My little Rugby Girl

All deck out in her All Blacks Kit!

Me and my little Angel!

Night O Rugby

While Kel and Ari were at the mall shopping I mowed the lawn and caught up on some Rugby!
It's been a awesome year for my favorite teams. The Chiefs top the table in the Super 14 and the Leicester Tigers top the Guinness Premiership. The Tigers destroyed Bristol 73-3. This week they meet up with Bath(Jack and Sarah's old stomping grounds) for the Semi Finals.

Bath Rugby

Leicester Rugby

Alesana Tuilagi, Ari's favorite! He is from her village in Siumu!
The Chiefs are in South Africa on a 3 week tour. I don't work this weekend so I get to see all the games live! Can't wait!

Daddy's girl

My friend Terra did this photo shoot of Ari. She won't pose like this for me anymore. Thx Terra they turned out awesome!!!!

Amazing!

Mad Mad Skills....

None were with Him

Daddys Gymnast

Sivivatu show sinks Blues

Four tries to Chiefs wing Sitiveni Sivivatu has helped his side demolish the Blues 63-34 at Waikato Stadium in Hamilton.

The All Black winger was on fire, picking up a hat-trick in the first half and another in the second as the Chiefs notched their most commanding victory of the season.

With a full-strength team, the Chiefs were unstoppable and ran in nine tries to the Blues five in an action packed week six Rebel Sport Super 14 encounter.

The home side opened up the points scoring for the night when Sitiveni Sivivatu got fed an outside ball and slid over in the far corner, allowing first five-eighths Stephen Donald to add the extras to take an early seven point lead.

After a stolen lineout the blues hit back straight away when lock Ali Williams burst down the sideline before flicking an inside ball to fullback Isaia Toeava who scored.

Sivivatu was able to score his second of the night in the 13th minute when he stepped his way through the Blues backline to notch his 33th super rugby try, a new Chiefs record for the most tries scored for the franchise.

All Blacks centre Richard Kahui made the most of the mounting pressure and recovered a handy little grubber kick to score the Chiefs third of the night and boost the score out to a 21-8 with only a quarter of the game gone.

The Chiefs were also looking good in their set-pieces, particularly in the lineouts that have been a real Achilles heel of the side and not only secured their own ball but managed to steal some ball in the process.

With the set-piece looking solid, the Chiefs backline was able to show just how dangerous it was and allowed Sivivatu to again get around the outside and cause some carnage.

The 26-year-old All Black wing soon grabbed his third of the night when he stepped inside the covering tackle of Joe Rokocoko and crashed over the line. Donald's boot added the extras and put the Chiefs in a commanding position after already securing a bonus point.

Chiefs halfback Brendon Leonard soon caught the Blues forwards napping, who were probably wondering how so many tries were being scored against them, and found a gap near the sideline allowing him to sprint unhanded to score the fifth try for his side.

The visitors were able to add some respectability on the stroke of halftime when Toeava found his way through some average Chiefs defence and score his second. Jimmy Gopperth's kick was true from the sideline, taking the score at halftime to 35-15.

Things looked to have calmed down a bit early in the second half before Donald set up a beautiful move that saw speedy wing Lelia Masaga score his first of the night and add to the Chiefs already mammoth score.

The Blues weren't letting things get away from them however and hit back immediately when centre Anthony Tuitavake made the most of an overlap and strolled through. Gopperth kicked another conversion and took the score to 42-20.

Two quick and well-deserved tries to the Chiefs soon followed when blindside flanker Liam Messam showed some gas to pierce a gap and score before second five-eighths Callum Bruce got passed an outside ball and added his name to the point-scorers list.

With the score sitting at 56-20 with 20 minutes still to play, the Chiefs were sending out a loud and clear message that when all their players are healthy and playing they are a side that has the ability to absolutely punish quality teams.

The Blues were pushing back however and threatened the Chiefs line for a long time before replacement Jamie Helleur scored in the corner.

Sivivatu scored his fourth try of the evening before a last-minute try to Rokocoko, his second, ended the game with the final score 63-34.


Chiefs 63 (Sivivatu 4, Leonard, Messam, Kahui, Bruce, Masaga)

Blues 34 (Rokocoko 2, Tuitavake, Toeava, Helleur)

HT: 35-15

Fitting in vs. standing out

You won't have any trouble at all finding someone who can tell you how to fit in.

They can tell you what to wear to that restaurant or this conference or that funeral. It's not that difficult to figure out how to fit in. If fitting in is your goal, you should be sure to get great advice on how to do that.

Standing out, of course, is trickier. Stand out too much and you're a jerk or a fool.

Clothing is not the point. You have this choice to make in everything you do, from your career to the words you use in a sales letter.

The point: choose.

Are you doing this to fit in or stand out?

My App has taken on a life of it's own!

Schools are loving my new App! I am currently writing one for BlackBerry phones. My competitors are going to be scrambling!

Lovin Soccer

Ari loves Soccer! Right now she is just learning basic skills and I thought she would be pretty timid. When they had a little scrimmage she was very aggressive and had great ball control. Yep, I am a proud Dad!

Cheerleader for a day!

Ari was in total heaven. She was a future Roy High Cheerleader at a Roy/Bonneville basketball game. She did so awesome. She cheered with her friend Armani.

First Soccer Practice......Freezing

Practicing her goalie skills! She was pretty funny, all the why to practice she told us that you kick the soccer ball and don't touch it with your hands. When her coach put her in as goalie she told him off.


Soccer practice was awesome for the first 55 minutes then Ari realized how cold it really was. We have a lot of work to do. I am converting the backyard into a soccer field.

Why Mormons Build Temples

Ready to Play!

Ari is so excited to start Soccer. Her first practice is Tuesday!