The Bone Yard

So tell me if this isn't in some way disturbing? This is the second time, I repeat, second time! that we have found bones in our front yard. The first time it appeared to be a deer scull, and now we have got what appears to be the spine. Possible culprit? 1. some scary pagonistic cult neighbor trying to scare us out of the neighborhood? Or 2. (and most likely) it is the stupid neighbor dog who is constantly running free and amuck around the streets. Anyway, what leads us to the dog conclusion is that there are dog foot prints in the snow surrounding the bones. But still, why our yard? TWICE! My only comfort would be to hear if other neighbors are getting ribs or femurs left on their lawn. We'll keep you posted if more deer remains appear.

P.S. one more thing to ponder.... If it is the neighbors dog that's doing this, what owner has a deer carcass decomposing in their back yard for their dog to plunder from anyway? Just shows you the kind of street we live on.

The Influenza / Conjunctivitis / Winter weather that stole Christmas

Very Memorable.....That pretty much sums up my feelings about Christmas 2008. As most of you saw from my last post, I got Pink Eye last week. I thought with great faith that it would be gone by Christmas, but sadly by Tuesday, it doubled its efforts and decided to infect my right eye as well. If that wasn't enough I came down with the flu on Monday morning. Needless to say I looked and felt like crap. At this point our preparation to drive down to Utah for Christmas pretty much came to a screeching halt. We came to the realization that we were obviously just not meant to go down to Salt Lake. Most of all I didn't want to risk the passing on of diseases to any of our Grandparents. Actually, it turns out that even if we wanted to make the trip, we couldn't have because the roads were closed due to the horrible weather.

And now to add a nice cherry on top of it all.... On Christmas Eve I was headed home from Hollywood Video where I was renting a nice two day supply of movies for Kimmi and I. Because of the horrible weather, our street was completely covered in ice, and at the very moment I tried to swerve around an oncoming car, I couldn't and chose to sideswipe the car instead. Yes, I crunched my jeep. Very sucky. Luckily the damage to my car is VERY minimal. The other drivers car wasn't so lucky and will need some good body work.

Kimmi and I spent Christmas day watching movies. It was quite relaxing but a tad boring. Kimmi and I chose not to get each other presents this year with the goal of spending that money on our kitchen renovation instead. We did have the classic yearly new pj's tradition to open, but other then that it was a non existent hall of gifts. So we sat around, made a good breakfast, then sat around some more until Kimmi headed off to work.

Well, this will go down in the history books as the worst Christmas the Dibbs have yet to experience, but in the end we believe it was all for the best. Its good that we didn't make the trip because of all the road closures. Kimmi had to be back to work on Christmas day, and we would have been stuck in Tremonton. Who knows what other kind of accidents may have been awaiting us. It was good just to spend time with each other as well. We don't get that enough with our weird schedules. Plus, with all my sleeping in I did get a break, I finally overcame all my nagging ailments. God works in mysterious ways. To bad it ruined our "wish list" Christmas.

EEWWW! Nasty Pink Eye!!!

So I woke up this morning and my left eye was sealed shut! Nasty I know! After cleaning it out my eye just kept watering, was all red, and it was kind of puffy. I looked on good old Web MD and looked up the symptoms of Pink Eye. To my dismay the symptoms matched exactly! Since I want to get rid of it ASAP I went to the doctor. He confirmed my fears and gave me some eye drops.

For your viewing pleasure, here are my eyes. As you can see my left eye is all swollen and red. Yummy!

As a result of the pink eye, I am not allowed to wear my contacts for a few days. Thus, I must wear glasses for the next few days. It's quite a weird feeling to wear glasses. I haven't done so for an extended period of time in years. It's sad cause my depth perception is severely hindered. I was at Costco and my hand kept missing when I was trying to grab stuff. oh well. I'm sure after a few more hours I'll be used to them.

Now for some good news. I was driving home from Costco and a closed down crappy restaurant was getting a make shift, temporary sign put up on it. It said: Coming soon.....

