Gratitude.

It's amazing when you come to a self acknowledgement that you are truely as stuborn as your dear parents. no offense mom and dad. but you have taught us how to so well. but i'm not complaining, it's one trait that has helped me conquer many of my trials. (i've had my fair share recently) i'm slowly turning into my father besides the fact that i look like my mom. lol oh well. So the reason this thinking process has been brought about is that the other day my uncle started teasing me about not helping out around the house more. and my tipical thought was i do plenty. and he retorted with saying look you have it pretty good. you don't have to pay rent or for food. and i realized he was right and i cold be up a harder creek. i've been truely blessed with a great situation and a great job. so i have nothing to complain about and need to buckle down and lift someone else's burden right? i wish i could lift some of the burdens my parents are going through right now. growing p it always seemed to come one after another. and dad and mom would always bounce back. but it seems that the older i get the thicker the trials get for mom and dad. and all i can do is watch. if only my position was greater to help. i was reading what mom had written on her blog saying how we were never very blessed financially and if we were what other blessing would we have to sacrifice for it. and i think i want to state that i have no regrets growing up the way i did. we might not have had lots but we had what we needed when we needed it. i had clothes to wear food to eat. shelter. support from my parents. i got to play sports and travel wit them. i learned that money doesn't grow on trees and if you want it you better be ready to work. i got to go play football in oregon when there wasn't any in my school. i had a cheer squad at every game ( not too mention two coaches. the one sitting in the bleachers yelled more though) i had everything. so mom and dad. you did good by me. i'm even kinda thankful for the woopens. it worked. so i'm being grateful on this day after thanksgiving. to have recieved from God two of his best guides he put here. heck i had to share mom with a whole school. and i don't know of a single person that speaks bad about them with justible cause. So i thank God for my blessings and invite you to do the same

Rexburg?

So I got to spend my weekend this week driving. don't get me wrong. if it didn't cost so much to do ( not as much anymore) i would drive all over the place every weekend. it's freedom behind a wheel. power under my foot. and a 100% control of where i go. unless i miss an exit. My buddy Cam Black and I loaded up thursday after work (5:45ish) and headed out. i've never been the montana way where you drive through massoula and down through Bute Montana. but the scenery was beautiful. and it kinda reminded me of home in some spots or of where we go hunting. but we made it to Rexburg by 3 a.m. and crashed. the next day we got up and did a little tour of campus. we talked to housing and counciling and this person and that and covered all our bases. and i did a little bit of girl watching. wow. lots of cuties. watch out rexburg. i'm coming for ya. we then watched the new james bond. which was non stop action. it was intense. then i met up with some friends inclueding one of the guys i grew up with Brian Kochel and we went to Bajio's (like Cafe rio.. Almost.) and bowling. then i took one of the girls i knew to Brians apt to watch a movie. way fun. the next day we slept in and then went to lunch with my Uncle Glenn and family. after which he took me too the house he's building. it is gorgeous. and then we trekked it back to Moses lake. i love cheep Gas. made the trip so much sweeter.

I'm a lumberjack

I love the conviction on his face during the last few verses

Hallowhat the crap?

I Have a bitter taste in my mouth for halloween. ever since my parents didn't let me continue trick o' treating at the old age of 8 i kind of disliked the holiday. the only thing that kept it in my good graces was the fact that i could dress up like an idiot and not worry about looking too dumb. so dress up i did this year. nothing as extravegant as earlier years while at home. i'm sure mom remembers some of my ghoulish costumes. so heres a picture and song to go with my costume

Troy and Austin

Past Due

Well I haven't written in a while..... SORRY. There really hasn't been much to write about. My application for Byu has been declined and I'm currently in the process of appealing it. I went to a football game with a girl last weekend. she decided to bring some friends which was fine. they picked me up on the way, but it was kinda cold at the game. to my surprise the three got up with 3 minutes left and left. didn't even ask me if i had a ride. i was so mad. but i never let it show. The other day at work i got to work with maintenance. we were on top of a tower pulling a lid off a container that had a process involving with lime. and inside had wire cylinders that were hanging from the lid down about 10 Ft inside the container. they were covered with what they call a sock or tube that was used for filtering. so we were pulling out the cylinders and changing the socks.... which was super messy. but anyways the guy that was watching us work screwed up and didn't tell us that we needed a special permit to be inside working on that. so he had to go to these special safety meetings. and there was an investigation, and i wasn't in trouble. sweet deal. Other than the norm of work. I'm enjoying spending my time at Troy & Mindy's harassing there kids and so on. It's been a learning experience. I was always the youngest. and never knew what it was like to have younger siblings... well now i do. and sometimes I'm glad this isn't permanent. other days i think its way cool. i just have to remember that there are 9 little bodies watching my every move. talk about pressure. just kidding. I'm not home too often. I get off work at 5. at 6 i go work out and then i usually have something going on with my friends for the rest of the night. so life is fast and slow. who knows cause i sure don't

