Work Trip

Last Wednesday some of us guys from office headed down to Vegas for the A4M convention. A4M is short for Anti Aging. Not quite sure were the 4 comes in but it's there.

We always fly wherever we go when we go to a show and yes that includes Vegas..the whole flight takes maybe I think it was 48 minutes, including take off and landing lol. We landed spent like years trying to get our luggage. Vegas is crazy, the airport is huge and there is tons of trains and all sorts of stuff. We got to the Mandalay Bay put up our booth and walked around for a few hours in the hotel. That hotel is amazing, so many cool things are going on at that like pretty much the same time! The buffet there was pretty dang good, we ate probably way too much food the entire trip but it was awesome and totally worth the trips down the strip that we made to work off all the extra weight. Was the food worth it? Heck yea. The show was actually pretty fun the first day, I love going to the shows, it always gives e a chance to talk to my clients face to face and to meet knew ones. The A4M show is even better because you get to talk to doctors, and they actually know what they are talking about when they come up to you and they just aren't there for all the free samples and things that we pass out at the show. I also learn a lot of things when I talk to them. Also a lot of them are complete wackos, I had a person come up to me that looked like a women till she opened her mouth....wow....scary...also her face and other features proved her to be a man. Turns out she was a plastic surgeon...I know that people always say practice what you preach but dang....thats going a little too far. The night of the first show some of the group wanted to go to the boot barn to look at over 8 thousand pairs of boots...yes thats right 8 thousand pairs of boots....well there was no way I was gonna go sit there and look at cowboy boots for 10 minutes let alone the amount of time that 8 thousand pair of boots would take to look through. So I spent some time looking around the Casino, wanted to go to the Aquarium that they had there but it wasnt open anymore. So I decided to drop by the Chris Angel Mind Freak Show. It was amazing, I have always liked watching his show but to be able to see the man in person it was pretty incredible for a magic show. The tickets were super expensive so I just bought the cheapest ticket I could find and went to the show. They have people taking tickets at pretty much every door there that want to show you were to go to get to your seat, so I went up to the lady showed her my ticket told her I was by myself and she told me to take a seat and she would see what she could do for me. I was there playing with my water bottle for about 20 minutes, when she came up and was like well patients pays off, how does the 3 row from the stage sound? I was pretty excited...those seats were almost 150 bucks and I payed 65. It was so cool to see the show up that close. He is a pretty amazing Magician for what magic is. I was just in awe for most of the show, he did some things that you just cant explain and then it hit me.....he sold his soul to the devil, nuff said.

The show the next day was a little bit longer and more and more strange people came by with the nice ones that made me feel smart after I answered all their questions about certain things. Like I said I learned a lot during this show, so much things that will help me in this feild and talk to more of my clients. That night we ate some food and just kinda chilled, the show went later then the day before so we decided not to do much that night...I did break down and try my chance at he slots one time. My dad and me were talking about it last year and he was like just get it out of your system, but learn when to stop, so I looked in my walet to see if I had any spare cash on me because I didn't want to put my card in the stupid machines to waste even more money. I had 3 bucks in my walet and went to one of the coin machines....stuck in the three bucks and tried my luck. 20 minutes later I walked away with 150 bucks, probably not the best thing to learn on your first time gambling, but it was pretty awesome..Not that I will ever put any money in any of those machines ever again. We met up for dinner and went over to get some tickets for the show that we wanted to see the next night.

We went to Cirq De Solei show over at one of the hotels and it was an incredible show...seriously words cant describe how awesome this show was. The whole program was something that I had never seen before, the acrobatics and stunts that were done at this show was absolutely insane...some things I had never seen ever in my life...I've always had a dream of doing something like that and being able to see it was just awesome..All in all besides the crazy lady at the airport on the way home that if I went into detail about I would probably explode the whole trip was pretty awesome. I learned a lot saw some great shows and it really was nice to be away from the ex situation that had happened the day before we left on the trip....

Envy

Envy to me has to be one of the hardest sins not to commit. I try so hard not to do it but sometimes I just can't.

Right now would be one of those moment where I just can't help it. I don't envy material things right now, but more I envy all my friends who are married. I envy my best friend who just had his second baby. Such a cute little kid. I envy the fact that everyone around me seems to have an eternal companion, while I get left in the dust. I envy that love that 2 people share that brings them closer to each other and to our father in heaven. I envy that special feeling you get when you come home and there she is to greet you at the door. I miss the goodnight I love you and kiss when she wraps her arms around you and you wake up to her beautiful smile and her beautiful touch. My heart has been ripped out once again, mainly because she didn't fell good enough for me. Such a lame reason to not want to be with someone. No woman out there should ever feel she isn't good enough for a guy. When in all reality we men are never good enough for the woman we end up with for the rest of our lives. If it wasn't for that constant companionship in our lives we would just wander around without a purpose. Most of the time I would pick up the broken pieces of my heart and put them back together and move on....I don't know if I want to do that anymore....It hurts more and more every time it happens and for me it happenes all too often. I really wish I knew what lesson I was supposed to learn so I could get on with it and finally meet the one for me. Is she out there wondering the same thing? I don't know. All I know is that right now I'm sorry hun, It might just take a little while longer for me to find you, because this last time around just broke my heart into too many pieces for me to want to fix right now....I really just want to crawl into a hole and not come out for a long time. I just want to forget everything that happend the last 8 months...But I can't, those memories are so burned into my very being that I can't ever forget them. I can't ever forget her. No matter how hard I try she will still be the first person I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last person I think about before I go to bed. I so envy all of you my friends who have started your journy to your eternal glory with that special angel, that wonderful daughter of God at your side every step of the way. I want that so bad, O at least I have for a long time....I don't want to go through the heartbreak of having yet another girl tell me that I'm a great guy and that she is out there, but I'm not the one for them. I'm tired of every girl running away because I'm honest with them and don't treat them like crap, because for some reason that is a bad thing. To be treated like you matter and to be cared for and loved, for some idiotic reason has become a reason to run away from a person, rather than embrace it. So many girls think that if he treats me like dirt, he must really like me, and if he treats me like an angel I should freak out. To all the girls out there that read this look out! I'm caring, loving, honest, friendly, heart felt, I will treat you like the princess you are, like the daughter of God that you have been all your life. Look out for me because I'm someone that will never call you names, never make you feel like you are worthless...look out for me because I know you would rather be with some low life that treats you like your nothing. I still haven't figured out why its like that here in happy valley, but that is exactly how it is. If he treats me the way I know I should be treated I should freak out and think he's a creep. Oh but that guy over there just called me and idiot. Wow he must love me. Nice guys like me always and forever for whatever reason will always finish last...I just don't want to do it anymore. I just want her in my life...I have so much to give, that I just wish one person would actually try to be in a relationship with me rather then act like this is a cool thing to have a boyfriend. Works for everyone else out there, but apparently its to far of a strech for me.

Conference Weekend

Conference has become one of my favorite times of the year. So many wonderful things are said and taught and learned during the last 2 days of conference..

Saturday was a great day....mainly because one of my roommates is getting evicted and moving out..The last 2 months that he was here were just awful. He had no respect for anything o anyone in the apartment and he took some things from me while I was gone in Mexico that kinda put me over the edge..Did I mention that his girlfriend lived with us and lied about it for the last 2 months? Since when are 4 people allowed to live there? I don't remember that...I have missed some of my old roommates, but I do not miss this kid at all. He was a liar a cheat and stole what he could all the time...I really wish him the best but I feel bad for the next house he moves to. They were out of the apartment by around 9 o so. I didn't want to deal with them the day they left so I just stayed in my room. Most of the time you are asked to clean out your room and clean out the house before you leave, so that you can get your deposit back from the landlord, after they left I got up showered and checked out the apartment...they cleaned nothing...they cleaned out their room and put water in all the dishes that they left so that it looked like they did something...I'm sorry for my little rant but I just have no respect for these people...they basically came in and trashed and lied their way through the last 2 months of living with us...I didn't like it one bit..But after I showered I turned on conference and started cleaning the place..then I realized I really don't have much of anything to clean with..Our vacuum was broken and I needed cleaning supplies. So I went down to Walmart, found out I could get conference on my phone and went shopping. Bought things that I needed for the house and bought some of my own stuff as well. Then headed home and started some cleaning..I have now realized that some of my mothers insane cleaning ethic has rubbed off on her kids...I clean everything..not quite as well as she does but I do my best. The house looks really well..I had an extra fish tank lying around so I decided to set it up in the kitchen..I now have 3 tanks in the house...lol I know that's sad, but I love the fish! A well done tank can add a lot of beauty to a room. I spent basically most of the day cleaning the house, until priesthood session started..Six to seven hours of cleaning is way too much cleaning for anyone....EVER! But it was worth it, the apartment looks great!