I am soooooo very excited! I love Cafe Rio and this just adds a fantastic choice to our slim eateries here in Twin Falls.

Beatrice the destructor!

I'll tell you what. For Basset Hounds being listed (in most dog books) as one of the dumbest breeds out there, our Beatrice is one smart cookie. For example she knows what phrases like "lets go get some food, it's bedtime, lets go outside." mean. She can catch a dog biscuit in her mouth from like 10 feet away! Plus, to be honest, she's better at playing fetch then even my childhood pet Australian Shepard was.

Tennis balls happen to be one of her favorite things to play fetch with, although if you let her keep the ball for to long it soon turns into confetti...as seen below.

Before



30 seconds later



Shes got some POWERFUL jaws!

Minor Regrets.....I REPEAT....minor

So as most of you know or might remember from a post I made last March, I bought a car in February 2008 that I'd been wanting for a long long time. It's a Honda S2000 and it's a lovely automobile as you can see from this picture. Needles to say, I very much enjoy driving this car.

Now you might ask. "Why would you own a car like that in Idaho? It snows in Idaho and the S2000 is an extremely light, rear wheel drive car." Well I'll tell you why. The interesting thing about Idaho winters is that when it snows its usually a light snow and by the time its the afternoon its all melted (again, look at the picture that was taken in February...no snow on the ground). This being the case it is not really an issue to drive this car on a day to day basis......That is except for about 5 days a year where it decides to dump snow on Twin Falls...... and today was one of those days. I woke up to about 4 inches + of snow on the streets this morning and Ill tell you what, my car was a tad tricky to maneuver to work (once again, let me emphasise, I don't regret my decision to purchase this fine piece of machinery but I am disappointed in its winter driving skills). You don't even have to give it any gas when you let out the clutch and the wheels start spinning. That's even with 120 pounds of sand bags in the trunk. Sigh.... oh well. If you see me you'll just see me cruising around town at about 8 miles per hour. How much longer till spring!!!!

This is a picture of Kimmi's Flamingo. Kimmis favorite animals are flamingos and her grandpa made this thing out of Re-bar, an old shovel, a crow-bar, and an old drill bit for the head. Very cool. Anyway I took this photo to illustrate the snow we have gotten today. It may not seem like much to Utah standards but to Twin Falls its a lot, especially since this town doesn't seem to own a snow plow, so the streets are always covered with a slick piece of packed snow.

Two Christmas Trees!

This year Mark was kind enough to buy me two Christmas trees. One for upstairs and one downstairs. Its something my family has always done and I am excited to have it happen in my home this year. We went out to our local tree lot and picked out two of the best trees. They are perfect for our house! We had to really look at the size this year (last year we bought a nine ft tree and didn't realize it!) to make sure they would fit in both areas. I am happy to say they fit perfectly. So here are some pictures! Enjoy!

At home with our trees

The tree in our front room

Another view

My mantel with my nativity

The tree in our family room downstairs

Another view

Mark's getting to know you christmas edition

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? wrapping paper, and if it wasn't sociably unacceptable I would use the comic section of the news paper

2. Do you hang mistletoe? No I never have. Kimmi will generally give me a kiss whenever I want it anyway.

3. When do you put up the tree? Whenever we get to it. We are most likely getting one today

4. When do you take the tree down the tree? Whenever we get to it.

5. Do you like egg nog? i love it! The best egg nog out there is by cream of weber! SOOOOO good. I wont drink any other brand

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Probably our first Nintendo system. I remember being pretty excited for that

7. Do you have a nativity scene? The wife does.

8. Hardest person to buy for? My grandparents.... pretty much impossible

9. Easiest person to buy for? Kimmi. I usually get lots of ideas throughout the year.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, The wife takes care of all that. I just have to write the little blurb about our year..

