I'm back at 11:14 AM

Welcome one and all. It's true: after my two-month break to experience life (hike Everest, go on an African safari, get my pilot's license, and eat Cafe Rio), I am back and ready to resume my bloggerish activities. I wish I could report on all of my crazy adventures of late, but it just wouldn't do them justice. Alas, life is beautiful.

Let's see, where do I start... For one thing, my dad and brother and I have become official mountain bike racing junkies. Actually, my dad and I are only half junkies; my brother Danny is an all-out granola. Ok, ok, maybe I'm just jealous that my 15-year-old brother totally shows me up every time. In reality, it's quite impressive. Danny competed yesterday in a NORBA race (a national mountain bike racing series). He was going up against kids from all across the country who traveled to good-ol' Utah just for this event. 7th out of 17 isn't all too shappy, considering...

Danny at a different Deer Valley race

My dad is pretty much awesome.

Awkward picture, but it was an insanely steep hill...

More to come folks.

An AWESOME weekend! at 8:42 PM

When I was on my mission in Germany, I had an awesome experience seeing a wonderful lady named Frau Libera develop a testimony and get baptized. She is now a great member and a strength to her ward, where she serves in the Primary Presidency. She and a member of her ward flew out to Utah this week to go to Conference and see Temple Square, so we decided to all meet up and do a session in the Salt Lake Temple together. Frau Libera had me do the work for her father. It was such an amazing experience.

Me and Frau Libera in front of the Salt Lake Temple

This also marked the two-year anniversary of her baptism, and it was incredible to sit in the Temple with this convert and think that just two years earlier she was showering my companion and me with questions and doubts and concerns.

Afterwards, we all went back to my parents' house and had dinner together. Frau Libera and Esther (the member who was with her) presented us with loads of German chocolate and other German must-haves, which pretty much made the day as perfect as it can get.

Frau Libera and Esther at the Christus statue

Happy post-Easter Monday! at 9:21 PM

First, I apologize to all law-inclined people...I must admit, for a long time I was planning on going into law myself, and only recently decided on business. But hey, who passes up a good lawyer joke when it comes along? Oh and Shelly--I tried to visit your blog and was rudely informed that I wasn't invited. Thanks, gosh. We're through.

Second, I hope you all enjoyed the previous post, because I can't claim credit for it...my good friend and roommate Sir David William Paul did the honors. In other words, no, I'm not way awesome.

Third, happy Easter everyone! My Easter weekend was perfect--in other words, it included snowboarding and mountain biking. Oh, and Easter Sunday was awesome too. It was so refreshing to find out that the Easter bunny really does exist (I've been really worried for the past two years). And I had forgotten how much fun Easter egg hunts can be. My family rocks!

These are some fun pictures from Christmas Break with my two good friends, Terry and David. We went snowshoeing up American Fork Canyon. Terry was wearing sneakers. I am way awesome.

Death by school... at 5:25 PM

Please excuse the delay...I forgot I had a blog.

Well, the only thing noteworthy of reporting as of yet is that the week is over! (believe me, that's a huge relief). For the last few weeks, I've been enjoying the life of a very-few-credits-taker, with hardly any homework and tests. Then last week, all of my professors collaborated and decided to form a secret combination to bring about my ultimate demise. I must admit, they're pretty good. For reasons that aren't yet apparent, I'm still alive and have multiple papers and tests behind me.


The real news is much more exciting: I got free Brick Oven pizza today. Come on, you know you're excited for me...at least anybody who's survived college. To qualify for this indulgence, I attended a lecture entitled "The Mormon Lawyer: Pillar to Society or Menace to Society?" (I guess that's why they had to bring pizza). The most entertaining part for me was the array of lawyer jokes that were given (before they started bashing on business people). The best one went something like this: A man driving on the freeway gets in a bad accident, and when the paramedics come they find him staring at the smoking heap of metal and whimpering, "my BMW...my poor, poor BMW." The Paramedics ask him if he's a lawyer. He asks them how they knew. They said only a lawyer would care so much for the loss of his BMW that he wouldn't notice that his left arm was missing. The lawyer replies, "Oh no! Where's my Rolex?!"

Wow. I'm a blogger. at 8:40 PM

Well folks, I never thought it would come to this. Blogging has never been my forte. However, due to the overwhelming number of requests, I decided to grant you all a snippet of my life through enormously exciting and up-to-date posts and breathtakingly beautiful pictures of, well, myself. That said, I will proceed to press "Publish Post" so as to complete this test of my blog. Enjoy.