I felt like an old crippled Grandma today

I went to the doctor today to get my tailbone and wrist x-rayed. It took forever. It turned out good and the results were positive. My tailbone and wrist are only bruised. They told me it would take four weeks to heal. I sure hope it heals in four days, cause its warming up and I want to get out and do those summer fun things like football, biking, soccer, running, ect.

This morning it took me thirty five minutes to get to my class when it usually in the past at full health only took me ten minutes. I was walking up by the library and ran into the first person I know. She said "are you OK, cause your walking kind of funny?" I explained what happened and went on my way. A little while later I ran into my roommate Ben who knew I was in pain. We laughed from how weird I was walking. We didn't talk long because I needed to get to class. When I was walking away Ben said "good luck turtle boy!" When I got to class it took me a lot longer to sit down and everyone around me asked the same question. I explained and got prepared for class. One of the girls that was sitting around me saw it happen and said "that looks like it hurt." I got a lot of weird looks today. I really felt like I am handicapped.

So after class I went to the bookstore to get some Ibuprofen. I put it on the counter and the girl asked "are you doing alright?" I explained and she told me her friend broke his tailbone and it took two years to heal properly. It kind of scared me.

I luckily saw one of my teammates in the MC and he offered to give me a ride to the health center. When I went to get in his car I was about to ask "could you lift me into the car" like someone would with a person in a wheelchair. It took me forever to get in the car. I really felt like a crippled old Grandma!

Thank goodness for Ibuprofen! I at least now feel like a 22 year old that got injured and not a crippled old Grandma!

LIFE IS GOOD!

I may have broke my tailbone today, crap!

Tonight my basketball team was in the quarterfinals of the BYU Idaho competitive league tournament! We had a really good team and a good shot to win it all, but we lost and were out now. It is a big disappointment that we lost, but an even bigger bummer that I may have broke my tailbone.

There was 1:00 left in the game and we were down by six. I had the ball at the three point line and saw an opening to the basket! I took it! The defender was close so I crossed him over, blew by him and took it to the basket. I was wide open and jumped as high as I could to lay it in. My fingers were about as high as the rim. As I laid it in a player on the other team undercut me or as most people call it he cheap-shoted me. He took out my legs and from about five feet in the air I landed straight on my tailbone, and luckily not my back or my neck. My teammates said my whole body was shaking for five minutes. I was laying on my stomach screaming in agony. AHHHH! AHHHH! AHHHH! Over and over again. At least I made the basket and brought my team within four. I couldn't shoot the foul shot, so coach put someone else in. He hit it and brought us within three and thats what we lost by. It was so hard laying on the sideline by our bench, knowing if i didn't get injured I could of been our there with my team trying to come back and win.

It was funny the person that brought me a bag full of ice asked "Where do you want me to put this? I turned over and laid on my stomach and said "put it on my butt." Everyone was laughing, but I wasn't cause I was in pain. It was a funny sight though.

Just remember when your around please don't slap my butt or tackle me or throw things at my butt, Ect. If you do beware... because I will hurt you and it wont be pretty!

Way to go!

Hello! I LOVE YOU! A shout out to my girls JV team that I coach, for winning today and advancing to the Championship game this Saturday! Go Lady Thunder!

We live in the land of opportunity!

For FHE tonight we went to a member of the high counselors house in Idaho Falls! They talked about how they visited there sons mission at the end. There son served in the Dominican Republic. The DR is a third world country! They said that they were in the DR for a week and he got a parasite. One week! Thats crazy! He said the people down there are so poor, but so happy and humble! He said that our laundry room would be a mansion to them! For a moment I felt really sad for these people, but then I thought there happy and they probably wouldn't want it any other way.

I am so blessed to live in America and even more blessed to live in Utah and even more more blessed to have the gospel living in Utah! I have an amazing family and especially amazing parents who have always provided me with the best. I have basically lived a life of luxury compared to the people in the DR. We live in the land of opportunity! Our opportunities are endless. I guess I realized more today then I ever have that it is my choice on how I'm going to treat this opportunity of life in America!

I learned last week at a business summit that we will fail in todays market if we have the attitude of entitlement. We can never feel that we are entitled to anything. We need to have the attitude that everything is an opportunity and I'm going to make the most out of it! We need to work for everything! Most things will not be handed to us!

