This has been a sports-filled weekend. Travis finished filling out his March Madness bracket on Thursday, in which he has Louisville and Kentucky playing in the championship game. He made me fill out a bracket about a bunch of teams I know/care nothing about, so I based my decisions off of which school had the best uniforms, mascots, a cooler name and cutest players. #3 seed Syracuse is the winner! On Friday, Travis's brothers Matt and Aaron, came over to watch the games. Travis and I made dinner - chicken tenders dunked in Asian Zing sauce (I miss you, BWW's...), salad with carrots, cucumber, peppers, and cucumber ranch dressing, and homemade guacamole with one part mashed avocado to one part mashed peas (amps up the flavor, color, and nutrients to add peas. Also gives you 2x as much guacamole for less than half the cost).
After a RIVETING (sarcasm, but only a little) 6 hours of whiplash from switching from basketball game to basketball game, I hit the sack leaving the Mark boys to their male bonding. During that period, basically all of Travis's hopes of winning the Mark Family Tourney were squashed when Louisville surprisingly lost to Morehead (which, if I was creating my bracket purely on the names of schools, I may have had Morehead going all the way. Instead I listened to Travis who said there's no way a 3 seed would lose to a 14 seed...) So, Travis is basically done. To be honest, I never had a chance. Nicole is killing all of us in the 99.4th percentile, and that's that.
Yesterday, after sleeping in until almost 10, the grocery store, errands, and Travis's DB appointment, he made ME dinner! Broiled salmon and mashed potatoes - Dad, you would have been proud. We watched The Proposal (hilarious. And Travis admitted it was "a good movie." Ahem - not "chick flick." "Movie." The difference between legit and...not). We got ready and headed to Karson Wood's house for UFC 128. It's become such a tradition in our relationship, it seems silly now that I even tried to refuse to go because I didn't want to intrude on "boys night." It was really good to see him and Justin Smith again, and the fights were alright I guess. Some guy with corn rows and I swear is the older version of one of my preschool students beat some other ugly guy in the new-to-the-UFC Bantam Weight 135 lb. division. Then Jon "Bones" Jones fought Shogun Rua (who could very attractive minus the unibrow). Jones wore Shogun down, threw in some very cool back handed elbows and punches, which of course Justin complemented with jokes about how that's the same backhand he uses to hit his girlfriend with. Good ol' Justin. The fight was called by TKO, making Jones the new champion. Rashad Evans came into the octagon for some stupid WWE style drama courtesy of Joe Rogan: "Ooh you guys are such good friends and train together blah blah. You said a while ago you'd never fight but now there is nowhere else to go since you're the next contender for the title." To which Rashad replied, "Well I guess you should never say never!" I half expected some midget to jump in and start talking trash. Blah blah the end of that.
Today after church we keep trying to watch movies On Demand but our stupid DVR thingy is broken and Travis is talking to the Comcast support lady who keeps making small talk and calling him "Trav" (?) and we are trying to watch "The Blindside" (continuing our sports/Sandra Bullock weekend). Later, dinner with Teri and Spencer, maybe some homework, maybe a little lesson planning, probably another movie. Typical sunday.
Coming up: April 1st - Russia, Samara mission reunion with President and Sister Davydik, flying all the way from Belarus thanks to the Davydik fund that's been growing for a year and a half. Oh and President and Sister Bennett will be there too. Andy and Mikenna Winn are going to crash at our place that night and Travis is super giddy about it.
April 2nd - GOODBYE UTAH, HELLO ARIZOOOONA! I'm flying down to AZ for Challenger's Spring Break and will be there for a whole week. Travis is driving down the following Thursday to be there for the weekend. I'm SO excited to see my family and friends and enjoy the beautiful AZ weather. 13 more days!!!
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