My Full Time Job

The last couple of weeks have pushed me over the edge and I have realized I have said "yes" to way to many things. The biggest of them all was the school fundraiser. I counted how many hours I put into this last week I had worked the equivalent of a full time job! The 2 weeks previous I was only working part time. I won't bore you with the details, but will only tell you that the day of giving the grand prize winner a helicopter ride was all worth it!
This little first grader had over 60 sponsers and had raised over $475. He had gone to every house in his small town with his older sister. His mother works full time at our school and this helicopter ride (I was told) was something this little family would never be able to afford. As I called up this little boy and announced him the grand prize winner, I had a hard time holding my composer as I watched such a sweet humble little boy come to claim his prize. The studentbody was estatic. I asked this boy who (besides his parents) did he want to take with him on the helicopter ride and he said, "my sister".
The whole school went outside to see the helicopter land in the back field and come pick up this boy and his family. I watched the teary eyed father board, I myself got a little emotional, and as I looked around many of the teachers were wiping their eyes as well. It was definetely my "payday"! Oh and by the way, we reached our goal plus about $3,000 more! Hurray!

BYU Football - Fui and Curtis

Bryson and Garrett had the chance to visit the locker-room before the UNLV football gamewith the Heywood cousins. I guess with as good as BYU was and as bad as UNLV was - UNLV would likely not refer to their efforts as a football game ... with an ending score of 52-7, but it is sure fun again to be going to the BYU games and watching big offensive outputs. We were able to get this close to the players courtesy of George Curtis - a lifting buddie and mentor to Rob Heywood - who has a long history of weight training with BYU and its athletes.

Preceding the game the kids all went to the store "Fanzz" and purchased Curtis Brown jerseys (#6) and had the chance to have their new hats and jerseys autographed by the big guys. Seen below is a picture with recently returned missionary sophomore running back Fui Vakapuna (#1 - hence the multiple #1's being held in the air). Fui is averaging 6 yards per carry and 9 yards per reception this year. The amazing thing is that with as good as he is, BYU has so many offensive weapons both passing and rushing, that he has only had about 8 carries per game. Because of a high ankle sprain Fui didn't play in the UNLV slaughtering, but I'm sure he'll be playing in the Air Force game this weekend. Pictured below are the kids with senior running back Curtis Brown. Curtis is a stud and, just like Fui and the other players that spent time with the kids, he was great with the kids. Curtis only played for 2 1/2 quarters and racked up just under 150 rushing yards and a touchdown for the day's effort. BYU put up more than 300 rushing yards in the game in addition to more than 270 yards passing - for a combined 570+ offensive yards (and that is with trying not to score in the 4th). Curtis passed up Heimuli in this game and ended up less than 200 yards short of Jamal Willis' all-time BYU rushing record. After the Air Force and Colorado games these next two weeks Curtis should be in sole posession of the all-time BYU rushing record.