11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I cant think of one....I guess I repress the bad Christmas memories.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Elf, A Christmas Carol (the one where scrooge is played by Patrick Stewart)

13. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Sounds like something I'd do

14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? My moms Christmas dinner. SOOOOO good. my brothers and I always have a weigh in before and after the meal to see who ate the most. then usually I pass out on a couch in pain from eating too much...I love that feeling

15. Clear lights or colored on the tree? clear

16. Favorite Christmas song? Baby its Cold Outside, Last Christmas by Jimmy eat World

17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Its Off to salt lake!

18. Can you name all of Santa's rein deers? probably... I don't feel like it though

19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Pajamas on Christmas eve, the rest in the morning

20. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Christmas music starting in October! Call me a scrooge but I only want to hear Christmas music maybe a week before Christmas.

21. Favorite ornament theme or color? Whatever my wife puts together

22. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? mashed potato's and turkey

23. What do you want for Christmas this year? A gun from Linda and Ken! (lets keep the tradition going! 3 years running so far!)

24. Who is most likely to respond to this? whoever

GRRRRRRRR

So my computer has been giving me a headache lately!! Usually I consider myself pretty tech savvy, but nothing I've done seems to fix this bloody thing! The computer in general operates o.k. it's just when I use the Internet that it won't load websites (unless I press "refresh" like ten times)! Therefore, I will be taking it to the computer doctor tomorrow. Hopefully they can fix it. Luckily, we won't be cut off from the world because we'll have my laptop. Anyway, I just wanted to vent....

Feelin' Crafty

Lately I have found myself to be in the crafting mood. I would have an idea pop in my head, I would then get the supplies and actually sit down the same day and complete the project! That in itself is a pretty big accomplishment for me.

The picture is of a wreath I made for our front door. All fall flowers were 80% off at Michael's so I couldn't help myself. And it only took about 20 minutes! I love the way it turned out!

I also made some curtains for our laundry room to cover the ugly windows. My other project has been to make more cards for the CSI craft fair that took place this past weekend. I am happy to say that I actually made a profit this time around, so I am pretty pleased.

There are more projects to come. Next on the list is making a big bag for myself to contain everything I need for Young Women's (I was just called as 1st counselor). Mark and I are in the process of completing the laundry room. And then we will be painting the hallways. When that is finished we will finally be done with the basement remodel! What a happy day that will be! Check back for more pictures! They will be coming soon!

The Dibb Clan

Kimmi and I both agreed that we were in dyer need of a few new posts. I guess nothing too exciting and worth while has been going on in our little mundane lives. but anyway I thought I would post a small blurb about my fun little family. This photo was taken over conference weekend. A tradition that we've started and a tradtition that I hope will continue for a long time is that when the whole family is together we will try to organize at least one night that we are all together as an imediate family to play a few games. This is an extremly hard feet for a number of reasons. 1) We aren't together as a whole very often. My sister and her husband live in Connecticut. My Brother and his wife live in North Carolina, and of course you all know that Kimmi and I live up in good old Idaho. 2) Since all of us kids with significant others have our inlaws in or near the salt lake valley we have to make sure and divy out our time to each side of the family accordingly. anyway we had a great time and Alan is always good for bringing and introducing us all to some new card game that he's found, This one was called Slide or something.

My new hopeful hobby....

Thanks to my friend Bethany, I have been wrangeled into the craft fair world. I was really excited when Bethany invited me to share a booth with her, and I was hopeful it would go really well and that I could make some extra money. So I decided I would make a bunch of cards, and bundle them together for a good price. I bunkered down for the next three days and totally busted out some pretty cute cards in my opinion. I was ready to sale and make some money!! Unfortuately, to my dismay, the fair totally sucked! This craft fair was on the weekend of the first snow, so no one showed up. Sad sad. A lot of people stopped and looked, but none bought. I got a ton of great complements, but none bought. I had people pick out a bunch of bundles, but NONE bought. So, so frustrating!!!

