O thank heaven

Well, it's been forever but I decided to finally write on my blog after almost a couple of years. My resolution is to keep this more up to date along side with facebook. Here are some pictures of the thanksgiving weekend.

Prep work by Cousing Cass

Deep Frying

 Golden Brown

Some treefarm action!

cutting some trees

THE best view in the entire WORLD!

Merry Christmas

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Christmas Trees come in threes! (and free)

Instead of just one, real Christmas tree we got three fake ones! Ok, so it isn't as awesome or as good smelling, but they were free so you can't argue with that. Well, they are small and they don't take up to much space so it's nice. Instead of putting presents under the tree, we put them around. We've got two of the best ornaments also. There is a small Van's shoe and Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas in his snowman outfit. Totally awesome.

Temple Lights

A couple of weeks ago we went up to Salt Lake to see the lights at the temple. Drew and Sibelle, Bryon and Leah, Kim and I all drove up and had a fun time quoting tv shows like SNL and other jokes. When we got up there we walked to get some hot chocolate from Starbucks. From there we walked around Temple Square looking at the lights. We went into the tabernacle and sat for a while and then drove home. What a wonderful time we were able to have in a company of people we love.

Park-ing

Ok everyone, It's official. She said yes.
Well this is the story. A couple weeks ago we drove out to Colorado to spend some time with her family. I was able to meet her some of her best friends from highschool Danelle, Dea, Kristi, CV, and Priscilla. the first day we were there we met for some ice cream and then chilled with CV at her mom's work place. It's a party store and the coolest thing is this confetti shooter. It's awesome! Well, we hung out with the fam and her brothers, Nick and Josh, are freaking awesome! They are way fun to hang out with. We went bowling and we had some crazy stuff happen. Josh is getting better at spinning the ball and Nick had the best bowl that put a hole in a board. We went to bishop castle which is a man made structure that I'll put picture up later. On Sunday I was able to talk with her mom and dad about marrying her and they were super nice about everything. Love them! So, every since we got back I've had the ring. Kim didn't know this of course so when tonight happened it was a major surprise. We had a little family home evening and then went to a park for dessert. We were going to go to a park where we first started dating, but that was too far a walk so I decided to make a new memory at a new park.

Right when we got there I said it's probably best way to make this family home evening end is make it an official family. I pulled out the box, got on my knee and she didn't believe it was real until she saw the ring. She immediately freaked. I asked her to marry me and she said with hands covering her mouth, and little tears in her eyes "yes". The best word I've ever heard. I then slipped the ring on her finger and we hugged and kissed and were super happy. We ate some ice cream and just sat there talking for a bit. As we walked home she called her family and now it's totally official. I'm getting married. So, now all of you who read the title and thought we parked to make out, your wrong. Get it....Park-ing!!

The Flash

so on thursday Kim and a bunch of people did this flash mob dance in the WILK for Choose2Give. It was actually pretty awesome cause a lot of people were really taken back but other totally got into it. People walking by all stopped and cheered. It was fantastic. I on the other hand am not the best camera man as you can tell.

Welcome home surprise!

While Kim was gone over the break I snuck into her room and left her a welcome home gift-a teddy bear and a rose. When we got home late Sunday night all of her roommates were there and a couple of friends. So, when she unlocked her door and went in only me and Megan knew the surprise was there so when she gave a little scream and ran out of her room into the kitchen everyone was wondering what was going on. Kim's eyes lit up with joy and surprise and she gave me an amazingly good hug. Glad to make her day!

She's Back!

Well, yesterday Kim flew back into town from Colorado. I was lucky enough to go pick her up and I found my camera the other day so I said to my self, "why don't I document this" So I did. Kim thinks she isn't photogenic but obviously she is so I decided to take a couple of pictures of her arrival.

I then being a gentleman said that I should carry her luggage packed it all up. While on the escalator, her new, large blue suitcase decided to fall down a step almost pulling me down. It would have been hilarious if that happened.

Part A

Well, it's been a while since i've posted. I am almost done with finals. I love the testing center. it's my favorite place on all of campus. I spend more time there than I do in classes! Well, a lot's happened since the end of the summer. I am about a year away from graduating in Psychology and i'm psyched! ahaha, a little humor psychology humor for ya!

Falls

Well, on monday we went up to stewart falls for FHE. It was a nice enjoyable and easy hike. Got super dirty though cause I almost fell down the mountain in the same manner that I almost did in 5th grade at clearcreek. I was just walking along and then I did a little jump to make things exciting, almost too exciting because the edge of the trail gave way and I almost followed. Other than that it was a small group and we all had fun singing songs and talking back to the cars. It got a little dark but it was awesome cause Carly and I talked about desserts the whole way and we decided to make a list and try them all. Super excited for that!

