merry christmas

check out my new camera! along with getting a lot really cool stuff, santa really surprised me this year with a camera. now i dont have to pester heidi every time i want a picture!
the holiday season is really going well and its been fun hanging out with the fam and doing stuff with heidi. she has been really thoughtful and fun with her gifts and activities we've done. the only down side to the holiday break is that i have been sick. basically the very day we got back from hawaii i caught some bug and havent been able to kick it all the way up till this point. friday, thanks to heidi's dad, i started to take some anti biotics and fortunately have really started to improve. i guess i was just a wuss after being spoiled with that perfect weather in hawaii! should be back to normal in a few day though now and that will be nice...especially since we're all planning to go skiing in a couple of days!

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ok, so all this is a little backwards. the post i kind of wanted to be the first has ended being the last one. anyway, these are some of the pics from my recent trip to hawaii with heidi and her family. as you can see, it was amazing. go to the last post and kind of get the intro to it all there...oops. i think also that you might need to click on "older posts" to get to it

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HAWAII!

as all of you probably know, i had the privilege of going to hawaii with heidi and her family. to say the least, IT WAS AWSOME! i absolutely had the time of my life. we stayed on kauai and were able to do a lot of really fun and cool things. the climate, the weather, the landscape, the ocean, the views etc were amazing! i really am in debt to the hughes for having taken me...THANK YOU. anyway, here are a few pics from the trip. i could only post a few so ill probably continue posting the rest. the first is the view from our condo's window and the rest are on the beach right next to where we stayed. pretty sweet huh

jazz

last night heidi was nice enough to take me to the jazz game. it was pretty sweet. we killed l.a. and the game was very entertaining. the best part about it however was that we got 80 dollar tickets for just 25 bucks! we scalped them and were able to talk the guy down to a pretty sweet price. how do you like that staci!

christmas lights

ok ok

yea so the utes lost saturday...again in steller fashion. talk about a blow. congrats to byu but man it was hard seeing us let a win slip through our fingers for the second year in a row. i dont even like thinking about it because it still leaves me with such a feeling of let down. after the game was over it took me a minute to even feel like gettin off the couch. oh well

in other news, school is almost out and i cant believe it. crazy how fast and how hectic this semester has been. look forward to getting done though since im going to HAWAII the week after its all over...no you read it right...HAWAII! heidi and her family have been nice enough to invite me and i cant wait. ive never been so it should be amazing. i definately was nervous about accepting their invitation since it was such a big offer and something i could never repay. in the end however i realized they wouldnt have asked me to go if they didnt feel good about it...so hawaii here i come. we plan on leaving the 9th and will return the 15th. pretty cool eh.

p.s. though i should have, i managed not to throw my t.v. out the window.

time to weigh in

with three days left to go, i guess its time for me to add my two cents for this upcoming weekends rivalry game. first off, as a ute fan im going to have to pick a U of U victory...of course. i will however express my trepidation over brian johnson and his ability to perform against the Y. it is my feeling that brian has yet to be truly tested in a "big-time" pressure laden game. this will be his first occasion to play in the in-state rivalry game and im not sure if he has the poise or the composure to overcome the hype of the game and simply play at his best level of performance. there have been too many occurrences where i think ive seen him let certain situations break his focus and composure for me to have 100% confidence in him. however, he did play well against louisville this year so who knows. it will definitely be something i am anxious to see since, in my mind, the overall outcome of the game hinges on whether or not brian johnson can perform solidly without loosing his head. well, there you have it...i cant wait for the game saturday and GO UTES

p.s. if we loose again like we did last year ill probably throw the tv out the window.

man v.s. wild

last weekend heidi and i hung out with her college friend miche and her husband lee. it was really fun. lee is from brazil and actually knows troys area pretty well, its fairly close to where he's from. he said its HOT and really pretty there. so while we were hanging out we decided to watch "man vs wild", which i had never seen. wow thats a pretty crazy show. i watched the guy open the stomach of a dead camel, grab what was inside, and squeeze it in order to drink the juices it contained...pretty gross. it was entertaining though.





tonight was heidi's niece's 7th birthday party. it was really fun hanging out with everyone and seeing her celebrate and open her presents...the best part however was the ice cream cake...of course. get this though, heidi gave her a new version of the toy "light bright". i loved that toy when i was a kid...its pretty different now though.

so whats new at the zoo?

yesterday was pretty fun. i was scheduled to take the cluffs and since the weather was being so nice we decided to take off and go to the zoo. so whats new at the zoo?...us. anyway, its always fun going to the zoo with the kids. they really love it. between taylor trying to scare the new white allegator, jordin talking to the tigers like they were sheer kahn, and jared being mesmorised by the fact that the penguins sounded like "raptors" i couldnt have had better entertainment.

radiohead

holy cow, the new radiohead is amazing. its one of the best new albums that ive ever heard. if you havent listened to yet you really need to. thanks jeff for passing it along.

update

its been a few days since ive posted anything on my blog so i thought it would be a good time to do a little updating on what has been going on lately...by the way, sorry, no pictures today. with heidi being out of town my source for photos has been put temporarily out of commision... so lindsay you can stop reading and ill understand.

yesterday i had a paper due in my french class that was on these statues from the museam of fine art at the U...hence the ensignia above. we were to pick something from the 17th or 18th century and do a visual/textual analysis of it. as i said, i did mine on a pair of small cherubs statues. i think it turned out fairly well and i really actually enjoyed hanging out at the museum. i hadnt been in there for a year or so and i had forgotten how nice it was...i dont know how it compares to the MOA staci and travis but im sure it would beat it in an arm wrestle or something. anyway, it was nice to get my paper done and feel like it went pretty well.

in other news, work is still really busy and im ready for the cold weather to come so we can get a bit of a break...it wouldnt hurt either if west valley would finally replace some of our missing inspectors... i wont hold my breath waiting though. oh well.-- so mom and dad got me a laptop like moms for my birthday which has been pretty cool. i had to take back the first one we got but its replacement seems to be running fine. thanks again.

well i think that should be about it for now. talk to you all later

happy birthday heido