe was that there were still cars piled up on top of each other under the freeway--right where they had ended up during Katrina. Of course that has since been cleaned up, but the Southern coast definitely doesn't need another big storm. Hopefully my friends in Mississippi are far enough north that they won't be affected by Gustav. They said that when Katrina came through they all hunckered down and prepared for the worst, but they only lost power for one day and there wasn't a lot of wind damage. She had lost a lot of her strength by the time she made it up as far as Natchez. Luckily people along the coast have actually heeded evacuation warnings this time around. Unfortunately the heart of Gustav is projected to make landfall near Houma, Louisiana--that's where Natchez ranger Jessica is from! Hopefully her family has gotten safely out of the way of the storm.