Homecoming Dance 2008

Yesterday was the Homecoming dance. It was at the North Hampton House in American Fork. Although it was planned by guys so therefore it wasn't the most organized thing in the entire world it was alot of fun! For our day date we went and played steal the flag in a parking garage. Kind of ghetto and strange but it was a blast! Then we went back to one of the kids houses in our group and watched the second half of the BYU game where we absolutely KILLED UCLA! (59-0) Then we went to get pictures and then to dinner at Macaroni Grill. To make a long story short we didn't get done with dinner until 10 o'clock that night when the dance had started at 8:30 so we got to the dance at about 10:30 ish which turned out to be good that we were late because when I made my grand entrance through the doors it was like I walked into a wall of hot and muggyness! The dance ended at 11:30 but I still managed to get all sweaty bustin' moves on the dance floor! It was really fun!!!

This was what I wore to the dance. And just fyi it took me like an hour to find that tie that would match her dress.

This was my model pose.

My 17th Birthday

17 years ago from September 12 I was born into this world. At that time the world became a much better place. Mom invited Heather and Jared over to breakfast at 6:30 a.m. before I went to school so I figured that I would set my alarm for 6:10 and get up and take a shower and be showered and stuff by 6:30. Um yeah I woke up for about 7 seconds just to turn off my alarm and roll over and go back to sleep. So I learned that being 17 didn't mean it was any easier to get up when my alarm went off. So this is what I came downstairs to find when i finally got up and got in and out of the shower...

...Dad drinking his milk and Heather and Jared looking really really happy to be up and at 'em this early in the morning. So after the muffled singing of "Happy Birthday" I got to open up a singular present before I left for an exciting day at school.

I had to stop and admire the time and effort Mom put into wrapping my present. ;)

A longboard!

Me and Jared showing off our mad skills in the kitchen!

At dinner that night we had tacos! Delicious! After dinner it was time for presents. Kallie thought she was hilarious with her idea. Look at the contrast between my reaction and her reaction.

She had gotten me a helmet for me to wear on my longboard while I rode it. Little did I know that it was just a gag gift and so I was very grateful for it after I got over the initial shock of things. But then she just lost it and started laughing. I have not seen her laugh that hard for a long, long time.

But then I really got a green striped shirt, a windshield sun blocker, sunglasses holder for a car, and an air freshener for a car. So needless to say I was kinda hoping that I was going to get a car but that didn't happen. Then I got a sweet RUN DMC shirt from Heather and Jared along with some Laffy Taffy's.

After dinner we all went outside and we were going to watch me and Jared ride our longboards

which looks like it didn't work because I am the one standing with everyone while McKay is riding my board and Jared is riding his.

Everything worked out and I had a great birthday!!! Thanks everyone!!!

My Summer In a Nutshell

So I thought that summer was supposed to be a time where you relax outside and sip ice cold lemonade. Boy was I wrong with this summer. Here is just a brief overview of my summer schedule. In the mornings i would go to work then i would come home eat lunch and then go play baseball Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Yeah that's right, count it, 6 days a week!

I know it doesn't sound like much but when that was going on every day it kinda got old and i just had a full day with that and then the occasional friends and dates it was a full summer!

Dusty, blazin hot, sweaty, muddy, Trek

Today I got home from our wards trek "experience." I went there not wanting to go and came home not wanting to ever go out in the desert ever again.

We had to meet at the church at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning. that was so great to be up and at 'em that early in the morning. And like you all know when they tell you that they are leaving the church at 6:30 you know that you wont get out of there until at least 7. So of course we left about 7 o'clock and drove for an hour out to the far and distant land of Elberta, Utah. We arrived at our destination at like 8 ish and then like we all are complete morons they explain to us how to pull a hand cart. I kinda zoned off during this part because of course I am not a moron and i know how to pull a stupid handcart, it really isn't that hard. So we started out at probably about 10:30 and it was already hot! I know to you tough Arizonians that 95 degrees doesn't sound like it is very hot, but to us it is scorching! So the first day on the trail was alright. It was hot and all but i was pulling with my friends so it was okay. I learned something that day. I learned that I am a horrible judge of mileage that i have walked. Our first stop was at about an hour in and i was thinking that we were making pretty good time because we had to go like 10 miles the first day and i thought that we had gone about 3 or 4 so far and so we only had about 4 or 5 hours left until we were going to be at camp for the night. But much to my surprise i found out that we hadn't quite gone 2 miles yet. I was in for a huge shock on this trip. So me and Taylor (my pulling partner) just started talking and got into a zone and just started to haul. We got to our camping spot way before anyone else did in our ward so we just sat there and relaxed.
That night we had a chicken chase that was pretty intense! There were 10 chickens running wild 30 kids running after them! I would have liked to be a spectator because I could probably guarantee we were pretty entertaining to watch! So finally when we caught them all we cooked them up and ate 'em. We cooked everything out there in dutch ovens. Personally i think we should have gotten a different cook but what can you do when you are out in the middle of no where?
The next day me and Taylor got stuck in second place because all the people said that we were going to fast and that they couldn't keep up. We were thinking, "Well that sounds like a personal problem to me but we got in trouble if we tried to pass the front cart. I heard that there was supposed to be a part of the trail that was going to have water covering it. When we came up on the part of the trail that was completely and totally flooded i was like, "Wow. You have got to be kidding me!" The whole entire road was under about a foot of water for as far as i could see. I was later informed that this was not part of the plan. We were only supposed to have about 20 feet of road that was flooded and that this was a broken water pipe that had flooded the road. The submerged road was about a quarter mile long. That was another "experience" we had. That night we had to wait like 6 million hours for dinner. I was starving so I decided to go in my tent and eat the snacks that I had that I wasn't supposed to have but i did. So I am eating those when this leader walks by my tent and looks in so I had to just huck my granola bar into my bucket and play it off like i was just rubbing my face and I got a really weird look from my leader but i pulled it off! But Taylor had the greatest idea how to sneak food into a camp out when we aren't supposed to. He got his pillow and cut the end of it open. Stuffed his food in with the cotton stuffing inside of his pillow. He sewed up the pillow and put it back into his pillow case and no one knew. I thought that that was a ingenious idea! Later that night we had a testimony meeting that turned into a meeting of our leaders just telling stories about pioneers. So 3 HOURS LATER!!! We got out of there at midnight and didn't get to bed until about 12:30 and didn't get to sleep until like 1 then in the morning.

When the bugle went off at 6:30 in the morning I wanted to kill someone! We got up and we only had like a half mile to go so it wasn't that bad but when we got to the end we had a pretty good breakfast but the food on this whole thing was not by any means great food. My dad said that the guy who was in charge of the food went over budget alot. By the taste of the food he didn't go over on good food that's for sure.

When I got home everyone was at the church with signs and everything waiting for us. I am so glad that I am home!

Don't the kids look like they are having such a great time!

Oh yeah! I cant forget about the best part! I got the sweetest V neck tan line EVER!!! We had to wear a long sleeve shirt and mine was button up so I just unbuttoned the top few buttons and I got the sweet tan line!

Tearin' It Up On The Field

Right now I playing baseball for the varsity team at Mountain View High School. I play center field and I also pitch.