UCLA LOST!?! To BYU!?!

There are a few things in this world that just should never happen, things like snow in California (Southern California, a.k.a. the real California), Hillary Clinton being elected (to anything), midgets playing in the NBA, and a few other things that just kind of shake the bedrock of the foundation of our whole society, and the way that the world should work. For UCLA fans this happened last night in Las Vegas, when BYU beat UCLA 17-16. Now in all honesty, this was not a shock, even hard core UCLA fans kind of knew that we didn't have a chance in the world of winning this game, BYU just had a better team, but that didn't make the loss any easier to take, especially since BYU had the audacity to give us the one thing that would hurt us the most: hope. Not only did they flaunt their superiority by not even attempting to score in the second half, and by fumbling the ball right before the half giving UCLA an easy touchdown, they rubbed it in by allowing UCLA to score a 50-yard field goal, bringing the game within one. They did all of this knowing full well that they would be able to block our field goal, even though our kicker had only missed a couple the entire season. To make it worse, they let us get well into field goal range with only a couple of seconds on the clock, and with the knowledge that if we made the field goal we would win. And while I applaud their courage, I am slightly appauled that they would do something so cruel. But in BYU's defense, it did make the game a lot more interesting than if they would have just destroyed them. Anyways, to all you cougar fans out there (I know you're reading this), rock on, BYU proved that they deserved to be ranked, and hopefully they will start out in a decent ranking next year, rather than having to fight their way back from the bottom like they have to do every year. Even when they weren't playing their best football, they beat a Pac-10 school, who always seems to get the benefit of the doubt in the rankings, even though they're really a volleyball, basketball, softball, track, lacrosse, water polo, soccer, etc. school, not a football school. Just a request though, if you are going to beat us next year, at least beat us soundly, so that we don't get all excited that we might win, only to have our hopes and dreams dashed to pieces by the large forearm of one of your big Samoan linemen.

The "Festival of Lights" at the Wild Animal Park

Volleyball News!!!

Well, as some of you may or may not have heard from the ridiculously less popular blog (http://wheelerfamilyblog.blogspot.com) that my parents set up, my dad's team won the championship for the Fountain Valley City League that he was playing in. You may also have heard that my dad (the ball hog) led the team in kills ...whoopie. But I bet what you didn't hear about was the gross misconduct and discrimination that kept them from playing the best player on their team...ME! For some reason my dad thinks that it is a requirement that you be able to walk to play volleyball, and because of that ridiculous reason, yours truly sat on the bench and watched them demoralize the other team. Now I love a good volleyball game as much as the next 6 month old, but honestly, who in their right mind would sit me!?! I'm beginning to doubt my dad's coaching abilities. They're just lucky that they won, or my dad would never have heard the end of it. Anyways, as a support to my cause, I have posted here pictures of me in my volleyball warm-ups, and I invite all of you loyal fans to leave comments, to let my dad know what a dummy he is for not playing me. Thank you for all of your support, I hope that next season I have some better news to share with you.

Christmas Pictures

Dear Adoring Fans,
I apologize for the lateness of this post, I know how difficult this must have been for you to go almost the whole month of December without Christmas photos of everyone's favorite Jacob. I have talked to my IT staff, and after giving them quite the whipping, they promised (after regaining consciousness) to never do it again. I appreciate the massive amouts of email, and fanmail that was sent in regards to my IT department's lack of updated postings, and your dire need for pictures of yours truly. So, without further delay, I present to you, what you've all been waiting for: Christmas Pictures of ME!!!

I've got a new cousin!!!

For those of you who had not heard, there is now one more person lucky enough to be able to say that they're related to me. My Aunt Ashley just gave birth to an adorable (I haven't seen her yet, but since she is related to me, I think it's a pretty safe bet) baby girl on the 6th of December.

My First Turkey Bowl!

Today was my first Thanksgiving, which for a baby is not all that exciting, basically I just got to watch people eat, and have all the visiting relatives tell me and Mom and Dad how adorable I am, which is not all that out of the ordinary. However, there were some cool parts, I got my first taste of pumpkin pie (Dad snuck me a piece when Mom wasn't looking), and I got to see my first Turkey Bowl! Dad scored 3 touchdowns, which I think amazed him as much as anyone else. He did have an advantage though, everyone knew that he sucked at football, so they left him open a lot. Give me a couple of years, I'll show the old man up!

Evie's Volleyball Banquet

This is a ceremony that completely baffled me. Evie's whole team got together to celebrate a winless season. Celebrating a coach so dumb that she didn't even play my Aunt Evie very much, and whose second string consistantly ouprfomed her first string, and yet remained the second string. Oh well, if I were the coach I would have doe better. But it was fun to watch, aunt Evie looked real pretty, and hearing the awards ceremony was pretty funny, since, with the exception of Brooky and Thuy, all of the awards given out were totally bogus. And, of course, who could forget Uncle Bryan, showing up in a t-shirt and jeans, when it was supposed to be semi-formal, that guy is awesome!

My First Halloween!

So last night was my first Halloween, and Mom and Dad took "me" trick-or-treating, and, as you can see from the pictures, I was very excited. It was fun though, we went with Aunt Chelsea and Grandma Campbell, and we got to see Aunt Wendy, Uncle Murray, Jack Sparrow... or was that Grant?... Hanna Montana...I mean Calli, and Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Smith. I think it will be more fun next year, when I can actually eat the candy, mom will only let dad give me little tastes of it, how lame is that? It's cool though, the bee outfit was warm, I got to suck my thumb, and roll around while everyone told me how cute I was, pretty typical night... except for the bee costume.

Halloween at Disneyland

Since Mom and Dad have the passes, we snuck me into Disneyland, disguised as a Bee and took some pictures. With all of the overgrown bugs and animals already there, I think they just thought that I was part of one of the shows, I mean can you blame them, look at me, if you were a Mouse with a giant head, wouldn't you want me in one of your shows? The bottom picture's pretty scary huh? Dad's still trying to figure out how to use a camera, but it looked so Halloween-esque I had to include it on here...Spooky!

Halloween Party Pictures!

So I went to my first halloween parties on Saturday. I was, as you can see, a Baby Bee. My Dad decided that he would use having no teeth as a funny costume accessory, and went as an Idahoan...I mean as a red-neck. Mom went as an 80's weirdo, and we just had a lot of fun. I hope you like the pictures.

Love,

Jake

Meeting Cousin Logan

My First Ducks Game