Help!

This weekend was so much fun! I got all my homework done Thursday night so I have been able to do fun stuff all weekend. It was really nice for a change. I played laser tag, went to a comedy show, watched some cool clubs on campus do break dancing and hip hop. Saturday we watched the football game and got our first snow. Yeah, snow in September! Then we went to Brick Oven for dinner, watched a movie at Ace's house and then watched a movie in the boys apartment. Today was church and then we just kinda bummed around. The guys made dinner for us..Here are some pictures.

Another day, another dollar.

Day dos. Not bad. I was a lot more tired today at work. Probably because we stayed up way too late two days in a row, because we are lame! That's about all that happened today besides class and homework. Brant, Ace, Bryce, and Zac came over tonight again just to say hey, and mooch off of our internet, which is cool. We are going to have a movie night with them Friday after Ace gets off work.

1st day of work!

Today was my first official day of work. Yikes, 5 a.m. I dunno what I was thinking. It wasn't too bad though. A girl I know from home works with me. I actually sat around for like half of my shift too. There isn't a lot for us to do because they finally have a full crew. I guess that's good right? Well tomorrow is the due date for the Odyssey and no matter how much I read that crazy book I'm still only on page 355. I only have to read to about 480, but that is still over a hundred pages to read before tomorrow. I think my professors forget that I have other homework to do to. Crazies! Well, you know what that means, time to get back to reading. I think my eyes and brain are trying to shut down, but I can't let them yet. Our roommates want to make a video together, so we might be doing that sometime this weekend. Good times!

Amazing day!

Today I got to be like... 10 feet from President Monson, Elder Wirthlin and Elder Eyring. Elder Eyring waived at us. I also got to hear talks from all three of them! It was an amazing and uplifting experience. We also made steak, and hamburgers for lunch and Mark, John, Brant and Zack came over and ate with us. Then, Mark made us crepes for dinner. Tonight Angela's friend Brad, and her brother Brent came over and we had a two hour long discussion about things happening in the world and in our lives. It was cool to sit down and have a serious conversation about things. It's nice to have friends that are mature enough to be able to discuss it with. Here are some pictures from today.

Kicking Tulsa!

So, we won the football game today against Tulsa for those of you who missed it! 49-24. Amazing I know! A freshman on our team made a touchdown. It was adorable cause he was so excited! It's hard to play as a freshman let alone be in a position to make a touchdown. I think we have at least two starting Freshmen this year though. Only one downside to the game though. It poured! I'm talking like.. Monsoon pouring. It was a lot of fun though. It just got absolutely freezing and I'm still warming up like.... 3 hours later. They had to delay the game for about 45 minutes for lightning and they evacuated the field. They ended up finishing the game though. We are having a regional fireside tomorrow and Thomas S. Monson and Henry B. Eyering are speaking to us! I'm pretty excited! I also start my job Monday morning... at 5 am. Not too excited about the 5 am part but I'm excited to finally be making money again. Here are some pictures from the game. I would try to explain who everyone is, but I think I would just confuse people since everyone is wearing BYU shirts.... and the same color.

Roomies!

Alright everyone. Here are some pictures of my new roommates. They are cute huh? Kimberlee is the birthday girl and Angela is the one in the picture with her... obviously. Jess is in the orange... trying to figure out the singing birthday candle which is dang cool by the way! Ooh good news, I'm on page like... 183 of The Odyssey.. only like... 300 some to go! Woo hoo!

P.S.

Here are some pictures from the other night. I should probably clarify. Brant (from Texas) is in the black. Zack (from Minnesota) is in yellow. Dave (don't remember where he is from) is in the dark blue BYU shirt and Brandon (from Evansville) is in the light blue. Jess is obviously the only girl in the pictures and my roommate from Missouri. We know each other from last year.

