short update part 2

here are some more pictures and hopfully videos of our recent adventures.

This is Ben and Devyn(with Alana) They was the jackpot...a lot. 

I really want one of these. Really really bad. She was so kind and amazing. 

I was thumbless Jack for our Halloween party.

This was in twinfalls

This was the coolest juice we made with our Juicer.

our Yoshi pumpkin at Halloween.

This guy was mine and his name is Dozer

just a taste of our t-shirt sales this last holiday!

the after shot of the passenger side headlight. sorry these are way out of order. 

This is the before picture of our headlight. There was a crack in it and about an inch of water that would slosh around. 

an epic battle between jaws and Mr. mustache. sorry half of it is upside down. 

This one is Jaws

Another picture of Waterton lake. 

A very cool..thing we found in Canada. Oh Dr. Ho, what will you think of next?

This is the After picture of our new windshield and new headlights(installed myself)

panoramic view of Waterton lake. Only about 40 minutes from Emily's house.

On our way back from Canada we stopped at Pork Chop Johns. 

This one is called Punchy and was Emily's. They all started out as just perforated paper and we folded and glued them together on new years eve. It was sooo fun. 

Our new new years tradition. to the death robot fighting. 

This is Sir Mustache

Short update on Emily and I

Emily and I are happily living in the basement of a wonderful woman. We have been called to be the substitute youth sunday school teachers. It's pretty fun and we have a lot of great kids in our ward. I have applied for many jobs and have heard back from a few of them but nothing has really worked out. Our friends the Ricks are our age and they have really taken us under their wings and invited us to help them list t-shirts on Amazon.com. That venture has been a blast. It really amazes me what people will buy on the internet. We made a shirt that said "college" and sold like 30 of them haha. here are a few of the t-shirts we have made and sold. 

This one is from "How I met your mother"

We watched a documentary about grown men who watch my little pony. We were inspired.

play off of " my milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard"

This one is from the big bang theory.

This one sold so many that they had to have them outsourced. I bet I pressed about 200 of these one day. 

There is a shirt that is selling like crazy called t-rex hates pushups. This is my take on it. So far we sold 2 :)

Emily is in school now and she is taking 15 credits while being a TA for an English teacher here. With t-shirt sales, our killing this last holiday season with shirts and working at the actual warehouse where they press and cut out the vinyl, and a pretty good grant from the school this semester, we are pretty stable. Sarah, believe it or not, I could possibly be managing the men's side of the Ridge come February haha. Who would have thought huh? 

We were in the market to find another car and we had a few options in front of us. 

We could 1. Buy another used car. 

2. Import Emily's car and register it here and then sell it here. 

3. put the money back into our car and make it newer. 

We went with #3. We fixed the bearings for the front tires to reduce all the noise when we went over 45 mph. It was really bad especially when we would go to and from Canada and we had to yell to each other the whole time. The mechanic told us that if we had driven it anymore, the bearings would have fused together and the whole right wheel would have seized while we were driving! While that was being worked on we cashed in one of our Christmas presents from the Ben and Devyn Ricks and got a couples massage. It was Emily's first massage and I think she will never turn down an invitation for a massage again haha.  

I bought some headlights from Amazon and installed them myself which I was impressed with myself about that. We had a hiccup with a bolt breaking but after that was taken care of the headlights look great and our car is sooo quiet. We also replaced our windshield. The next on the list is to get the struts take care of and it will be pretty much brand new. Oh and we also ordered sun visor clips so the visor doesn't swing and hit us all the time haha. more pictures to come. 

My New Alaska Adventure!

Here is another picture update! 

  Here is the Salmon Hatchery aquarium. We got to go there for free

 This is in front of a bakery in downtown Juneau. They sell really good day old bread.

 I went to a bonfire one night and there were no lights. The only lights on the water were from the ship. it was soo cool.

 Here are some pictures from our apt. windows.

 my bed is the one on the right. turns out I need a pillow, a bed cover, pillow cases, hangers etc.

 we even have a balcony

 There is a bum that lives under the bridge and he really bothers us. The other day we went to the city and im pretty sure he tried to break in.

 biggest salmon caught.

 Mendenhall glacier. so beautiful

 A hundred years ago this lake wasnt here because of the glacier receding.

 Thats our office building that we share with a rock climbing place.

 This is how tight we have to park / back in to these places.

 I broke these in pretty quick having to walk an hour or so to work.

 Every Wednesday we have wash crew days. Where we wash and fuel every single bus.

Alaska Adventure

Hey everyone, I am updating you all at the same time so I am very sorry that I haven’t been that up-to-date with my blog as of late. But since I am on my next adventure I thought it would be a great idea to fill ya’ll in.

First and foremost, I find it really funny that my life is going pretty close to plan from my last blog post. I have graduated from BYUI this last April, earned my commercial drivers license to work in Alaska driving tour busses for the cruise ships in Juneau. And I have found my dream girl Emily Thomas! We are engaged and planning on getting hitched in the Boise temple on August 31^st at 1:00pm. I will have to dedicate a whole blog post to her so you all can know, in part, how awesome she is and who would be loving enough to have me for time and eternity. She IS real, I have picture to prove it.  J

We got engaged and 2 weeks later I was whisked away to Alaska to begin work there for a few months. It’s going to be tough to be apart with everything that we have to accomplish but I am confident that we will make this work and get to know each other on a deeper level than we would be able to otherwise.

Alaska is beautiful! Our apartment is brand spankin’ new and we have pretty much everything we need, minus Internet. Today was the day that all the drivers working in Juneau got together and visited all the places that we will be taking people to. It was a fun filled day full of quick stops and longer strolls to see the glaciers and waterfalls. That took up most the day and about 2 o’ clock I was starting to jump into a bus of my own to drive around with an experienced driver.

I wanted to get my bus skills back up to par so I asked if we could go to the most difficult places first. He was shocked because most people just wanted to go to the glacier again. Haha. The glacier was cool but I just wanted to feel comfortable doing the really tough stuff, so that when the time came, it would be just a smooth transition. He said I did great and I know the Lord was helping me a ton. 

Last semester of my undergrad

I woke up yesterday staring at my ceiling and wondering what my day had in store for me. Would it be just another day of school or would it be different because I knew that it was the first day of the last semester I would be at BYU-I. The last first day of my time walking through the snow to get to my classes. I got up, took a shower, read, prayed and was out the door like normal but my view of campus and the other students on campus was anything but normal.

I could see the newer students running around and mustering the courage to ask strangers where their buildings and classes were, I saw students who were being dropped off and picked up by roommates, friends and family. Everyone has new clothes and backpacks, accessories and books for the coming school year. I saw parents helping their kids get their things into their apartments and standing in line with their recently returned RM children to make sure they knew what they were in for.

Do grandparents look at everyone like this? Is this what wisdom feels like? Is being able to see others doing things that you've done and actually say, "Been there. Done that." the process of maturity?

I'm not sure if I like this feeling quite yet or not. Each day that passes not only adds experience to my life but perspective on things that were and are and are yet to be.


schedule for the next 2 years.

(with exception  to marriage because who knows how to plan for that haha)

Graduate Undergraduate program in April
Work in Alaska from May to Sept.
Study for GRE for Grad School
Get accepted and go get my MBA

let's see how this all works out!

everything is so clear now.....

This still makes me laugh every time I play it.


Happy thanksgiving to everyone. Thought you all would enjoy this little song.

http://www.incredibox.com

 i suggest shuffle mode

Music cube Tone matrix

Check this out!!


hours of fun

Race to witch mountain

                                               Race to witch mountain ring a bell?