New Calling . . .

So In case you hadn't heard, I got a new calling. Yes, that's right, me and my sparkling personality is now the second counselor in a singles ward bishopric. Don't worry, that is going to sound weird to me too. Anyways, we went from one week being the ward greeter in our married ward to this so you never know what is in store for you. We are excited though, our main objective is to be good examples of being married so we will see how that goes! In other news, I am still getting rejected left and right from internships, it is really getting fun I tell ya. Jane is enjoying her student teaching much more now with a new school and a new teacher. She is looking for jobs left and right so we hope that she can find something good, although she probably won't know anything until the end of the summer. Anyways, a great tidbit of information is with some of our tax refund, (thanks mom for all the help with it) we invested in an Ipod touch. It hasn't caused to many marital problems yet, we have managed to share well enough. But it is pretty neat.
I'd like to say that we have all been healthy, but unfortunately I have really been screwing that up. I have had a series of nose issues...apparently I have small nasal passages according to the ear-nose-throat specialist. So if I get the teensiest infection up there it is game over and I can't breathe. I would also like to thank Jane's sister Kate and her kids for dropping off a little hand-foot-mouth disease on my immune system. Sounds disgusting, well it was mostly just painful. A wicked sore throat mostly, although I did get a few sores on my hands. Luckily most of it is gone. Well this has been a most boring blog post but Jane has been bugging me to do something. Over the next few weeks we should have much more exciting things to share, including some much needed photos to dress this blog up with our camping trip to Zion's next week, Jane's graduation, and our California road trip after that. Until then...welp see ya later!

Mrs. Cox and other things

Well as you can see there has been a lack of posting. In a nutshell there was Christmas, more BYU football (domination of Oregon State) and the start of a new semester. This semester Jane is out of class, well sort of. She is student teaching now, so you can refer to her as Mrs. Cox, and it has been a bit of an adventure. She is teaching junior high in Lindon, and her teacher she is partnered up with is, well I guess you could say not Jane's type. She is an older lady that isn't quite as organized and on the ball as Jane is so you can imagine that is bit frustrating for her. One day the teacher just decided she wasn't feeling to good and had Jane take over...with no lesson plans or instructions. So she had to wing it for the day. She is surviving but it has been a bit of a roller coaster. Hopefully things are starting to adjust and Jane is learning a lot about the kind of teacher that she wants to be.
I am in another semester of school, this one is shaping up to be a bit busier than the last one. Last semester was a lot more theory and learning how to do things and this semester is a lot more actual application of those things. I am sad to see my reporting job at the newspaper for the football team come to an end but it was a great experience and a lot of fun for me. Jane made me a sort of scrapbook with all of my stories in it, although my very last story was published the first week of this semester so we will have to add it in.
Jane and I and the folks went to the car show and we saw lots of cool stuff. It's one of my favorite events of the year so of course I was excited. My favorites were the Subaru STI, the Hyundai Genesis and Genesis coupe and the big shocker, the Hyundai Equus. Basically its a Bentley for half the price. Jane wishes we could have the cash for a Audi A5 convertible, or a Lexus IS350 convertible (all we need is about 50,000) for either one. She also liked the Jeep Wranglers, of course it has to be the hardtop and the four door for practicality. And Jane realized that minivans provide the most room and comfort, and the most practicality, if your willing to sacrifice a bit of cool factor.
All in all, we are busier than ever and look forward to some vacation time. Camping, cruises, beach, anything will do.

26-23 Cougars in OT!!!

Wow what a game!!! Well for those that watched they know, and those that missed it, you missed out! The Cougars held a 20-6 lead for much of the game, but nearly collapsed then they gave up 14 in the fourth quarter letting the Utes tie it up. But in dramatic fashion as usual, the Cougars ended up getting the last laugh with Max Hall splitting two defenders and firing a laser to Andrew George for the winning touchdown in overtime, Now known as the "George is still running" play. The game had the high of a blowout, the low of almost blowing it, and the thrill of overtime, it was great fun. We were so glad that we could even make it since less than 24 hours before Jane and I were pretty much on our deathbeds. We have never thrown up so much in so little time. But we got healthy enough to go to the game and it was worth it. Aaaand as I predicted all season long, BYU even broke out the 1984 throwback uniforms in honor of the 25h anniversary of the National Champs. They looked pretty awesome, wish they wore them all the time. Yes, we rushed the field. In 2007 when the Cougars won on the infamous "Magic Happens, 4th and 18" play, Jane stayed back and didn't rush the field with me, but this time she was all over it. She even got smushed when some of the players came by. It was a party and a half and we had a great time. And now I have to shave my mustache...too bad. Go Cougars!!!

Oh and PS I tried to take the most disgusting and creepy picture of myself as possible just so everyone knows.

Rivalry Week and...Moustaches.

