First Post

I like memories. Dad has always told us to "go make a memory." And I want this blog to be loosely structured around all the moments in my life that have become valuable memories. Memories are one of the very few things we get to take with us beyond this life, and because of that I make lists and plans and pictures to capture and live out the moments I want to become memories.

So I'm going to play catch up a little bit, and include highlights from my first semester freshman year as well as Christmas.

 Reuniting with GA friends, Rachel Miller

 Provo Temple

 First time going to Rexburg, Abby Smith and I

 Dixie and me

 BYU-I Freshman Orientation 

 First BYU Devotional, Elder Oaks

 First time to top of Y-Mountain

 Taken the day Mary died, God sent me another cat (:

 Hiking Mount Timpanogas for first time with Cameron

 Summit of Timp.

 Cameron on top of Timp.

Finally down the rock hill from heck...there was supposed to be snow

 Mountain goats and Cameron

 First BYU football game with roommates

 BYU football student section 

 Second game with Abby Smith 

 Exploring with Lisa and Cousins, Jan and Kevin, Mom and Dad (and Dixie)

 Lisa and Dixie

 The concussion, I got staple in the back

 Stitches in the front 

Finally able to lay back without puking 

The removed staples from the back of my head, there were six total

 Homecoming week (Light the Y)

 Exploring Bean Life Museum with Cameron

 First time hiking "Y-Mountain" at night (with Cameron)

 Roomate Picture, from left to right; Nancy, Savannah, Summer, Dallie, Eliza, Me

 BYU Laundry 

 Night before Halloween, walking home from campus and ran into a a platoon of fully decked out Storm Troopers

 Halloween Night with Cameron at the Cannon Center. We're dressed as Greasers

 Center Street party/concert with Cameron Halloween Night

 First football game with Cameron 

 Lukas Graham concert with Cameron in SLC

 "7 Years"

 first snow of the year after concert

 first morning with snow on the ground

Luckas Graham Concert with Cameron 

 Trying to feed stray kittens with Cameron at BYU

 Exploring Mesa Falls with Lisa

 Mesa Falls with Lisa, Dixie and Hudson

 Lisa and dogs

 Lisa and Hudson

 Lisa and Hudson

 Hudson 

 Me and Rexburg temple

 Shooting guns with Lisa's friends 

 Waking up with a dog(:

 Sand dunes, Lisa and her roommate, Tori, and dogs

 Sand dunes and dogs

 I ran into a briar patch

 SLC Christmas lights with Cameron 

 SLC Christmas Lights with Cameron. SLC Temple

 Christmas Lights

 Lights and Cameron

 Met up with Shaylee in SLC, Shaylee, me and Cameron

 Me and Shaylee Rae in SLC

 Post-finals decomposition. 

 Back home with my anti-social family

 Exploring Lost Mt Park with munchkins. August jumping

 Caroline and Topher in woods

 August, Caroline, Topher, and Maddie Mae in woods

August and his stick

Accomplished Bucket list items:

• Climbing a mountain

It was a good first semester and Christmas break. Happy New Years Eve!