But, I am going to try again (mostly because I have so many cards left over) at the CSI craft fair in Nov, as well as selling them through this blog. I am really hoping this goes much better, I am crossing my fingers. If you love personal, homemade cards, but don't have the time to make them...you can buy them from me! I know most of you are talented enough to make these on your own, but again if you don't have time, I am the gal for you. So here are some pictures of the cards I have made and I am totally willing to make something else if you have a specific idea.

I am selling them in bundles of 2 for $3.00 or bundles of 4 for $6.00. As you can see, I have christmas cards, and a bunch of generic cards that are either blank, say thank you, or happy birthday on the front. All cards are blank inside. These cards can be sent in the mail with normal postage. Please pass the word on if you like my stuff or think someone else will!

little things I enjoy

A few times a year there is an event on TV that makes my DVR work overtime. It's the Barrett Jackson collector's car auction, and its aired on Speed TV. Usually the big daddy of them all is held in Scottsdale, Arizona every January over a seven day period, but here and there they will hold a smaller three day event. Luckily, for my viewing pleasure, one is taking place right now in Las Vegas. Being a big car guy I just love watching these gorgeous cars rolling across the auction block. Its also really fun to see how high the bidding goes and seeing the type of people buying them. Overall I just day dream and think which of the cars I would purchase myself. Anyway, I just got done watching today's 4 hour installment and I thought I would share the few cars I picked out as my favorite and ones I would buy if I was filthy rich.

Probably number one on my list was this 1973 De Tomaso Pantera customized by the man that originally designed the car back in the 70's. Beautiful car.


Number two would be this 1955 Jaguar XK140 roadster. I love this car for how classy it is. If I owned it I would totally drive around speaking in a British accent wearing a scarf, a monocle, and pretending to smoke a pipe.


And third I would buy this 1962 AUSTIN-HEALEY 3000 MARK II Roadster for Kimmi. She really likes them and I promised her I would get her one some day. Plus it doesn't hurt that Kimmi would look pretty dang cute driving this thing around.


Since I am not filthy rich yet I'll just have to keep my day dreaming. But maybe one day I'll be there bidding for real!!!!

House party...Ahhhh the memories..

Man I'm the blogging fool today!! Three new posts has got to be a personal record. Anyway, I found this picture on a friends facebook page and I thought it would make a good post.

I was never one to join into too many extra curricular activities through out my 12 years of public education. I was in the play/musical "fiddler on the roof" when I was a sophomore in high school, but that was about it for pretty much my entire high school career. However, at the U, I got pretty involved with the Alumni Association. I was on the Muss board for a number of years and also on the board for the SAA (Student Alumni Association). I had a great experience in both and enjoyed almost every minute of it. Even when I had to wake up at the crack of dawn to go and stand on the corner of Foothill Boulevard next to the institute building in order to wave signs encouraging people to wear red the next day (I have a picture of that too... I'll have to find it and scan it into the computer). Anyway, every year the alumni association would throw a party called "house party" and the entire student body was invited for food, fun, games, and usually a band. As you can see below I was in charge of the cotton candy machine. I loved that job and I made sure I was assigned to it every year. Mostly because who doesn't love cotton candy! Therefore, I was always very busy. The only disadvantage of the cotton candy machine? As you can see by the picture, I was pretty much wearing a good amount of the stuff by the end of the night. I do have to pat myself on the back though, my technique was amazing. Check out the amount of cotton candy I've got on that stick!!!

Bluegrass?????

Ok, so I have to post this little odd tidbit about myself. As most of you know, I love my music. I guess you could say that my genre of choice is "emo" but its sometimes hard to narrow my likes just to one genre. A few of my favorite bands include Dashboard Confessional, Mae, Jacks Mannequin, Jimmy eat world, John Mayer, and lots lots more. I was even on quite the little concert kick back when I lived in SLC. I think I was going to a couple concerts a month! Well anyway, I'll come clean... for a bunch of years now I've also enjoyed listening to a Bluegrass group called Nicklecreek on my Ipod. Not often, but usually on long drives at night I would enjoy their music. It's not exactly something that fits the mood while driving through rush hour traffic. Anyway, I recently discovered Pandora Radio online and after plugging in Nicklecreek under my latest radio configuration I have been discovering some other really good bands in the same bluegrass genre. And I'll tell you what, I like what I hear! Since then bluegrass is just about all I listen to whenever I get on the computer. In fact that's what I'm listening to right now! We shall see how long this little kick lasts.