So finally the big game that we have all been waiting for is here. For those of you that don't know, I currently write for BYU's newspaper, covering the football team. A perfect job for the Cougarfanatic that I am. This week is the Utah game. With both teams having identical records, and nothing to play for other than bragging rights, this game always brings the most hype of the year. Needless to say we are excited. Even Jane, the up and coming Cougar fan is gearing up for the big weekend. She even made Cougar cupcakes this week (although my original suggestion was simply cake, which I prefer...) My stories are always on BYU's newspaper website, byunewsnet.com and occasionally they get posted on Cougarfan.com We all know my lack of love for Utah, so I am hoping for a good showing this year. A lot of leaders on the team are seniors so we hope they come out fired up and dominate. In other news, November has apparently become Movember...the month where you grow a moustache. I was recently informed of this so I had a delayed start, about a week ago, but it is coming along nicely. Jane is greatly opposed to this idea, but with other friends in on this, I can't back out sheesh. The professor I work for referred to it as a "molestache." Clever. Anywho, it is disgusting, but funny, and I have a goal to keep letting it go until December 1st. Happy Thanksgiving, and Go Cougars.

Cougar Run and College GameDay

As most of the Cox family does, Jane has been running these days. She ran in her very first 5k ever, the Cougar Run, homecoming weekend at BYU. After months of training, running up and down our neighborhood and valuable training tips from Dad, Jane not only reached but surpassed her goal. Basically she would like to be the fastest in the family, but since we have a "running snob" in the family, i.e., Joanne, she settled for a time of 26:57! Her goal was 28 minutes, but was worried she would have a hard time even finishing under thirty. I knew that she was going to blow her time away and sure enough she did. Now were looking for her to do another race, Dipsea anyone?

In other news, for those Cougar fans that didn't know, ESPN College Gameday come to Provo for the first time ever last week. The game didn't go so well, I won't even get into that, but the GameDay show was awesome! A few friends and I went to the show early and shoved our way up to about the tenth row of people so we were right in the action. Maybe you saw us on TV in the crowd. Lee Corso totally screwed us and didn't pick BYU, a move that payed off for him in the end, but Kirk Herbstreit did as well as Lavell Edwards of course. Cosmo was there and interrupted the broadcast with some unplanned antics on the stage. Apparently the ESPN producers were not thrilled with his actions but it made for some great TV as he stole the show. It was a blast to be there for GameDay and probably a once in a life time thing. Glad we went!

Nuggets the Fish

So we all know that I have been trying to wear down Jane on getting some sort of furry animal, e.g., a cat or a dog. That is far from happening but we are taking the necessary steps to get there. For an object lesson in a presentation I had to purchase two goldfish. The presentation went fine but we were left as caretakers of the two fish. We decided to name them Denver and Nuggets. (I have no connection to Denver, or the Denver Nuggets team, just thought it was funny.) However Denver didn't make it more than two days. Nuggets on the other hand is still going strong. He/She (do we really know how to determine that on goldfish?) is somewhat "Nemo-ish" in that Nuggets has an interesting back fin. Instead of dividing into two parts like this > Nuggets only has the top half of that so it looks more like this \. Maybe this is why Nuggets is still alive, he/she is a fighter! We are getting attached so hopefully Nuggets makes it a while. Oh, and yes Nuggets lives in an old water pitcher because we didn't have a fish bowl, and we are too cheap to buy one. Nuggets seems content with that.

In other news, I recently took a trip to San Diego to cover the BYU-SDSU football game. It was alot of fun to sit in the press box and have the full media experience. I was able to go and interview players afterwards and wrote the game recap for the BYU paper, here is the link.
I also got to hang out with my best friend Josh and meet his lady friend. Of course there was surfing and In-N-Out involved as usual. Sorry to Tami that I didn't make it to Temecula to the party or whatever it was, and that I also neglected Jo and Mark for the most part as well...the ocean and college football was the first priority...But we will see all of you at Christmas for a raging party and a half.

Super Dad!

Well I figure as the one child who saw Dad the most during this latest adventure that I would write a quick update. Obviously we all know that Dad just had coronary bypass surgery (six bypasses) a little over a week ago. Everything went great and Dad is making a speedy recovery. In fact, it seems he is making a record recovery! All of his nurses and doctors have been so impressed for one, that he looks as good as he does. We all already knew that. But he hasn't had any problems and is recovering very fast. He had to get up and go for walks with his nurses while he was in the hospital and he was much faster and went much further than they expected him too. Each time he went for his walks he went further and further too. He must have been nicknamed speedy by the nurses. He was out of the intensive care unit in less than 24 hours which is very impressive. Dad left the hospital at noon on Tuesday, just 4 days after the surgery! Now he is back home, and Mom is his full time nurse now! (way to go Mom) Not that he really needs a full time nurse because he is up and around walking and talking and doing things as he normally does, just getting tired a little quicker than he's used too. It seems that just a week after his surgery Dad is doing great. He goes to physical therapy during the week and he is days ahead of the schedule...Most patients walk 6 minutes on the treadmill and Dad is doing 12 and moving on to 15! Way to give it the Cox kick dad. Anyways the main reason for this post was to have a picture for visual confirmation that Dad is doing great and getting back to normal, and as you can tell his spirits are high and he is goofing off as usual. Way to go Dad!