Happy Birtday!!!!!!!!!!!

Yo, it's my wife's birtday! She's pretty amazing ya know, I'm really lucky to have her. I know it's her birtday and I should be giving her gifts, but she's the one who is constantly giving of herself, gosh, what would I do without her?!?!! I am really blessed to have her in my life.

So besides being birtday week, it's also Kasey and Emmy's 7 month anniversary week! Here's a little of what we've been up to the last 7 months:


Our Honeymoon!!



In Rhode Island


Fun in Connecticut

The Liberty Trail in Boston

To Salem, Massachusetts on a creepy evening a little before Halloween

To Maine

To Lake Winipasaukee in New Hamphire, the place What About Bob was filmed

To Joseph Smith's birthplace in Vermont

A trip to Florida with the fam and then Disney World!

Russ got us Coldplay tickets for a wedding gift! Gosh, that was so cool, we listen to Coldplay all the time now. Coldplay makes us happy

Went to a Jazz game!

Lotsa BYU basketball games!

A visit to Park Place...it's just not the same

Snowboarding/skiing with Skbekah!

Vanilla Ice/MC Hammer Concert- It was a 90's night!

Twin Falls, ID!

Amanda and Jack's wedding

How'd that get in there?!

Workin on the yard

We went to Arches last weekend, now that's a story! I'll have to write about it sometime.

I really like this scripture in Alma 50:

After the Lamanites tried taking a couple of cities, but the Nephites were protected, Mormon writes:

18) And they did prosper exceedingly, and they became exceedingly rich; yeah and they did multiply and wax strong in the land.

19) And thus we see how merciful and just are all the dealings of the Lord, to the fulfilling of all his words unto the children of men; yea we can behold that his words are verified, even at this time, which he spake unto Lehi, saying:

20) Blessed art thou and thy children; and they shall be blessed, inasmuch as they shall keep my commandments they shall prosper in the land. But remember, inasmuch as they will not keep my commandments they shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord.

21) And we see that these promises have been verified to the people of Nephi.

22) And those who were faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord were delivered at all time.

23) But behold there never was a happier time among the people of Nephi.

This time around I'm finding this over and over: that God keeps his promises that if you keep the commandments he'll bless you and deliver you from your problems (whatever they might be). It really must be true then. I love it how it said that this proves how merciful and just the Lord is. He doesn't give us these blessing just because he loves us, but there really are blessings attached to obedience. If you keep a commandment, as a consequence, a blessing will come with it. I also liked how it says that the people were never happier. That is definitely how it is in my life. I am happiest when I'm keeping the commandments. It's just a tragedy that we all fall into the same routine of forgetting those things.

200 Del Tacos night

Awww...Kayla and girl Rusty.

Colby B

The kids during the squirt gun war

The kids at a football game

League of Shadows

Star Wars Marathon

Eatin Dad's chicken

Welcome to my Blogging Community!

Hey all. I'm adding two people to my link list: Emily C and Jenni Lee. Emily is from our ward here and she thought everyone was calling me County Bluffs. She's funny and she needs some encouragement to blog. Jenni is a friend from back home. Her and her sisters were kind of our enemies as far as the tp war went. We got them last, so all is good...forever! So yeah, they're cool people, and I hope they don't mind being on my link list.

...but still use Becca's blog as the hub :)

Pictures of You, Pictures of Me

Such a funny picture


Hoover Dam


Vegas

The happiest place in the world!

Splash mountain with zombie faces

I honestly thought I'd pull it out this time

Pirates of the Caribbean or Indiana Jones

Graduation!!!!!

My building - the SWKT

The stole makes a good tie

I am a graduate, like my father before me

Moving

Leaving PP8 like we came in, minus Bravin, the gorlock and guitars

Baseball

Wheelchair basketball

Gosh, we should have totally done it. Drawn stashes on people as they are frozen in the flash mob

A sighting of Elder Kaiser

General Conference

Zombie faces

Bike riding

Freaky

Leaving the Festival of Colors

Don't worry, I got her pretty good too.

Awwwww, poor baby

I always like doing these type of pictures

Taking a picture of Em's building, the Widtsoe from my building, the SWKT

Playing frisbee on top of the SWKT.

I've decided that McCain isn't such a bad guy. I mean I disagree with a lot of policies and stuff, but this article: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080508/D90H5S3O0.html convinced me that he's at least a good guy.