College Football Season

Greetings from Houston. It is once again college football season. Before I share with you pictures of late summer, I want to share you with my three rules for watching college football:

1. Never go to a live game. The team you are cheering for will lose and your effort to go will feel like it was in vain.

2. Watch with friends. If you find yourself watching college football by yourself a lot, you could have an addiction problem (kind of like alcohol).

3. If you watch by yourself, make sure you are either (a) at the gym, (b) only watching the fourth quarter of a close game or (c) watching a bowl game.

I violate these rules all the time, but if I remember them, I am usually much happier.

And now for the pictures:


Laird pretends he is going to school.


Jeffrey builds a tower.


Laird pumps some iron.


Jeff and Pete playing baseball.


Laird's turn to swing the bat

Start of School

On August 27, 2007, Jeffrey started Kindergarten. He was very excited and couldn't wait to meet all the new kids. The only disappointment so far has been the lack of homework, which for some reason he expected. Also, on Labor Day, he was very disappointed not to be going back to school. However, we went to the beach on Labor Day down in Galveston and he had a great time. In fact, he was sad that we couldn't go back to the beach the next day since the beach is a lot better than school.

Jeffrey and Laird ready to walk to school the first day.

Jeffrey in class on the first day.

Stewart Beach in Galveston.

Trip to Utah

Sheralie and I recently returned from a week of fun at Education Week in Provo, Utah. We had a great time visiting friends, enjoying Utah summer weather (which is far superior to Houston summer weather) and going to BYU for Education Week. Let me know if you would like the full and I will email you a full report. It is too long for the blog. Here are a couple pictures:

Pete at the BYU.

Sheralie and Christina Israelsen

BYU


While at BYU, we were able to outfit everyone in BYU gear for football season.

Pete and Karl Israelsen eating ice cream