Dear Phelps Fans - You should have known, but if you didn't....

It's a day for all to celebrate!!! Because we are all PHELPS FANS!!! WOO-HOO!!!

So I turned to this month on my amazing Michael Phelps calender and found something to look forward to. You'll never believe it...

TODAY IS MICHAEL PHELPS' BIRTHDAY!!!

So in honor of Phelps from the ultimate Phelps Fan I send out a special Happy Birthday!!!



It's time to celebrate Phelps Fans, it's time to celebrate!

WE WON!!!

Sooo...I bet you all are wondering, "WHAT HAPPENED???"

I got sick! So last the fourth game win was supposed to be me all sarcastic about the refs and the abc announcers. Let's save some time...I hate them. Now that that's summed up. Fisher rocked that game and I love him to death.

Sunday! I worked... :( I missed the entire game and was happy to hear that we won the NBA Finals. Does this sound anti-climatic? That's how it felt to me. I was happy, but I didn't experience it with them so...I was an outcast and felt stupid.

THEN I watched it last night (yeah for MOXI...like TIVO, but so much better!) I couldn't help my emotions. I was ecstatic, proud, joyful...etc. etc. etc! At the end of the game during the celebrations I even teared up some. I KNOW!!! I'm a dweeb, but it is sooo awesome and I love the Lakers and I love the game. It's totally the best and I love everything right now! Perma-grins to go around!

So the Lakers are the best and are much loved and mean more to me than I thought. I wish I could watch the parade, but I have to work again. That's okay, we have MOXI! AWESOME!!!

If people had sent pictures we would also have a commemorative Lakers NBA Champions DVD, but you guys aren't as committed or something...I dunno.

Game 3 - Not Meant to Be

Here's what happened. The Lakers did not make their free throws. That's ridiculous! Come on!

I do love however that the confetti came down for the Magic's "win" with 0.2 still on the clock. They had to wait for all of that presumptuous confetti to be cleaned up before the Magic went for their final free throws and put them down for the win. At least they can make their free throws. Bah!

The game was close and the Lakers were able to stay close the entire game and only lost by four (108-104). If they had made those free throws...

Moving on. Some of my favorite things that have come from these finals are commercials. It's great that we don't just have presumptuous confetti, but also presumptuous commercials! Both Nike and Vitamin Water were counting on the Cavaliers facing off against the Lakers in the finals pitting LeBron against Kobe! Nike has some delightful puppet commercials that alternate as to which player teases the other. The best is when LeBron doesn't make it and is left alone with asthmatic Dez. Check it out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtzQ0eXVoJo&annotation_id=annotation_875250&feature=iv

You can then watch the rest after that by following the links on youtube. You should, because it just gets more and more delightful. YAY!


Now Vitamin Water had a "who is better" contest with LeBron versus Kobe. It is quite dramatic and pretty awesome to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ilXA1bHg8

Then LeBron and his team don't make it and Dwight Howard does! What are they to do? Do a mocu-mercial with Dwight Howard, Duh!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wi1U4supHk

It's delightful and a pretty clever way to correct their oops. Congratulations Vitamin Water.

Despite our loss tonight everything is good. It's just one game. And the only one that matters right now is game 4. Moving on to bigger and better things.

The Candyman Can!

Who can take a sunrise
Sprinkle it in dew
Cover it in chocolate
and a miracle or two?

The candyman
The candyman can
The candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good


Lamar Odom, our beloved candyholic set the pace today for the Lakers. He contributed in every way on the court and it paid off today. Woot-de-woot. So eat some Gummy LifeSavers in his honor. YAY!

At half-time we learned Trevor Ariza's story and it's a sad one. His younger brother suffered a tragic accident and died when Ariza was only ten. He says he can feel his brother with him always and even named his, now one-year-old, son after his brother Tajh. Such a good story. I love the feeling/idea of those who passed on before us celebrating with us, proud of us and watching over us.

It was a close game and even went into overtime. Luckily our boys got into the game and closed it, giving the audience free tacos, with 101-96. This was a happy house. We were so nervous and Heather said that she was sweating more than Kobe at the end of a game. Eww...



At the end of this game, as he made his way to the locker room, Kobe met up with his girls and playfully wiped sweat off onto them. GROSS!!! Hahaha! What a Dad.

Actually, we looked pretty good at the end of the game. Game faces still on because this isn't the end. We've got two more games to win...

Game 1 Finals - 100-75 LAKERS!!!

Lakers won! No duh! ;) Our team is amazing. Kobe Bryant had his game face on from the start.

How to get Kobe's game face:
1. Have a serious intense gaze. See the prize in front of you.
2. Slight furrow of brow. Not angry, but intimidating.
3. Drop jaw and jut it forward. Your bottom teeth must stick out as far as you can (Don't hurt yourself).



Now here's a question I have for Jameer Nelson...Do you not know that a mouth guard goes inside your mouth? My Mom thinks that it was too big for your mouth and she feels sorry that it doesn't fit. I think that you should be kicked off the court if you allow your mouth guard to hang out all nastily like that.

So basically, I love the Lakers. I think they are the best. Kobe Bryant was definitely the player of the game being all amazing and whatnot. LOVES IT!!!

Lakers family forever and always!!!

Laker Girls!


So this is for real! The Lakers made it to the NBA finals!!! YAY!!! I am so excited. It's the best.

After finishing first during the season the Lakers made me nervous through every game of the post-season. There were ups and there were downs, but the only thing that is ultimately important is that they triumphed through every single series and Heather and I got to see them trounce Utah, which was delightful. Mom didn't like us missing church, but hey, we made it to the first hour-ish. (Dad would have said it was a-okay. What am I saying? He would have come with us!!! Woot-de-woo!)

Here's the deal. We want to make something to remember this momentous occasion. How? With your help of course! We want everyone (and I mean ALL YA'LL) to send us pictures of you celebrating the Lakers in team gear or purple and gold attire (No blue, come on people, they're play Orlando Magic!) You can get super creative or just snap your smiling face. What we are going to do is make a video of all this, put it to awesome music and play it at our "Lakers just won the finals" party. Of course Heather and I could just make it completely of us, but where is the fun in that?

I think this is going to be a wonderful finals and we are going to win. President Obama was even quoted picking the Lakers in 6. This is serious. I'm so excited. Watching it gives me chills and I'm sooo excited. It's so beautiful. So put on your purple and gold, game faces, beads, purple shoes because we are in it to win. (Or you could eat tons of candy in support of Odom's sugar addiction. Sounds tempting, doesn't it.) Watch it because these boys are hot, sexy and play a beautiful game.

GO LAKERS!!!