Why does Utah steal all my friends?

Utah holds all of my friends. Which is great when you want to visit you get to see so many of them, but at the same time... I am in Vegas... which means that my visits with the peeps of my past are few and far between. I even make friends with people down here and for some reason they still end up in Utah. But no I am not going to move back to utah. I have spent way to many hours painting my house for me to ever leave it.




Cassie and I with our cool badges to get into
the church office building. I sure am going to
miss her!




Mary, Elaine, Mander, Maggie and Me!
Margaret got married on Tuesday and its always
fun to have little London Reunions



Me, Audrey, and Keriann. We met in the Fernwood in
Provo and had the best summer of our lives.



Had a BBQ at Tophers house. Modesty is hot.


Utah holds the most beautiful college campus I have ever been to. Even if you are not a BYU lover, you have to admit its an amazing campus. It makes me wish that UNLV or CSN came close... but instead you find cigarettes in the planters. Awesome. I am only a little mad at BYU for not providing me a husband which is somewhat implied when you apply to that school. Just kidding... but some people leave feeling that way.




This is me and baby Johnny... Keriann let me
push him around campus just so I could get a
glimpse of what this would have felt like. It was always
my goal to have a little baby at graduation. Maybe by
going back to school I am being given another chance.
(I really hope people don't take me too seriously)

It was fun to visit temple square. While I love the Las Vegas Temple... I think the buildings and just the feeling of temple square can't be found anywhere else on this earth. I marvel at that temple every time I see it.



Salt Lake City Temple




Cassie and I at temple square

Bri and Jen...for some reason I escaped without a picture of you. It was fun to go up there and see old friends and visit the many places that made my years in Utah well worth it. Love all of you!

And I'm off...

Dear everyone...

So I am going to Utah tomorrow. Thought you would all want to know since you stock my blog and can't wait for more posts. Just wanted to let you know that there won't be any more posts til at least next week.

Love, Sam

Torture...

Do you ever wonder why human beings want to torture another human being? Well Friday night Cassie had a date which my friend Brinley and I ended up crashing. So we start watching this movie "Rose Red" only to find out that it is four and a half hours long - and the boy chose it. Why would you ever do that to someone, especially on a first date? It gets worse. You would think that after everyone repeatly falls asleep except for this boy, he might get the clue that it made us want to kill ourselves along with the other people in the movie, but no. As i continually fell asleep, I would awake only to find that the creepstick was still there watching the movie and more importantly, that no matter how many times I fell asleep the movie was still on. Always on. I woke up suffering from PTSD.

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