Engaged

Nine months ago next week I got set up on a blind date by my roommate’s girlfriend with her old roommate. I was told she was not only a beautiful blond, but also smart and funny (which happen to match perfectly with my three best traits: handsome, genius, and hilarious). Needless to say I was pretty surprised when I got introduced to a brunette on our blind date (she had dyed it the day before). She was still beautiful, smart, smart and funny so I took her out again, again, again…well you know how it goes. I used to think Salt Lake was close, until I started dating Liz, but have since memorized every billboard from Provo to Salt Lake and from Salt Lake back to Provo (need to know when Tim McGraw plays at Usana Amphitheatre, or when the Utah Blaze, RSL, or SL Bees have a home game?)

In April we decided that we were to get married and started the process. We have since scheduled a sealing date, bought a wedding dress, ordered a tux, and now we finally got engaged on Memorial Day. Here’s how it went down… (special thanks to Kylie for the pictures and John for opening the Martinelli’s…)

Liz did not expect the ring until June 3rd or 4th at the earliest, but I knew it was coming on May 28th…

…John and Kylie invited us to go four-wheeling with them so that Liz was unsuspecting that I was up to anything. We went four-wheeling up behind Kylie’s house in Alpine (we were the second 4-wheeler so we had to have sunglasses to protect our eyes, and these were the ones we found)…

…We first stopped at a look-out point/amphitheatre towards the top of the mountain and took some pictures for a minute…

…John told us that he “had to go to the bathroom” and was going to “explore around” a little bit. I convinced Liz that we should just wait and “enjoy the view” for a few minutes. Meanwhile Him and Kylie had moved a few hundred yards away to a tree house…

…John was so generous to open the Martinelli’s for us as well (he also made sure that it wasn’t poisoned)…

 

…Liz was getting antsy to get back on the four-wheelers, but John called just in time and told us to come down and he had discovered a sweet tree house. John hid on the roof to film it. This included taking off his shirt because the white was too noticeable and having Kylie break off a few tree branches to cover him up more. We didn’t even notice him…

…Liz was confused when we walked into the tree house and saw the table set up like this (minus the ring, it was in my pocket because John had stashed it so I could grab it on the way in)…

…Ultimately she said YES!!! and was happy that I had surprised her…

…this one below looks awkward because we didn’t want to fall out of the tree house…

…I got a suggestion from my Dad when he proposed he carved his and my mom’s initials in a tree up Provo canyon and then went on a walk and found them (after looking for awhile) so when I was up scouting out the place on Saturday I carved our initials in the tree house Our initials were a little easier to find since they were right in the middle of the tree house…

  …We rode around a little more with the two accomplices…

…found some great places like sliding rock…

Overall it was a great day and couldn’t have turned out better. I am one lucky man and we are both very happy to get married August 21, 2010 in the San Diego Temple!

 

I included a couple of my other favorite pictures of us from St. George and Vegas trips in early May.

St George Temple

Angel’s Landing in Zion’s National Park

Cliff Jumping at Sand Hollow  

At her brother Dave and wife Elyssa’s graduation from MBA school at UNLV, hence the red lighting

Golfing In Vegas, she makes a great Caddy

At the Bellagio and on the strip in Vegas

 

(I apologize for the picture overload, but if you look at my posting trend, I may not post again until I have a child…)

What Happens In Vegas...Gets Posted On My Blog

After an 18 month leave from blog postings I decided to throw a few pictures of this last weekend down in Las Vegas for all you avid readers out there. I went down on Friday night with Liz. Saturday was my 24th birfdee and so we went and played tennis (70 degrees every day), had a barbeque, went to indoor go karts that can go 45 mph, and then went to a Cirque du Soleil show called Love that is based off the Beatles and is all done to Beatles songs. Sunday was Ryan's (Liz's brother) homecoming so that was the big deal. Monday was swimming and back to good ol' provo and school. Here are the pictures, can't have more text than pictures!

Pictures

In the go kart about to Go

Celebrating my 1st place finish: Liz 2nd on left and Lindsey (younger sister) 3rd on right

Liz and I & Every racer (Liz, Amy, Me, Ryan, Lindsey and Ashley--sad cause she got last place)

After the Beatle's show "Love"

At the Bellagio Fountains after the show

In front of the Tiger for Chinese New Years (Both of us were born in '86: the Year of the Tiger)

At a Chinese New Year's Celebration in the Bellagio Gardens

In the Big Chair in Beaver at the Chevron/Dairy Queen on the ride back

Not sure how that one got in there.....

P.S. this took like 3 hours to make so if anybody wants to give me tips, I will take them or else I may never make a post again.

Ken Lee

So I had to post this video because I thought it was one of the funniest things that I have ever seen in my life.

Sponsorship on the Way....?

So last night after work I went with Jeff Edwards and we went out to the lake and did some Wakeboarding. I had my camera with me so I had the solo girl on the boat get some footage of me wakeboarding. I think I am getting better every time, but still not where I want to be. But this last time I was getting some pretty good air so they all wanted me to try a backflip. Needless to say I almost landed it. A couple more trips out to the lake and I think I will be successful. I also have a couple shots from facebook that a girl took a couple times ago when we went. So I will go ahead and post some pictures now, since my writing is less than entertaining.

(I made my font colors to correspond to the color of utah lake)

Yes that is me in the shadow. Hot picture I know

Boring picture, but since I have it on here already I might as well leave it so it will look like I have more stuff on my blog.

Yes folks that is me and if you are wondering this was taken .03 seconds before I did a sick (not ill, but tight or cool--for those who don't know that sick can have a positive connotation and mean cool) board grab.


I am not sure what is happening in the following picture, all I know is that I am pretty confident that I landed it.

Here is the video of the backflip. I am pretty sure next time I will land it




(The video is long but all the action is in the first 7 seconds)

Glow in the Dark Tour

So this last Monday (June 9) I was in class and text my roommate Ryan to see what we would be doing that night. He said that we could go to FHE for the ward and that it should be pretty good. Our ward is kinda lame though. So I text him back one simple phrase "Kanye."
Kanye West was having a show in SLC that night that we had mentioned or thought about going before. For those of you who do not know, Kanye West is one of the biggest artists out right now. I have become an even bigger fan since Cam went to Cha-city because he is from the windy city as well. If you would like more information on Kanye West you can click on his name.
So next thing I know I am leaving my second class early and we are heading up to SLC to go to the concert. He had three opening acts so he did not get on stage until midnight. The opening act before him is Rihanna who has become a huge artist in the last couple of years as well. Her big song is Umbrella. So she put on a good show.
Then came Mr. West. He had quite the elaborate show and he was on stage until about 1:45. It was an incredible show and one my favorite parts about the show was watching all of the interesting people that the concert drew. Overall it was a fun experience because I love his music. I have included below a video for Rihanna and Kanye west. Two of my favorite songs from the concert. The Kanye song is with the singer form Cold play and is all about Cha-City

Mr Kanye West



Miss Rihanna

Backflip at OGIO