Just an Update

Well it is official. I am out on my own. I go to Utah Valley University and live in an apartment quite far from my family. Well it is actually only twenty three minutes away (if I go the speed limit...) and I see them once or twice a week. It is a pretty sweet set up.
I miss my sister a lot though. She and I were finally starting to get close so it is un-opertune time to move out, just in that sense.




I saw the movie Julie& Julia. I liked it a lot. I liked that it wasn't a love story, it was a story of self exploration. I feel like that is a grand adventure, just finding yourself through doing something you love. I need to charge my camera and do it. I love taking pictures and editing them to make them a different dimension of reality.


I wish that Photography would be a good career choice for me, but I just don't think it would work out too well.


So radiologist or radiology tech for me. I just need something more stable. I can just get my camera and have it to document my amazing life. I didn't take that many pictures over the summer but I had a great time. I made some new friends and became even closer to old friends. Like Megan. She and I have known each other for over ten years! That is so weird! We have always been friends. The past two summers have made us so close, it is great. I love that girl. We had a few pool parties, many sleepovers, early mornings, lagoon trips, and pudding fights. Oh my so much fun!





I am so happy that the weather has been cooling down. I love being able to wear a sweater and actually shiver. Time for some hot chocolate and a nice warm blanket. Oh it is so exciting.


Season changes are always my favorite times of the year. I know that winter is my least favorite because it seems to drag on forever! I like spring and summer but I love the fall. It is so lovely. I can't wait until the leaves start changing and the mountains start looking like fire. I also love the season changes because they lead to a knew desire of music genre. I feel like each season has it's genre or band. I wonder what this fall will be. Winter is always Anberlin. The other seasons change. This summer was Parachute, the spring was Cary Brothers and I really have no idea what it will be next. I am stoked to find it!

It is raining.

I went to Boston last week and it was the best trip I have ever taken. Something about that city fit my personality so well, now I'm craving it. Weird right? My mom and I went to a bunch of historical sites from the 1600's and it was magical. I loved every second of it.
It is raining outside my window and I love it. It is calming, and I need that. I have a lot of my dad's personality and so I get anxious easily. I've been making new friends and that causes anxiety for some reason. Makes no sense I know.
I really am missing my friends Caldon and Tj. I hear from both of them once a week which is so fantastic.
Tj was my best friend so having him gone is kind of hard. I was so used to talking to him everyday,that going to once a week is killing me. And Caldon was and still is one of the most inspiring people I have had the pleasure of meeting. It is selfish but I want them both to come home for just a few days so I can be with them and my life won't be boring.
Oh wait my life isn't boring I have started making some new friends. We do all sorts of exciting things that are so random I can't even tell you. I'm glad to finally have friends that have the same standerds and ideals as I.
I am working two jobs this summer. I love it. I am still working at Geckos and I am a lifeguard again this summer in Daybreak. So this combonation of jobs mean I will be so tan I look Legit working in a mexican restaraunt! ha (I'm so funny!)
I have a feeling this summer will be great.

life life life

My life is Brilliant. I have some great friends! Three of which are leaving on missions. Quinn M. is leaving March 11th for the West Indies! TJ Oviatt is leaving May 1st for England. And Caldon Adams is leaving May 27th for Anahiem California. wow. Great boys!

<- This photo here is one that I submitted to my school's Litterary Magazine. I think that is really cool. Photography is great.

I think that I know what I am going to do with my life. I am going to UVU in the fall and hopefully I will do Guard up there. I want to major in Deaf Education and become a teacher at a school for the deaf or an interpretor for someone. Either would really be amazing. I realized this is what I want to do when I was with my friend Ben Alleman the other day. His sister Megan loves to sign and when you sign with someone as special as Megan or my wonderful friend Shaye, you remember why you love it so much. Well that is what happened to me at least. I think that I can help people if I study ASL some more. I want to minor in Photography because it is also something I love and it is so fun to change and manipulate a photograph, it is almost like changing your reality. wow... that was very profound (GO ME!)

My seminary teacher gave me a challenge the other day, and I have been doing it and it really is amazing how life changing two days of doing this can be. I want to do it for the rest of my life.

awesome like a possum?

This is one of my favorite pictures. I think it is so well done if you want my complete honesty. This is the lamp out side of my house right in my

front yard and it is so awsome. I seriously could go on and on about how much I adore it.

So I am listening to Moulin Rouge, Blogging, and doin homework. It's an exciting experience.

My friend Mike Vallentine asked me to the Christmas dance this saturday, it will be so so so fun.

Have you ever met those people that always seem to need a nap or some midol?! I've been having constant run ins with that kind of cat and wow, it is getting le old! (cough cough my sister!)It is like no matter how happy everyone around is, they have to be miserable and trying to bring you down also. sigh. It is no bueno. Speaking of Bueno that reminds me I love my job, and matt costa (now I'm listening to him). My manager Andrew is one of the nicest guys I have ever met. I'm a huge fan. The owner of Geckos is one of the best people I've met too. He is so generous. Someday I want to be like that.

Once Upon A Time

I love photography. It is my new love in life. Maybe because my Photo teacher is so awesome. She makes me feel like I have potential which makes me so so so excited. Maybe someday when I learn how to use my scanner I will post some of my genius. I'm excited also because this same teacher wants me in her photo 2 class and drawing, so next semester is going to be mostly art classes.

It is the time of year when Winter Guard should be starting. Alas, I'm not doing it this year and so this year is very different without the stress of practice but also because I don't have my friends always by me. Oh, the sadness of it all. But life goes on and when I move away maybe something magical will happen and I will find lots of friends ha ha.

My friend David is on his mission I got my first letter from him today and my day is made. I honestly have never been so excited to read a letter and write one back. I love missionaries they are so amazing.

Oh for the love of love...?

I don't get why people find it their business to chose who their friends date/associate with. It makes little sense to me.
Little kids make me giggle. They are so so so funny. Next time you see a 7 year old just watch them, and listen. they are so entertaining.

I am very excited about my life because of three reasons...
1. I am going to disneyland, seaworld and universial studios very soon.
2. My family is not going alone to these places.
3. We are going with a family that has a boy my age, yes a boy!
Amazing yes?

I am ready to graduate. I'm almost halfway finished with my senior year at Bingham High School. I can't wait to go up to college and join a swing team of some sort. Oh speaking of Swing Dancing, my teacher in ball room asks me questions on how to do East Coast Swing. It makes me feel very good. I have to thank Mike Dymond for the help he has given me to get my swing legs started.

oh rain

I am here on Thanksgiving, sick and filling my time with a new blog. I am quite pathetic. My family is all out doing stuff but i can barely move off of my couch. I'm most upset by the fact that eating is a very painful task. It has been my experience that Thanksgiving is an excuse to be glutenous.
So there it is my first blog. Do not be shocked that there will probably be a million more of these! awesome son!!!