As an avid movie-goer I thought it would be a good idea to take this as an opportunity to share with those whom I love, my thoughts on whats going on at the cineplex...

(500) Days of Summer: A refreshing romantic comedy that admits upfront it's not a love story. It has a great cast and an even better soundtrack; and it's really funny. It's an independent movie, so there is a lot of visually cool stuff that you don't typically see in films today. WARNING: It does contain some rom-com cliches in that there is some crude sex jokes/scenarios.

The Time Traveler's Wife: Okay me and Erica walked out of this movie 45 min through, because it sucked. It was melodramatic and didn't make no sense. I argee with Peter Travers of Rolling Stone when he said, "I'd watch the vibrant Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in anything, but The Time Traveler's Wife is pushing it." In short, I wished I could time travel during this movie.

Man on Wire: This movie is out on DVD, so go rent it! It's a unique documentary on a guy who walked on wire in between the two world trade centers. He and a team of others accomplished this illegaly. The footage is exhilirating and if you stick it out it's worth it. You'll have to skip some "weird" scene lol.


UP: The latest from Disney/Pixar is terriffic! And that's an understatement, it's really funny and heartwarming. Bishop took the priests to go see it for my bday this past weekend. Oh yeah and Becky cried four times during it, so that should be reason enough to go see it.

17 Again!

Well my birthday snuck up on me, quite literally! On a late-night run to Safeway on the eve of my birthday, as I was entering the store, a blanket was thrust on me from behind and I was thrown into the back of a range rover. Nick Anderson and Emily Miller kidnapped me and took me to this dessert house kinda by OMSI, called RIMSKY'S. It was lots of fun.

And the next morning (my bday) I went to work and my car had been window-chalked. On the back it said "HONK I"M 17!". The best part is Erica got to drive it around all day. I had a fun day complete with birthday calls and wall posts on facebook lol. Thank-you everyone for the gifts :) That night we had a cars-themed fiesta at the Pickups :)

Life in O-Town

Well... this weekend I happened to do something slightly abnormal for me. I jumped out of a perfectly good plane and free fell at about 120mph at 13,000ft in the air while strapped indecently close to a man wearing a parachute. :) Yeah. It was awesome. I would do it every day if I could. So I'm putting some pics and a video up of that.

Also, I recently finished redoing my bathroom upstairs. I now actually enjoy being in that room! (Although hopefully not too much.... lol) There are still a couple finishing touches to go, but I thought I'd put up pics since it's basically done.

Also, my roommate downstairs swears she hears a mouse in the wall, so I have the pest control people coming tomorrow to fumigate that little sucker (or phantom... whatever the case may be). That's pretty much it for now... I will be heading to visit Joey & Laura w/Erica this coming weekend and can't wait!

Besides that it's just work, work, more work and PLAY. I really don't want winter to come... EVER again. P.S. this is my first blog post EVER.

Landon

Hi there family. Becky told me I had to post something or I was sleeping outside. Boy, where do I go from here? We're getting a house in Lehi. It will be big for us. We will have a large crawlspace for the in laws. I will post more details after the whole deal closes.

The job is going well. I am a data engineer on a business intelligence team for the LDS church.. This basically means I'm a nerd. I will describe my job in a future posting.

Oh what else? Debbie is coming to visit us this week. It will be a nonstop party! We bought a little Ford Ranger but I need to fix a body mount or two.

Enough of this, here is a neat picture.


One time I smashed my fingernail off doing construction.

They say you can never go back but...

1982 and 2008 at about the exact same spot on the Duomo in Florence. The years have been tough on me!

1982 and 2008 at about the exact same spot in Venice!

I don't look like it but I am happier now that I have Amy to share everything with!

Real Life In Huntington

Mom's back to school and it's hard! Dad is good at helping me with my homework and listening to me read him the Declaration of Independence!


I am putting this family picture on all of my class notebooks to remember each of you AND to keep 60 year-old Hippy Men from hitting on me! (True story!)

I enjoy my new calling in Young Women's. I work with the Mia Maids. (Above is my favorite one!)

In my spare time, I enjoy attending Adrienne's soccer games!

My favorite weekly event is my date with Dad!

This is our little black squirrel friend.

Many evenings, Dad and I are found on this porch swing; talking and eating ice cream of course!

Whirlwind Summer 2009

It was hard leaving Portland, but it was so great to have everybody together if only for one day all together at Collette's Crib!

One of the highlights was attending the SLC Temple with Becky and Landon!

Nauvoo was amazing. it was wonderful to share such a sacred experience with Joseph, Laura and Adrienne!

Then it was on to NY to visit the Beck's! We enjoyed boating with Aunt Adrienne! Joey and Adrienne enjoyed a week at EFY in VA with Alex and Brittany!

We all enjoyed the Hill Cumorah Pageant with Alex!