I headed over to the Moellers house to drop off my car and head over to the session. I really think Priesthood Session is by far my favorite part of conference...Don't get me wrong I love all the sessions but the fact that Priesthood Session is directed solely at the men makes it more personal. I learn so much more from it..It was a wonderful session, so many great talks. So many great things that I can use to help better my life and those around me. After the session we all did our usual go to dinner at Wingers. Always a great time, great food people and just fun. After we went back to their house and played a few games and such. Katie was having a girls night out and sounded like she had a blast. Sunday sessions were just as good but there was one big difference to one of the sessions. Katie and me watched the last session of conference together. That's something that I have never actually done before, but it was so nice. I've always wanted to do more I guess you could say personal things with the person I'm dating and no one has really done that with me in the past. Having her there just meant the world to me. We enjoyed watching the last session, and look forward to reading all the talks when they come out. She came with me to my mission reunion as well and it was so nice having here there..She has been such a huge support to me in a lot of little things that she really doesn't have to do, but that mean a lot to me. It has been a such a good growing experience for us and everything. We met up later that night to go have a BBQ at the Moellers house...yes I do spend time with my family on this weekend, but they were coming home from Cali that day and weren't there. The BBQ was fun and it was just another great weekend, with some great friends, great lessons and most of all my wonderful girlfriend....things with us have been going really well....we haven't had the good times without the bumps in the road, but we have taking every one of those in stride and continued on. She really is such a wonderful blessing in my life and has taught me so many things. I really look up to her and I'm excited to see what our future has in store for us. I love you hun!

Mexico

It's now been a little over a month since Sheldon and me got back from our ten day trip to Mexico, and boy was it a trip! I figured since now my brain and body have kinda had a chance to relax from the trip I could put my thoughts together and talk about our time down there.

Day one-
We headed to the airport around I think it was like six in the morning o something like that. Needless to say it was pretty dang early. Sheldon's flight left like 4 hours after mine, but because I had a layover in Arizona, and his flight was direct we got there at the same time, maybe a few minute difference. Flying on my own is really kinda lame. I don't mind being by myself on some occasions, but not way up in the sky where I can't really do anything. One of the many lame things about flying is that your bags have to be under 50 pounds for them to only cost the minimal like 25 bucks. My bag was right on the dot 54 pounds which for some lame reason automatically brings the cost of the bag up to I think it was like 75 bucks. Super gay. The guy at the booth that I got my tickets from bumped me up to first class for 75 bucks and my bag was free. So either way I paid the stupid money but on the 4 hour flight from Arizona to Mexico I was by myself. Which contrary to the above statement of how I dislike flying that way turned out to be actually really nice. Lots of stretching room, I had my own bathroom, and my own flight attendant that was really nice, and I'm pretty sure I have flown with her before. We finally get to Mexico and our first great fun time happens. We get lost in a big foreign airport and have no idea where the other person is. Luckily we both speak Spanish fluently and we managed to find out that we were only 10 minutes away from each other on a bus. We got our bus ticket and headed on our way to Puebla which is the city that we stayed in for the first 4 days. The city was really nice and smallish. We got to our hotel by way of crazy taxi driver man that instead of taking us the way that would of been much easier and only taken ten minutes took almost an hour. Great times. We got to our hotel and they took us up to our rooms and let us in. Funny thing is they had to do that every time we wanted to go to our rooms because the key card system was broken. Hilarious. Also our rooms were rather amazing! not. It actually wasn't that bad. Nice comfy beds, they really were nice beds, T.V. that had a grand total of 5 channels and the best part of all of it a bathroom with a rear view look into the bathroom of the room behind us. Also the shower was designed for a 4 foot tall midget. So funny! We got our stuff settled in and decided to hit the town for the evening. Really nice little town that had a man in the center singing and smoking. He was from Spain which was really cool. We grabbed a bite to eat and checked out some of the sights till it started raining and we decided to head back and get some sleep, before our next day adventure to the pyramids. O so we thought.
Day two- Day two was a Saturday and it was the day that we were going to get our car and head out to see the pyramids. We get to the rental spot pick up our car and try and head out. Luckily for us we had a GPS that was all in Spanish and didn't work, so we got lost. Which was hilarious! Most of the roads that we took were right next to the ones that we wanted to take and it was just too funny. Sheldon's reaction to most of the drive was rather hilarious. So we decided that since we had no idea what we were doing that we would go visit some old member friends of Sheldon's and see if any of them could help us figure out the best way to get there. We met with two member families that were actually really awesome. They both made fun of my accent( I went to Spain on my mission and learn Castellano) we ate some great hot food and moved on to the next place. Also great people who owned a little restaurant. We ate some great home cooked food and sat and talked. To be honest it really felt like I was back on my mission for the first couple days that we were there. It felt like a pday with my comp and we were just out seeing the sights and sounds of our area. It was really fun and I really enjoyed it. It made me miss my friends over in my mission quite a lot. That's how we ended that day and drove our little white beast back to our hotel.
Day 3
- Sunday morning we decided to sleep in some instead of going to a church down there mainly because we didn't know what time it was at, and figured we could just drive up the area and say hi to them after church was done. We drove up to the church and found out that they were just about ready to finish up the last meetings for the day so we decided to hang around till it was over. This branch/ward was pretty sweet! Tons of really funny people and really genuine members. We got invited to a dinner with one of Sheldon's gossip buddies and we were set for food that evening. We saw a fiesta thing going on in the center on the way up to the capilla so we decided to go hang out there till our time to head over for dinner. They were having some pretty cool stuff going on down there. Mexican boxing which is now one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Lots of little shops and such and we started buying some gifts there. Little cool side note. The city itself is actually about 10 miles away from an active volcano that I guess erupts like 2 times a year. I got some sweet pictures of it smoking about and looking like it was ready to go. That night at the members house Sheldon and me talked with the family a bit about things that had been going on in the last 7 years( time since Sheldon has been back)and then we got to eating dinner. Which was awesome! tasty tortillas! The husband was a truck driver so we sat him down and had him give us the best route to get to the pyramids and the best route to get to Puerto Escondido which was the beach that we will be heading to in a couple days. We got lost on our way home which had quickly become a norm for our trip and got home finally and went to bed.
Day4-
We got up a little earlier than normal today so we could spend a good amount of time wandering through the pyramids. We had our route and we weren't going to get lost this time! When we got into the city that had the pyramid you could see them from where we were and it was still a good distance away. These things were huge! We got to the area and started to walk about checking out some of the smaller ones that had been destroyed and what not. Then we got to some that I had always wanted to see since my mission. I read a book in my mission that I now own called The Book Of Mormon On Trial. It's a really great book and I read it over and over all the time. Part of what they talk about is some of the areas in Latin America that were areas in which the Lamanites and Nephites lives and things and one of the structures they have found were believed to be were Jacob and his 12 sons lived for a time. The setup in The Book of Mormon more o less states that Jacob was in the middle surrounded by his twelve sons. Well when you get to the area there is one in the middle of a field with 12 smaller ones surrounding the area. In all reality it is really cool to think what it would be like for them, and to know what the real meaning of most of these pyramids was. We spent some time dinking around there and then we headed over to the gigantic one that you are able to climb. Man I don't know how they did that every day. They must of been huge! the stairs were crazy but the view from the top was amazing. You could see for miles around. What made this seeing for miles around soo hard was the fact that we had both died from the climb up! Holy Crap! The Mayans had to have huge legs! Those steps were some serious stairs that just got smaller and smaller the higher you got. It was worth the climb though. Although the climb down was kinda scary, for a few reasons. Number 1. I love jumping down stairs and have injured myself many times doing so, and these stairs would of not only killed me if I fell, but I would of been a huge spectacle for everyone there. Number 2. There was like a billion of them, so I held my jumping till the very end of the stairs. Also as we were coming down we passed a kid that was apparently also scared of falling to his death on the stairs because he was literally crawling down the stairs. Did I stop to help him? Did I make sure he was ok? Nope sure didn't, I got past him a little ways stopped and took a picture. Twas hilarious. We walked around for a little bit longer than hopped back into our most awesome car and headed to a different area of pyramids.

This city was called I believe Chula but I can't remember. It was said by legend and the Spanish Conquistadors that came through, that they made the Mayans build a Catholic church for ever pyramid there was in this city. Well there are over 250 Catholic churches in this small city. If that is true that is honestly amazing. I really would love to go down there and did around to find them. What we were really going to see is one of the even bigger pyramids over there. This thing was huge. You are only allowed to see the very top of it, because that is all they have uncovered up to this point. Uncovering the rest of this thing would mean demolishing like 5 o 6 miles of the town. This thing goes on for miles underneath the town and is just crazy huge. It really was cool to see this thing and see how these people lived and such. We decided to just go look around the city after this for a while and it was a pretty fun day. We grabbed dinner and headed home for the night.

