2 Thousand N Ten - MMX

WOW! 2010 has absolutely flown by and I'm not really too surprised that I haven't posted anything for quite some time due to the amount of time I don't have. I actually think that it's more like I don't make time to create posts, but here is the update for the past year.

The Winter Dew Tour made a stop off in Northern Utah this year and of course being the ski bums that we are, we had to go and take part. Myself, BMER, Hollywood and the newly arrived Zatch-Ass were among the attendees as we checked the slopestyle and half-pipe events, much fun and many red bulls were had.

February brought a birthday trip for my brother down to St. George. My brother is a big golfer and likes to be able to golf any time he wants. He decided that for his birthday this year, he wanted to go and play some golf down in the sun. While I was down there, I went down to Vegas to see some friends that I know from my mission. The Robbins family was really a lot of fun to be with along with the ever so pretty Lindsay. It was really good to catch up with her and spend some time with her as we reminicsed on our times together in Indiana.

The rest of the winter entailed more ski trips up to the bird and an occasional night outing up to Brighton. Nearly every Saturday encompassed at least a little bit of riding from the original three man ski crew. Looking out the window right now and seeing that the leaves are changing, the weather is cooling, and ski movie premiers are around the corner, ski season is approaching and it better be here fast dammit.

April marked probably one of the most memorable moments of my life, up to this point, GRADUATION! On the 30th I graduated from college. This was an incredible experience for me to learn and to grow, not only from professors and classmates, but also about myself. I felt like I had accomplished something. Something like never before, plus it also showed me that I don't ever have to go to school again! That just makes my little mind skip along like an elementary school kid. The biggest accomplishment thus far in my life, I am definitely glad I stuck it out and finished and had the opportunity to complete 22 year long journey entitled; School. Check.

After graduation, the Munro's from Cincinnati invited me to take a trip to Orlando with them and their grand daughter who was being sponsored by Make-A-Wish at Disney World. I found some flights for 180 dollars round trip and packed up for a few days and jammed. Many fun times and memories at Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios & Epcot Center made up the 3-day trip and much fun was had by all!

May brought in the summer right with the first family trip to Lake Powell leaking in to June. Ashley and Brad came down on Friday after the rest of the family ventured down Thursday night. Ashley originally needed a buddy to ride down with because Brad was going to come down with the rest of the fam. However, work allowed Brad to stay and him to come down Friday. Well, Ashley had already asked Kenzee Anderson to ride down with her, so she came down with them, which was VERY okay with me. I have had my eye on, and had a secret crush on Kenzee for quite some time (since I met her 2 summers ago actually) and we had been texting kind of off and on over the previous weeks. I felt like this was my chance to get to know her and have some fun! I haven't taken anyone I've been interested in to Lake Powell for a really long time, so I thought this would be really fun for me and for us. As the weekend went on, we had some good close times where we were able to just chat and just be alone together. We watched a movie before going to sleep, slept up top to watch the stars and wondered if we could pretend like the airplanes in the night sky were like shooting stars and wish on them, because secretly for us both, we were living a wish by being together. A cute little cuddle sesh after getting wet accidentally on a boat ride to get some dinner was the highlight of the trip and the first time I really felt close to her. It was awesome! Lake Powell trip number 1 for Oh 10, successful.

The rest of my summer was spent chasing after Kenzee and falling in love. I was, and still am very okay with this. She is such an incredible girl who I have grown to love oh so very much. After we returned home from Powell, we began to talk more and more and our relationship began. We went out a few times and felt that the time we spent together was really special. We began to realize that we really liked to be with each other and over the course of just a few weeks, we hung out 5 or 6 times! There was something different about this girl though. Something that I could tell right off the bat. Not only is this girl like very talented when it comes to playing the piano, motherly instincts, caring for others, singing beautifully and working hard. She is drop dead gorgeous! I just love how beautiful she is all the time! She is one of those girls who can get ready with jeans and a t-shirt, no make-up and a sports bra and still look absoluttely stunning! She doesn't think so, but I sure do! There are just so many things that I have grown to love about her and the list keeps growing each and every day! She always wants to make sure that I am happy and tells me how awesome I am on a daily basis. This girl truly is the girl of my dreams! I've tried to look for things that are wrong with her and I think I'm going to be looking for a really long time. She honestly is that good. She is so good for me and makes me feel like I can accomplish anything! It really is awesome!

Over the course of July, we hung out numerous times and had a lot of fun doing different activities together to start our journey. We first kissed on the 16th of July on my lovesac watching Serendipity. Of course, pretty fitting, we both LOVE chick flicks! It was very fun and over the next few weeks, we went mini golfing, had numnerous dinners, ice cream trips and just good talk/hang out seshes. The 24th of July brought a demolition derby to Kamas and we sure had a lot of fun being together and watching the cars slam into each other! This is the first time I was for real tempted to tell Kenzee that I loved her. As the evening went on, we were able to talk and decided that because she was so young and still needing to finish high school, that we needed to cool off and let her have fun for her senior year instead of spending all of her time with her favorite boy and missing out. That is the point we were at at the end of July. We had a chance to go to the Tim McGraw concert together on the 30th and had such a great time together and really felt an awesome connection!

After the demolition derby, Kenzee and I had a chance to talk about us and our future together. We both kind of had the idea of her being able to finish her high school without having to worry about dating me and being able to have a normal high school life. This is something that has been very important to me from the beginning of her and I becoming interested in each other. It was such a good talk for us both for us to see each other showing and feeling emotions for each other. It was really good to help us become closer and to feel the love we have for each other. This was the beginning step for us in our journey. I know that this is going to be one of the hardest things I've done up to this point, but I know that this is what needs to happen in order for respect from each other and our families to be gained and also for us to be able to figure out ourselves before we try and figure out each other. We both realized that the love that we have for each other is so great that another year for her to finish school isn't going to be that bad. There are some days when I really want to see her and just hold and hug and kiss her, but we always tell each other that it will be worth it to wait. It definitely won't be easy but it will be worth it. So worth it! Over the past few weeks we have seen each other a few times, between trips to the shop or softball games or cute little half an hour visits that make the week apart so worth it!

