Catching Up Our Blog

No, we didn't fall of the face of the earth! The past few months have just been very busy. Let me try to catch you up and then hopefully we can keep our blog more current than we did the last months of 2007.

For Thanksgiving, we made our annual trek to Utah to spend the week with my family. While we there, the kids had a great time playing with their cousins and we did our family Christmas gift exchange. We also had a fun time bowling with some of my family, but I think the high point for Adam was getting to drive/ride his Papa Rod's "tractor". It was a great trip until the last night when my youngest sister Miranda was in a pretty bad car accident and gave us a scare, but thankfully she was OK.

After returning home, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Amy was pregnant. It's a little scary thinking about having another baby after so many years, but we are very excited. We told the kids one night by having them open their first Christmas present, a stocking for "Baby Besaw". The only trouble is Annaka wants a girl and Adam wants a boy, so someone will be disappointed.

Leading up to Christmas, Adam had his end of the season soccer party. Annaka performed as part of her school's orchestra where she plays the cello and also had a piano recital. After all of that, we were ready to take it easy over Christmas.

My parents drove out to be with us for the New Year and were able to spend a couple days with the kids before they left with Amy's parents to spend New Year's Eve in Idaho with Amy's sister and her family. Adam and Annaka had a lot of fun playing in the snow with their cousin Kimberlee and I think we missed them more than they missed us. They came home the beginning of last week and now it is back to our everyday lives: work, school, babysitting, church, and preparing for our new addition this summer.

Be True to your School

One of the first dates Amy and I went on was to a BYU football game. We were season ticket holders as newlyweds and took our first child to a game before she was a year old. Since moving to Southern California, we always try to support our Alma Mater when they come to play football. This past Saturday, the Cougars came to play the UCLA Bruins at the Rose Bowl and we were there to show support for our school. Although the outcome wasn't what we hoped for, it was a fun day and brought back a lot of memories from attending BYU games in the past. The 3rd quarter got pretty exciting as the BYU offense cut the Bruin lead to 3 points. Unfortunately, the Cougars didn't score again and UCLA scored again with a couple minutes left to win 27-17. The game was much closer than the final score indicates, and BYU played well considering their opponent was ranked 13th in the nation (now 11th). Max Hall, the new Cougar QB was pretty impressive and has me excited for the rest of the season and years to come.