Tyler & BYU Football at Pack Meeting!

This was Josh's first flag cermony!
Our cousin Tyler (who is on the BYU football team), came to Josh's Pack Meeting and talked to all of the boy's about what it takes to become a good athlete and about sportsmanship. He brought some of his teammates from BYU and they all took a few minutes and talked to the boy's. They did a great job!
After their talks they played a game of football with the boys. This was so fun, I mean how many 8-10 year old boys get to play football with REAL BYU football players!

The BYU boys were so cute and fun with the little boys. After tonight, Josh might just be the most popular guy around, for having such a cool cousin!

The Huddle

Tyler giving some pointers!

Josh & Tyler!

Here are some of the cub scouts with the BYU Players!

Have to LOVE Summertime!

Brad has a few weeks off this time of year and is a strong believer that EVERY minute should be spent on some kind of fun activity. Here is Halle, Josh and Brad hiking up at Sundance!
Bridal Veil Falls
We made it almost to the top!
Yesterday we hiked up to the Y. Funny story: At the bottom of the trail there is a sign with a map, I didn't look at it too closely I just saw something that said .17, so I told Matthew he should sprint up the trail to the Y because it was less than a quarter of a mile and it would be good conditioning for him. He took off running as the rest of us walked. At the first corner I saw another sign and realized the .17 was the distance to the first corner (there were 11 corners). Matthew ran almost the entire way! He said he kept thinking that he couldn't believe what a wimp he was being because he was so tired and it was ONLY a quarter of a mile!

Here are Halle and Josh walking from the bottom of the Y to the top.

When we finished the hike and got in the car Halle told us she "wished she hadn't gone with us because her entire body hurt, even her DNA"

Happy 4th of July!!!

The highlight of the parade (at least for us) was Halle cheering with the Timpview Cheerleaders! My sister, Lisa, is the cheer advisor so she invited Halle to be in the parade with them.
After the parade we went swimming at my parents and then Brad took all of the kids to the park to let off his rockets!

Later we went to Dave & Ali's house to let off our fireworks!

Halle is still scared of the fireworks, so she watched the show from the window!

Jordan, Tara & Lindsey

James & Abbie's Wedding!

One of our tennis players, James Ludlow, got married last week! We LOVE Abbie, so we were so excited for him. It was also great because some of his old team members came in town for the wedding, so we had a mini reunion. Here are Jonathon, Chippy, Abbie, James, Cassidy & Zach at the wedding dinner the night before the big day!

Two times, thirty minutes, the same Policeman!

I know this isn't a good picture, but I got pulled over 2 times this morning for speeding by the same policeman. Once on my way to Target and once on my way home. I almost had him convinced that OBVIOUSLY the speed limit is too low on that road. The first time he pulled me over, I told him that I had a lot of things to do and his taking my time wasn't helping anything and that if he didn't hurry I would have to "double speed" to get caught up on the day. So when he pulled me over on my way back from Target, I let him know that I was 15 minutes behind on the day because of the time he took earlier, so I had no choice but to drive faster. He actually openly laughed at me and told me this was a first for him, he said he had heard every excuse there was but never that it was HIS fault someone was speeding. He didn't even give me a warning the second time he just told me to slow down. So then, of course, I told him I needed his picture for our family blog!

Brad inducted into NCAA Tennis Hall of Fame

The Daily Herald had a huge (almost too big and embarrassing) front page article on Brad being inducted into the NCAA Tennis Hall of Fame. This was the picture that was on the front page.
They used 6 pictures in the article, I copied a couple of them and added here. This is Brad at the NCAA tournament in 1986.

This is a picture from the UCLA newspaper while Brad was in school.

