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Homecoming Saturday turned out to be way better than anyone anticipated. We'll begin with the morning.
The parade was fun to watch, but more fun was when towards the end of it, there was a big 2-3 block gap in the floats, so Mike and I decided that since it was almost over and we were starving, we were going to go make brunch. As we started crossing the street, we realized we were decked out in our BYU game day garb like most people in the parade. With the big gap, people might think the parade was over, so, with a couple pieces of candy in hand, we marched right through the middle of the street as if we were part of the parade. People totally bought it. Little kids and families cheered as we walked by, we threw our candy out and an old man asked us what group we were with. We told him we were filling in space and he cheered out "Yay for space fillers!" It was awesome. Plus we actually did people a service. The floats ahead of us finished the parade before the next floats came around the corner a full 3 blocks back, but people saw us walking along telling people there was more, so no one left early and missed anything. It was a win-win situation.
After the parade we went home and made some brunch. One person, who lives two doors down, came. I made donuts, but not mom's recipe. I wanted to try an old fashioned cake donut recipe. I made a couple in the donut maker I had. They tasted pitiful. Then I heated up some lard, yes, real, 100% lard, and fried them. The difference in taste and texture was like night and day. I'll be returning the donut maker ASAP and buying up more lard in the near future. The old fashioned donuts were ok. They were a bit more dry than I had hoped, but I could probably fix that. We didn't ice them either and that would help. Once the 2 dozen donut holes and dozen and half full donuts I made are gone, I'll probably make mom's recipe. I do have some questions about it though before I make them.
I finished the donuts just in time for us to head over the pre-game festivities, where Mike and I each won a drawstring backpack, some Sonic coupons and a bunch of other coupons and candy and Y stickers and such. We put our winnings in our backpacks and headed to the game, where we witnessed a total turn around in BYU Football this year. Bronco did not wear his super high class polo. He wore his "Band of Brothers" shirt from a few years ago (that was the slogan for that year). He was all over the field in the pre-game drills, high-fiving players left and right and really being a part of the team. When the team runs out on the field, Bronco has always walked along the sideline to the player benches while the rest of the team runs. This time, he led the team and then halfway on the field he turned and tapped and high-fived all the players as they ran by. He was a totally different coach and I think it really affected our players. Our defense was stellar in the first quarter and Bronco did two things he hasn't done in years, if ever. He used his challenge on a play that should have been an SDSU fumble that we recovered. Not only did he challenge it, but he was standing on the field the entire time of the review pointing his arm the way the call should have been. That fired our defense up. Then, something I've never seen us do that I can remember, we did a fake field goal on 4th down and converted! If you look up the stats from that game, we had huge changes. Every team has put up 400 yards or so on us in the past few games. We've put up nearly none. Against the nation's top rushing teams, we've been slaughtered. SDSU is 24th in rushing and in the 1st half we held them to -3 yards and in the 2nd half only 53. Our rushers put up somewhere around 270 yards, setting some season highs as a team and many personal highs as players. We still have lots to improve on, but if we improve as much this week as we did in this last week, we will be in good shape to still have a 6-6 season, put up points on TCU and scare Utah. The win was great to have yesterday though.
To make things sweeter, our womens volleyball swept UVU (we swept SDSU the other night) and our womens soccer team beat Air Force. 3 homecoming games, 3 victories. I am content.
The parade was fun to watch, but more fun was when towards the end of it, there was a big 2-3 block gap in the floats, so Mike and I decided that since it was almost over and we were starving, we were going to go make brunch. As we started crossing the street, we realized we were decked out in our BYU game day garb like most people in the parade. With the big gap, people might think the parade was over, so, with a couple pieces of candy in hand, we marched right through the middle of the street as if we were part of the parade. People totally bought it. Little kids and families cheered as we walked by, we threw our candy out and an old man asked us what group we were with. We told him we were filling in space and he cheered out "Yay for space fillers!" It was awesome. Plus we actually did people a service. The floats ahead of us finished the parade before the next floats came around the corner a full 3 blocks back, but people saw us walking along telling people there was more, so no one left early and missed anything. It was a win-win situation.
After the parade we went home and made some brunch. One person, who lives two doors down, came. I made donuts, but not mom's recipe. I wanted to try an old fashioned cake donut recipe. I made a couple in the donut maker I had. They tasted pitiful. Then I heated up some lard, yes, real, 100% lard, and fried them. The difference in taste and texture was like night and day. I'll be returning the donut maker ASAP and buying up more lard in the near future. The old fashioned donuts were ok. They were a bit more dry than I had hoped, but I could probably fix that. We didn't ice them either and that would help. Once the 2 dozen donut holes and dozen and half full donuts I made are gone, I'll probably make mom's recipe. I do have some questions about it though before I make them.
I finished the donuts just in time for us to head over the pre-game festivities, where Mike and I each won a drawstring backpack, some Sonic coupons and a bunch of other coupons and candy and Y stickers and such. We put our winnings in our backpacks and headed to the game, where we witnessed a total turn around in BYU Football this year. Bronco did not wear his super high class polo. He wore his "Band of Brothers" shirt from a few years ago (that was the slogan for that year). He was all over the field in the pre-game drills, high-fiving players left and right and really being a part of the team. When the team runs out on the field, Bronco has always walked along the sideline to the player benches while the rest of the team runs. This time, he led the team and then halfway on the field he turned and tapped and high-fived all the players as they ran by. He was a totally different coach and I think it really affected our players. Our defense was stellar in the first quarter and Bronco did two things he hasn't done in years, if ever. He used his challenge on a play that should have been an SDSU fumble that we recovered. Not only did he challenge it, but he was standing on the field the entire time of the review pointing his arm the way the call should have been. That fired our defense up. Then, something I've never seen us do that I can remember, we did a fake field goal on 4th down and converted! If you look up the stats from that game, we had huge changes. Every team has put up 400 yards or so on us in the past few games. We've put up nearly none. Against the nation's top rushing teams, we've been slaughtered. SDSU is 24th in rushing and in the 1st half we held them to -3 yards and in the 2nd half only 53. Our rushers put up somewhere around 270 yards, setting some season highs as a team and many personal highs as players. We still have lots to improve on, but if we improve as much this week as we did in this last week, we will be in good shape to still have a 6-6 season, put up points on TCU and scare Utah. The win was great to have yesterday though.
To make things sweeter, our womens volleyball swept UVU (we swept SDSU the other night) and our womens soccer team beat Air Force. 3 homecoming games, 3 victories. I am content.
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