Congrats Daniel and Meredith!!!

We had the pleasure of attending Daniel and Merdith's wedding this past weekend and wish them the best in their new life together. We all had a good time!

The funny picture you won't see anywhere else

Talent Show?

I thought we did a good job at making it look like real dirt!

This week our ward had a talent show that included a "dessert talent" portion. So I made dirt cake. It tasted great and was a hit with all the kids. Thanks, Mom for the receipe. 

The Lakers Lost at Home? AWESOME!

Ron Artest's strategy of letting his play do the talking worked out better against Kobe this time

LOS ANGELES -- Maybe it was just a rusty team with a sick superstar. Or it could be something much more significant, so if that's the case, you might want to mark May 4, 2009, down as the start of a paradigm shift in the NBA.

The irony is that the Houston Rockets are the team with the spreadsheets and logarithms, but it's the Lakers who must hope that Game 1 was merely a statistical aberration, that they'll resume scoring the 106-plus points they averaged during the regular season and first round of the playoffs instead of the 92 they put up here, that they'll make better than 11 percent of their 3-point attempts, that the Rockets can't expect to continue to have more turnovers and fewer rebounds than the Lakers and still keep winning the way they did on Monday night.

The Lakers' main consolation is that they were far from their best, yet still had a shot at this game, even leading briefly in the fourth quarter. Kobe Bryant missed practice Sunday with what the team called a sore throat, and the next 24 hours in Los Angeles were filled with more updates on his health than on the swine flu epidemic. But when it was time to announcers the starters for Game 1 there he was, albeit a bit subdued.

Let's keep it up! Go Rockets!