Accountability

I thought I would be a little accountable for my new years goals for 2009, seeing as how it is rapidly coming to a close.  My goals for 2009 were as follows:

1. Don't drink carbonation- Completed

2. Find someone who I can legitimately kiss new years eve 2010- Completed

3. Don't eat anything past 10 p.m.- Failed Miserably

I haven't given this much though yet, but I here are a few of my 2010 new years resolutions.  I will probably add some as we go.

1. Don't drink carbonation OR sugary drinks (such as fruit punch, juices, etc. Crystal Light is ok cause its sugar free)

2. Get my weight down to 185 by the time I go to Field Training sometime this summer (right now I am fluctuating between 197-200)

3. Boost my GPA back up to at least a 3.5 (as of this last semester it is a 3.35)

4. Run a 10 minute (or faster) mile and a half

I know some of these are lofty goals, but I feel like I can obtain these in a year.  I will try and be accountable, but if you think about it, check up on me to see how I'm doing.  Thanks.

A place of refuge

As promised here are some pictures of our married apartment.  We live in provo just 1/2 a block south of Center Street.  Its a nice place and pretty cheap for the neighborhood we live in. 

This Is A pic of the outside front of the house.  We live in the basement around the side.
Just walk down these steps to our front door.........
This is our kitchen.Here is our makeshift table.  Its just a card table (for now)
Our Living room is connected to our kitchen.
Our tree, entertainment center from Ikea, our 32" Vizio flat screen TV (Thank you Target Gift Cards).
Our bedroom is pretty small, but cozy.  there isn't much room for anything.
And that is the digital tour of our new apartment.  However, we just bought a progressive sleigh bed from RC Wiley, so I will have to get a picture of that when its up. 

At long last, our honey moon!

I'm finally getting some time (or making some time. I've been catching up on lost season 5 online) to tell you about our honey moon.  It was a great time.  We went to North Carolina the day after the wedding.  We flew on Southwest.  Our lay over was in Phoenix, which went fine.  But we were the very last 2 people to get on the plane in Phoenix heading to Raleigh.  So there were no seats next to each other.  Well I asked a guy who had an empty seat next to him if he wouldn't mind going to another seat, thus freeing up two seats next to each other.  His reply was "You have your entire lives to sit next to each other."  I wanted to punch him in the face!  He and his wife had a seat between them, so apparently things weren't going well in his marriage, but that didn't give him the right to be a jerk.  So I went and asked the steward if he would make an announcement.  He announced that we were on our honeymoon and asked if anybody would move seats so we could sit together.  Everyone clapped, but nobody offered to move.  So eventually we sat down in separate parts of the plane.  I was pretty mad and Amanda was getting upset.  So then the steward got back on the intercom and said "The happy couple has just offered to buy drinks the whole flight to whoever will move (which we didn't)." Then eventually two women volunteered, and said they didn't drink.  So we did  get to sit next to each other. What a relief.  They kept saying things about us being on a honeymoon the entire flight. Ha Ha.

One of the Stewardess's was curious and started talking to us when the lady next to me went to the bathroom.  We told her we were married in the temple in utah, etc.  turns out she was a member from Mesa and was in Stephanie Meyer's ward.  She was way nice and very talkative.  Then near the end of the flight she made an announcement that she had made us a "cake" and presented us with this roll of toilet paper she made.  She told us she is very into scrap booking and had a lot of fun making it for us.  They also gave us 3 big bulk bags of peanuts which we ended up serving at our reception in Wake Forest.  Thanks SouthWest.  
For our actual honey moon we stayed at a B&B in Pilot Mountain, NC.  It was about an hour and a half west of Raleigh.  It was neat.  We were in a cabin in the woods.  Our cabin was the Penthouse sweet, and very nice.  We even had our own personal hot tub in the living room.

(The bed is all messed up because it was the end of the week and we were checking out and took the sheets off, I promise.)
And that is our honeymoon in a nutshell.  My 2nd favorite part was spending every minute with Amanda and not having a care in the world.  For that week we didn't have to worry about school, work, homework, money, anything.  It was so relaxing and such a great week.

