the cluffs are so cool. saturday for a christmas present they took me to a movie and to the mayan. it was a lot of fun. the kids LOVE the mayan. the atmosphere and the divers are perfect for them...and me...i wont lie, i thought it was pretty cool too. in fact, i found myself kind of was wishing i could jump off some of the cliffs into the pools too...it looks pretty fun. anyway, the cluffs are the best and i am so glad to have the opportunity to know them.
so i was really pleasantly surprised with how cool the zoo lights were. it was a lot of fun walking around and looking at everything...my favorite displays were the turtles and the crabs! they were sweet. the crocodile was fun too. the best however was being able to see the gorillas sleeping. cortney and i loved it. thanks cortney for the fun time.
so the other day was kind of fun. last year i was able to be one of the academic peer advisors for the psychology department up at the u. it was a really good experience for me and i very much enjoyed the chance to befriend and belong with some of the other advisors. anyway, the other day we all decided that it would be a lot of fun to get together and have a reunion of sorts. it turned out to be a ton of fun. i loved seeing everyone and having the chance to catch up on what has been going on after graduation ... it was also pretty sweet kicking everyones butts at bowling! :) these are some pics of everyone.
Here are some pics from our ward Christmas party this year. It was held up at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and was a really nice evening. The people who put it together really invested a lot of time and effort into it and really made it a very nice event. I was pretty impressed with it all ... especially with the fact that we were able to have it up at the memorial building. What a nice place for a ward pary! We were able to have a nice meal, watch the nativity movie, sing christmas songs, and hear a short message from the Bishop. I really had a good time (except for when Jimmie was sitting at our table...what an idiot) Anyway, the pics are of me, Doug, Cush, Vincent, and Cortney.
Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone! This year Chad and Lindsay wanted to host everyone for the holiday so we were able to head out to Vegas and enjoy a bit of t-shirt weather for the weekend. Everyone but but Staci, Clark and Corbin were able to come so it was a lot of fun getting as many as we could together...even though we missed having the Gee's around. We enjoyed a nice turkey dinner (with plenty of pumpkin pie), hung out at a couple of parks, watched football, played the wii, saw some movies, and just enjoyed each others company...especially Rex and Jay's. Here are a few pictures from the weekend...apparently I only took photos of my nephews. 
So this last photo has a funny story. As we were playing the wii, we decided to make some mii characters that resembled each of our appearances. As we were doing everyone, Jay of course wanted to have one made of himself. He was able to pick out much of how his character would look and we surprisingly were able make one that looked pretty close to him...well except for one thing...Jay wanted his mii to have a mustache. It was pretty funny. Jay must have got pretty motivated by this because before you knew it he up and decided to give himself a mustache. (see photo above) It was soooo funny. Needless to say, Jay was pretty proud of himself.
So one of the things that I have really come to enjoy over the last little bit has been the opportunity to see deer up around where we live. I would bet that I don't go an entire week without seeing at least two or three somewhere along my drive home. For some reason I just really love it. If I can, I usually will always stop the car and just watch them for a minute or two. I guess its just kind of cool being so close to wildlife. The other day was the best though. I had just gotten home from work and was pulling up my driveway when all of a sudden I saw 7 deer just hanging out in our yard. It was pretty awesome! I hurried inside and grabbed my camera and the above photos are some that I was able to grab while the deer kind of progressed along our ridge.