Day 5
This was probably the day that I will remember for the rest of my life, mainly because we almost died o killed our car multiple times on this trip. We were about to embark on a 9 hour drive that we had no idea what it was like. We were in for the trip of our lives lol. The main road was super nice and easy. The biggest part of the trip was going to be the trip through the mountains. We got to the bottom of that looked at what we were going through, braced ourselves and headed on. The roads were just nice and easy for the first little part but once we got to the top and after the Mexican Guard stopped us the roads started getting a lot worse. Oh and they were made of dirt. Oh and there was potholes everywhere, oh and when I say potholes I meant craters in the road. The top of the mountain pass was so high, that when you get to the top of the mountain before you head down you reach a sign that says zona de nubes, which means cloud zone. So for the rest of the drive we were driving through the clouds. We stopped at the top to take a break and take some pictures but when we got out we noticed that our car was leaking, so we decided to get back in and hope it wasn't going to die on us and we would be stuck at the top of a mountain. As we started up again going through the clouds it started to rain on us as well which was probably nice because it was cooling our little car down. The downside to this rain is that it slowly turned from rain into a tropical storm of death. We almost had died several times on this trip from being run off the road to people pulling in front of us on the mountain and so forth, but this storm was the best, for a few reasons. 1. It turned the small potholes into bigger ones. 2. Those potholes were filled with water so they looked a lot less deep then they actually were. 3. Did I mention that we launched our car? after we took flight for a few seconds Sheldon and me looked at one another and started laughing to keep from crying lol. We kinda thought this road would never end for a while because it really wasn't ever ending. It started getting dark and we started to worry, when all the sudden we saw the ocean! We were so stoked! We finally had gotten to the town, which was also flooding..GREAT! we found the hostel that we were going to be spending the next few days, and the place was awesome! So much better than the hotel we were staying at before. We were starving so we decided to deal with the floods and go find some food. We ate went home got ready for bed and slept. I woke up during the night cause I had to go to the bathroom and I was super hot. So I walk into the bathroom and sit there for a second looking at the ceiling. There was something not normal just chillen there. We had geckos running around all over the place, I even caught a baby one and had figured it was just gonna be another gecko, so I turned on the light and holy crap! It was a huge scorpion! This thing had to be at least 6 inches long. So you can imagine that as I'm sitting here trying to take a leak while watching this thing to make sure it didn't decide to do a freak accident jump down was quite the experience. The thing which was later named Harold moved as I shut the door into our closet. An even better place for it to be. With our clothes. I told Sheldon the next day. He freaked I laughed. Great way to start the morning.

Day 6
Today was a day that I had been looking forward to for the whole trip! Today is the day that we would spend at the beach. We didn't get up till around noon mainly because we really didn't have anything that we had to do by a certain time, O so we thought. We got up went downstairs and they had breakfast already made up for us, and dang it was good. The first day we had Marlin tacos. Marlin is a tasty fish! We found out later that day that we were also the only people in the hostel for that entire week. Which was pretty cool. We told them about our little friend that we had with us for the night and they went quickly upstairs to deal with it. We headed down to the beach and just decided to chill for the day and get to know the beach. The area was beautiful and the water was crystal clear. I threw on my gear and headed to the water. I was amazed to find out that as soon as I set foot in maybe a foot of water there were fish everywhere. I stayed mainly by the rocks because that is were they all seemed to congregate. In like a reef setting just with rock instead of reef. It was super cool there were some tiny little guys and some huge fish. I stayed pretty close to the rocks most of the day, trying to get some pics of some of the fish, but I did go out probably about 60 feet o so off the beach were the water started to get pretty deep. As long as I stayed by the rocks I could see the bottom, but as soon as you strayed maybe 10 feet away it got really hard to see anything but black and every now and then a fish fly by. Kinda creepy and I didn't have a light so I stayed by the rocks. The farther I went out though the bigger the fish got. It was really cool. I spent most of my day doing that. I loved it. We went back, dropped our stuff off, showered and decided to take a nap for the next little while. The beach takes a lot out of you. We got up probably around 8 o 9 and went to find another restaurant. We found this neat little place that had some really good food. They also gave you bug spray at your table, which I thought was rather dang funny. Once we got back to our room that night there were a ton of geckos just all over the place and also a huge butterfly was just chillen on our wall. We got some sweet pictures of them all. I noticed something was on the door handle and I went to try and find a light to see what it was before I put my hand on it. Which I'm glad I did, because there was another one of those huge scorpions on the handle. We sat there for a second blowing on it waiting for it to move which it did by trying to run into the room. I smacked it away screamed like a girl and ran into the room. I hate those things.

Day 7
The people that we stayed with that ran the hostel were really nice. The staff was also pretty dang awesome. They took really good care of us. We went back to the beach today to do a little bit of surfing. I haven't been surfing in a long time. Mainly because I do not live in California anymore were I surfed and bogey boarded all the time. So this was gonna be an adventure. Our man Raul was our instructor that day and he had already taught like 8 classes. He taught us some stuff on the beach then we jumped into the water and started getting thrown into waves while he said, Rama, Rama, Arriba! which means paddle, paddle, up! Now we did this on a different part of the coast were there weren't as many rocks. There was a giant log in the middle of the water but hey obstacles on your first day of surfing after a few years is the only way to go. especially if it involves the possibility of sudden death. Loved it. It only took us both a few times of crashing into the water, me getting hit in the head with the board to get the hang of it. Raul was rather impressed with the two white boys as he called us. He said that he usually had to take everyone back in to teach them all over again what to do, but he said we picked it up quick which made me pretty proud of us. The only thing I wish I was in more shape for was the swim back park after every time we made it to shore. You see this is how it is. You stand up on the board, surf for a bit, fall off and then you have to get back on and paddle back out there. This was ok for the first few times, but after that our arms were dead. It was pretty dang awesome though, we decided that after that lesson we were gonna go take a nap for the rest of the day. That night we were in for a treat. We went with our Hostal lady to a lagoon that was like 10 miles away from where we had been staying. We got in a boat and went out to the middle of the lagoon. Now this is at night in Mexico in the rain, because apparently in Mexico at night the country knows nothing else is acceptable for weather but onslaughts of rain and rain and still more rain. So I was getting ready for the cold night ahead because believe it o not my body consists of maybe 2% body fat and can be out in the water on a cold night for maybe a minute before I become a human chatter box. What we were out there to see would of been totally worth it to me. You see there is a certain time of year that these glow shrimp come up form the bottoms of the ocean and into these lagoons to breed. They are about 4 inches longish, and what is so cool is that they make the water a turquoise blue when they are spooked o they move. So the moment we jumped in the water the whole area around our bodies went that color. It was amazing! So cool to see, and on top of that the water in the lagoon was like 80 degrees which was just heaven to my body! We spent a couple hours playing with the shrimp turning everything blue and then we headed back to our hostel to rest up for our long journey the next day.

Day 8,9
These days were spent with hilarious travels that included many flights of planes a 10 hour drive thought windy mountains that almost caused us extreme discomfort of the barfy nature and lots of shopping for gifts. All in all it was a really fun great trip that I rather enjoyed.

Ultimate Frisbee

I recently started playing this sport a few months ago, and I think I have only played like 2 times since then. Not because I have been busy with shows, or with work, or the girl..but because this game is so stupid!

Maybe its because I come from a sport back ground of all sports that involve as much running and pain as possible...Football(kicker) Rugby(fullback, wing). I played these sports in high school and college and I absolutely love them. I'm not quite sure why...it could be the awesome sensation of the crowd backing you up, the feeling you get when you hit someone without pads on, the blood and grime you clean off yourself after the game, I don't know what it is but I love it.....

Then there is Ultimate...the game that has become a happy valley over night hit(no one even knows what this is outside of happy valley). Now for those of you that read this that have no idea what this game is let me tell you...You play with a Frisbee, no equal amount of people and basically you throw the Frisbee to your teammates who then run to the touchdown area...WAIT WRONG!!!!!! once you catch the flat round object you can't run at all! See ever since I was a wee lad I was taught once you catch anything you run like Hades to the goal, touchdown, basket, whatever to get points...well in this lame game you catch the ball and in all your momentum you have to come to a dead stop....by which time people from the opposing team begins to do jumping jacks in front of you to stop any throwing at all...

I may add that I got in trouble a few times for just tackling people...another attribute that I have thanks to being taught to kill anything with a ball in Rugby...in short for all you people that love ultimate frisbee...please stop trying to spread the disease through out the world...I miss coming to a buddies house and playing football, soccer, rugby, hockey, basketball...now all I hear is lets play ultimate lameness....it saddens my spirits.

The last little while!

Hey everyone! man it's been a long time since I got on here. Well for all of you people that have read this blog, I don't know why lol, and are wondering about me and Katie we are doing great! We actually got together one night about 2 months ago to talk about things and decided to give it all another go, and it's amazing this time around. So different, so meaningful then the time before.

I have been in 2 shows since we last talked...Well I guess I finished one and started another one..such is the life of a theater person. The one show was fun, but I actually have stopped doing shows at the one theater for the rest of the year. Mainly cause I didn't like the line up they had for the rest of the year. But I'm excited to go see some close friends in Annie get your gun! I hear its gonna be a great show. I'm in Pirates of Penzance at the moment with the theater company that got my career started in the crazy world of theater, Center Street Musical Theater. We have been performing at the Castle Amphitheater in Provo. They were actually stationed in Center Street in Provo for about 5 years but due to some problems with the city were forced to shut down and move on..I think a lot of people hoped they would go away and not come back, but I'm so happy that they did. Yea I've had the chance to perform at the theaters that have been around longer, have the means to do huge shows and I've had an incredible time, and I look forward to doing more shows at the Scera theater and the Hale. But it's always nice to go back to my roots, the theater were I got my start and help them bring back a wonderful theater that has blessed the lives of so many people. I've also been doing the fun usual summer things! All water sports! haha.

