Beavers Win Bowl Game

On Friday December 29th, the Oregon State Beaver Football team played the Missouri Tigers in the 2006 Sun Bowl in El Paso Texas. We weren't fortunate to attend the game but we were able to watch the game on the new television (42" Plasma) and also in HD (High Definition) .

The game was an emotional roller coaster. Towards the beginning of the fourth quarter, when the Beavers where trailing by 14, Joo Lin would later admit that she thought that I was going to be in a horrible mood for the rest of the day and she was trying to figure out how she was going to deal with me. Luckily the Beavers came back and with less than 30 seconds left in the game they scored a touchdown. We were screaming and jumping up down (luckily the crazy anal neighbor lady was at work) and celebrating the score. All they needed to do was kick the extra point and then the game was going to go into OT. The Tigers would end up calling a timeout, trying to ice Alexis Serna, but when the timeout was over, the Beavers were lined up for the two point conversion. The Beavers were going to attempt to win the game instead of attempting the point after touchdown (PAT). I joked with Joo Lin that they might go for the two instead of tying the game, she asked me what I would do and I told her that I would play it safe and kick the PAT. Matt Moore (QB) hiked the ball, and in slow motion, handed the ball off to Yvenson Bernard (RB).....HE SCORED!!!! THE BEAVERS WIN, THE BEAVERS WIN!!!!! 39-38

We were hooting and hollering, I told Joo Lin that I wanted to run around the apartment complex naked and she advised against it. Smart decision that was.

P.S. We updated the Beaver bathroom (and Joo Lin thinks it looks fabulous!)

Merry Christmas to Kelley

I love that we opened our Christmas gifts to each other early! It was such a fun time. I got Kelley flannel pajama pants, an OSU polo shirt (he’s quite dashing in it), an OSU sweatshirt for the rainy days, a beard trimmer (boring), and.....

(drum roll please)

…. a Bluetooth earpiece. Not necessarily for the intention of using his phone, but rather his Playstation 3. Yes, the wonderful wife that I am, I buy him gaming accessories because he loves it (and he still pays attention to me!).

In his stocking, he got the movie “Benchwarmers.” We think it’s hilarious. The funniest part about it, though, is this: we watched it Christmas Eve with his mom and sister. They missed the beginning so we started it again and Kelley laughed just as much the second time through. What a nut!

Jasmine got hurt :(

Jasmine (our Honda Civic Hybrid) got hurt Saturday, December 16th. We were out and about, making a stop at Costco to pick up a few things. I was driving (boo!), pulled out of the parking space, stopping to wait for a break in the cars so I could pull into the main driveway in the parking lot. A lady (driving a bit erratically, I might add, since she was stopped but then felt the need to cut off a car and pull towards us) suddenly pulled into our parking lane. I noticed that she was extremely close to Jasmine and as a driver facing another driver, which is never a good sign. Suddenly I heard the cars scrape. I yelled (to nobody) "what are you doing?!” Kelley immediately jumped out of the car and there we were with our cars touching.

I hear the other driver's voice say "she is kind of crooked..." but a witness (thank goodness!) saw everything and then gave a statement. The blue car (Jasmine) was completely stopped, the white car pulled too close when there was plenty of room. Therefore, the other driver is at fault. She then admitted it was her fault.

Kelley assessed the situation to get us out of the parking lane as we were blocking traffic. I pulled forward; we both parked in spots, and exchanged information.

We got a couple estimates and it's about $500 worth of damage. We are now trying to get it worked out and repaired. The other driver is giving us grief because she wants to pay out of pocket but only use her shady, out-of-his-garage friend. We think not. Stay posted for the results of the drama.

Congratulations Cougars

Way to go BYU Cougars! Joo Lin's team killed the ducks! BYU 38 - Oregon 8.

Christmas Comes Early

Christmas came early at the Rice residence this year. After hearing that our plans for our anniversary got canceled we decided to cheer each other up by opening our presents early. It was fun but everyone is saying that we are silly for not waiting. We just couldn't.

I bought Joo Lin a new watch. She loves it. She is randomly telling me the time throughout the day. It's extremely cute when she does it! She also got some cool socks, she loves socks. I also got her the game Apple's to Apple's. She also got that for me but it was for my stocking so I hadn't unwrapped it yet. We both got a good laugh about that. Don't worry, it wasn't a laughing fit.