And here is the article from the Herald:

Brad Pearce, once a local high school tennis star, made his way from Provo to UCLA after taking cues from his father. It was 1984 when Pearce matriculated in Westwood, bent on the idea that if pops can't beat 'em, might as well join 'em.
• HE TURNED DOWN THE COUGAR CAMPUS, where his father, Wayne, had been the men's tennis coach for nearly 20 years, and became the type of collegiate phenom that dominated for two years, went pro and was spectacular enough to be connected to the Los Angeles school again on May 20 with an induction into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association hall of fame.
Those days as a Bruin still bring a smile to Pearce, who now happens to have just finished another year coaching -- at BYU.
"I had a few great wins, a few good days in the sun," Pearce said. "I'm not retired on the beach somewhere with a bunch of Grand Slam trophies, but I think I found the next best thing: Still being on the court."
Doing that as a player, in college, was basically the last time the sport came so easy to him.
More succinctly, it was the final two years when tennis was the biggest concern in his life.
There were good days ahead, sure, as he made a living from tennis. He played nine professional seasons after being a phenom at UCLA, where he was a two-time first-team All-American, singles & doubles (1985-1986), making a name for himself in the prestigious Pac-10 Conference. (UCLA, USC and Stanford are still annual powerhouses.)
Tennis trekked him to every continent but Antarctica -- a "bucket list" trip, he says, that will be made sometime -- and he experienced the cheers and fame of playing on the hallowed Centre Court of Wimbledon.
That was 1990, his finest hour just four years after leaving UCLA. The world looked bright again, his focus pure, as Pearce met Ivan Lendl in the most famous stadium in the sport.
Pearce's mother died shortly after he turned professional, which derailed the selfish focus required to reach the pinnacle of a sport like tennis. Pearce had also started a family with his wife, Cindi, whom he met in high school.
The match in England against Lendl was a coming-out party for his game. And it happened on July 4 as well, meaning a national television audience at home could turn on NBC and see an American patriotic tribute to a man who is still one of just 16 Americans to reach the quarterfinals in the grass-court tournament in the past 23 years.
Watch the footage, and yes, that's Jimmy Connors and Dick Enberg raving about the opportunity created by a baby-faced tactician from some place called Provo, Utah.
Pearce wound up narrowly losing the first two sets, then took the third on two of the best points of his life. He hit a running volley from about mid-court to stun Lendl -- at that time, to his sport what Michael Jordan was in his prime of basketball -- and then hit a beautiful backhand serve return to take the set, 7-5.
Pearce has a seven-minute DVD compilation of that day, but still can't stomach watching the whole match. He lost the fourth set, at one point feeling that a bad line-judge call turned momentum. (Video review was still just a twinkle in tennis's eye.)
Pearce wound up reaching a best ranking of No. 71 and was also capable in doubles. He would win four ATP Tour titles.
He was inducted into the college hall of fame recently, joining a prominent list of Bruin alumni like Connors and Arthur Ashe -- two names that made Pearce's decision to go to Westwood an easy one. By then, his father had retired from coaching.
Now Pearce gets the best of two worlds, he says. He is the head coach who has followed in his father's footsteps and also made a sport for his six children. (The Pearces' son John played No. 1 singles as a freshman this season for Timpview and advanced to the Class 4A state semifinals.)
And his Cougar teams also routinely play at UCLA, where he is still friends with Billy Martin, the Bruin head coach who was an assistant when Pearce matriculated.
An annual joy for Pearce is to hit Westwood Village with his current teams and take them to the same cookie shop where he would get his chocolate-chip fix when he was their age. Cookies then were four plus a milk for a buck. Now, it's still three and a wash-down, for only a quarter more.
Pearce had to be removed from the college game 15 years before his former coach at UCLA, Glenn Bassett, could nominate him. Pearce went to College Station, Texas, for the induction ceremony.
"All I can say was that it was a humbling experience," Pearce said. "To be connected with some people that, the overriding feeling is one of humility to be included. There are so many people involved that I looked up to, just like a lot of tennis players do."

Happy Graduation Tara!!!!

Last Friday Tara graduated from Timpview High School!!! We are so proud of her and what she accomplished in high school. She graduated with a 4.0 gpa and received the principal's award for outstanding accademics, leadership and service!
The Accappela choir sang at graduation! Tara is somewhere in there.

Here is Tara with all of our family members that came and sat through a LONG graduation ceremony! Thanks everyone for coming.

Tara with some of her friends!

I was on the committee for the all-night party at Timpview to celebrate graduation. Here Brad and I are checking people out before they can come in, we had to make sure they were Timpview graduating seniors.

We made it home about 5 am, after a really successful, fun party!