one of my summer comings and going involved going to isle of palms beach in south carolina...and there, i checked off one of the things on my bucket list..then, about 2 weeks later on the other side of the country, i checked it off once again at church's beach in california...what is this item on the bucket list, you may ask? well, i'll tell you...surfing.

while i'm definitely no layne beachley (for those of you who don't know who i'm talking about...google can help), i think that i did pretty well, considering i was raised nowhere near a body of water large enough to surf..
and, at the very least, i was thorough..i mean, who checks something off their bucket list in both the atlantic AND pacific oceans?

i definitely have no excuses for my absence in blogging...i think summer comes around and i have just about anything else on my mind besides this particular activity..but seeing as my summer has been insanely busy, and i've been gone for essentially an entire month, i decided it's about time i caught up...first things first--both my older brothers have become married to AMAZING girls since i last wrote...i just hope that when (and if) i get married, my choice in spouse will be half as good as my siblings..they have all pick amazing significant others, and i couldn't be happier with my sisters/brother-in-law...if 2 weddings in 3 months wasn't enough, there's also the wedding of my freshman roommate, jana, in no other city than las vegas..she was gorgeous and i am so happy for her! the best part of the weddings for me were the comments i had the pleasure of entertaining..of these comments, the most original had to be, "so, are you going to make it three weddings for your parents this year?" to which i was dying to respond, "why yes, how did you know we had a quota??" but i digress..here's just a few pictures from the major events..



just so you know, i have THE best siblings anyone could ask for...


my younger brother also got his mission call, which is a very bittersweet moment for me...

he leaves for the concepcion, chile mission on august 31..time is going WAY too fast for me!
the beginning of my summer was filled with wedding preparations, commuting to provo for work, and, for a couple of amazing weeks, having my whole family in one state...and of course, we were obligated to take my niece and nephew to the zoo while my brother and sister-in-law were in town...


honestly, could you ask for two cuter kids? (the answer here is NO, unless you're asking for a straight jacket)..the wedding madness was immediately followed by high school graduation from dear ol' davis high for drew...

thus concludes just the first quarter of my summer...stay tuned for the rest...

breath of fresh air..

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6174077

good to hear byu's got some respect...i hope jimmer and the boys can do well without davies...

"hide yo kids, hide yo wife..."

so maybe you think i'm obsessed with jimmer...the truth is, i just think he's a baller..a legit, straight up baller, and i would argue the best to come out of byu..therefore, i feel the need to join in jimmermania..enjoy...

take two...

ladies and gentlemen, the College Basketball Nation Blog on ESPN...as they say with Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World..."his reputation is expanding faster than the universe"

Jimmer Mania spawns epic Facebook thread

By Eamonn Brennan

"Jimmer will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of Jimmer's glory shall be the shame of thy house."

"And it came to pass that the Jimmer came down amongst the people and did minister unto them."

"For God so loved the world, he gave us Jimmer."

"Double Jimmer all the way across the sky."

"Only the Jimmer can find Carmen Sandiego."

"Why did Jimmer cross the road? Because he got tired of crossing over Tre'Von!"

"Someone please get this on ESPN some how some way."

Well, here you go, you maniacs: Your epic Facebook comment thread is on ESPN.

What's this all about? The backstory is such: A student at BYU wrote a letter to the editor of BYU's student newspaper, The Daily Universe, asking fellow BYU students to temper their Jimmer Fredette enthusiasm. The letter included the following points:

I can’t walk across campus without hearing Jimmer Fredette's name a dozen times. His name comes up everywhere: in class, at work, during lunch … really, people? Cut it out with the Jimmer worship. Last time I checked, idol worship was very much frowned upon in the scriptures.

Don’t you have a life to live? Then quit wasting it in front of the TV or in lines at the Marriott Center…

Now, there's probably a very serious philosophical argument to be had about idol worship in the modern sports landscape. It's always healthy to discuss just what makes our modern sportsosphere tick, and idol worship -- misplaced idol worship -- would be a fascinating and dynamic part of that discussion.

But asking Jimmer fans to tone it down? At BYU? In a public forum? Bad idea. Even worse idea? Posting about the letter on your public Facebook wall and leaving that wall open to comments. As you'd expect, it took approximately .03 seconds for fellow students and BYU fans to find that thread and begin posting hundreds of hilarious Jimmer-related comments, a sampling of which you read at the top of this post. (And there are so, SO many more.)

My favorite thing about this thread: None of the comments (at least none that I read, and I spent a solid 40 minutes reading through them) are overtly angry, profane, unintelligent or mean. Instead, they're hilarious. They combine Chuck Norris jokes with obscure bits of Jimmer-appropriated scripture. I suppose this is what happens when you mix the intelligent sarcasm of your average college student with the religious knowledge you'd expect from kids at a devotional school like Brigham Young.

All in all, it adds up to some good-natured, harmless, uproarious fun. That thread might be the best thing I've read this season. And the message is simple: Do not besmirch the name of thy Jimmer in Provo, at least if your Facebook wall is accessible to everyone with an account. Because that Facebook wall will get Jimmered. Hard.

(Hat tip: JimmerPOY.com)

you got jimmered...

you know, i've learned as a general rule that you do not, under ANY circumstances, mock, ridicule, or belittle a person whose name has become a verb...this girl made the unfortunate and foolish mistake of doing all three...and well, look how it went for her...


http://www.jimmerpoy.com/2011/02/08/do-not-mess-with-the-jimmer/

eh...it's been one of those years...

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700097240/Dave-Barrys-humorous-2010-year-in-review.html

best quote of the entire article: ‎"france, as an added precaution, surrenders"..gotta love dave barry...

this has got to be one of my new favorite videos...and no, i'm not a misogynist..i'm all for women's rights, but...you've got to admit, they have a point..