I also wanted to get on here and share some of my opinion of the "great" politics that we have going on right now..It always amazes me how quickly a people can turn on someone that at one point they thought were so great. Now I never in a million years would ever vote for someone like Mr. Obama, and I love how most of the people that did vote for him are now regretting it. But here is my thing that I think is funny and just down right stupid on the part of the people that voted for him. YOU VOTED FOR HIM! you went to the voting sites got your little card and VOTED FOR HIM!. I remember around 3 months after he went into office that they walked around and asked people why they voted for him. The majority of the answers were because he was black. Also news persons would go up to people and be like what do you think about this and this policy? and most of the time they were like oh I think those are horrible and we should get rid of them if they pass. Well to their surprise those policies were from Obama! There is my problem with a lot of people of our country today..they acted on something because of the look of it not the acts...when the polls came back some like 65% of votes that voted for Obama had no idea what any of his policies actually were. They never took the time to actually read anything he wanted to do. So when people complain about all the crap he is putting on us, while yea it sucks for me too I sit back and smile at all the morons in America today that voted for him. You brought this on yourself. Maybe next time you will take a minute o two to actually read what the next presidential parties want to do with our futures, with our country that was once a country of righteous values, fighting for our freedoms, for our families our homes and our lives. I honestly sincerely think that our forefathers our up in heaven o wherever they are looking down at us with their heads hung in shame...because what they fought so hard for and so long for is turning into a country of lazy people. A country of people that sue anyone for any little thing...that think we don't need to protect ourselves from outside o domestic threats. that think money is way more important then anything else, and I don't care who I have to step over to get to that point...Really people? Come on! Wake up to the country that we are become and you would see how scary it could get if we don't do something about it....Now I know this could offend quite a few people but I don't care...I know what I want in my future and I want a world for my future kids that is free of the crap that I see out there right now...and if your offended by what I say I'm sorry...your welcome to go back to your little bubble of your own little perfect world. Cause I really think its time we as Americans wake up and do something to change our future....

The Lord Works in Misterious Ways

The last couple days have all been a blur to me, the days just haven't been the same. My old routine that I loved of going to work getting off and going home waiting for Katie to get done and come over are gone for now and for the first time in my life its been so hard to deal with...I didn't realize how huge of an impact she had on my life till she was no longer in it..I break down at almost the slightest thought of her and I just don't know what to do.

Tuesday morning I text my bishop and asked him if there was any way he could met up for some time to talk. See if he could help give me some council to deal with this right now, he said he would be happy to meet with me on Wednesday and I looked forward to it. Now this was something new to me, I've never had the urge to go and talk to my bishop before after a break up. The next day rolled along and I was trying to figure out what to say and how to get the most out of what was gonna happen. Katie and me started talking again on Tuesday and we were chatting online right before I got off work. We had decided that we couldn't keep it up like this so we decided to meet up later that night after she got off work.

Now even though she was the one that wanted to take this break I still feel like it was something that I did even though she said it wasn't to cause this break in our relationship for the time being. From the moment she left my apartment Monday night I couldn't get a certain thought out of my head that I have some things I need to get with my bishop and take care of. So that's why I called him and asked if we could get together. When I arrived at his place that feeling was even stronger, we got talking and I told him that I feel like this is the reason that even though Katie feels everything is going really good, she loves me, wants to be with me, but at the same time something wasn't right. He sat there for a second and after a few he looked up and smile at me. He then started talking to me about Adam and Eve and how when Satan made them aware that they were naked and had committed a sin, and how he told them to hide and cover themselves when the Lord called out for them. The next part hit home for me. The Lord called out for them and when they didn't answer the first time he then said where art thou. In Moses it says where go est thou? We continued talking about how the Lord knows everything about you. Well most of us would go duh we learned about that in primary. But what was new to me is when my bishop said that sometimes the Lord will let us do things in our lives that may be bad for us to a certain extent then one way or another will be like ok, were are you going? its time to come back to me now. He then told me a story I have heard a number of times in church and in his meetings about a time in his practice were one of his best friends at the time also partner made up some rumors about him and it almost broke up the whole practice. Well my bishop went into a state of depression for 3 years. His prayers at night started to get less and less meaningful, and the most interesting thing he said was in his prayers he would tell the Lord that he just wasn't ready to give that certain thing up yet, and that's how it went for the 3 year period. Well he got to the point where he just wasn't anything anymore but a withering human shell, he knelt down and told the Lord I cant do this anymore please take it away from me.

I had gotten to this point in my life. But our Heavenly Father made me realize it in a completely different way. He put one of the most amazing wonderful daughters of his father in my path and said here she is. But there's a catch. I'll let you get close enough to realize how much she means to you, how much you love her and want her in your life. But that's as far as I'm gonna let it go. If you want to see the outcome its time to come back to me. Now that may sound harsh to some but to me I really needed that smack in the face..Katie really is one of a kind person that I would gladly give up my life for her if it meant she was safe. I love her with all my heart. Now wither this means that we will start up a relationship later down the road and get married o she is in my life to help me prepare for someone else I don't know yet. All I know is I'm so happy that the Lord put someone in my life to put me in my place. It's a funny thought to me that I thought last night..Satan knows your weaknesses, and if you think about it in a certain way the Lord uses those same weaknesses as a strength to bring you back off of the beaten path. This is something that I am going to be doing for me and also gonna be doing for Katie, because if this ever does mount to something else I want to be the best for her in everything that she needs and all her wishes of a perfect temple experience.. I left the bishops with a new way of thinking and some homework to do lol. Katie dropped by my place later that night and we set off to go find a quiet place to talk. I was really worried how this was gonna go, and to find out she was too. But the night ended with a great respect for each other and a great talk. We are going to continue dating but she is just gonna add some extra dates into the mix. Now that is something that is gonna hurt so bad to know..I don't think anyone wants to know the girl/guy they love is out with someone else. But it's something she thinks she needs to do and while it doesn't make sense to me I will respect it. Hands were held we cuddled some and there was even a goodnight kiss, something I never expected in my wildest dreams to ever happen so soon. I love that girl with all my heart and I look forward to the next few however long this is gonna take..It's gonna take some time to get used to her dating other guys, but I think its gonna be all worth it in the end. Love you Katie and thank you so much for everything you do for me. You are amazing.

Relationships

This is probably one of the hardest blogs that I have ever written, or the hardest thing I have ever written period... I was with the most amazing girl in the world up until last night when she decided that we needed to take a break...Now this is something that tears me apart...I love this girl with all my heart and I want her to be happy. Last nights conversation was filled with tears, hugs, and hopefully not last goodbyes..

After our movie we sat in my car and she proceeded to tell me something I always feared with her, but kinda had an idea would happen sooner o later. She loves me, she loves being with me, she thinks I'm the best thing that has ever happened to her, but there is something in the back of her mind that just doesn't seem right, and her only way of figuring out what that is, is by going out there putting herself back on the market if you will and date other guys...When she said this my heart sank. I came to realize over the week that I was gone in Indiana how much I was in love with Katie and how I would gladly give my life for her if it came down to it. I know she loves me too, cause I've felt it from her when she says it to me, but I know she is really hurting at this as well, she left last night saying she's hoping she's not making the biggest mistake of her life but it feels like she is...

Now I get to sit back and wait for that call o message from her saying I've figured it out and we need to talk, and honestly this is going to be one of the hardest things I have ever had to wait for. Mainly because in order for her to do this I have to sit there and watch her date other guys week after week, till she comes to a conclusion of what she wants...Even after then I don't know the outcome. She may decide that she wants to be with me again, o she may decide that she needs to move on. She wants me to do the same thing but I already found what I want and there is no point in me spending money on another girl when I know its not going to do anything for me. So Katie I know you think its not fair to me, but I want you to figure it out.

Now if anybody does read this blog, please don't bash on Katie, this isn't her fault. She just doesn't know what to do and in her mind this feels like the only thing she can do to help her figure things out. Not only will she get a chance to see if there are other guys out there, it gives her a chance to not be around me. Sometimes in relationships that is needed..a chance to see what it's like without that person in your life. What if you are at all missing out on. If this is what she needs to do then I respect it in every single way..Now it doesn't make any sense to me..But there is no point in me pushing her farther away by doing that..

Katie is the most wonderful person I have ever met in my entire life. When I first met her I knew there was something special about her and I had to find out. We talked for a week and then finally she was able to spare some time to go on a date. The date was amazing. We had a great dinner filled with lots of fun, and the evening just kinda went from there. Every time I kiss her it feels like the first time I kissed her and that electric shock is something that is a whole new experience for me and its one of love undefined. She has the most warm bubbly personality that I have never had before in someone I've dated. She never looks at anything bad in her life as something that is hurting her life but something that will help lift her up. She has such a warm sense of love for those in her family and those around her in every day life. Many times I watched her as we were out on dates helping little kids along o playing with them while we waited in line. Our first date she went out to the bathroom and didn't come back for 10 minutes, I thought she got lost! lol. But she walked out holding the hand of a little girl that was having problems in the bathroom so Katie stopped to help. She has such a selfless heart and would really do anything for anyone..I saw her cry for the first time last night and it broke my heart..I know this is something she doesn't want to do not only because she told me, but cause she doesn't want to see me get hurt. She has such a wonderful heart and is always putting others before herself.

