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First night on the cruise.


Peri and I went on this sweet catamaran in
Jamaica that took us out to snorkel.


This is Jamaica right before the most
spectacular thunder storm I've ever seen.


Peri being her cool self.


Peri holding a "see" turtle in Grand Cayman.


This is a little place called Hell, Grand Cayman.

Peri and one of the ship in the port of Cozumel.

Mexico... so this picture did cost us money to take.

The amazing blue water of Cozumel.

And this is a picture I took on a boat Peri and
I took to go swim with some real live Sting Rays.
It was crazy! These things would come right
up to you and want you to play around with them.
It was by far the high point of the cruise.
I wish I had some picture but my camera
wasn't water proof. Also I formatted this for
people who may want it as the wallpaper
on their computer so just click on it and you
should see the full picture.

Labels: Peri and I, Wedding

but here are the top 10 reasons of why Peri shouldn’t let me make any wedding decisions.

1. What about a wedding cake from Costco?
2. Does that tux come in a Utah Jazz/Green Bay Packers motif?
3. How do you feel about hitting up a Red Sox game for the honeymoon?
4. What’s a Cow Lily?
5. What’s a Lily?
6. Can we serve corndogs at the reception?
7. Let’s register at Home Depot.
8. Do you think the cruise line TV’s get ESPN?
9. Will the wedding reception have an xBox? (the answer is yes)
10. Wedding invitations? Can’t we just send out emails?

I’m proving to be a typical male when it comes to this stuff and she is proving to be a typical female. I don’t mind making decisions. But the truth is about most wedding stuff is, I just don’t really care. Now I care deeply about getting married. But I really don’t have an opinion on what flowers arrangements we should have. That’s like asking most girls, “Who do you want to watch, Packers or Chargers” (correct answer is always Packers). The fact is women don’t care about that.

Besides, my opinions are always wrong. Example question:

You have 4 choices of cake, please pick which one you like best.

A. the round green one
B. the square white one
C. the square yellow one
D. the round red one

Now I’ve overheard Peri talking about the white on for weeks. So I look over all 4 of the pictures and carefully and confidently pick the white on. Her response is as follows, “yeah I like that one but I was hoping you would pick E” as she whips out the secret 5th photo. That being:

E. the round ivory one with an inset design of red Daisies on the first layer, inset red Lilies on the second layer and inset red Roses on the top layer


Poor Peri.

Labels: Peri and I, Wedding

I know it's been sometime but, things have been a little busy lately. I have some news for all of you who care to hear it. I am now engaged. I know that is somewhat of a surprise she said yes. But after slipping large amounts of drugs into Peri's Diet Coke, she said yes.

The date has been set for Saturday, August 16th, 2008. We will be getting married in the Salt Lake Temple earlier that day then the receptions will be held in Oakley, Utah at the school (www.oakley-school.com) Peri's mom works for.

I am the most lucky man alive. I never thought that I would meet the girl of my dreams, but I did. I am so thankful for her and her family (minus liking the Spurs).

Thank you all.

Labels: Family, Peri and I

I am currently in the process of maybe, possibly, could happen to be, in just a little while longer, be engaged to the most beautiful woman of all time. What I’m trying to figure out is how I got to this point. I’m going to list the reasons why I was going to be the second or third to last person to get married out of my group of friends. Ironically I can do no better than second. Please see my nerd proclamation below:

• I once had an AMD 350 MHz, 512g Ram, 500mb hard drive computer with a VooDoo 3 video card and it was the fastest computer on the block.
• I worked at Ultimate Electronics.
• I played G.I. Joes with John and was jealous of his sweet collection.
• I didn’t need up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, B, A, start to beat Contra.
• Belle from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was/is a babe.
• I was scared of Velociraptors till I was 16.
• I’ve ran the Patriot Act on friends just for fun.
• I do my own taxes
• I’ve read all the Harry Potters.
• I’ve read 90% of Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card.
• I can quote Top Gun as if it were a primary song.
• I cried in Armageddon.
• Surround sound is a necessity not a want.
• Any monitor under 19’ is unacceptable
• Anything less than dual monitors is unacceptable
  
• I’ve achieved level 31 in BrickBreaker
• I played the clarinet
• I’ve seen every episode of Star Trek TNG
• I use a BlackBerry
• I have 4 calculators and they all have names, so far Kyle gets the most use
• Numbers make more sense than words
• I work for a major finance company with over $98 billion in assets
• Legal terms excite me
• Zombies are the shizzle
• I use the word shizzle
  
• I love the old Transformers and new
• I know the tax laws in New York
• Halo is awesome, Quake at xMission is even better
• I’ve read Stephan Hawking books
• I know how to fly airplanes
• I wear argyle sweaters
• I’ve seen all the Aliens, Predator and Terminator movies
• Widescreen makes me happy

• My PC has the following programs on it:
• Cubase SX3
• Reason 4.0
• Sony Vegas Pro 8
• Adobe CS3
• Azureus
• Nero 8
• Office 2007
• iTunes
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warefare
• Star Trek TNG screen saver (thanks Brev)

• My Mac has the following programs on it:
• Cubase SX3
• Reason 4.0
• Final Cut Pro 6
• Adobe CS3
• Azureus
• Toast 8
  
• Keynote
  
• Adium

Live long and prosper.

Labels: Nerd, Peri and I