P.S. If you haven't heard of Pandora Radio at www.pandora.com you should seriously check it out. I love it. Whenever I'm at home and just mulling around the house I'll have it playing through my computer speakers.

Mission Reunion

Probably one of my favorite parts of the weekend in Salt Lake (only second to my next and final post of this large installment of posts) is my mission reunion. Ever since my generation of missionaries got home from the good land down under 4 years ago, we have had a yearly reunion on the Friday night before conference weekend. Its always an extremely fun event. I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but I've always seemed to head up the publicity side of the whole event (aka spreading the word and trying to get a head count as to who is coming). Anyway, this year was really cool. My mission President has a part ownership in this sweet hotel up in Park City. He reserved a big convention room and had a full on, sit down dinner! It was really good! Most of all, I just love spending time with all the guys I became so close with for 2 years. I've tried to make it a real point and do my best to stay friends with a great number of my companions and mission friends. As I see it, these guys are pretty much my family for 2 years and most of them I talked to almost on a daily basis. Too many missionaries come home and sweep that portion of life under the rug by getting too caught up in post mission life. I really hope to be friends with these guys for many years to come. Thanks to all those that made it! Here are a few photos from evening.


This is the cool cake President Overton had made for the party. The lady who made it spelled Melbourne wrong...but hey look who's talking, I cant spell to save my life!


President made all those who were in the mission choir at one point sing a little song. None of us had sung together in years, so beforehand we decided to sing a few run through's to shake out the mothballs. It was kind of funny practicing "Lord, I Will Follow Thee" in the lobby of this fancy dancy hotel. We got a few puzzled looks.


A few of the guys.


Swapping war stories after the party ended.

Our weekend continued...

Body Worlds!


I found out that Body Worlds would be showing an exhibit during the long weekend we were in Salt Lake, and Mark was nice enough to buy us some tickets! I was totally looking forward to this part of the trip because I have always wanted to go, but have always missed the exhibits by like a day. So Mark, Alex, Leigh, Josh and I loaded into the car and headed downtown, where we also met up with my sister Lindsey and Patrick. I was so amazed by this exhibit! It was so fascinating and entertaining. Unfortunately, Mark hated it, but I am so happy he put up with me for a couple hours.

The exhibit was arranged according to the major systems of the body, the nervous, reproductive, digestive, cardiovascular system, etc. They use full body specimens as well as individual organs and body parts for all the presentations. Some of my favorite displays included the nervous system which started with the brain and continued with the spinal cord and the nerves branching throughout the body all the way to the fingers and toes. Another was a dissected camel! Amazing! It was huge and so cool to look at, they even had grass inside the cut open stomach. Last was the arteries, veins and capillaries of the head and brain. They just had a head in the glass case that was just made up the the blood system, there was nothing else holding it up! I wish we could have taken pictures, but it was not allowed. So check out the Body Worlds website! You can see some pictures there, as well as see how the whole process works!

Again, a special thanks goes out to my amazing husband for being willing to take me somewhere he didn't want to go, and keep a smile on his face the whole time. I know it was a fake smile, but I love you for doing it!!!

What a weekend!!!

Man, conference weekend just plain FLEW by and I'm telling you right now that I'm not going to be able to get the whole thing blogged about in just one sitting. So I'm going to try and break it up into manageable chunks. We'll see how it goes. First, I think I'll tell you about one of my favorite parts that truly without fail it needs it's very own post.