Fun at Work

Well like I've said. my job is good but super Boring at times. So we have to impravise some times. we have a favorite security guard that decides to sleep on the job and so when we tell him not to sleep he gets mad at us and denies it. so for fun we wait tell he falls asleep, when he does we hurtle a rock towards his little hut. it's pretty much the funnest thing ever!!!!!!!

and gets rid of the boredom. We also get to cut locks and drive stuff places so when that happens it breaks our normal routines and makes for some fun. So when we do these things we usually have a code name. so since every one knows i served a mission at work and we have to wear a helmet on the site. i've been dubbed Helmet & Tie

 

Catching the Seasons

It never ceases to amaze me how fast time flys when you are actively doing something. it's almost the end of august. I've been living with Troy and Mindy since they saved me about the end of may. I really can't explain what happened to the time. but i've been busy having fun and working hard. this weekend i plan on catching a ride down to utah and Pick my truck up while spending time with my brother and friends. it should be pretty good. I havn't seen Dallas for a while now and Kassies prolly getting close to poping like a ripe zit. probably not a good mental comparason. but  i liked it. I've made plenty of freinds as many of my family members have seen by me dragging about 7 of them to go rafting. it was a blast. still excited about my truck to. oh ya i'm almost done with my application for BYU Idaho. So everything is going pretty good right now.

Work

Well Thought i'd update that i'm working again. with more work hours in a week. and a possible good future in the business. I work at Rec inc. they are reusable energy peopl. they crow the crystals and stuff that go into solar panels. I get paid to do what dad always got mad at me for doing... watching people work. the irony. but its good. I also had the opportunity to go to the tri-cities temple yesterday and go through a session. and it reminded me of alot of things that i need to be doing. So it was a great experiance. this summer is being amazing. I'm where i'm suppose to be and god is providing. I just need to remember to be thankful and fulfill my part.

Dealing with stress

Well i went looking for jobs today. and it was ok. i also blew off some steam with Austin and his freind. it was pretty sick.

Well Crap

Well today kinda sucked but i'm keeping my chin up. today at 3:45 pm. Genie Ind. let all their temp workers go. and that included me. so i'm with out a job right now. kinda a kick to the junk. but i have hope and faith. now to add a little bit of works and see if that lands me with another job somewhere that pays close to the same. but i did get to go wake bording. so that was the positive for the day. 

Sorry

Well i guess i might not be the most popular person right now since i'm not keeping everyone. up dated with my blog. slacker soy yo. but anyways work has been great. we're getting ready for a three day 4 day weekend. so that should be either amazing or extremely boring. i think mabe the both of them mixed. but any who last night i had the opportunity to go to fhe. offended a girl cause she heard me tell one of my friends that girls are stupid. all i can say is that the wicked take the truth to be hard. haha. it was a bbq and activites. so we ate and went to playing. the girls went for the volley ball. the boys went for the water balloon launchers trying to hit the girls playing volleyball. boys will be boys. they ended up being too far away so we just ended up running out there and tried to take em off the chest and various other body parts. after the first blow. i was reminded of baseball and remember why i was scared of getting hit by a pitch. cause thats what it felt like. after that me and some of the guys took of to the lake. it had been in the 100's so the water was nice and warm. we practiced our bay watch skills. dubbing each other with baywatch actors names. i got to be carmen electra. apparently i'm kinda girly. i'd have to say the highlight of the evening was the slip and slide. too bad only the guys played on it. everyone else had a great time watching us make idiots of ourselves. i don't even care  it was fun. 

Working hard?

So i finally got on at genie. i start working next week. Way excited. the singles ward here is pretty fricken cool. I've been out every single night this week at an activity. And yet again tonight i'm leaving. i got asked to play in a three on three tournement this weekend for basketball. what else. oh i tore up Troy's lawn and put it back in. added a couple sprinklers here and there. it's all good. I'm excited.

There and back again

Well i loved Florida besides the fact that i stink at selling. but oh well. life goes on right. well anyways i moved from one side of the country to the other. i will miss the fact that i got to speak so much spanish. and some of the food i got was a memory jogger. it was so good. but ya so now i am in washington with hopes of a new job and all the side stuff. but still enjoying the summer

Greetings yall dang foreigners from other nations.

Hey guys whats up. Thought i'd make my own blog since i forgot the password to my last one. I'm almost done school. like a half a week left. and in one week i'm heading down to florida to get a tan. i'll be living there for the summer. doing door to door sails and making bank. seems like it's been forever since i've seen everyone but maybe in the fall that will change. i'm enjoying the freedom of being single. but ready for any opportunity that may arise. this spring was pretty good. long but good. i worked two jobs while taking 18 credits in school. so i never really had time for myself. which was disappointing at times. but lately i've been able to meet more people. get to hang out with Cam and Kassie alot more. This summer will be great and i'll keep you all informed. I got to go to archery friday which was extremely fun and i'll upload a picture.

Peace!