A light at the end of the tunnel, for a couple days

Finals are almost over!  I'm so excited!  I have a few more left and Amanda still has 2, then we are home free for almost 2 weeks.  We are so excited about the break, even though we just got one for our honeymoon.  Speaking of, here is a little preview of our future posts.  I still need to write about our honey moon in North Carolina, and our new apartment.  Well, new for Amanda, old for me.  I've been living there since August, but she has made it look really good.  Pictures soon to be coming.

I'm On No team

About a month ago Amanda and her room mate wanted to watch Twilight.  So her room mate's boyfriend Camron and I reluctantly decided to watch it with them.  This was my first time watching it.  I have decided to not assign myself to either team edward or team jacob at this time, as i ended up laughing at the movie pretty much the whole time.  This was not the new movie, it was the old one.  Ya know the one?  The one where Edward looks like an emo homo and gives the camera weird looks the entire movie?  Well the funny part of it was that both Amanda and her room mate Jennica fell asleep, so Camron and I found ourselves watching twilight together.  It was a great bonding experience for us.  We sat there and made fun of the whole movie without receiving any ridicule from either of the girls.

Here is a little SNL clip I thought was pretty funny after seeing the movie. Enjoy.  (Sorry there is no baseball in this clip).

Our Wedding Presents

Amanda And I exchanged wedding presents for each other the wednesday before the wedding.  She got me an old metal globe that she got on eBay and a note along with it.  We say the movie "up" while we were engaged and they had a little book of adventures that they used.  So she wrote that she was excited for the greatest adventure (marriage).  And we plan to mark on the globe everywhere we've been, and everywhere we want to go.  Its a pretty vintage globe though.  Russia is still labeled USSR.  Oh yeah, and the globe is a piggy bank, so we are going to put spare money in there (if we ever have spare money) to go flying with, cause I still haven't taken her flying yet.  

For my present to her I had my friend Spencer Craven paint us a picture (above) I found online of the Oquirrh Mountain temple.  He did an amazing job and we are very pleased with it.  Thanks Spencer.

Sin To Commandment In 30 Minutes

Its been a while since my last post. The last month has been pretty crazy with the wedding. But its all over now, which is a relief. Here are a few thoughts. I don't have any pictures yet, but I will put some on once I get them.

Amanda's family came into town thursday the 19th, and we had dinner at my parents house. It was really fun. I think the families got along well. Two of Amanda's young women leaders also flew in for the wedding. They were awesome and a HUGE help. Friday morning I attempted to go to class, but couldn't focus, so I went and took an anatomy quiz at the testing center (and I thought it was hard to focus in class, this quiz killed me). Then i went back to the apartment and hung out with my then soon-to-be father-in-law. Amanda and all the girls came over and her sisters informed me that the brides maid dresses had been left in North Carolina! Yikes. So when the girls left to get their nails done her dad and I spent the next while on the phone and internet trying to find a way to get them overnighted to SLC in time for the wedding. Nobody told Amanda cause we didn't want her to get stressed. She eventually found out though, but it was at a time right after the sealing when she didn't care very much cause she was in awe, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Friday night we went through the Salt lake Temple for Amanda's Endowments. It was really neat to be there with her. A bunch of my family was there, and her dad and young women leader Sis Howe. The spirit was so strong and she loved it. After the temple we all went to Cafe Rio.

The wedding morning for the groom is polar opposites than it is for the bride. The whole morning Amanda was running around getting ready, etc. i woke up around 8, got up and ate some lucky charms and cheese toast with my nephew Isaac and niece Grace. Then I took a shower, shaved, and went to the church to help set up for the reception. A bunch of awesome ward members were there and I didn't have much to do cause they did such a good job. So then I came home and put on my suit and drove to the temple with my mom.