She even though she disagrees with me is one of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen. She has such a wonderful sweet smile and beautiful blue eyes that every time I looked into them I got lost in the angel that she is. She really is a wonderful daughter of god and she was an angel in disguise in my life. Every time we touched she sent sparks through my body, every time I held her in my arms I knew this is where I wanted to be I felt so safe and as if nothing could ever go wrong. She has made me a better person in so many ways, and if she does read this Katie I want you to know that I think so highly of you, you are one of the most amazing people I have ever met in every way. I've said that to other girls before but nothing and no one has made me feel quite like you have.. It wasn't as real as i thought with those other girls till I met you, and I learned what those true feelings of love were. Thank you for showing that to me. Thank you for making me a better person, and no matter the outcome of this break, I will always love you with all my heart. I will always be in your corner and be your constant supporter when you are at your worst and no one is there for you. I will be there. I hope and pray that you will figure things out soon and that I come out on top. But I want you to be happy sweetheart, and if in the end you don't see yourself being happy with me anymore but with someone else then go for it. I will be behind you a 110% always and forever. You are one in a million and I love you Katie.

Theater

Theater to me has always been interesting. The whole process has created a new world of stress for me and I love it!. I never thought I would get hooked like I have when I did my first show..I basically did the first one because my 2 of my friends were in a show that needed extra guys. Little did I learn that every show almost always needs extra guys. lol

Now here I am 3 years later rehearsing for my 20 show. It has been so fun and I've loved every minute of it. I've been given the chance to be in so many different shows and the character is almost always different. It's so fun to play someone different for a couple of months. I've been in classic shows Like 7 brides for 7 brothers, Beauty and the Beast, I was Aladdin for a couple of months which was amazing! I owe all my success and opportunities as an actor to my Directors, Music people, Stage people and everyone behind the scenes that make us all look good up on stage.

When it comes to the world of theater is often referred to as its own little world and mainly for one reason, and that's because it is its own little world. Once you step over the threshold of the stage you are thrown into a whole new world of Lights, Costumes, Dance routines, Countless lines, Blocking and the fun and stress of having to learn them all in a matter of a few months, usually about 6 weeks. Rehearsals are long tedious but at the finished product with a run that is usually 3 to 6 weeks you always leave wanting more. That doesn't even factor in the stress that most of us "theater" people go through waiting for our chance to audition then waiting for the next couple days to find out if we were good enough and impressed the directors and their staff for a callback, then the call backs are the last chance you get to impress not only the directors, but the chance to impress the choreographers by learning as much as you can a routine that's in the show in a matter of about 30 minutes. Usually its the hardest routine because they want to see how you move how quick you can learn and how you present. I hate that part, mainly cause I can't dance to save my life. lol. And the funny thing to me is that I usually get put in numbers that require you to be a good dancer o at least do what I'm told I do very well and that's fake it. Throughout these last 3 years I've very slowly started to learn how to dance and it really has been a fun experience.

I love when we get down to opening night and we get a chance to see how our hard work has paid off. We get to see the reactions from our audiences and bring a message to them that we have been drilling into ourselves for the last 2 months. Every movement is timed, choreographed and lighted to the teeth and basically we are just all out there doing what we love best. Performing. Being onstage is one of my favorite things to do. Such a great time seeing all the lights and people everywhere. Then after 10 sometimes 20 shows the run is over and most of us start with something new. The sad part is we usually lose contact with a lot of the people that were good friends in the show..We all go our separate ways and hardly ever see each other again. Sometimes this is really hard for me to do. Sometimes it's not hard at all.

That's one thing of the Theater world that I don't really like. It's a funny process to watch. The first day of auditions there are people making new friends and we all play nice to see who gets in and what happens. Then call backs roll around and more of us start being friends. Then the final cast is placed and we start the show and the friendships and back stabbings start to form. There we all are the first day of rehearsals were basically we all go into a room we get our scripts our schedules and we start to find out who got what part and all the little clicks start to happen. The leads usually spend the more time together away from the ensemble then anyone because they have so much more to learn and the ensemble spends all their time together learning all the songs and dances. Now about 3 weeks later the cast all gets together for blocking and running it all together. We do see each other a few times each week for music and so forth but for a lot of the shows I've been in we are each separate learning our own things till the blocking has to come together. And it never fails that there are always rumors going around. Or people are mad because they think they could of done better then the people that were cast in the lead roles.

I'll admit there have been some shows where I too have wondered if I could of done better then the leads that were picked and I usually come out dead wrong. But I keep it to myself. A team is only as good as its weakest member. There is no point in being involved o starting rumors, Not liking people cause they got the part over me o what not. The sad thing is that happens so much in theater. Just because someone got a part over someone else they automatically hate them, without even getting to know the person. And it sometimes can ruin a show. Its so sad to see and I try to avoid it at all costs. I love all the casts I've been in and while some have been better then others I try my best to stay away from the gossiping and the bad mouthing. The sad things is, is that it still happens and it hurts lots of people but usually just one. I hope that if we all get a chance to be in the theater world we avoid this at all costs. It's never worth it in the end.

It's been a while!

So yea I slacked off and haven't been on here for the last little while. I've been busy ok! haha. We had tech week for our show last week and lets just say it was a long week. We opened that same week and our opening nights were pretty good. It's a pretty fun show, I rather enjoy it. Its full of laughs and has some of the most random dance numbers that range from West Side Storyness to Waltzing....and crazy Spanish Style dancing. But overall its a pretty fun show.

I recently Started seeing someone and we have been dating for almost a month! I know hold the applause..Her name is Katie Anderson and she really is one of the most incredible people I've ever met. How we met is rather funny...One of my best friends Taylor called me up one night after rehearsals and was like "hey what are you doing Saturday night" I told him nothing and I was told to meet him at his place around 6 because we are going to Miss Pg Pageant. Now before I asked why he hung up on me..So I was to sit and ponder for 2 days why we are going to a High School pageant...Luckily for me the day of he wanted to go shooting so we grabbed all our stuff and headed up the mountain. I asked him on the way up why the heck we were going to a pageant for high school girls, and apparently he was dating one of the contestants...now after he said this I was kinda laughing because I just thought they were all high school aged lady folk, but the age is actually 18 to 24 so ok I was excited. We showed up got our seats and started to watch. The pageant was actually pretty cool...ok really there were only a few parts I actually liked. All the girls did a wonderful job and the girl that won did some awesome crazy dance thing.

We got invited over to Taylor's dates house after the show. Her name was Amanda..I felt a little weird at first mainly because it was me Tay, Amanda her family and a bunch of other people that I had no idea who they were. So I just grabbed some cake and chilled in the kitchen. Katie didn't come in till a few minutes later and as soon as I saw her I couldn't keep my eyes off her. She is beautiful. We only talked for about 5 minutes and since everything I said sounded like I was a bumbling idiot I didn't get her number before she left. To find out later that she was actually waiting around upstairs for me to go get her number lol..Good going Mont! The rest of the night was fun, we were quizzed by Amanda's 5 year old sister on how many girls we have kissed and if we were gonna marry a girl from the pageant. Good times. I did eventually get her number from one of her friends and Sunday afternoon I got up the guts to send her the cheeseist text I think I've ever sent to a girl. But hey it worked. We had our first day a few days later and it has been great since then.

She really is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. She is so caring and so full of love for those that are dear to her. As well as those that aren't that she just randomly meets. I just sit back and watch so many times as she is always helping and playing with little kids, that just seem to love having her around. She has such a great personality basically the same as mine lol and she has a great sense of humor. She loves the church with all her heart and she is just fun to be around and spend time with. She is beautiful inside and out and i love having her in my life. I've started to become a better person because of her and its great! I'm still psychotic and goofy but in a better person kind of way! haha. More updates on how we are doing in the future...

I was up at my parents place the other day and driving by there was kind of depressing. The gully that I spent most of my childhood is slowly turning into a world of golf and housing which is a bummer for many reasons.

1. When the dam breaks again(which is will) all those pretty houses that cost lots of money will be under water and so will the golf course heheh.

2. I basically spent every day of my childhood from ages 10 to 18 there catching lizards, snakes, scorpions and all sorts of things that would keep us kids entertained. We even spent a few days a year sitting in the dirt looking at rocks trying to find fossils in the rocks that the river had brought down from the mountains. I've even got some pretty cool ones that we found out there. I still have a huge leaf imprint from a plant that is from like 3 million years ago..

We would wake up eat, then head straight down there because we all knew that the lizards would be sluggish in the mornings because of the chilly nights. We always had everything planned out lol. We had groups of us that would go down corner them in bushed and catch them. We all got pretty used to being bitten by snakes and lizards and it got to the point where I didn't even know they were biting me. As we grew older our parents bought us firearms and we would add shooting birds to the list of things to do..We literally spent at least 4 hours a day in that gully. I've gone down there now a few times with some of the littler kids in the ward because parents have asked us to show them how to catch things and it just isn't the same. You have golfers going around everywhere, people running the new trail they have in and there is no more quiet anymore. We saw maybe one or two lizards in the couple hours we were down there when before there would be 20 or 30 that we would catch and the other 20 or 30 that got away from us. The kids got bored after a while and just wanted to go back and play with their Ipods or play video games and it made me realize that the kids now a days just aren't the same in almost no sense that we were when we were kids. We didn't have any of those things growing up and that's how we spent our time.

