Bad Week in Sports!!!

It all started with the NFL football game I attended two weeks ago. The Cowboys lost to the Cardinals in a "Heart-Breaker" of a loss. Then that Thursday, the BYU Cougars got their (you know what) handed to them on a platter. Then that Sunday, the Cowboys lost to one of the worst teams of the NFL, the St. Louis Rams. Which I feel will continue this weekend when the Cowboys play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who have a very good team, especially their defense. Meanwhile, the Cougars should overcome their recent loss with a victory over the Rebels of UNLV.

I guess the one glimpse of hope in my sporting week is the fact that the Tampa Bay Rays evened the World Series at 1-1. I'm rooting for the Rays to win the World Series so they can claim the "Worst to First" title.

The family is doing good. Braydon is still loving school. Katie likes her new part-time job. I'm still working with lots of changes going on in the hospital. I believe we will finally be full staffed with Therapist by the beginning of November.

All is Well with The Rogers'

Sad Day in Arizona!!!

My brother-in-law and I made the voyage to Phoenix to watch America's Team (Dallas Cowboys) play the Arizona Cardinals. We left Saturday afternoon and arrived in Phoenix around 5:00 pm. We watched a little football/NASCAR in our hotel before we got dinner. We stayed about 20 minutes away from the stadium. All the hotel guest (about 80% of them) had on some type to Dallas Cowboy gear. We felt so loved in enemy territory. At dinner, it was a whole different situation. We had the restaurant owner/server mentioned the fact that they too were going to the game and said we would have to "pay extra" for our meal. They knew we liked the Cowboys since my brother-in-law wore his Cowboy sweatshirt.

We got to the game at about 9:00 am and hung out around the stadium since the gates didn't open until 11:00 am. At that time we headed down to our seats since they were right by the tunnel where the Cowboys came in and out of the locker room. We got tons of pictures of players warming up and I came close to getting Adam "Pac-man" Jones autograph. Where we were standing, not a lot of players came by.

Here is the Cowboys coming out the the tunnel before the game: (look how good our seat were)



Football game Re-cap: (May be boring if not into football/Cowboys)

The game started out rough with the Cardinals running the opening kick-off for a touchdown so Dallas was playing from behind at the very beginning. Halftime the score was tied up at 7-7. Arizona was up 24-14 with about 3 minutes left in the game. Dallas then had a 70 yard touchdown catch by Marion Barber with about 2 minutes left. Arizona didn't do anything with the ball and had to punt it to Dallas with about 1 minute to go in the game. Dallas was able to get close enough for a 52 yard Field goal to tie the game and sent it to overtime. Dallas won the coin toss and got the ball first but didn't do anything with it and had to punt.

This is were it all goes BAD!!! The Cardinals blocked the punt and picked up the loose ball and scored a touchdown ending the game in a hear-break fashion. I never thought that when they had to punt the ball, it would be blocked, never crossed my mind once, until I looked up at the scoreboard and the final score read: DALLAS 24 ARIZONA 30

End of Re-cap

Even though the Cowboys lost, I am still a COWBOY fan for life and will have to got to another game (hint, hint, to my lovely wife) to get this bad taste out of my mouth.

I have about 60 pictures from the game in the photo album if you want to look at them.

Big Game!!

It's T-MINUS 2 days and counting to the Dallas Cowboy vs Arizona Cardinals Football game. Katie's Sister and her family have joined us here in Vegas until my brother-in-law and I leave Saturday afternoon for the trip to Phoenix. It should be a good game with the Cowboys coming out on top (Hopefully, if they can put all the distractions behind them). More to come after the game with pictures and videos.

GO COWBOYS!!!!!

Not Much Here!!!

We have been up to a whole lot of nothing the past few weeks. We did get to spend time with Katie's parents. That all ways means playing, shopping, and a visit to the Original Pancake House. It was a short trip so we didn't get to do much but we had a good time doing nothing.

Braydon has finished his swimming lessons and was able to graduate to Level III in October. He loves to swim and play in the water. He would do it every day if we would let him. He is still loving school. Katie and Braydon have a schedule during the week about waking up, eating breakfast, getting ready in the morning and doing homework, chores in the afternoon. It seems that when I have the day off, I mess everything up. I guess that's alright because I'm the dad.

Sports Update:

BYU- They are ranked in the top ten of both the AP & USA Today's Coaches polls. They should be favorites in the rest of there remaining games with the toughest opponents to be TCU & Utah.

DALLAS COWBOYS- Had a disappointing loss to the Washington Redskins (of all teams) to make them 3-1 on the year. Dallas' D is having a heck of a time stopping teams and I feel depending on their offense to much. Have a winnable game this week at home vs Bengals. Then I will be in Arizona to watch the Cowboys take on the Cardinals (the count down is on!!!)

MLB- Here are my predictions:

Cubs over the Dodgers
Phillies over the Brewers

Cubs over Phillies in the National League

Angels over the Red Sox
Rays over White Sox

Rays over Angels in the American League

Rays over Cubs in World Series (If this is the match-up, I really don't care who would win)

Check out our 3 new photo albums for your entertainment.

NEW TOY!!! (with a BIG payment)

We are new owners of a 2007 Chevy Malibu. Our Chevy Cavalier was on it's last leg and decided to try to get something out of it before it died. Our payments are a little higher (ok, a lot) then we wanted but now we have a reliable car for the next 5-8 years (hopefully). The back seat has way more room then the Cavalier and will be a good "taxi" car for when visitors come to see us.

In other news, Katie's mom and dad will be visiting us for the weekend and we are excited to see them. Braydon is doing good in school and got his first 100% on a spelling test. We are so proud of him.

We have one new photo album of Katie and Braydon playing around on a Sunday before church while I was at work.