The sealing was awesome. My uncle Neuenschwander sealed us. He talked a lot about covenants and how each covenant we make there is an ordinance involved. It was crazy to think that up to the moment I walked into that temple I could be excommunicated for the same thing that I would be encouraged to do with Amanda 1/2 hour later. The luncheon and reception were awesome and we are very grateful to everyone that helped pull it together. The cultural hall looked incredible. It was an amazing day. I think that is all I will cover in this post, but there will be more to follow soon.

My Computer Wife To Be

2 weeks from today is the wedding. Its getting close! I'm getting very excited and can't wait. A while ago I had a post about my little nephew Isaac being in love with Amanda. He was all over her when he came to utah in July. Well when my sister melissa told him that Amanda and I were gonna get married he yelled "NO! I don't want her to be a computer wife!" A computer wife is from the show Spongebob Squarepants. Here is a little to clip to illustrate his frustrations.

Oh Deer

I guess its time for another update. Things with the wedding are going well. Its all coming together finally. We are going to get our marriage license today, and got our living ordinance recommends on sunday (well, I still need the stake president to sign mine, keep your fingers crossed). As of today we have 19 days left. I can't believe how fast/slow this engagement as gone. Looking forward in time you think its gonna go SO SO slow, but when you look back it has flown by. It was the same with my mission. So I'm very excited for the 21st.

Starting yesterday I was able to get a new shift at work. Previously I had been working nights from about 7 PM-1 AM. This schedule doesn't work too well when you have to get up every morning at 5:20 AM. Yesterday my shift started at noon and went until 5 PM. It was great! from now on that will be my shift on monday, wednesday, and friday. I'm excited to start getting some decent sleep again. It went to bed last night at 10:30 and it was so easy to get up this morning. Last week a few cadets were driving in the car together to our combat day (where we go up the canyon and play war games with air soft guns). One cadet started to complain about how when we go to field training this summer we have to go to bed at 9 PM and get up at 4 AM every day. Another cadet and I looked at each other and said simultaneously "that will be GREAT! thats a lot more sleep than I'm getting now." And so it was. But thats all behind me now.

On sunday night I had to go out and do some booting. I came home at midnight, but then got a call and had to go back out. When I came back around 12:45 there were 2 deer standing in my front yard. Luckily I had my camera in my car and snapped a few pics. Here they are.

Engagement Pictures

Last saturday we took our engagement pictures up at the Sundance Resort in Provo Canyon. It was much better than I thought it was gonna be. I really don't like being the center of a photographers attention, but it turned out to be ok. Here are just a few. We took like 200 or something ridiculous like that





This is the one I think we decided to send out in our invitations (which will be coming soon, I promise).


Eventually i just couldn't handle it anymore. I had to make a face.

My thoughts are not your thoughts...............Most of the time.

Today I had a little profound experience. I parked a few blocks from UVU cause all the parking was full at the institute when I drove through it. And I was walking along a street that overlooks the institute parking lot on my way to class. I looked out over the parking lot and noticed 2 free spots. For a split second I considered running back, getting my car, and trying to get a closer spot, but quickly dismissed that idea as "retarded." But as I kept looking at these spaces available i noticed a few cars enter the parking lot, and drive through, not noticing these spots. They drove down a different lane! I got a little frustrated. I wanted to yell to them that there were some really close spots just right there. I even saw one car just down the row parked, waiting for students to come out and leave so they could have their spot.

Then I started thinking about how Heavenly Father must feel like this a lot. We have great opportunities right around the corner if we would just take the time to seek them out. Not only that, but he sees everything. He wants us to succeed, and must get really frustrated when we make the wrong choices that would lead us in a different direction then where he wanted us to go. I'm sure parents feel this way many times as well. I just hope that I can live my life so that revelation will guide me in the way heavenly father wants me to go.

I love when Heavenly Father gives me little experiences like this where for a split second my thoughts ARE his thoughts. Just a little tender mercy. I hope that as these thoughts keep coming I can make my ways his ways. I guess that walking to school early in the morning is a good time to let the spirit speak to me. Back in march or april I had another experience like this about earth worms that i blogged about (you can check it out if you want to). I guess Heavenly Father knew that I needed a little something like this today in preparation for the starter on my car breaking and leaving me stranded at the school that very afternoon. I'm grateful for his love and Mercy, And that he sees the big picture for my life, even when I have a hard time seeing it.