It's always sad to see old haunts and things being redone or made to fit more people but it makes you realize how vast and huge this world really is. And how ever changing it all is. I learned how to do so many things back in the day because if i wanted to know something my parents would always be like well go figure it out. So I usually did. Now you can just go look it up on the net and have huge details how to do things. I miss the old days but look forward to a bright future with teaching my future kids how to catch a snake or shoot a bird and just have a good time in the wonderful outdoors that we have been so blessed to have so close to us in this state. There are so many things slowly going away to be made for new house divisions and schools and malls and everything that people think will satisfy their now needs. It's crazy how times change and people do what they think is the the "in thing and lose sight of what really is important to them. But hey we all have done it and most of us keep a small glimpse of things we learned how to do to pass on in our lives. And that is how the cookie crumbles

Business Trip

Just got back from a business trip in Cali..It was tons of fun! I love going on these trips. Its so nice to be able to see the people that I do business with over the phone. And to meet new clients and to also see the dang interesting people that go to these shows!

For those of you that dont know, I work for a Silver Supplement company. Its my best friend dads company and its a blast working for them. I do sales for the company and about 9 times a year we go to different parts of the states to do promote the product at varies venues. We also go there to work with clients that we already have and so forth. Most of these conventions are health care conventions, just not your normal health care. They are all Natural products shows. We see some of the funniest people there! But there is a lot of good things at these shows. I love them. This one was in Cali like I mentioned before and It was so nice to get back home. The show kicked our butts and we are all tired but its all worth it. One of my favorite parts of these shows is meeting the people that we have helped with our product. This product has saved lifes and its so amazing the stories that come to us. Its such a great feeling to know that I am part of something that is of such importance to certain people in the world. I never realize how much we have halped people out there till they come to us and tell us. Such a fun time! We had some great food great laughs and plenty of random people to talk to. It was hard coming home. I miss Cali and any time I get to spend there I absolutly love! We spent some time down by the beach and its amazing. Its good to be home and to be able to get started on the new show that I'm in. I got tons of things to catch up on though and thats gonna be a pain but thats part of showbiz lol!
Until the next time later all!

The last little while

So its been a few days since I've done anyting on here, so I figured I'd say hi, so HI! Its been a pretty crazy last couple of weeks so far.



We had our last weekened of H.M.S. Pinafore. It was a fun run. I'm gonna miss everyone but I'm happy the show is over. It was a long run. But we had some good shows and I loved playing the goof. Its nice being in a show were I dont really have to do much to be in my character. Lol



Last Thursday I auditioned for Once Upon A Mattress at the Scera Theater. I've done things at the outdoor theater last summer but I hadnt made a show for the indoor theater just yet. The audition went well and I was asked to come to call backs on FRIDAY night...Oh yea I had a show that night! crap...so I talked to the director and producers and such and they said I could just come down right after the show and join in on call backs. I was called back for a lead role. Went in did the call back and thought it went well. Well they had dance auditions MONDAY night. Well crap have a show that night too. So we drove down as soon as the show was over to do the dance part of the audition. But when we got there they just had us read and that was it. So now the wait. Now for some reason I like to tourture myself by doing consecutive shows in a row. I've been doing shows nonstop since march of last year. It wears on you so much! But they are so fun....and somehow I manage to fit in everything else that I do in my life. The last few rehearsals have been really good. Well actually we have had only 2, but we are basically memorized on the ensemble numbers and our directors as well as us are pretty dang happy. Its cool to think also that out of 110 people she had audition and go to callbacks she only ended up with I think 32 of us. And we already get along so well and sound so great together...As much as I hate admiting it, I look forward to the dancing next week and seeing the show finally come together.

My knee is still killing me and during the winter months, my shoulder starts to hurt more and more. But hey when you dont go to the doctor to get it fixed what can you expect haha. It also makes me amazed at how well the body can heal itself..I've hurt myself so much and the fact that I haven't been in the hospital more then I have amazes me...I did go three times within like 4 months last year but hey it had to happen eventually. I really wanna go do a doc one day and just take X-rays of my body to see how many bones I really have broken lol. As far as I know I've never broken a bone that I'm away of...Surprise I know! But thats not gonna stop me. I also got my first set of stiches in my chin last year which is also a huge surprise...but hey I dont go to the doctor as much as I probably should.. lol.

I'm looking forward to summer and spending a lot of time biking and on the water with my friends and having some nice weather..I love the snow and I love boarding but it gets old after a while. I'm a southern Cali boy and I love the warm weather!

Climbing Mt. Mahagony

My friends and me enjoy doing rather random things, as you will learn as this blog progresses. One such random thing we did came to be one night around 8 at night because we were bored and had nothing to do. We were maybe 14 o 15. It was around summer time i believe and my best friend cam and me decided to climb Mt. Mahagony. Its at the enterance to AF canyon on the right side. So we grabbed a couple other buddies of ours, road our bikes up there in the dark, ditched our bikes in some bushes and started climbing.

It was a pretty fun hike, well for what we could see with our head lamps. The trail follows the cliff legde and its a good fall as you got higher and higher on the trail, so we were for the most part carefull haha, the first fun thing we came across, was a rattlesnake that was coiled up on the side of the trail, we didnt want to wake it so we just walked on by as I poked it with a stick. It woke up attacked the stick, me and the other guys giggled and we continued on. We got to the top of what we thought was the trail about 2 hours o so later, and decided to make this our place for the night. We pulled out our sleeping bags set them up drank some water and fell asleep.

We woke up the next morning and decided to look around. Well we were pretty happy that we had stopped where we did because about 5 feet away from us was were the trail stopped. And by stopped I mean there was a good 200 foot fall down the side to a nice and rocky bottom. So we were happy about our choice of place to sleep. We didnt bring much food and we had eaten most of it, so we decided to run down the face so we could get home and get food. We started cruizen down the trail when I put on the brakes and stopped. Cam was in front of me and had jumped over what he thought was a stick in the trail, which actually was a 6 ft rattler streching out for some morning rays. Normal people would of just let it go past but nah we dont do that, so we all tried to catch it! It went under a rock, we almost had it once but we decided to let it go. We went down a different way then we came up just so we cold see what was around there, we found no trail, but it was still fun going through trees, finding a cave where a mountain lion was staying and found someones mag light they had left for us to find. It was a way fun spur of the moment trip! And those kinds of trips have always been my favorite.

Car Washes Are Cold

My story today takes us back to a time of sillyness when Mont was a little crazy. And no this wasnt 5 minutes ago. I'm still crazy and love doing "stupid" things.



Taylor, Me and Reece were coming back from swiming one day. This was like the week before I left on my mission. During that summer we tried to go swimming almost everyday, we did a lot of Mt. Biking and just did a ton of outdoors stuff. It was one of the funnest years of my life. We made tons of movies and just had tons of fun.

One day coming back from swimming in Tay's land crusier that we were borrowing for the summer from a guy in our ward, It started to rain, we were just getting off the freeway and it started pooring on us. Which was so lame! lol, but as we drove past our friendly neigbhorhood gas station, we looked at the car wash looked at each other, ran home grabbed the camera and headed back to the car wash.

Now many of you are probably thinking we are retarded for taking a land crusier through a car wash without the top on. Wouldn't that ruin all the inside of the car? Well we do think sometimes and thought of this and the cool part about this particular crusier is that the owner had taken everything out that could get ruined by water, mud, dirt and so on and replaced the whole inside with rhino liner. So whenever he took it out diggin o anything like that afterwords he would just spray the whole inside out.

So we walk into the gas station ask for a car wash and the girl at the counter gave us the "are you serious" look. It was funny, she gave us the ticket we drove around to the car wash enterance, and tried to figure out a way to set up the camera so it wouldn't get wet and would be able to catch the whole thing. A little red head kid was walking by at the time, so we asked him to stand there and push the little red button when we got back to the car and started the wash. He "did" and we started screaming as we were being blasted with cold soap hard water and so forth, it was actually pretty fun. The little kid at the camera was laughing his head off and there was a line of 6 o so cars behind us that had stopped to watch what was going one. Now we did the full car wash, so we got pre-soaked, soaped, washed like 4 times, soaped again, then washed again, then powerwashed, and then waxed. I highly recommend the closing of ones mouth if they are to do this. The wax wasnt as bad as we thought and it left us nice and glowey. The dryers sucked! They were so hot and blowey!

Now we finished the wash much to the delight of the smallish one that was filming us, thanked him and made some after show commentary. We got back to Tay's house turned on the camera and much to our dismay, there was the begining commentary, the end commentary but no middle. The little small one forgot to push the button and we had no proof of our really smart idea. Now the smart thing to do would be to hang our heads up high and know that we did it and no one could take that away from us. Sadly and really awesomely we are not those kinds of people! So we head back to the same car wash ask the same cashier for another ticket got the same look and laugh and went on our way. This time we pushed the button ourselves and made sure it was on. And we now have some dang funny film! I showed it at my Mission Farwell party and it was a huge hit. That and my grandpa who is a huge car buff trying to figure out what we were thinking.

So moral of the story, if thou desire to make funny video of car wash washing, do not ask passer byers to push little red button.

