Memories

Wow today I spent 3 1/2 building this snowman with Taylor O, John Huey, and Kyle Hansen. It started out as a ball that I thought I would make because I didn't feel like shoveling... so I thought I'd make as big of a ball as I could. . . Well it turned into Marve here (dedicated to the Home Alone Thief). He is approximately 10 feet tall... and turns more heads than Shaq in China. Anyways... it was a blast and he is actually placed right in the middle of the entrance to our cul-de-sac. Hoping no one kills him tonight. It was really fun to spend some time with Johnny and Taylor since it has been SO long. Also Kyle... I hangout with him a lot though ;D hahaha. Okay enjoy!

Just Some fun pictures.

The Sounds of Music!

I went to Mountain View's production of "The Sound of Music" last week for FHE and it was amazing! I think I found it particularly entertaining and inspiring because it is a production that I have seen and I know, and mostly because it was my good friends from school that held the lead roles!
Kyle Hansen my closest friend was Cap'n Von trapp

Chelsea Shumway a friend from Chamber choir was Maria (She is an amazing solo aria/opera singer and did an AMAZING job with the whole play... her dad sings for the Mo. tab. choir.)

Jane (My sadies date) was liesl ----> (correct spelling.. I checked)

Brian Judkins was the 'family friend and politic'

and so on and so forth!

Chelsea shumway/ maria. . . !

Jaaane / liesl

Brian Jud... he is SO ... funny/unique

Kyle Hansen . . CAPTAIN VON TRAPP

Corey Morries... An old Man at a party... What a clown. (oh and Katie and I) ((She went alone to the play for family night :( . . update-----> just friends)


The funniest girl on stage. . . just a small character that has to accept an award at the ceremony... so funny
Zoe Wilde is her name!

Sadie Hawkins!

That is the shirt that Jane cut, painted, and designed on behalf of us, the RED couple. (Taylor's Indian name = "Raging Firedrop") ((Who knows where that came from!))

Haley and I!

They actually made me take the bandanna off. . . shoulda known!

An update for Taylor's blog. . . because Barrett reminded me that I'm inconsistent hahaha.

I went to last Sadie Hawkins dance with Jane Stowell my friend from student council! It was honestly a blast. The theme for the dances was simply just : "COLORS" so every group did it just however that pleased. Our group assigned each couple a color and we were given red. . . we sort of went with the Indian theme a little bit, although due to the small selection of red clothing items that I own. . . I looked a little random. Jane made both of our shirts and we also (not seen in these pictures) went over to her house after she picked me up, and did some war paint on our faces! What a blast... I am going to be sad when High School is over, but I'll do my best to love it now!

Syd on her rhinoceros!

Kate on her Zebra!

The most gorgeous animal on the face of the planet, the Tiger.

A rhino

On the way there and back, I couldn't stop looking down each street we passed, they are so pretty! They remind of something for the movies with the thin road and all of the trees. Can't you just imagine riding a banana bike down the street in the summer! Like "My Girl?!"

Savvy and Syd in the Egg! They reminded me of each other a little bit!

Hallie could not stop talking about the alligator that was in the playground. She made sure to warn Savvy that should couldn't stand in front of it by it's mouth cause it was dangerous.

We got to ride the carousel and everyone had a good time. I got dizzy standing next to Sav, same with Katie haha.

That is the amazing bag of Kettle-Corn that we bought, the number one purchase of th century. The kids loved it and so did katie and I haha. Katie. . . what a geek, she is the best!

The Sweetest Girls!

HOW DO YOU COMPARE?! This is the size of the gorilla. . . we amazingly got them all to stand next to the gorilla and pose for this picture a second time! Because the first one didn't turn out.

This is a treasured picture... :D

We have all seen Savvy's sweet side.

Thank goodness for The Emperor's New Groove and The Rescuers Down Under for getting us to an from the Zoo without any car issues! Except for when Savvy wanted her mommy and a "dink of wada"

We struggled getting the kids to leave the playground to go see animals.

So Katie and I went to the ZOO this Weekend! Over our UEA or FALL BREAK. It was the first time i have ever gone and I'm thinkin that I could have had a little more fun seeing animals and covering ground but it was really fun. When I say I didn't cover much ground, it's because sometimes three year olds don't walk very fast! We had five kids under the age of 6 I believe. Hallie and Savvy, along with Katie's cousin's Rachel (the oldest), Sydnee and kate (Twins)!
Honestly it was so tiring! We made the first mistake of going without a stroller and nothing other than a backpack with snacks. We managed and only had one little scare when we couldn't see Kate for ten seconds haha, I got good at counting the 5 little girls really fast. We had one lunch break and one bathroom break that held us all over the whole time. Savannah fell asleep in Katie's arms which helped us realize that we should have had a stroller because for the rest of the time we just had to switch off the dead weight, haha. Hallie Tripped and cut her knee a little bit and had to be really strong without a band-aid. At one point a while later I asked her how her knee was doing and she said, "could you please not talk to me about it, it makes me think about it and then it hurts," so I just let her be tough.
Rachel and Hallie were the easiest to keep track of and they helped us out with the littler girls, especially Rach!
Sydney, Kate, and Savvy are little dolls, but only in one sense, they most definitely are not stationary. Always had to keep an eye on Sav as you can imagine. Sydney was always trailing behind the group! She just walks so slow! It honestly was funny to look back and see slowly walking as she looked at the animals.
I did get to enjoy the animals a little bit! Most of all I love Tigers. They are amazing, and the most beautiful animals. If only I could have run around like a kid myself! There could have been a little more time for Katie and I to chat but we made a great team anyways!

I entered my picture (Water Drop one) into the reflections contest so we'll just have to wait and see how everything turns out. It turned out really nice when It was actually printed and mounted although I know everyone is getting sick of looking at it. I'm pretty hopeful for it too! I submitted a poem with it also to explain my connection to the theme.

What a lucky Uncle I am and blessed with awesome friends!

Oh yeah and I'm going to Sadies with a girl from student council named Jane Stowell.
And I'll be singing my required Solo in Chamber choir soon... I'm singing Danny Boy

I have a choir concert on Wednesday the 22nd of October and it is free!
Love you all

BEFORE

AFTER

I finally Finished my truck . . . at least the wheels and the tires! I'm excited to drive it now, just working on the sound system now.

I don't have any pictures from homecoming but it was a blast! I went with Cami Quinones and had a ball for sure! . . .

NEW POSTAGE!

This Is a picture I've always wanted to take and mom finally helped me by being a great "water dripper" hahaha.  I like it.  

It's a been a while since I posted... I'll quick update you all. . . We had our first two football games. . . one of which was a big loss the other we lost in overtime.  I need to be less emotionally involved in those games because when we lose like that it ruins my whole night and I become anti-social. 

 Anyways, we had our "HI week" assembly/skit/video and it all went great!  The administration has complimented us quite a bit on the work we've done with those kinds of things thins year... We've been blessed in all that we've done for student council, and we make sure to pray before anything we do, it's great to be with friends like all of them especially Kyle.  

Homecoming is on the 13th of September and I'm getting excited!  A little nervous but it'll be great!  We have to get a lot more ready for homecoming with Student council so it's a little stressful right now but it'll all work out.  

I GOT A TRUCK! hehe, I worked on it quite a bit today and it's looking great!  We payed $1400 for it and it's a steal!  We already put $400 (expected) into the brakes but we took the original price down to cover that.  The body is solid and all too!  It's a 94' FORD Ranger.