Lake Powell

Last weekend we spent 4 days in lake powell with some family friends. It was an amazing trip

Here is the big house boat we were on.


Here are my parents with little sam. It was pretty wonderful how every time he got in his uncomfortable life vest, he just went straight to sleep instead of crying. So here he is asleep.


Here is Marcia and I up one of the little canyons. Check out the tan on that girl.


Here is me wakeboarding. This is right before one of my sorry attempts at a backflip.


Here is marcia wakeboarding.


Here is my dad Marcia and Sam happy as a clam in his life vest. (he'd be mad at me for showing him with the girly, pink binky. Sorry Sam)


Here is a sunset from the top of the houseboat.


Here is the monster cliff that my dad and I jumped off of. You can see us little specks at the top. According to the rope we dropped down, this is a 87 footer. I'll never do that again. How are your ribs dad?

Dilligent Hometeaching

Last week my hometeaching family took us wakeboarding. Which made me feel a little bad, becuase, I've never really done anything other than visit that family for the entire last year. But my guilt was suffocated by delight at the thought of going out on the lake.

I got to drive and that was great, but the coolest part was watching Marcia. I took a few minutes beforehand and explained to her that it wasn't a big deal if she didn't get up, because it is a hard thing to do, and not everybody gets up. Especially not their first time on the lake. But to our great suprise, as soon as she said "hit it" she was up on her feet and had already mastered wakeboarding.

A marvelous work and a wonder

The other day we went through the temple with some of our good friends, Ed and Vilma Rodriguez, from our ward as they got their endowments out in the Timpanogos Temple. There were baptized on our aniversary last year (april 17th) and have been stellar members of our church since then. It was a very happy day for all of us. I'm sure they will be dilligent in their responsibilities as curch members for the rest of their lives.

It's official

It was a long and expensive road, but today officially closed off a very large chapter in my life. I got my diploma from BYU.
There at the end we had kinda a nail biter. In fact, on the very last possible day the advisor over the theatre and media arts department "tweaked" my grade for a class awaiting a petition office approval without hearing from the petitions office. In fact I still haven't heard from them, but it is set in stone now, see for yourself.

BREAK THE WRIST AND WALK AWAY

A few weeks ago we went to the first annual Napoleon Dynamite Festival in Preston Idaho. My favorite part was the moon-boot dance competition. That was awesome. The kid who won had the whole thing memorized. He didn't move as well as John Heeder, but it was still pretty amazing.
We also me Lyle and the bully and the kid on the bus. This bully was the real deal, he really wanted to push me, even though I told him it was just for the picture.

At the highschool, we kicked it on the steps and talked about ligers and pinatas that look like seasons.

I also learned a few self-defensive skills in the dojo. All in all, It was a very fun trip.

Clear as Purple Crayon

I saw this and laughed my head off. Of course you got to skip the part with r2-d2. And there is one bad word, but if you have ever even heard of Star Wars before, then you will love this. It comes from sequentialpictures. I watched their other star wars movie they had there and it was about a 9.5 on the 0.0-lame scale. So just stick to this one.

This short parody will give you a better understanding of what it must have been like for poor old Darth Vader to wear that wretched helmet.

72- by the skin of my teeth

A couple of weeks ago, I passed the macromedia flash mx 2004 certified developers exam. And I'm very glad its over with.

In some ways it was easier than I had expected. The questions seemed very simple, but on very specfic topics. So, in other words if you had done anything with the certian function or component before, then the question was easy, and if you had no idea what the question was about you couldn't even make a logical guess, it was just a straight up guess.

I enjoyed the study guide book. I learned a lot of little tricks, features and functions that would fit perfectly in many situations. I also felt that the questions in the book were pretty close equivalent to the questions on the test. The only problem was that there were many questions on the test that did not come from the book.

I also finished the test with about 20 minutes to spare, so you shouldn't worry about time. I thought the time given was plenty. But then again, I tend to take tests too quickly, and just go with my first instinct and not take the time to revise my answer. Since I am graduated now, and passed this exam, I don't know when I'm going to be taking a test next, so if my test taking strategy is wretched, I don't really care :)

For those planning on taking the test, I reccomend taking about 3 weeks to go thourgh the book then with the last two days before the test, go through help files in flash and ask someone who knows, everything and anything you can think of, for as long as that person is willing to impart their wisdom. Preferably someone who has passed the test also. (thaks to Josh Buhler!) Remember that you don't have to know the subjects in that much detail, just get a decent idea of how something works, what it is called, and what the syntax looks like. Good Luck!

ps. then again I only scored a 72, with a passing score being a 70. So... you might be risking it to take my advise anyhow.