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Our try out video for "So you think you can dance"

Here I come to wreck the day

Many might remember the cartoon Mighty Mouse. He would always say "Here I come to save the day!" Well the other day I walked into my apartment and what did I find? A little brown mouse ran out from underneath the couch. In his confusion and the fact that he was running on a slick floor he slid around the wood floor before running into my bedroom. Well needless to say I was mad! So I went out and bought a few mouse traps and set them around the apartment. I read online that mice don't really like cheese, contrary to popular belief. They recommended putting peanut butter on the trap instead. Well, I did that. The next day I check my traps and the peanut butter was gone. Those dang mice are sneaky. Luckily I have caught one, but I think there might be more. The neighbors upstairs reported seeing one the other day in their apartment as well. And since our apartments are connected, they have taken over the house. So I'm not sure how they got the peanut butter off the trigger, but I'm gonna have to think of something else to get them. If you have any suggestions let me know.

I thought this picture was pretty accurate. Incase you didn't pick it up, its a spoof of Mission Impossible.

Standing for Something

I came across an old video I made and put on YouTube around this time last year. I made it because all the controversy of Proposition 8. I was mad because of so many members that were angry with the church leaders because they were taking a stand. Here it is.

Just a few things

These are just a few random things I thought I would share with you:

1) I have lost 12 pounds already this semester from ROTC. My goal is to lose another 20 by at least the summer when I go to Field Training. That would put me at 180, which is well below my max weight the Air Force has set.

2) There is just a little over 6 weeks until my wedding. I can't wait. I really just want to be married. Its so hard being engaged as all you that have gone before me know. We have to make a lot of rules, etc. But we are hanging in there and plugging along with the wedding plans.

3) Conference was AMAZING as usual. I am always amazed at how many of my questions and prayers are answered each general conference. I love it. I think back at all the stuff I missed before my mission when I was more interested in my legos or erector set than i was in what was being said on the t.v. (the legos and erector set were a while before the mission, not up to). It was really neat hearing my uncle Brent talk and seeing him (and my cousin eric) on the jumbo-tron at the conference center. He did a great job.

4) Is it just me or is it getting really cold here in Utah? I swear it is never this cold by this time of year. When I leave my apartment at 5:40AM for Physical Training with the ROTC I just about die. Luckily my car has a problem with over heating, so it doesn't take long. However, it also doesn't take long to get to the location where we train. So by the time I get there I'm starting to warm up.

5) My brother Matt left the MTC last week and got to his new area in Latvia. He is so excited. He has two companions, one of which played offensive line for the Air Force Academy, so he is a big guy. He will keep Matt in shape, at least for the first little while. I'm so excited to see the transformation Matt will go through over the next two years and the person he becomes.

That is about all I can think of for now. I'll try to keep you updated.

Here we go

I have started up the Air Force ROTC again. Its been good. This is my 2nd year, or "Field Training Preparation" year. So these next 2 semesters are going to be very physical and mental as they prepare me to go do my best in field training. I won't go until sometime next summer. Already I have improved the shape I'm in, and even though its really hard I'm excited for this next year.

Oh The Irony.........

So I started a new job as a parking enforcer for a company called Parkway Authority.  It pays pretty well.  I looked for a job all summer, and so I jumped on the opportunity.  Even I know it is not a very desirable job.  It's not very bad.  I go around different apartment complex's in provo and orem and put a boot on people's cars who have parked illegally.  I have really only been yelled at once.  And the technically wasn't even yelling at me, he was yelling at my manager.  Most people realize they parked illegally and they are just pissed they got caught.  So I put the boot on, and take it off if they pay $65.  I am still working at Little America for now until I decided if I wanna keep doing this for a while.

Here is a picture of the boots we use.