The Lake

So on Sat. Drew, Bryon, Johan, Celeste, and I all went up to Deer Creek with drew's family. we chilled on the beach for a while and just talked and then we got the wave runners out and played on them for the day. Bryon and I went out on one and just tried to knock each other off which was super fun. We did a pretty good job and then at the end of a run we both flew off and about broke our necks. it was off the hook! went tubing and did basically the same thing. Best 24th weekend ever!

Well, I suck at this whole blogging thing. you think that i would be good at it since i don't have a job but i'm not. Crestwood is pretty cool. I have met a ton of awesome people here and will be sad to leave in a couple of week. 3 imparticular will I miss the most. One is my most favorite cousin leah. besties for life!

Cobbler, yum!

Sat. a couple of us went up the canyon and had a bbq. played a little volleyball and Alex cooked some amazing burgers. All the while I was cooking some awesome peach cobbler. after the food we chilled waiting for the cobbler to finish and we played the card game scum. It was quite amazing Marc was king for the majority of the time. Then came the cobbler which by the way was amazing! We should do this again.

Drewza Booza's B day is today. This past Sat. we had a one year party for him. We had an amazing party filled with food, presents and fun. We ate hamburgers, brats, hotdogs, salad, and watermelon. It was a scrumdidilyumtious feast. after the food we watched drew open his presents and he was thrilled with them. He got a walking popper, cars, spinning wheels, musical things, and a cake all to him self. He sat in his highchair and dug into his cake. He especially liked the wheels which are cookies. It was a riot, literally a riot. Chaos everywhere.

ping, chang, pow!

So, on thursday, I was driving home from work when I pull up to a stop sign. There is a girl in her jeep in front of me and she is turning right as am I. Well, she pulls out to go and then stops suddenly while I am in the process of moving forward. Well, there is a loud CHANG POW. In the midst of the comotion, I find my hood under her spare wheel. However, from the decibles of noise from the crash I came to the conclusion that her car was as bent as my hood. In fact, no. her car had zero, repeat- zero damage. Awesome. No increase in car insurance this week baby!

Well, over christmas break I went sledding. it was totally awesome cause I haven't done that for a good couple of years. I like snow. This is the first post for me of the new year. awesome. well, it was fun.

The Wizard of Oz

well, last night we were just chillin and doing a job. so, the next thing I know, i'm sitting there installing a panel for nate, and then the power just goes out. the rain is coming down like crazy sauce. well, then the tornado warning went off and then the power went out. pitch black. so I had to use my phone as light so I could get everything done and put together so there weren't just randome wires just sitting there. so, that was awesome cause I just kept working and the job was almost finished. the only thing we couldn't do was the garage because the door wouldn't open so nates going to go back today. well, that was the exciting story cause there was a tornado in schaumburg and then a power outage in chicago. it was a wonderful way to end the night.

so, the other day i was driving and i was just minding my own business talking with steve and we were going to turn up the volume in someones house. well, I am going to cross the tracks and i hear the train horn, well, i look over and sure enough, it's just about 15 feet away from my head. there were no lights or anything to warn me so yeah. I almost died. twice in one day. first the train, then i almost got hit on the freeway and that would have just killed me cause the dude was not paying attention. so, that's my exciting story for the day.

stuff

so, basically it's been a month since i've done this. that's how long the internet has been out in my apartment so I decided that I would take my computer somewhere to get internet. it's midnight thirty and I am sitting outside in the grass by the club house making sure that the internet works. kinda of exciting, at the same time, scary cause the sprinklers might try to put an end to my midnight meeting. well, the other day there was a trailer truck that fell over on an exit ramp so that was scary. the whole thing just broke apart and there was supplies of whatever, everywhere. sickticious. well, today was awesome cause I hardwired 3 doors and two motion sensors into the panel. that's the most that i've done so far. lucky for the sales rep or he would have been eating his points saved. my, techs

the night life

well, installs are normal. things are going well and I only have minor problems now. it's actually pretty cool. I did have one install that took me forever cause I couldn't get the garage door sensor to work cause it was too far away or something so that sucked and then the wife was really sweet and stuff....not. well, the other awesome story is that when we are in chicago, we are in a black neighborhood and sometimes it's not the safest place. well, I got done with my jobs so i went to help steve so we could get everything done and get home at a decent time. I guess on saterdays they are going to give us jobs after 7 so we have somewhat of a weekend. well, his car didn't start so it was really dark, so we are just kinda sitting there and yeah. it starts and he decided to go to a job and partial it, well, he leaves his car running so it doesn't die again and he locked himself out so I had to drive back, I was on the freeway, and go help him out. we finally get in and then we drove home realy fast. i got stuck behind some slow cars and that was really frustrating. but, that was the horror story of the week cause I admit I was a little scared.