Tag your it...

I started this list a couple months ago when visiting amanda and she was pretty much holding a gun to my head. I figured since I started it and even went through the trouble of saving it... i would at least finish it. So here are ten things about me that some people find disturbing... others endearing.

1. I might be one of the messiest people in the world when it comes to my bedroom. Roommates have in fact had to leave me notes in the past asking me to "clean up my crap" if you will. What do they care its not invading their space. But anyways... at any given time it looks like an explosion has taken place... even if I just cleaned it the day before.

2. I can go days without drinking water because soda is my life. I am very well acquainted with the staff at the circle K on the corner of stephanie and warm springs. Let me just tell you that I love that place because they give you the choice of crushed ice or cubed... not to mention they have squirt in the fountain. For those of you who truly know me you would know that squirt is in fact my favorite soda but I have to drink the diet coke because of the headaches... and also so I don't gain 1,000 pounds off squirt alone. My new favorite drink is a cranberry limeaid from sonic. Its probably the worst discovery I have ever made.

3. Chips and Salsa is my favorite food by far... sometimes chips and taco sauce. Once after I had the flu it was the first thing I wanted to eat when I finally got up the courage to eat again. Sometimes I skip all meals and only eat chips and salsa... burns a hole in my stomach. Love it.

4. I have enough shirts to wear a different one every day for a whole year if that tells you anything. Although I just took a few bags to the DI so I should re-count before I establish this as fact.

5. I have been researching selling my eggs for money instead of actually working for the money. I got concerned about the amount of eggs I actually had in me. According to my calculations I have about 243 eggs left. Give it a couple weeks and we will be another man down. As you can see I care deeply about whether or not I have enough to bear children of my own. I need kids NOW to slow down the egg loss process.

6. I love craft time. This one is not embarrassing... unless you think of your grandma in the corning sewing a blanket cause she had nothing else to do with her time. And I am pretty much the same

7. One of my favorite songs in the world is Meatloafs "I would do anything for love". Many of you would associate me with this song if you knew me in my college days. What exactly does he mean when he says... "but I won't do that". Its one of lifes great questions is you ask me.

8. I have poor hygiene. Most of you who say you don't wash your hair every day at least shower every day. Not this girl. Its why I am thankful to have found cassie and have her a part of my life cause she is my equal in poor hygiene and it makes me feel normal. The good news is in my opinion you can't tell.... other than the bit of grease in the hair. But I don't smell. Promise.

9. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to take off on a whim. I have not always been like this. I have often been somewhat more on the worry wart side. But I have found this love of not planning and just going and it has always treated me well. Thank goodness for my tent cause it can come anywhere with me and always provides a roof over my head. My most random excursion was a camping trip up to Mt. Charleston... making the assumption that there were in fact places to camp out there. My new philosophy - we don't need to know til we get there!

10. On a serious note - seriously love my family and friends. I have the greatest sisters and I love them and their cute little families. And friends - this includes all of you that I have ever crossed paths with I think the world of you too - all for different reasons!

Develop your talents...

We have been counseled to develop our talents. Seek out new ones and perfect them. Well tonight my friends.... I did just that. It came in the art form of balloon animals. I have not really made it past the sword, dog, or flying mouse but I believe I can't go anywhere but up with this
one.

Someone should have told me...

If only I had known how amazingly comical community college is I would have started taking random classes a long time ago just for entertainment value. Where else can you find someone who and I quote "wants to write vampire novels based from his own experiences" and the boy whose preferred name isn't just dave, but dangerous dave. There is also Alice who does not speak English and Abby who always wears two pairs of glasses. One on her eyes and one on her head. And sometimes they are both regular glasses, not just sunglasses. There is Craig who is 36 and wears extremely short gym shorts and is 36 years old and just can't believe that you can bring coffee into a classroom cause this is his first class. There is also Brittney who has a peg leg and Eddie who has signed up for this class five times and keeps dropping it. We did not see Eddie in class today. Please appreciate the fact that I get to spend three hours a day with these people.

I SUCK!

There is nothing more to say than I suck at blogging. As I am trying to set more goals... I am going to once again going to re-committ to the blog. Please look for a recap of the month of June soon. And by soon I mean on Saturday when I actually have some time.

Love - Sam

CABIN FEVER

Over Memorial Day weekend the entire fam went up to
my parents new Cabin in Duck Creek, Utah. We are all excited
to have a place that our family can gather for weekends
and holidays. It ended up being much colder than we
ever imagined it would be in May - still snowing up there!
Here are some pics of our weekend!


The Creek


The Lake where my dad can't wait to
take us fishing.



Abbie joined the band and the Memorial Day
weekend party in Duck Creek



Naters and Daisy


Grandma with Dinosaur Nate


Kyle is such a great older cousin


Smoked out by the fire



The Rhino - dads new favorite toy


Lindsay and I riding


Preparing for the ride


The Boys


Kyle and Abbie

Monuesday...

I'm sure you are wondering what the *%&#^ is monuesday. Let me share my love of these kinds of days. Last summer Cassie and i had multiple days where we never went to bed. There was no end to friday and to beginning to saturday... thus the birth of fraturdays. We love it when two days blend into one because we torture ourselves and stay up all night. We fall asleep so early these days that we were not sure we had it in us. So monday night we went to a ten movie... bowled four games after it... took a trip to the wally world... and then topped it off with buffalo wild wings then a viewing of silence of the lambs. We thought we were going to accomplish a true monuesday til we fell asleep and didn't wake up til the afternoon the next day. Maybe next time we will get it right and get no sleep... and be in pain for days to come.

How far can you get in 29 Hours?

Grand Canyon is Behind us in case you were
wondering.


In 29 Hours I managed to go to to 2 National Parks, Five States, and drive over 1000 miles. What started out to be a trip to the Grand Canyon quickly ended up including a venture to the four corners. Which by the way there is nothing there so after driving hours out of the way to go all we could do is laugh. Laugh so hard we cried. Then we decided that driving through Arizona again was going to prove to be miserable so we took the north route home and ended up in Zion. Needless to say 1000 miles in 29 hours.... Cassie and I are always full of good ideas.





Cassie and I embracing being in four states at once.