Aloha from Coach Larson! Can you tell I needed a vacation?

Hello you Wonderful Ladies! This whole blog thing is going to let me show you a whole different side of myself! Maybe Sandy, Hollie, Jordyn, Asumi and Julie know a little bit of my craziness from driving with me through the years, but the rest of you, might be a little shocked!

As many of you know, Thad and I, Coach Nixon, Chris Nixon her nephew, Ray and Panda her brother and sister-in law and Darren our friend, went to Hawaii at the beginning of May! We were there for 10 days and had so much fun! This is a little video of our first night on Waikiki Beach. We were getting our new dive masks ready for the week's adventures, and you have to rub toothpaste on them to prepare them not to fog on you when you are diving or snorkeling! Coach Nixon interviewed me and asked me about the first day of our trip. Maybe it's because I hadn't slept much, or due to my need of a vacation...Missing you all!

We had a super fun time! We went to Pearl Harbor, The Polynesian Cultural Center, The Laie Temple, Hukilau Beach (where we held a cute Octopus that a diver caught!), Waikiki (surfing), and then we headed to the big island of Hawaii on the Kona side where we scuba dived, kayaked, hiked through the Volcano's lava tubes, snorkeled, AND DIDN'T EVEN GET SUNBURNED! It was fabulous. Feels like a dream now. A great dream. As you can tell from our faces, we didn't want to wake up!

Now we are busy with camp details! We start on Monday! We have 80 little kids coming that want to grow up and be just like you all! We'll teach them how to jump. And how to run. And how to shoot. And then just like you, they'll dream and dream and practice and practice, and before they know it...they're in college, with the last 4 years of their career to go. The WNBA is always an option, and so they keep dreaming. I'm dreaming about the time I'll get to see ya again!

I love you all! Remember that Jordyn and Robyn both had surgery. Give them a call of cheer!

If you want to come back...I can get you in the Stadium of Fire performance with a guest FOR FREE!! Call for info. They want you to go out dressed in your uniforms and perform for the crowd of 65,000 people. You will have floor seats for the whole firework show and you can bring a guest. They asked UVU before anyone for their athletes! So awesome! They would like atleast 8 players from our team! Please call me this week if you and a guest would like Stadium of Fire tickets and FAME!!!

Love ya!
Coach Larson

From Little Asian☆”

Hey, Guys! How are you doing??

Little Asian, Asumi wrote down this Blog for the first time!

I miss you soooooooooo much!!!This picture is when we went to Coach Nixon's house for the Senior BBQ party .


Oops!! This picture is missing one player!


I don't wanna miss our great hero !

Robyn Fairbanks!!

How's your summer going??

I miss you guys so much since the BBQ party.

During this summer, I've stayed in the Village with Kayla and Katie (who is susie, Kim and Robyn's old roommate.)

I'm taking summer school to improve my English.

Today, I heard from Kayla that Kim's coming back to the Village on the first of June.

I'm so excited !!

But Kayla is going to Howai so I'll miss her and sad.

Kayla and I have been training at AMP every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Dave said hi to you guys, by the way!!

We train really hard and enjoy doing this.

Kayla is super fast and she beats me every time!!

Hopefully, little Asian is getting stronger!!!

I'm going back to Japan on July 17th through August 24th.

I'll be going to one of the UT (University of Takushoku) basketball pratices.

I'm gonnna take some UT girls' pictures!!

I hope you guys are having a great summer!!

Hope everything is going well and let's get ready for the great coming season!!!

Asumi

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Lauren's summer so far.