I'm very excited and optimistic about the future! I know that if I chose to have the attitude of opportunity I will not fail! It is a great opportunity right now in my life to be at BYU-Idaho! Am I going to act like I'm entitled to get educated or am I going to make the most of it cause I know it's a great opportunity? I hope I will make the most of it and I hope you will too!

I'm a terrible bracketoligist!

So, March Madness comes around every year and that means bracket time! Some people feel out like 50 brackets hoping to get one with most of the picks correct. This year I filled out 3 and for all of them I am apart of a group. I love March Madness, but I hate the bracket! In every group I am in last place! I heard somewhere that you have a 9,000,000,000 in 1 shot of getting a perfect bracket. I'm not even going to set that as one of my goals in life because I am a horrible bracketoligist! A Bracketoligist is someone who knows every team and the streangths of every team and who matches up well with who and they usually have an almost perfect bracket. I will never have an almost perfect bracket, because I am not a bracketoligist!

Why do I hate losing & why am I so good at winning?

I have this new goal to right on my blog everyday! Lets see how I do! There is this girl that has a blog too and she also set it as a goal to write on her blog everyday. I want to beat her and prove that I'm the blog-a-champ, so basically its now a competition.

I've been winning at a lot of different things lately! That may sound cocky, but i don't care. I really don't feel like I'm boasting, but just counting my many talents. Talents are blessings! I am really good at board games or at least I think its one of my many talents. When we were at our cabin over new years I won Settlers of Catan 12 times, which is like 8 times more then the next competitor. Oh and by the way the Baughs were there and they're probably the most talented board game family. Just saying I did really well!

Then there was tonight! I won again, but this time we played Take it to Ride-German Edition! I scored a whopping 140 points. I was really proud of my strategic skills! This is a game of intense strategy and you have to be quick with your mind. I certainly was tonight!

Oh and the other night my church ball team won the championship in coed basketball.

OK, so you can't win everything!

I coach a girls basketball team and we played today in the first round of the tournament. We played a team that beat us by 35 the first time and 7 the second time. Going into this game we knew we had a shot to win, but we blew it. We lost again. It was frustrating! We played so well and I'm so proud of my girls

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Why is losing so hard? Why do I want to win at everything I do?

I think one word answers both of those questions! I'm competitive! Oh wait thats two words.

My competitive nature came at an early age. I'm a twin and my twin sister Megan is also very competitive! We were always competing in everything we did! Which I think is a good thing, because it made us both better at what we were doing! My dad is also very competitive, especially when were at the table, the ping pong table that is!

Well I'm just rambling on aren't I? This is kind of fun! Not!

JK I do actually kind of like this!

The touch of a child!

I've thought a lot about an experience I had a few months ago. I was living at home with my family in Utah. I decided not to attend the singles ward, but to stay in my families ward. I was called to be the primary teacher of the 9 year old group.

They were an amazing group of kids. Cade was the class clown that hardily ever paid attention. The few times he did I would ask him a question. I was amazed by his intelligent responses. Then there was Madisen and Mckel and they were both very smart and very spiritual. They knew the answer to everything and they were the ones that wanted to say every prayer. They goofed around a lot with each other and they are both very confident with who they are. Then there is Alyssa and Hunter who were both very shy and wanted to take part in everything that Madisen and Mckel did. They are both really special people.

Then there is Shyan. Shyan has a lot of physical elements. I actually don't remember exactly what she has, but she has to use a walker to get around. She is behind a bit in her growing up compared to the other kids in the class. Shyan always had a comment for everything and most of the time it was way off subject from what we were talking about. A lot of the time she talked about horses.

This one particular Sunday I was having a very difficult time. I just couldn't find a way to be happy. I was very down and sad. With primary music playing, I was sitting next to my Dad in opening excersizes when Shyan walked in. She slowly made her way past the row of three year olds and then 4 year olds and then 5 year olds and then 6 year olds, and then 7 and so on until she made it to our row. When she made it to our row she sat down right next to me. She threw her walker/crutches to the side.

The next thing that happened is the experience that I have been pondering upon a lot. As I was sitting there with my head down moaning and groaning inside Shyan put her arm around me and her head on my upper arm and gave me a big hug. It was the touch of a pure and christlike child. I felt an overwhelming sense of happiness and peace.

I feel like it was the Savior that was putting his arms around me through this little girl that can barely walk. The Lord works through those that are weak and simple! He does so because they will listen. I'm sure that Shyan was intune and she probably heard something like give Mark a hug. When she heard it she immediately did it. The touch of a child brought me peace and joy and I was able to feel the Saviors love.