The Tour of the Tabernacle

My mom was nice enough to arrange a tour of the old tabernacle. Apparently the Young Women's presidency got to go on a tour little while back and since then my mom wanted to take the whole fam. She got her opportunity this weekend seeing everyone was in town from their respective state. I think I liked it so much because I find it amazing that most of the church buildings around temple square resemble the likeness of an iceberg. We normally only get to see the tip but underneath the surface there is a whole lot more we never know exists.


As most of you know the organ at the tabernacle is a spectacle in itself. If I remember right there are over 11,000 pipes that need to be fed air from somewhere. The air is all pumped from this room, where a few MASSIVE pumps are housed to supply all the air that is soon turned into music.



The whole fam. My sister and her kids were in town from Connecticut and my bro with his wife was in from North Carolina. Fun times.



This is Alex Dalman, she was a sister missionary in my mission (probably the only one I truly liked). She and her husband Leigh, along with their cute son Josh came up from Sydney, Australia for a little tour around America. They actually started in New York and did all the church sites until they got to Missouri. Then they flew to Salt Lake for Conference weekend. Kimmi's mom was nice enough to let them stay at her house while they were here. Alex is a very well trained opera singer who led our mission choir that I was a part of. Her dream is to sing in the Mo tab so we gave her a sneak preview and made her sing a verse of "God be with you till we meet again" while we were in the tabernacle. She did an awesome job and she even had some tourists sitting in the pews as an audience.




This is actually inside the roof of the tabernacle. They wanted to show us the old architecture of this place. It was amazing to hear about the old techniques that the builders took to build this place. As you can see a lot of steel has been added to help keep it stable in the event of an earthquake.



This is a spare pulpit housed once again in the depths of the tabernacle. It has two major uses. First, the general authorities can come down to this room where its all hooked up with cameras, teleprompters, etc. in order to practice their talk. Another use is that in the event of a threat on the conference center the general authorities could carry on with general conference and give their talks in a safe location without any interruption.



This is one of three really cool organs they have under the tabernacle. These rooms are used as places to practice as well as a place for Mack Wilberg to come and compose his music. Very cool organ even though I wouldn't know the difference between a good organ or a bad organ if it hit me in the face.

It's up to us

Hello all...It's Mark....Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the most politically minded person in the world. I don't put to much thought into politics most of the time because let's be honest, it's just plain frustrating and in most cases you can't do much about it. You just learn to live with the stupid laws that are made without their asking for our two cents. But that's neither here nor there, in about a months time we do get to do something about it. Its time to vote! My friends Dan and Carrie had this video on their blog and I liked it. Enough even to add it on my blog as well. It's just a nice motivator for all of us go vote... and for those who aren't registered, its a nice motivator to actually go register to vote. I don't care who you vote for. Obama, McCain.... the third party dude running in this election....whatever. I'll still be your friend either way. Just make it a point to have your voice heard this November. Anyway I'll get off my soap box...my name is Mark Dibb and I approve this message.

p.s. I hear polar bears can swim!

There go the training wheels!

Well last Thursday was a big day for me. My flying lessons have been progressing quite nicely, if I do say so myself, and during my last lesson it was the first time that I flew SOLO!! I showed up for my normal lesson knowing that there was a good chance I would be doing my solo that day because we've been talking about it the last few weeks. Well the plan was that we would go up in the plane together, do a few touch and go landings, and if he felt that I was up to snuff he would get out and let me do the same thing (2 touch and goes and 1 final landing where I just parked by the hanger). Well, I'll tell you what, it was quite the nerve racking experience. The second you take off for the first time by yourself you think, "holy crap what did I just do! Now you have to land this thing!" I am happy to report that it all went very well. The only part that was scary was the traffic that showed up right after I took off. To name a few: I had to land right after another plane, I had to rush one of my touch and goes cause a 727 was about to land right behind me, and to top it all off the ground crew was painting lines on the runway so the tower kept chirping in and telling me to land past certain points. "LOOK GUYS, I JUST WANT TO LAND PERIOD!" Anyway again everything went great. here are a few photos of me after I landed my third time.