Hey Everyone,

(So my computer is being kind of lame with the whole picture uploading, but as soon as i figure it out i'll get some pics up!)
Thanks Blake for putting together an awesome blog for us, the technically challenged. I figured it was time someone else added to the blog to give your fingers a little break ; ).
It has really been great soaking up these California rays! I love the sunshine and sometimes wonder what motivated me to move to Utah, j/k. Cohiba and I have gotten to do a lot of catching up! He is so cute and I love him so much! I really missed him and now we get all the time in the world together, we have been having a blast running down by the American River. He won't fetch on land, but throw that stick out in the water and that pup is all over it, poor boy though is a little retarded and forgets where the stick goes so i have to throw rocks at it to make a splash so he can find it, sometimes i just have to throw a new stick all together.
Julie and Blake's California trip looked so fun that i just had to have a SoCal trip of my own! I took my little sister, Beanie (Coralyn) down to her dad's house in Fullerton then went to my Best friend's Jamie-Girl in Santa Monica, It was so nice to see her! She has the cutest cats! They are so big and fat, they sound like bowling balls when they go down stairs. It was so nice there, the weather was perfect, I got to run along Venice Beach the next morning which was beautiful! I missed the Ocean so much! The darn seagulls in Utah always throw me off! Haha, ever so often a bum would stop me and ask me my height then try to get close to measure ... that is when i would start running again with a side-step just long enough to say goodbye.
Jamie-girl and i walked along main street for a little while looking at shops, we found one shop that was absolutely adorable! I just wish i were rich and could have bought the whole store to share all its secret treasures w/ my team. It would have been the perfect attire for our Hawaii Trip! (So excited for that P.S.! I think my mom already has her plane ticket!)
Friday and Saturday were a lot of fun too! I went to Diamond Bar where my Aunt and Uncle live in this really nice gated community. My uncle Larry's birthday was on friday so we all had dinner at their country club, on the way to dinner we saw Snoop Dogg standing on his driveway with some friends, of course he lives 2 houses down from my Aunt and Uncle, who else? haha. Dinner was really nice! We all had to wear dresses and sports coats, the waiter pulled my chair out for me and pushed it in while i was sitting down! Then i tried to scoot my chair in even more, but of course i had the table leg and hit the table with the chair shaking all the dishes on the table!
When we went back to the house for cake and presents my uncle larry (he is a rather tall fellow w/ quite the lung capacity) not only blew all the candles out with one breath, but blew all the nuts off the top of the cake all over the table. My Aunt Nancy's mom was brushing walnuts off her lap for 5 minutes! It was really rather hilarious. Later that night we had fun cousin bonding time! It had been such a long time since i had gotten to spend the night with both Alex and Jessica, so we popped in a chick flick and chatted while making a hair-braiding and Massage Train, Except i only got to be in the front a few short times, because they both wanted to take advantage of my massaging and back scratching expertise, thank you Robyn, Blake, Mari, Julie, Betsy, Susie, Kayla, and Veva (last year) for always giving me the opportunity to practice!
Saturday was my cousin's bridal shower, we played some fun games and had a lovely lunch! You bet i went back for seconds! Larissa, Jessica's sister, is the Maid of Honor (still want to see that movie) so she had to make the rehearsal bouquet out of the ribbons, which all of us under 40 had never heard of before.
Saturday afternoon I drove to Corona to spend time with my grandparents on my mother's side. They have a lot of Cats! They show them and they are in magazines and are very well manicured! I asked Marti how many cats they owned at the moment, she said she didn't know but probably just over 20! They really are fun cats though will the most hilarious names such as "Marvelous nite 4 a moon dance" "Epilepsy" and "Aja" They were so fun! I had such a wonderful visit with them! They are really not like grandparents at all! I felt like i was talking to some old friends who I had not seen in a while, we talked for hours. Marti shared her Secret Sauce recipe with me for artichoke dip, oh it is to die for! LOVE IT! I really can't get over how much fun i had with them! I laughed so much and actually miss them right now! Who knew grandparents could be so cool!
After our visit that night i went out with my friend Anthony, i had not seen him in like 2 years so it was fun, we pretty much just walked around and talked the whole time about all sorts of fun things, little did i know the freeway closed at night for construction! It took me over 2 hours to go 5 miles! I did not get back to Corona until after three, where i was lost because i had to take a different exit. I ended up calling Betsy that late! She was so sweet and tried to look up directions for me, but her internet was not working so i ended up flashing my lights at a cop and asking for directions! Could i have felt anymore blonde!
Turns out I had passed border street like 15 times but it was called Shurman a little down the road and i did not know it.
Sunday was great also, i Stopped in Paso to have a bbq with my stepdad, Cori (my little brother), Lacey (My sister), David (Her husband), Evey (My niece) and Jessica (another one of my best friends). Beanie forgot her suit so she swam in mine and got fried by the sun! Cori was doing backflips into the pool! i thought he was going to hit his head he was so close to the edge! he would be a good gymnast! It was so nice to see all of them, Evey is not even two and a half yet and she is already half my size! She is so cute, she has a really deep husky voice and curls that go for miles!
We finally made it home Sunday night to watch a movie for mother's day with my mom. Over all a fun trip! I got to see so many people who i have not seen in a long time! It was absolutely wonderful! I really was not ready to go back the cleaning out foreclosed houses (my job).
Well, I think this blog is officially long enough! Can't wait to read everyone's postings!
LOVE <3>

California with Jules!

Well so far, i'm the only one that has been writing on this thing... that's okay. I'm sure all of you are very busy with all kinds of fun things going on and will tell us about them after!

As most of you know, me and Julie went to Valencia, CA for a few days after school with Andrew (julie's boy) Jeff and Brad all of which are on the golf team! It was quite the road trip and so much fun! The first day the boys all went golfing so me and julie had this mansion of a house to ourselves where we played outside all day long! They had tennis courts, and a huge pool with a diving board as well as a tree that julie loved climbing! Of course she just hopped right up in the tree...meanwhile i was stuck on the ground... i dont really climb trees.
We played games in the pool and tennis too... I want you all to know i beat Julie in a game of short court in tennis. :) We both got burnt especially Jules! She burnt to a crisp! We all met Andy's family...which i only say that because Julie got to meet her boy's family. They are all super nice and i think they loved her! Who wouldn't!? We did some shopping and went to Venice Beach. For those of you that have never been there... it's a beach where anything and everything goes! We saw all kinds of fun things.
Lets see, we ate at In and Out and went to Magic Mountain. You would think that Julie would love going on big rides because she's such a thrill seeker, but no no she wouldn't come close. She tried the first one and closed her eyes the whole time! Who knew, so she just followed me and andy and andy's brother around all day while we went on the rides. It seems like it would have been the other way around with me being too chicken, but i surprised everyone! i loved them! Well that's California in a knutshell...
now i'm up at my grandma's house just scrapbooking away! It's great! when i get back in town i will add some photos of our trip! hope everyone is having a great summer!
love ya guys and miss you lots!

BLAKE