 

So here comes the Irony!  We have the capabilities to open people's doors when they lock their keys in their car.  It is one of the services offered by the company.  However, most the time they just tell them to call the police.  I don't too the door opening, the managers do.  So I was on call the other day studying at the UVU library (that just means I go take boots off if someone calls) and I had two people call and ask if I could come let them into their car cause they had locked their keys in their car.  I just told them to call the police and they would come do it for free. Twenty minutes later I was walking out of the library to go to my car and I started reaching for my keys, and sure enough they weren't in my pocket!  They were sitting on my front seat of my car.  The first time in my nearly 7 years of driving I locked my keys in my car.  I felt so stupid.  I had to call the parking people at UVU to come let me into my car.  When the parking lady showed up I explained the irony to her and she thought it was so funny.  So I guess the wheels on the bus go round and round. 

What the heck.......

So a few days ago I looked at my blog and there was almost 1,000 hits total since I first created this thing back in March.  I was pretty excited, I thought that was a good achievement.  Not too shabby, eh?  So tonight I got on to show Amanda the post about her ring and there are almost 12,000 hits!  WHAT THE HECK!!! I wanna know who has been looking at my blog that much?  And if it is one person, why they don't have anything better to do with their lives (mom if its you I take that comment back).  So thanks to all you who read my blog.  I'll try to update it a little more often now that I know its becoming a hot commodity. 

A nice ring to it

Well some of you who don't live in Utah have requested to see what Amanda's ring looks like.  Here it it.  I really like it, and so does she (thats why I picked it out).  I feel like I did a pretty good job.  She had no idea that I had even been looking at rings, so it was a complete surprise, which is what I wanted to happen.  There is the engagement band that has the main diamond on it (.78 Carat!) and a little accent diamond, then the wedding band is separate with another accent diamond.  They of course will sodder the bands together when we get married.  She can't stop looking at it, so I guess thats a good sign.

And she said Yes, I said wow, she said when, I said how about November 21st

Well, In case you haven't heard I am engaged to Amanda O'Brien (AKA love of my life).  We are both very excited!  I flew out to North Carolina on Wednesday the 19th and met her family.  They are great and made me feel right at home.  We went to the beach and to the Wright brother's flight museum.

Then Friday morning we drove up to Philladelphia, PA to meet her grandparents and extended family.  It was really fun. We stayed at her grandparents house and went to Valley Forge, watched half a NASCAR race and I got my first official Philly Cheese Steak (which was really good by the way, highly recommended).  Then saturday night I talked to her dad and got permission, then it was only a matter of time.  I had no idea where I was gonna do it, but I had a plan of how.

We stopped at Hershey, Pennsylvania on our drive back to salt lake for gas and food.  We drove around a little bit by the amusement park they have, and across the street there is a big Hershey Hotel and Gardens (comparable to thanksgiving point garden).  So I convinced Amanda that we could walk around and take a little break.  So we walked around and it was beautiful.  The sun was shining, the garden was great, and we even got to go into a butterfly Pavilion (anti-climactic).  

So at the end of the garden we stopped in the Italian Rose section and took a picture by a column with vines all over it.  Well I made the picture look bad so we would need to take another one.  So when I went to push the timer again I switched it to video instead (thanks alex for the idea) and we went from there.  I guess you'll have to see the video.  I look pretty awkward in it cause I knew it was being filmed and I was nervous, so just a warning........

It's kind of hard to hear, so you might need to turn up your volume.

And that is it.  She said yes, and we're going with it.  We are getting married in the Oquirrh mountain temple November 21st, 2009! Hope to see you at the reception.

Talking 'bout my girl

This summer has flown by.  It's been a great one, thats for sure.  I met the girl of my dreams and she has made the summer unforgettable.  We are so compatible, its almost scary.  We have so many of the same likes and dislikes.  Incase you haven't met her, her name is Amanda O'brien and she is from Franklinton, North Carolina.  She is in the BYU nursing program and graduates in April.  She currently works at the Utah State Mental Hospital in Provo as an LPN (licensed Practicing Nurse).  She left yesterday (the 12th) to drive with her sister back to NC.  I am going to miss her so much, but luckily I am flying out there the 19th to meet her family, then we are driving back.  I'm pretty nervous to meet her family (mostly her dad).  If you have any advice for me please let me know.  I am so grateful for her in my life and am excited for some new adventures.