NO, you're seeing right. The tail of my shirt is gone. This is a time old tradition that takes place after your very first solo. The two stories that I've heard, as to why this tradition takes place go like this. 1)back in the olden times the planes you would train in were set up so the student and the teacher would sit tandem. When the student was doing something wrong or the teacher just needed to tell you something they would tug on the back of your shirt tail. After you solo for the first time you no longer need the back of your shirt because the teacher no longer needs to teach you anything. 2) After you solo for the first time you get out of the plane only to find that the tail of your shirt is soaked in sweat! They cut this part of the shirt off and stick it on the wall for all to see the stress you put into your first flight by yourself. (Its true though, my teacher does put all his students shirt tails that hes cut off onto his wall)

My best friends wedding. (not a chick flick)

We haven't forgotten about you our good blogging buddies, I promise!! Its just nothing too exciting has happened lately in our little world. Having a blog is kind of like when you get a pet fish and you know your supposed to take care of it, but you just don't, so the fish ends up dying... We know we are supposed to add a post, but we just haven't. There is just that constant guilt hanging overhead... sorry. Therefore, I sat down tonight with a mission to write about something! Here is what I came up with.

My best friend Brian got married a few weeks ago. We, of course, wouldn't miss Brian getting married for anything in the world, so Kimmi and I drove to SLC to attend all the fun wedding festivities. Now with the knowledge that we were invited to the wedding dinner, I planned what I might say about Brian just in case it was one of those open mics where people tell funny stories about the bride and groom. Not wanting to be unprepared like I have at previous weddings where I drew a blank I put some time into thinking of a dozy...however once again I came up with nothing... all I could think of were good things!.... Lame I know! I guess what it came down to was one fact: that Brian, out of everyone I knew, probably had the greatest influence on my life (except my parents of course since they gave me life and a roof over my head but thats an obvious) ... This was hard to swallow seeing I, of course, wanted to put Kimmi in that classification. But I couldn't...if it wasn't for Brian, I would have never met Kimmi. He didn't introduce us or anything, but I'll try to explain. Brian and I have been friends for a long time. It's probably my longest continuous friendship that I've had. Brian and his family moved into my family's ward back when we were in about 5th grade. We quickly became friends and we spent pretty much all our social time together from then on. As most of you know I come from a family of Poogers (grads of the BYU) and its safe to say that the way I was going I would have most likely gone to the school down south. The Davis clan are die hard Utes and when Brian and I hung out we began going to the U of U games. My eyes soon opened and I quickly fell in love with the school of the prophets. (Sorry I'll stop with the BYU jabs). Anyway it didn't take long before I decided I was destined to attend the University of Utah. To make a long story short it was there at the U of U in my freshman year that I met and fell in love with the girl that is now my wife. So as you can see, I owe who I am and what I have to Brian Davis.... (p.s. there wasn't an open mic thank goodness so I wasn't a failure in coming up with a funny story to tell). Anyway, it was a great wedding. Brian married a great girl, and here are a few photos from the event.

This was the Bachelor party we threw the night before the wedding. I've never learned how to play poker so Herscher and I played Halo the whole time. We got our butts kicked by a bunch of 12 year olds on X-Box live. I felt my age for once and it was quite embarrassing.


The big day


This is me, Brian, and Brian. The three of us did just about everything together throughout Jr. High and High School. They both have some serious dirt on yours truely!


My cute wife and I during one of the few chances we got to spend together over the two days. Kimmi was quite the champ through the whole thing. As Brian's sister told Kimmi during one of their many chats to keep Kimmi occupied while I was mingling, "best friend weddings are the worst!" Poor Kimmi was husband-less the entire night. As I put it: "Brian invited almost all the same people that we invited to our wedding except this time I have a chance to actually talk to them all."


Now what kind of best men would we be if we didn't decorate the car!!....especially since Brian specifically asked me not to! Who asks that?!! Getting married = getting your car trashed! Its expected.