Well I guess its time to ring in the new year with something I have never done before... A blog! Yes it is for my FAML 160 class but I hope to take this as an opportunity to get myself out there more. I want to take this post to just explain who I am and what I am about. So to start off I will begin at the beginning. I was born on July 15th 1988. I was kid number 1 of what is now 8. I am also the tallest hitting 6'5" and I know that this is only a temporary thing seeing as how my younger brother is just inches from my height. Am I ok with that? Not really but hey its all good because I am still number 1. I was born in Sacramento California and I love it there. I never want to leave the central valley. My family moved because my dad was in the navy and we would move from base housing to base housing. We lived in LA while my dad went to dental school, moved to South Carolina, then North Carolina, then back to Sacramento all before I was 8 years old. I went to 2 different elementary schools, then middle school, then on to high school at El Camino. I barely graduated. School was never my thing so the year after I graduated from high school, I worked at Scandia Family Fun Center where I did just about every job available.
I have had a number of odd jobs throughout my life. My first job was at Baskin Robbins when I was in my Junior year of high school. I then went on to work at Scandia, then as a valet for private parties, Gap as a seasonal employee, and finally Scandia again. I then went on to do painting, sheet metal, and ticket usher for BYU-I ticket services which I am currently doing.
After Scandia the second time, I quit to serve a mission to the Adelaide Australia Mission. I started September 5th 2007 and came home September 9th 2009. Yes that is 9/9/09 the longest day of my life... fun fact, it was a Wednesday. I loved my mission. I loved the people I served with and those I was privileged to teach. We still get together to play Mexican train at my apartment.
Soon after my mission, I met my wife Jessica. She came to my homecoming the Friday after I came home. We had been writing each other since I hit my year mark on my mission. Toward the end of my time in Australia, I knew she was the one, so seeing her at my house 2 days after being home was really weird. I was totaly awkward. but it seemed to work out because I kissed her that night, the next day I asked her to be my girlfriend, and 2 months later I proposed. All this happened before my first semester at BYU-I. We were married April 10th 2010 in the Sacramento Temple.
At the time, I was a construction major. I liked to work with my hands and see results of my actions. For some reason I was still "empty" and felt like I should be doing something else. One night Jessica and I were at the gym getting our fitness on and I was looking in the mirrors in the old gym and a thought came into my head that said Physical Therapy. So I made the plans to change my major, however I had an internship lined up working for a company who built the Oakley sunglasses stores throughout the world. At the end of that semester of school, I had made the plans to change my major from construction to exercise physiology. I didn't officially make the change until later in the year, because I thought I would give an internship a try and see if I should stick with it. Turned out construction is a job all based on luck and hope, and as good as that is, I cant raise my future kids and family on hope and luck, so I made the change to something more stable. I have loved it ever since.
My wife and I are now back at school in lovely Rexburg Idaho. We love it here and we also love the thought of being able to leave and start a family outside of an ice burg town. Jessica is graduating July 2012 and I graduate July 2013. Jessica is a Math Education major and will student teach this fall while I apply for fast grad so that I can be done and go onto Physical Therapy School.
Well that concludes my blurp about myself. I will have more to come as the school year progresses.
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