Day 3

Day three of school and I'm already overwhelmed like you wouldn't believe. One of my first homework assignments of the year was to read the entire Odyssey by next Tuesday. Yeah, a 500 some odd paged book in a week. Which wouldn't be that big of a deal if it was a normal book, but it is written in like... old english or.. something and it is kinda hard to understand. Oh, good news though! I got a job. 5am-8:30 am Monday through Friday. I am trying to slowly adjust my schedule so that I won't be exhausted all day in classes, I guess we will see how that works out. Some guys from the apartment complex (aka my ward for those of you who know what that is) came over the other night and played games and made rice crispy treats with Jess and I. Then they decided they all wanted to hear my play the piano... that wasn't so cool. I'm really not that talented, but I went and played for them. Kimberlee, one of my new roommates, has a birthday this Saturday. She will be 19. We are going to celebrate tonight probably by just baking her a cake and getting her a little present because she goes home every weekend so we have to do it before she leaves tomorrow. She is from Salt Lake. My other roommates name is Angela. She is from California, I think around the Sacramento area, I'm not quite sure. Her brother and his roommates called her last night and offered to make dinner for us this Sunday night.. so free food! I'm excited. Well, I guess that is all for now.

Leaving / Going Home

once again, I'm about ready to leave.. Indiana and go back to Utah. Although, I'm not quite sure which to call home. They are both home to me. I get to go to Seattle for a week first before I go back to Provo to visit my friend Angela! I'm pretty excited. My plane is scheduled to leave next Wednesday... super early in the morning. That part isn't too exciting... but.. that's alright. I have a 5 hour layover in Salt Lake.. which will also be kinda lame. Jess and Katee are going to come hang out with me during the layover though. That is exciting! I've been keeping busy with church and working... but other than that.. life is pretty mundane. Tonight I'm helping my friend Wads babysit. Kevin started school today.... I can't say I'm really looking forward to that part of being in Utah.. but I'll deal with it.

I'm such a BUM!

Holy cow, I haven't updated forever. I feel like a bum. All I'm doing right now really is working. I work about 40-45 hours a week. Not bad. I'm kinda thinking about getting a second job, but am dragging my feet because I don't really want another job but know I need to be saving up money. I miss the mountains! Anyways, that's really all that is happening around my neck of the woods. Katee finally got hitched. I can put some pretty pictures of her up here. These are my favorite ones although most of them were amazing. Some of them Kellen is abusing the cake in... but we will leave those out. I really like the one when they are walking out of the temple although poor Katee was burning up in her dress.

What REALLY happens at the bridal shower?!?!

This is what really happens at bridal showers... Haha... Good times. Lots more people showed up than expected. Katee and I are almost all moved out of DT. It's pretty weird to be getting ready to leave everyone for the summer and go home. I' m going to miss all my friends like crazy. Especially all the boys who are leaving on their missions.. that's no good.. well it is.. but it's pretty dang sad at the same time. Oh well.. what can ya do? life with freshmen.... alright.. here they are... they aren't working right now.. maybe they will have to be put in later..I guess so... look forward to it!

more pictures!

More practice Katee pictures. Ignore the weird ones...

Hi from Dad

Hi,
Washington lost 7 houses in a big storm. Looked like a small tornado to me.

I hiked a twenty-mile hike --- that was painful, I nearly died.

Had a fun day at the hospital getting my colon scoped. What we older people do for fun! Clean bill of health- sorry, no life insurance to be collected at this time.

One half of my potato crop got frozen. Yes, I know plant on Good Friday next time!

I decided to exercise an American right. I now own a gun, a shotgun to be exact with shotgun shells and deer slugs. I became awfully frightened of the Department of Homeland Security and decided to arm myself. (The terrorists are here and there but the Dept of Homeland Security is everywhere and mostly ineffective pork barrel legislation.-- My personal political view- sorry.) President Benson would be proud and so would George Washington both of whom felt that the right to defend oneself was a God given right. I listened to a talk by President Benson from the sixties. It was very impressive as he warned against the industrial-military-complex and human rights protected by God. It established a very good argument for the existence of God and God's Laws. Brother Baker showed it to us in Scouts. I now feel like a home-grown pioneer. Oh the gun was made in Massachusetts after 1919. It was given to me by my co-worker at work. The price was certainly right. It roars like thunder. I slewed a plastic bag in the back-yard with it.

The grass is growing. Jeff-daddio the plastic-bag slayer.

General Conference

General conference is this weekend. I missed the Saturday afternoon session but will try to catch it sometime this week since I get credit for watching it in missionary prep. The rest of the sessions have been great. There is a general theme about missionary work and families. Not really surprising I guess. Katee and I watched a bunch of movies yesterday as well. We won't tell you how many... haha.. Oh well. There are less than three full weeks of school left! How exciting! I'm so ready for summer!