Hunting

So for those of you who may not know I love hunting. From the months of September to the end of the year that is what I'm usually doing. I love hunting anything I can. I'm the redneck surfer boy as my mom calls me. lol. Even if I dont get anything, I still love just being out and about in the mountains, most of the time in places people dont really know about, Or would want to hike to. The hunt I'm gonna talk about today was my first Antelope hunt. It was about a year before I left on my mission. The hunt itself is up in Wyoming, and before we started just drawing out for them, we had to drive up to Wyoming at 3 in the morning to get in line to buy the tags. And the hunt isnt for a few months after that. So we get our tags head up to Wyoming on the day of the hunt and we get ready, now hunting of the Antelope is rather interesting. They are really quick, have great eyesight and are most of the time pretty smart. So it takes a lot of skill to bag one of these critters. But its also one of the funnest hunts I ever go on. We set out in our trucks and started looking for them. The reason we go after them in cars and trucks instead of hiking for them is as soon as they see you(now this could be hundreds of yards away) they run. So the purpose of the trucks is to get close enough to get out and chase them down on foot to get a shot. So most of the time they are also running at full speed which is around 40 miles when you get to them. So you have to lead them by about 8 feet before you shoot. Which is also challenging. So we get out there start driving and looking. We spent a lot of the day shooting and missing and getting animals. There was 12 people with us and they all had tags. Well I get up to take a shot at one and as soon as I shoot my scope shifts to the left side....Well crap thats bad I said...I took it off all the way and I was basically shooting without a sight for the rest of the day..Which needles to say landed me with leaving empty handed for the day. It sucked. Well that was the last time I was able to go before my mission and I didnt get to go again till last year. We get set up head out there and first we went to a different area to go after the 6 buck tags that we had. And boy did we have fun. We had one buck that my bosses son shot and missed turn and walk within maybe 10-15 feet of us. I call those kinds, animals that God wants dead. Mainly because they are like stupid people...We ended not being able to fill all the doe tags for the day, I think out of again 12 tags total we filled all but like 4. So we went out again about 2 weeks later and had a blast. This time it was just me, my boss, and our buddy Steve. Well we get there, and there is a doe just standing there looking at us. So I get out get a bead on her, and squeeze the trigger. Well I shot about 6 inches below her. Suck! So we kept moving along and moving along whinging shots at does far away just for fun. I was starting to lose confidence in my self and my shooting. Mainly because i shot like 5 times and missed all 5 lol. My boss and Steve were starting to worry as well lol...Well we come around a corner at a place were 2 weeks before we saw about oh 250 antelope maybe more. It was a place where we almost hit a group of about 8 as well with our car. They were running down the moutain and cut right in front of us, it was so cool to see! We came around the corner and in the field there was around 15 o so running around. They were all does and were running around so much becuase they were being hearded by a buck. So we try and get close enough and me and my boss had to take one of the harderst shots for me that I've ever taken. 250 yards at a probably 35 mile an hour dead run.

Well I was basically crapping my pants because I couldnt even hit a doe standing up looking at me picking her nose at 100 yards. So i get out of the car try to find a place to set up my gun for the shot, well I have no time whatsoever for that because they are just about ready to run past us. So I just hold the gun up to my shoulder, aim at the first doe, aim in front of her and shoot, Bang! well my boss shot at the same time and dropped one, and my first shot missed. So I racked in another round aimed in front of the doe at what I thought was 8 feet, turned out to only be like 4 and shoot! Well I didnt see her fall so I put in another round and get ready to shoot again when I hear you got her! I look back and I ended up hitting the 3rd doe back..which was good because the 4th one back was a buck and that would of been bad haha. So I lucked out on that part. haha

I ran over to her had to put one more shot in her because the first one want the best shot in the world and it was done. I learned some valubale lessons that day. How to shoot at a running Antelope and also learned how to bone out an animal. Honestly it was like the coolest thing in the world!

En finn Hunting has helped me become a better person and have more respect for the enviroment and the animals that our Heavenly Father has put on the earth for us. Now my friends that are against hunting and dont believe me, well too bad for you because it truely is incredible and through hunting I've seen more things and learned to appreciate our earth more then anyone I know that doesnt hunt. Have a good day and until tomorrow!

Week of Love...and stuff

As we come to the weekend and I probably wont be getting on again till next week I figured I'd talk about this a little bit and let you into Mont's life of dating, or lack there of lol. Valentines day for me is a really hard day...I usually end up spending it alone in my house, Or out with a group of friends and all their girlfriends. I love being around my friends but on this day I'm never really fond of it..luckily its on a sunday this year so I wont feel so bad for just staying inside all day after church lol.

The reason this is such a hard day for me is I've never had a girl friend on Valentines day. And I hate walking around and seeing all the happy couples all the little flowers and everything...I was actually dating someone pretty serious last year(talked about marriage) and when it came to the week of Valentines day, she pulled me aside sat me down and proceeded to tell me that she realized that she never was actually in love with me like she thought she was and didnt want anything to do with me anymore...that was two days before, and that Valentines day was one of the hardest I've ever had.

Now everyone that reads this if anyone ever does and all my friends that know me and know I dont like this day will probably say your time will come just be patient, or dont worry you a great guy and any girl would love to be with you. I full heartedly believe the first. My day will come and when it does I'll be the happiest guy in the world..The later I have always had a hard time believing. Mainly becuase all the girls I've ever expressed interest in run from me at the first chance they can get...I just recently had a girl that I thought I had become good friends with over the last couple weeks find out that I had an interest getting to know her on a more personal level do the high school thing and completely cut all contact with me period. And I will admit that I've had a few girls that did show interest back we did spend time together and then as it always goes they find something wrong or as many of them say you are a great guy, I really enjoy being with you and spending time together, any girl would love to date you and you're the kinda guy I should be with but I just cant right now..Thats one phrase I've never understood. I should be with you, your the kind of guy I want to be with I just cant. And then I see them run off with the next guy they find that treats them like crap and really never cares for them in the first place..

I remember back in high school every year I would have one little crush, I think everyone does that. I wasnt the best looking guy in school and was only popular because I was playing football and was friends with all the popular kids..But when it came to girls I knew that I probably wouldnt ever get the girl I had the crush on. It just never worked for me that way. I always said hi to everyone in the halls that I knew and always took the time to talk to anyone if they needed a listening ear. I remember one day a good friend of mine Stephinie Bullock came up to me at the end of the year and asked if she could write in my year book. She was the girl I liked at the time but knew I could never be with and was a little surprised that she approched me. It was our sophmore year and I remember what she wrote to this day. "Dear Mont. Thank you so much for always saying hi to me in the halls and in class. It always made my day" I read it that night and was curious why she would say that to me so I asked her the next day. She was new to the school and said that it was hard for her at first to get used to it as it is for everone I think lol, anyway, she said that even on her worst day she could always count on me being there to cheer her up with my smile. She was gratefull that I was there to make her feel special and cared for..I didnt know and probably never would of known that me saying hi to people could have such an impact. We became great friends through out the rest of high school. I went home that night and thought a lot about what she said and made it a point in my life to say hi to everyone I could. And I realized that even though most or all of the girls I liked back then, most likely didnt share the same interest, but they always knew that the little goofy football player could always be counted on to cheer them up and be a listening ear. I love being that listening ear and shoulder to cry on for a lot of my friends, but at the same time it breaks my heart..Most of those girls could be with someone that would treat them a thousand times better then they were being treated, but a lot of girls in the good ol state of utah today and probably every wear will settle for the crap they get handed because he has a great car, he's way hot, he is super fit, he makes lots of money, he's way popular. And they will put up with all the crap they get because of these things and all there friends are jealous because of the guy she has. Its helped me to realize a few things. I'm not one of those guys. I'm not the greatest looking guy in the world, I love the car I have but it may not be that huge truck, or tricked out beamer. I've also realized that most of those girls arent even looking for a guy they may possibly spend the rest of there lives with, they just wanna be with someone that makes them look good to their friends or someone to cuddle with that they dont have to worry about hurting later on. I have a really good friend that I dated about a a year and a half ago or so, that right after we started dating started to date some idiot that she herself has said many times sees no future with. My question is why do girls continue to date guys they see no future with? Because you feel sorry for them? Becuase you enjoy the fact that someone really likes you and you dont share the same interest? Now guys do this all the time as well and that also bugs me...If you dont think its gonna work out with a person whats the point of continuing anything? I'd rather stay single then date someone that just has me around because she likes having someone hold her. And after the little vent there we are almost done haha...

I know she's out there...and I wish with all my heart that I was ready for her to come into my life so I could start my life with her, and we could start our journey through life together..I've always been told by my Relationship teacher at church that we marry our best friends. Well who wouldnt you wanna spend the rest of your life with? Someone that you can wake up to every day and act like the 5 year olds that just love seeing friends, I cant wait to look into her eyes and let her know every day how much I love her, and will always be there for her. To just fall asleep in each others arms and just enjoy life together..Now I know it will never be like that always but I've learned from teachers and leaders, and one of the things I plan on doing is writing down everything I love about her, and when those hard times come I can go sit somewhere quiet, and just read those reasons and be able to see her always through the eyes of the savor as he sees her. We are all not perfect, we have flaws and we get married to help each other become better people and reach the eternal goal. Something I cant wait to have happen to me.
I hope everyone that has someone this weekend enjoys there time together, and makes it worth it. I'll be chillen at home or with my family doing what I do best and thats being the dork I am lol. None of this probably makes any sense at all but hey it makes sense to me.. Happy Valentines day to those of you who are gonna go for it. And for the rest of us still looking, dont worry, He/She is out there and is wondering the same thing. But realize one day you will be the happiest you ever have been. That always helps me through the day.