There are quite a few things that I absolutely love about Kenzee that I have been searching for in a girl for quite some time. I love the way that she makes me laugh, the way she makes me feel when I'm down or discouraged. I love the way she holds me and lightly tickles my back or arm when I lean forward, or when we're watching a movie. I love the way that she relieves stress just by one little phrase or smile. The way that she makes me feel is like no other feeling I have felt before and I absolutely love it! There are even things that Kenzee does for me that I didn't even realize I liked or wanted in a girl. The way that she understands me, both in our conversations and over text messages is like no one else. She understands the inner most thoughts of my mind and of my heart. More times than an hundred, we have finished each others sentences and found ourselves saying the same phrases at the same time! There are just so many things that I love about this girl, that I can't even list them all. The closeness that I feel with her is unmatched!

I do know one thing though, I love her. I truly do. The things that I feel with her seem like they go beyond love. Every time I talk to her on the phone, I hang up and cry, just tears of joy stream down my face and as I kneel down to pray and I ask myself why I have been blessed to be involved with such an incredible girl? Why is it? Me, a normal kid who has been through somewhat a lot in his life, deserve a girl with such high standards, such good morals, such a strong work ethic, and so many talents? I haven't figured that out yet, but I'm sure that she sees something in me that nobody else does and that makes me feel like I can do anything. It makes me feel so special that someone can finally see what I have seen all along in myself. I really can't believe that I'm living this way. Like, I am SO happy to have such an incredible girl and to be moving in the right direction with the right speed and the proper feeling. I've never felt this good about a girl and I am so excited about it!

The rest of the month of July brought other activities as well including the craziest night of my life filled with 90% of a 5,000 person crowd being on drugs at the Deadmau5 concert, and a Dubstep show at the W lounge in Salt Lake by Nero with some of the sickest music I've ever heard, with lots Red Bull of course, but nothing compares to the way that I feel about my girl and the way things are going with her! Although we don't hang out as often as we would like, we text most of the day, everyday, between her classes and practices for the school play and choir, and talk on the phone every night. I absolutely love this girl!

There is only one other thing that I am excited about right now, this being the month of August, and school starting back up, is that I don't have to go back! It's finally kicked in with everyone else going back, that I never have to go back! I'm pretty stoked about that!

Winter...Finally!

Oh man, the past few months have been full of adventure and even more fun. (of course) So many things have arisen and been taken part of, I almost don't even know where to start, almost. Halloween brought many fun parties and even a jam sesh with some high school friends and a hella sick DJ. (Yep, D Murr) Droppin' beats and mixing like an animal was the name of the game for this kool kat. Oh, not to mention the 16 ounce Red Bull to go along with. Man, I love to play music. Halloween night brought even more craziness with some of my closest partnas (C Dub Ya, TG & Q Ball) at Q's place. Yep with more Red Bull.

The middle of November brought yet another wakeboarding trip, this time to St. George. Sand Hollow was the place and although it was St. George, it was still pretty damn cold. Tessy, Cam and I were in the boat bundled up while Cole froze in the lake. Poor kid. Zagg was shooting a new commercial launching their waterproof covering for mobile devices. Yeah, wakeboarding with your pod. Sick. We all had a great time at Nik's sick house partyin' sippin' more Red Bulls and want to go back like ASAP.

Thanksgiving brought a lot of travel time and fun in California. Instead of spending it with my family and the Merrill's, I decided to go over to Sacramento to visit the other side of the family. I figured I wouldn't get any shit about my long hair, my hat, not being clean shaven or not being married with G & G Harris and Dave & Russ, like I would at the Merrill's. Ha. Thanksgiving dinner at the RedHawk Casino just outside Sacramento was awesome! We didn't even have to clean anything up! It was really good to spend time with Mark, Kimmy and Delia on Friday night going bowling and having pizza.

December brought in a whole lotta Christmas cheer as we had pretty close to 17 Christmas parties or get togethers. Okay okay maybe not 17, but at least 16. :) The parties were great and the Christmas giving spirit was definitely in the air. My birthday also took place in December! On the 12th I turned 27! We spent a few hours in the temple for a sealing session and had a really fun dinner afterwards. The evening was just pretty chill and relaxing as Mr. & Mrs. Birdman & Hollywood were in attendance taking part in the new DJ Hero and the old Street Fighter II.

New Years Eve this year was spent at The Depot which a party in itself. Good music and fun with friends and the VIP booth (thanks to Cole and Con) entailed the night of jammin' out and quite a bit of Red Bull. Dancing, Partyin' and watching Pastrana jump the bay was so much fun. It all ended with some dinner at Beto's at 2. Oh man, my friends are hilare. Cole, Cam, Tessy, Casey, Tera, Alayna, Q and I were among the attendees.

The first week in January finally serenaded me on the slopes. Mineral Basin and the lovely white fluffiness sure brightened my day and winter season. Pulled pork sandwiches, rice krispy treats and Red Bull shots accompanied the snow-bound threesome, Big Mikey, Hollywood and D Murr. Many more fun times come as the slopes are covered in its beauty of pure white. Two times thus far in January is not enough seeing that there has been 3 Saturdays. Gotta get up there as much as possible to be able to deal with normal real life. The Dew Tour is coming up this weekend in Ogden and much partyin' will be done with, of course, lots and lots of Red Bull.