Awesome Photos!

Not to brag or anything, but these are some of the fabulous shots my Dad has taken:

Surf and Rocks


Tree Silhouette


My Beautiful Mother


My Studly Brother


My Charming Sister


Carnlough Bay


It isn't his profession, but my Dad's a pretty great photographer. As you can see, his landscapes are beautiful, and his people shots really capture the essence of the subject and what they are doing. I wish he could take even more people shots--they are so interesting--but he is very polite and doesn't want to take pictures of people without their permission.

When I started out at BYU I was an art major until I decided to change to English. I like to think that I got some of my Dad's artistic talent, as well as my Mom's--she has incredible talent for painting crafty things like ceramics and wood as well as knitting beautiful, complicatedly artistic sweaters, blankets and baby blessing outfits and hats.

All Grown Up

I called my younger brother Brent for his birthday:


my little Brent is all grown up!

I'm still young compared to you

yes, but you're all tall and everything

yeah, that makes me superior

hmm, I guess I'm just a loser because I'm so short

yeah, it's okay

a beacon to look to

Lisa always gets so into tv shows that I like to tease her that she is getting a full aerobic workout.


If you didn't get any exercise today, you'll get some tonight.

I'm planning on it. I'll probably wear a sweatband a bring gatorade.

Yes- very smart

I plan ahead.

We could all learn something from you

I think that all the time!

Your humility especially is an example to the world

I know. If more people were like me!

We try. We fail. We try again.

I guess the expectation is a wee bit unreasonable.

Well we never expect to make it but at least we have a beacon to look to

So true--like gatsby's green light at the end of the dock

Daisy, the american dream- these are nothing compared to lisa

I am rather remarkable

I don't know if you should come over tonight- now i'm a little intimidated

Yeah. That sometimes happens. Try not to compare yourself- that's not fair to you

Thanks i feel a little better. I guess it's like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Yeah- if the orange were a diamond.

Hahaha...

I really, really, really want to join a rowing team some day. That is all, have a nice day.

No Car, Less of a Problem

Not having a car really, really stinks. But there are a few redeeming benefits. Has someone ever been driving you and some friends home and you secretly wished that you would be the last person to be dropped off because you wanted to prolong the fun as much as possible? This is one of those rare times when not having a car is a plus.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. St. John 15:13

And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God?
And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.
1 Nephi 11:16-17

Christ loved us so much He would lay down His life for us. Christ loved us so much He did lay down His life for us. Christ would rather have gone through our pains for us than have to watch us go through them ourselves. He did go through our pains, so that we could be healed of them. He would rather suffer for our sins than have us suffer for them. He did suffer for our sins so that we don't have to suffer for them. He loved us, and He loves us still.

My Dream

You know how you're always in the middle of this exciting dream but you always wake up right before it finishes and you are annoyed because you want to know what happened? Well, last night, for the first time I can remember, I finished a dream! After it was over, I woke up a little, but not completely, so that I was in this semi-conscious state. And I felt completely satisfied. "That was wonderful" I thought, "so entertaining!" I began to think about writing it down in book form and publishing it. And then I really fully woke up, and I realized that was a stupid idea. But it was a great dream.

Anyway, what happened is that I was swimming in the BYU pool, and this guy came up and tried drowning me by holding me underwater at the bottom of the pool, but I escaped and came up and got out of the pool and began yelling "help" as loudly as I could. So then this really big marine guy came in with a stun gun and he tried to shoot him, but the guy was invincible and the gun had no effect. Then I kept yelling "help" and all sorts of more people came,but no one was able to shoot this guy, the bullets just bounced off of him. But then I found this old camera sitting there, and I found that if I took a picture of the bad guy it took his invincibility-ness away. So then I took his picture and we nabbed him and I finished my excellent dream.

It was an action adventure dream, high time entertainment at its greatest.