God gave us two ears to hear, two eyes to see and two hands to hold. But why did God give us only one heart? Because he wants us to find the other one.

A Whole New World

I love performing, wether it was on a sports field or on a stage I just love being out there hearing people cheer you on, or in a stage type clapping and watching your every movement.

The acting part didnt happen till recently, almost 3 years ago. I always wanted to try out for the school plays in highschool but I didnt think I was ever good enough to make one, that and I was super busy with football, rugby and basketball at the time. But I did like to sing and I was pretty good at it. I just needed more confidence. The 3 of us that sang and were on the football team always loved asking coach if we could leave practice early to go to a concert. It was pretty funny.

I sang every chance I could get on my mission and when I got home I wanted to find a way to keep it going, but wasnt quite sure how. When I went to UVU(UVSC at the time) I sang for the Acapella choir there for 2 years. That was a neat experience but I dont know if I'll ever do it again. It just didnt seem to be up to where I wanted to be. Which I know makes me sounds bad, but hey if you want to be good at something you want to make sure you get the best training right?

I was playing rugby at the time for UVU as well and was having a great time with the guys playing on the college level. Which is wow super different! The guys were much more insane and tough and it was fun being able to practice with them. Although I didnt get to see the light of our first game or any games during that season due to injury I still enjoyed being a part of the team. The injury came to be when I was playing hockey with my friends and co-workers that I was ready to head out and do summer sales with. We were playing at Classic Skating, which is a blast lol. But as I was skating down the rink with the puck a little kid on a scooter decided he was gonna cross the court, well he also decided to do this right in front of me. I tried to jump him but when I did he got scared and lifted up his scooter to so nicely of him take out my legs. Well I went to brace myself and I ended up looking down right as my elbow locked and I hit the ground. Now I know it may be shocking to some, but I've never done anything like this to myself before. And holy crap it hurt! I woke up the next morning in so much pain and later learned that I should of been sleeping sitting up, something that would of been nice to know, but hey I didnt go to the doctor so what can ya expect lol The pain never really went away for a few weeks so I ended up going to see my doctor friend that is in my ward. He sat me down did some stuff with my arm and came to the conclusion that I completely tore my rotator cuff out of place. FUN! Basically my shoulder will never be the same and it put me out of any kind of physical contact sport for a while. Well that was lame so I asked him what I could do to get myself back into playing shape again, he said just find something to keep you in shape and start working out little by little. As a waiter dealing with that and the pain sucked! but a couple of the waitresses that I worked with had recently tried out for a show down at a theater in provo called Center Street Musical Theater. They came up to me one day and wanted me to come to a rehearsal cause they needed more guys. So I though hey why not. I went down on the night of the rehearsal expecting to have to audition which I really wasnt excited for at all. But when I got there they asked me what my range was and handed me the music and I was now a part of the Pirates of Penzance crew. Little did I know that, that night would start me acting career I guess you could say. Also I had no idea how time consuming rehearsals could be lol. Long nights of dance, music, and blocking to put together a show. I had never really watched plays before, the only one I did an ex that I dated took me becuase her mom got us tickets to go see the guy she had set Aimee up on a date with while we were dating. I told my family and they were excited and chuckled a little at the thought of me doing choreography and things like that. To be honest so was I, many of my friends in school at the time were dancers and I made fun of them all the time. Now I'm doing basically the exact same thing. The cast and the show were a lot of fun. I was first assinged to play a pirate, and half way through rehearsals I was also made a police officer for the second act of the play. Those were way fun roles. I remember being super nervous opening night for the show and for me in general in the theater world. The runs went very smoothly and the show was a great success. I never really had any intention of audition for another show after but I was asked by the owners of the theater that I go to call backs for 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. So I did, they called me back for a brother but in the begining I made the show as a sutior, I was highlway thinking about dropping out because the show required lots of work for the sutiors only being on stage for maybe 10 minutes of a almost 2 1/2 hour show. I was at work one day thinking if it was worth the gas and drive time, when I reveived a call from the directors wife. She told me that there was a good chance one of the guys that was playing a brother would be dropping out due to taking another job up in Colorado. They asked me to take his place as Caleb in the show. It was a huge surprise and to this day I thank one of my now best friends Nate for giving me this opportunity. I would say that in this show is were I got hooked on acting. This was one of the hardest shows I have ever done but also one of the funnest. It took more time and effort then any I've done, but I learned so much and it was worth every second. Since August of 2007 I went from doing one show to doing I think I'm up to 18 now. And I've performed in 4 different theaters from this CSMT community theater to the Hale Theater in Orem. In various roles from a backswoods man to playing Aladdin in front of hundreds of kids every night. I've done Christmas shows, summer shows and fall shows. Now CSMT has been shut down for almost a year and while the theater itself is gone I will never forget the Grooms or what they did for me and so many others in Utah Valley. They are such an incredible family and gave so many people including myself an opportunity to go from never being on a theater stage before to performing in one of the top notch theaters in Utah. They always threw random and crazy things in front of me(being asked to join the B&B cast 3 weeks into the run of the show) but as I look back on it, it was all for my well being as a performer. Ive had some of the craziest moment in my life in theater and some of those memories I will take with me for the rest of my life. Thank you Gavin and Sharaliyn for everything you taught me and for all the wonderfull times you gave me. I'm donig a show right now and while its not one of my favorite shows I've really enjoyed playing the villian. I will be trying out for a show in a few weeks and I'm pretty stoked to see how it goes. Theater is now a part of my life and I look forward to every moment and every role I get. I've made some life long friends and I've been told I've changed the lifes of so many people.....I hope anyone that comes and sees one of my shows enjoys a great experience and will have a different look on theater life.

One Step Closer To Working at Sea World

Another post from the past lol. Well this one I've wanted to write down for a while so just deal with it!

Last Feburary, Me and my current girl friend at the time had talked about getting married sometime later in the year. We were both extremely happy and had starting going out and looking at rings. She gave me an idea of what she wanted and I had started looking on my own to find the perfect ring. She was thinking of going to China for the summer and I had planned to propose after she got back, Or if she didnt get into the program I would propose during the summer and we would get married during the summer sometime.

Well the week of Valentines Day she called me up and wanted to talk, so we get together go out and get some lunch, but it just felt really weird like something was wrong and this was normal. She mentioned taking a drive up the canyon so we did and when we got to the lake we kinda just sat there for a few moments before anyone said anything..so I broke the ice and was like whats wrong? She then proceeded to tell me that she thinks she was never really in love with me and wanted to break up...kinda heart breaking to have the girl you love and want to be with tell you that....The ride home was definatly a long one.

Well I was taking it pretty hard for a few days that one day I finally decided I needed to get away from Utah for a few days. So I called up some friends and asked if they wanted to take a road trip. We got 5 of us together and decided to go to Cali, and Of course go to Disneyland. We set everything up and it all kinda just fell into place. It was really nice. We left about 2 weeks after. The trip down was way fun and hilarious..We finally got to Cali about 9 hours later super tired and excited. Got to our hotel which was about 5 minutes away from Disneyland. We enjoyed three days at Disneyland(it had been about 5 years since Ive been back to my home town. On the 4th day, I didnt really want to go to Disneyland again, and I wanted some time to myself to think about my ex and where i wanted my life to go next. So I got in my car and drove to San Diego to one of my favorite places in the world. Sea World! I love that place. I could easily spend days on end there. Kinda one of the reasons I wanna work there thats for sure. I feel at home at that place, I dont know why but I really do. And it was nice just be by myself and think about a few things, clear my head of the ex and just be in a fun place. I had tried years before to get into the dolphin program there and was unable to due to the fact that during the summer they are booked solid for months, but this was march so why not give it another shot right? So I walked into the office area where you sign up for the class, hoping I could get a spot. Well they had set up a new program about 4 years earlier that was called Wild Artic encounter. I gave it a looksy and decided that was the one I wanted to do.

I didnt have to be there till around 4 and it was only 1 so I walked around the park some more saw some shows and just kinda chilled. The time eventually came and it was amazing! They took us behind the scenes of the whole Antartica and Wild Artic exhibits and we got to see lots of critters. We stopped at the Walrus exhibit first and got to feed them and play with them for a bit, then we went back to were they keep the Polar Bears and watch one of the trainers feed the male and then the female. WOW! I knew they were big but seeing them from about 2 feet away was just incredible..I still really wanna ride one. Then we met some seals and then went to put on the gear to kinda keep us warm in the 50 degree water. We jumped into the pen with the whales and dang it was cold...im sure some body parts disapered for a bit during this time....The whales came over and it was such a cool experience to be able to interact with the whales. They taught us a lot about them and let us hold and swim with them(if we wanted to) and we spent about 45 minutes a piece with both of the whales. They let us teach them some tricks and they spalshed us with the freezing water..Being there that day made me realize even more how much I wanna be a trainer there..The trainers there even asked me if I've thought of doing something like that because the whales seemed so comfortable with me, and thats what they look for in trainers. So I cant wait to pursue that career someday. When the time is right!