today cush was nice enough to take a few of us out on the boat. we all headed down to utah lake for the day and had a blast. we skied to start out the day while the water was still calm and then wakeboarded. it was awesome. i love going boating so thanks to cush for the good time. here are some pics of me heid cush and trevor...notice im the only one not getting air on the wakeboard...gotta work on that.
its always fun when the nephews come in town. jay and rex are such cool kids. this weekend was chad and lindsays anneversary so they came up and dropped the kids off at 'grandma and grandpas' so they could celebrate a bit...personally, i think grandma might have died and gone to heaven while they were both here...both she and dad love it when the kids are in town. as you can see from some of the pictures, saturday it was 'thomas the train' day out at the heber city railroad station. i was able to go up with mom and dad and the kids and ride the train and see all the 'cool' thomas stuff. like most kids his age, jay loves trains and especially thomas the train so he was sure happy to be there. it was so fun to see him jump around and get excited to look at all the things and actually ride a real train. - there was even a real life size thomas the train replica at the train station sitting on the tracks, so you can only imagine how pumped jay was to be there! - i think the prize of the trip however was the thomas balloon that grandpa got jay. both he and rex couldnt stop playing with it. funny how the little things entertain the most. speaking of rex, i cant believe how mild mannered and cool he is. he is so much fun to play with. he laughs and smiles over just about everything. it was really fun to have him and jay come in to town.
as a fairly big fan of the original indiana jones movies (except for the temple of doom...of course), I was pretty excited to go and watch the new "kingdom of the crystal skull" movie. although having heard a number of negative reviews regarding the film, i was still somewhat optimistic about going and watching it. this was because i kept telling myself that in the end, despite the poor reviews, the movie couldnt really turn out to be THAT bad of a film....i mean, how hard is it to not screw up the new installment of an already popular and successful movie series. -- well, as it turns out, apparently it is pretty hard to not screw up what should be a movie classic and a given box office success...cause thats precisely what george lucas and stevo speilburg ended up doing. im dead serious. the new indiana jones movie is sure dissapoint you....and even though i know you will, (because it is the new indiana jones movie and all), dont go run out and pay full ticket price for a movie like this! WAIT TILL IT ENDS UP IN THE DOLLAR MOVIES! trust me, if you dont you will end up laughing at yourself for being so excited to see such a waist of a movie...i did.
well i made it...last friday was graduation at the U. mom dad heidi jeff and grandma & grandpa all came up to support me. we had a good time going out to eat and attending the college ceremonies. i think the highlight of it all was when the brass band started playing the beatles "when im sixty four" while the p.h.d. candidates were walking...rumor has it heidi leaned over to my mom when it started plyaing it and said, "well this is different." ha ha, i guess the u's a little different than the y.
after graduation, heidi surprised me with a trip to california for a graduation present! we went saturday afternoon and flew back in monday night. we stayed with some of her old friends and it was blast. they live in hunington beach and are basically five minutes from the beach. heidi and i were able to do a lot of fun things while we were there...as you can probably see from the pictures. we went surfing, boating, bike riding, softball-ing, and exploring! thanks to heidi, mel, and mat for such good time.
for another surprise, mom and dad got me a wii for graduation! i had never had the chance to play one before so i was really excited for it. the games are really cool and can get pretty competitve...you should see heidi at bowling or tennis and youll know what i mean. thanks ma and pa
