...jan 3...

well, it is now 2008. holy cow, last year was long and short all at the same time. so much happened last year, for me at least. and for the world. it is amazing how much stuff you can pack into a day and how much history is taking place in a day. interesting to think about.

well, on new years eve, the singles dance (be jealous those of you that are married, not really, i wish i was married) was at our building. it was the entire region. for the entire region, not that many people showed up, sadly. singles dances down here have a tendancy to be terrible. mostly because of the music. the dj's think they are the ish and try and dj like they are in a club or something and play crappy techno the whole night. thank goodness our dj didn't, though he did try and show off his dj skill by running several songs together that were really bad. he did that a couple of times with techno songs and then latino songs. it was annoying. but he did play alot of popular music to. everyone likes to dance to popular music. much better. it was pretty good. decorating it was a beast though. rachel may and i figured out how to do a canopy of stars that actually worked out really well, if i do say so myself. it turned out a lot better than i thought it was going to. we had a bunch of stars left over too that i think would have made it look that much better, but we didn't really have time. oh well. all in all, it was a fun dance, even though i didn't dance a whole lot. i prefer to watch. i am not a huge dancer. and there were a bunch of pictures taken too, but not by me. i had a bunch of friends take pictures. i will have to get them from them.

and we took a family picture on christmas day. i will need to post some of those. some are pretty funny. my dad had me pose for the camera while he was trying to figure out the settings on the camera....yeah... it was interesting. so those of you who have been asking for an update, this is it for now. i will post the pics when i get them.

...christmas day...and nothing to do...

hey there. well, it's christmas day...and i have nothing to do. we opened presents at 630 this morning...and that's about all we have planned. when i was younger, we used to be able to play with presents all day...or use them, like gaming systems like the N64 and such. now that i am older, it is kinda hard to use a bunch of clothes all at the same time. and i as i get older(i say that like i have some years behind me), i realize more and more that i would love to spend this time with that special someone that i haven't found yet. someday though i am sure. i did get something i could use to pass the time, but i already watched it. i got the blue man group concert tour dvd. and we watched it already. and it is only 1145 in the morning. i am done watching tv though. i want to get out and do something. i am tired of being lazy. i guess i could go and finish my chores that i didn't do on saturday.
saturday was a good day. went and cleaned the church in the morning after shopping for kati, then watched football all day. first was the trinity game on tv, which they won!! and then it was the BYU game, which they barely won but should have won by alot more. they are such a much better team than they played that night. it was frustrating. but they won and that is all that matters.
anyway, back to christmas and boredom. on a lighter note, i did take some pics of christmas and found some pics that i said i was going to post from holloween. so here they are.

This is nick. he got this guitar for christmas. sweet.
this is mom. just hangin out.
even the dogs were tired from waking up so early...
rayo got a 30GB iPod. we don't even own 30GB of music anywhere in the house.
remi also got guitar strings for his guitar. that one that he has he got for free though. someone gave it to him...lucky, though i prefer the acoustic.

this is me and dum at halloween.
this is me, dum, and courtney at halloween.

and this is my bishop and his wife. this was before Dog got in trouble for being racist.

...christmas eve...and good friends

well, it's Christmas Eve, and i am here in texas with the family. just about to head to bed. it is kind of early for me to go to bed. i am normally in bed after 11 so 9:45 is pretty early. on christmas eve we always have pizza for dinner and always watch the movie white christmas with bing crosby and danny kaye. we also always get to open one present, which is always pajamas. i didn't want to get into my pj's this year, but i was kind of forced to. oh well. tradition is tradition.

i wanted to take a sec and just make a comment about friends and how awesome they are. before i had dinner, i was able to talk with a friend who is in utah right now. before i talked to her i was having a fairly rough christmas holiday. some things in my life have been worked out and some were and are having some difficulty being worked out. i know about school and work now, finally, but relationships and family life are a bit rough and were causing a lot of problems for me. all i had to do was just talk to her and everything was ok. without really realizing it, i think she made my day. it was really good to just be able to talk to her as just a friend. so, if she ever reads this, thanks and i am looking forward to seeing you again in the summer, you and all of my other friends up there. i miss you guys a lot. anyway, thanks and merry christmas!!