Gird up your loins, Fresh courage take.........

http://www.deseretnews.com/video/1390/Utah-boy-goes-for-spin-to-avoid-church.html

Check out this video on Desert News.com. It is Hilarious. This little 7-year old boy up by Ogden decided he doesn't want to go to church on sunday, so he steals his dad's car. A man called the cops and reported him driving recklessly (which isn't bad considering he is 7) and running stop signs. So the police start chasing him and report he was going over 40mph at one time! He eventually stops at his house and books it for his garage. It's really funny to watch him. The news reports that he was grounded for 4 days. Luckily there wasn't any damage to his dad's car or anything else. But you gotta hand it to this little kid, he was a better driver than most 16-18 year old girls.

Bitter-Sweet moments

Matt left for the MTC on July 15th.  It was a bitter sweet moment cause I know he's supposed to go, but I don't really want him to.  We've become really close over the past year and a half, and I'm really going to miss him.  Last summer we worked together literally all day, every day.  We washed windows together, and both worked the same nights at Little America.  Then he lived with me in provo during the 2008-2009 school year.  He's become one of my best friends.  I'm excited for him though, don't get me wrong.  He's going to have some awesome experiences.  He's going to the Baltic mission (Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania- in between Finland and Russia).  He's speaking russian, so he's got his work cut out for him.  I'm excited to start getting his letters.

Incase some of you haven't heard, they do the MTC drop off a little different now.  When I went in there was like an hour meeting and you watched sappy Mormon ads, the MTC president spoke to you, and there was the dreaded two doors.  The missionary went out one, and the family went out the other.  Your emotions really got ramped up.  But the way they do it now is you drive up to the curb inside the MTC, where there are some missionaries there waiting to help with the bags.  You have about 3 minutes to say good bye and off he goes with one of the other missionaries.  You watch him walk away.  It's a little emotional (but I didn't cry or anything like that), but I like this way better than the other way. Its like a band-aid.  Just rip it off and get over it.  Good Luck Matt, I love ya. 

The Big Race

On Saturday, July 11th Amanda and I went to a stock-car race in Ephraim.  It was really fun!  Its a dirt track called "Wild Bills Raceway."  It only cost $7 and lasted for 3 hours.  They had a bunch of different races like tough trucks, stock cars, modifieds, trucks, etc.  The tough trucks was one of the coolest because they were going off 6 ft jumps and ramming each other.  The wind picked up and blew all the dirt towards the grand stands, so there were some pretty miserable people for about 20 minutes.

My favorite race of the night was the last race.  They took all the stock cars (which was about 15) and had them all on the track at the same time.  They had to do 20 laps.  It was awesome because the drivers were so aggressive.  they would run each other off the coarse, or into the cement wall (as seen in picture above).  The drivers would come around the last corner and they would be cruising.  The track was dirt so they would have a hard time keeping control of the car, and sometimes would hit the wall.

One cool thing that happened was in the last race a car started on fire twice!  The first time the driver had no idea cause it was under the hood, shooting out the wheel wells.  So everybody was screaming, and eventually the flag guy ran over and had him get out of the car.  But the fire extinguisher they had didn't work.  So eventually the water truck got over and put it out.  So they towed him to the pits.  Then somebody else went off the track, so they stopped the race, and he was back from the pits before they started.  They did a few more laps and his car started on fire again!  This time he got out a little quicker, dove into another car, grabbed a fire extinguisher and put it out himself.  It was an exciting race.

This video is fun.  It shows how fast the cars were whizzing by the grand stands. (A white flag means they have one more lap in the race.)

It's been a while

So it has been a long time since I have updated this blog.  Lets see, where to begin.............

Well on June 28th my little brother Matt had his farewell.  It was really good.  I can't believe he is going on a mission already!  I'm gonna miss him a lot.  Luckily he hasn't left yet, so I've been able to hang out with him a little more.  We had a time share at Snowbird the week of the 4th, so that was fun.  I didn't get to go up too much, but I had a lot of fun when I did.  