I will let her tell everyone what she got me. I am trying to have her make more entries in our blog so I will give her the assignment of writing about what she got me. She also has one more writing assignment too, it's about Jasmine :(

Well, I wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday. Merry Christmas everyone!

1st Anniversary

We had our anniversary this past weekend. I had a wonderful weekend lined up for the two of us but we ran into some bad luck. I got a call Saturday morning after running some errands from the Hotel in Seaside and they said that they informed us that they still didn't have power because of the Great Wind/Blackout Storm of 2006. Since they didn't have power, they canceled our reservations. I broke the news to Joo Lin and we decided to stay home and had a relaxing weekend.

I had planned to take Joo Lin up to Astoria for the day and we were going to take part in a "Goonies" tour that I had put together. I found a couple of websites that said where everything was and I was going to go off of that for our tour. We were also going to see places from "Kindergarten Cop", "Short Circuit", "Free Willy", and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III". It would have been awesome!!!

Hopefully when the weather clears up we can take a trip out to Astoria and hang out in the Goon docks together.

Wedding Website

We slacked off on the wedding website but it's up and running again with some new additions. The website will soon have some pictures from the wedding and also some pictures from the honeymoon. So please check it out if you get a free minute. Our family would really appreciate it.

If you forgot where the wedding website was, it can be found at
http://www.kelleyandjoolinforever.com/

The Great Wind / Blackout Storm of December 2006

Oh, the drama! Windy and rainy yesterday, we knew it was coming... total blackness. Around 7:00 pm in our little area of Corvallis, with Kelley in his office and me in the living room, it happened. All power went out. I called for Kelley; he found the flashlight and came to find me. We lit all our candles and... realized we were hungry. So off we went to find food. We thought the other side of Corvallis or Philomath might have somewhere up and running. Nope, everywhere was pitch black. There were limbs, trees, and signs down. Back home Kelley thought of the great idea to use our propane BBQ to cook up some chicken. So, don't worry - we didn't starve :) While we ate chicken, we played the game of Life and had a grand old time.

Sometimes I tend to have laughing fits. Kelley times them, silly guy! Somehow Kelley brought up the idea to take a photo of the "great wind storm / blackout of 2006" and said it would be a black photo. It apparently hit my funny spot because I laughed hysterically. I could picture it in my head and it was the funniest thing ever. Oh, the silly times we have.

Christmas at the Rice's

Joo Lin and I went to a U-cut Christmas Tree farm on Saturday and we picked out and cut down the perfect Christmas tree for our family. It barely stands 5 feet tall, so it is a cute little Christmas tree.

We decorated it with our red and silver ornaments and we added a few touches of our own. We purchased a Disneyland ornament on our honeymoon with the intention of having it on our tree so that we could remember our trip each year.

That was the first ornament that we put on. Also notice that there are presents under the tree. They are all for Joo Lin. I don't think I was good this past year.

December 17th 2006

So it has almost been a year since we got married. How the time flies.

Joo Lin and I have decided that we need to get our blog back up-to-date because we want people to know how we have been and this is the easiest way to accomplish this.

Joo Lin's favorite thing to do these days is read other family's blogs, so that is the motivation behind this.

So please be patient with us and check back often for more updates.

205 days!!

Well, they say the first 205 days are the roughest but if you can make it past those you will make it forever. Ok, maybe i made up that saying but I thought that it would be funny to say.

Joo Lin and I just got back from North Bend. I took her to my ten year reunion and showed her of to all the old friends. I think everyone thought that she was adorable and cute!

I have been told by many that I need to update some photos so I will be posting some in the near future.

Kelley

Honeymoon Candids

Temple Pictures

Here are some cute pictures that everyone might like to see. There will be more coming soon.

Wedding DVD

I just received an email from Aunt Bubbs and the DVD of the video of the wedding weekend is on its way to my mother. If you would like a copy of this please email me at J.Kelley.Rice@gmail.com and I will get one sent out to you once I receive them. She said that it turned out really cute and I can not wait to see it. Thanks for all your hard work Aunt Bubbs for making our weekend special.

I am planning on compiling another CD/Dvd of all the pictures that I have and have gotten from others and I will include that once it is finished.

Disneyland

Here is another picture that everyone might like. It is from Disneyland.

Enjoy