HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

I just wanted to give a shout out to the BEST mom in the world!! I mean seriously.. what mom would put up with all of us crazy cheesman kids!! haha I love you mom!!

my computer won't allow me to upload pictures at the moment.. sorry for the boring pictureless posts!!

Sad News

We found out this last saturday while in TN that Pete's dad Steve just passed away from cancer. We found out Thanksgiving that his dad had tumors in his small intestine and then bout 2 weeks ago we found out it was cancerous and that the tumors had spread through to his brain too. It was very surprising to us and happened a lot quicker than anyone had anticipated. But luckily we know his dad is happy now on the other side and that he did not have to suffer through the treatments of radiation for the next few months. His mom is keeping busy and doing well as well as pete and his sibilings. We will be leaving tom. night to leave to sacramento and the funeral will be the 28th and then we will make a 12 hr drive to st. george UT. and up to a burial site where pete's dad's familiy all got buried. We will then go up on the 31st for the burial in the afternoon then go up to SLC for new years and hang out with friends and family for a few days then we drive back to sacramento and fly out the 4th! It is definitely a much busier Christmas than we were planning.. but what more could we ask for for Christmas than to be with our family and the ones we love!!! Merry Christmas everyone!!

FInally a CHAMPIONSHIP!!

k so out of all the many leagues i've been in the last year and a half.. i've always gotten to the championship game.. but it seems more times than not always got runner up and never the actual championship! BUT... Thursday night for our flag football game the Jacobs Jaguars (thats us..) beat Auto Trader 27-21!! it was a very close game but it was so exciting!!! This team had previously had many troubles with fighting and getting too hot headed and such.. and they actually were the only team we had lost to in the regular season.. we were 7-1.. and there was acctually a fight that broke out at the end of our game! it was scary.. pete even had someone swing at him and they barely caught his lip! but it was intense! there was one guy on our team ready to take soemone out for doing it too! luckily it stayed somewhat under control after a few min and they just cut the game short.. Since i was captain i had a talk with them on Tuesday before the championship and told them how bad i really wanted to play them allll 4 quarters without tempers getting in the way.. and they held their end of the bargain and there were no quarells with the refs or the other team! it was sooo comforting! haha But both pete and I had great games.. We didnt get to do much on offense, but we both made major plays on deffense.. I had 2 interceptions in the 4th quarter when they were making runs down the field and pete defended the long hail mary pass at the end.. that the guy almost caught for the win... but pete batted the ball down for the win!!! It was soooo exciting!!! and we got a sweet trophy with a football on top! But anyways after a wonderful night we went home and packed to come on our vacation to Pigeon Forge with our friends Jeff Neff and Rachel Fairclough! More info and pictures to come!!:) GO JAGS!!!

CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE!!!

K so school is over for the semester.. i got pretty good grades! 3 As and 2 B s.. not too shabby i might say! The semester wasn't too draining.. it was a lot of work but it was sorta enjoyable! i mean i got to put on a softball tournament and play in it for class! as well as visit the GA dome, Cobb Energy Center, Turner Field and World Congress Center for that same class too! I did the Senior Day with elderly which was fun as i got to make balloon animals with them at my station, i learned kickboxing, aerobics, and step aerobics. I got to make a media guide for one of my friends on the womens basketball team. And got to sit through a crazy semester of world lit with a theorist/psychoanalysis for a teacher and read books like The Inferno, a bit of the Odyssey, and watch a bunch of documentaries i would have never watched.. my two favorite were "the King of Kong" and "God grew tired of us" i really enjoyed those and i was not expecting that at all!! But overall it was fun semester as i got to also go to Athens for a conference and really got to become better friends with my classmates!
Christmas time has also come as i have gotten pretty much all my shopping done.. i mean i just couldn't help but jump on that as soon as possible cause it gave me an excuse to shop! i have never thought of myself as a shopaholic or anything.. but i really don't mind shopping!! i just dont' have money... tends to be a problem sometimes! Anyways I have already started my christmas music listening all the time and got to make chocolate covered pretzels with my fellow husbandless friend (just for the day/weekend) Michelle! We also watched P.S I love you . .might as well since the boys were gone.. pete doesn't like Hillary Swank either..
Flag football has not finished yet.. weather has made it a lil crazy so who knows when we'll finish the tournament.. it might just all be on monday.. and hopefully we got to the superbowl and win it all!! :)
But i hope everyone else is enjoying this wonderful Christmas season as much as I am! I have gotten to read/hear a bunch of touching stories already that show others Christmas miracles and how Heavenly Father is always there to help you and answer your prayers! They are really touching and of course the scriptures always share the most special stories of them all!

I'll try and post some pictures later.. my computer is bein funny..