Yesterday we all went up Millcreek Canyon for a Bbq.  We roasted hot dogs, starbursts, and smores.  Then Amanda, the boys and I played in the river.  It was really cold, so cold in fact my 3 year old nephew Isaac started crying until his feet got numb.  Then he was fine.  After the canyon we went back to my house and Isaac developed quite the crush on Amanda.  He was kissing her as much as he possibly could, and she was a good sport about it.  But he was trying to be subtle about it.  He would wrestle with both of us on the lovesac and tell her to kiss his forehead.  Then it moved to the eye, then the cheek, then the chin, then finally the lips.  Well I guess he liked that one the most cause that is what he tried for the rest of the night.  It was pretty funny.  Things started to obviously get awkward for Amanda fast, so I told him he couldn't kiss my girlfriend and that he had to find his own.  He told me to throw him on Amanda (she was laying on the lovesac). I told he I wouldn't cause he would just try to kiss her more.  He assured me that he wouldn't and said "just throw me on her so I land on her mouth." Ha ha, needless to say their dad came down to put them in bed just in the nick of time.  You gotta love Nephews.

Fly, Fight, And Win

Saturday Amanda and I went up to Hill Air Force base in Ogden for an air show.  It was incredible!  It made me even more excited to be an Air Force pilot.  A few friends came along to complete the experience (Gordy, Crave, and Mike with their girls).  The Thunder Birds were the main attraction.  They are the Air Force equivalent of the Blue Angels.  They were so amazing.  These two pilots would go straight at each other each going 1,000 mph and turn at the last minute, barely missing each other by about ten feet.  It was crazy.  Then one of the F-16's came cruising above the runway and went straight up 3 miles in about 15 seconds.  There were six planes, and they would be doing barrel rolls and twists and turns in perfect formation.  Each planes wing was about 5 feet from the plane next to them.  I've never seen anything so cool.

 It was really loud, so not everyone had fun.  Ha Ha

This video is them flying in diamond formation.  They were turning in perfect unison.  I guess you just need to look at the video to believe it.  Check it out.  There isn't much room for mistakes in this line of work.

All-in-all the day was great.  I took all these pictures and video by the way.  Enjoy.

Lake Powell 2009

So My family went to lake powell this week.  It was really fun.  We hit the road monday morning and drove through price down to southern Utah.  It was Trent and I in a car, Eric, Matt and Dave in a car, and the parents in the Tahoe.  We got to the lake with enough time to put the boat in the water and do some cliff jumping and wakeboarding.  The water felt so nice and warm. 

The next day we spent boating around all day, finding canyons such as iceberg canyon for good water.  We got some good tube wars in, and then went back to the trailer for a nice BBQ beef dinner.  By the end of each day people were pretty tired.  So we started a t

he movie "What about Bob," but everybody went to bed before we finished it.

The following day we went to Hole in the rock (where pioneers crossed Glenn Canyon in the 1850's), Dangling rope marina, and rainbow bridge.  It was pretty neat.  Trent went back to provo that morning (thats why he brought his own car).  We saw some really cool canyons and an natural arch. 

The trip was pretty fun.  The last day we went to some old indian ruins and walked around them.  Then did some skiing and wakeboarding.  All-in-all the trip couldn't have been better and it was really fun to be with the family.  Hopefully some day we can do it again.

Ben Kweller - Penny On The Train Track

This video is hilarious! Check it out and see if you laugh as much as I did.

I Wanna get away, I wanna fly away

Today My old flight instructor (Todd) and I went flying around Salt lake.  It was pretty fun.  We took off from Spanish Fork and flew over the point of the mountain into salt lake.  We buzzed my house and old neighborhood, flew over the old Olympus High School, and a few temples like Draper, Mt. Timpanogos, and Provo.  We flew in a Piper Arrow.  The whole flight lasted about and hour.  Man, I love flying so much!