Camping in the Desert...

I am pretty much sick of school after a whole 6 weeks and being stuck inside the stupid big city of Phoenix had taken its toll. So the other day we just picked up and left and drove a few hours to what the people down here call mountains and camped. It was a lot of fun, we (I) made a big fire and took some pictures overlooking some really high cliff that is part of the Colorado plateau. Good times...

Scottsdale Car Show...

I'd like to own a Mercedes someday....this one would be nice.
Kim has her heart set on a Mini. A little girly, but at least it has racing stripes.
My favorite was the Camaro SS 327. And Kim was my favorite too.
I don't know what this car was. It was big and black. Kim liked it. I don't know what that means.


So every weekend for the last 20 years in Scottsdale, Arizona about a hundred old car guys get together a local McDonald's and put on a car show for the public. We got a bunch of people together and went to check it out and it was actually pretty impressive.

Halloween 2006!

Kim as a Fairy, me as myself.
Paige Frakes as herself, Jordan Frakes as Heath Ledger.
Dawson Westenskow as a wrestling official and Jenn as a better looking Dawson in high school.

As you can tell, I'm all about uploading as many new blog posts as I can tonight. Actually, I just found some random pictures on my camera and decided to upload them all. For Halloween last year we got together with some friends and dressed up for a big party. It was a lot of fun and Kim loves to dress up. As you can probably tell, I just dressed up as myself.

Asian Night Baby!!

Some random guy, little Bridger and Jen Allen, Tyler and Erika Hanks and Kim and myself.
Um, not really sure what's going on here.
Me, some random guy's kid and Kim.

So here at Thunderbird besides being constantly drilled by the business school they periodically make us become more culturally inclined. Since over 50% of the students here are foreign, I guess that's not a bad idea. Asian night was this big party of well, mostly Asian stuff. The food was good and at least not all the entertainment was in anime cartoon.

2nd anniversary...a few months late...

Right, well for our anniversary in August, Kim and I went to the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa. It was a really nice place and they even bumped us up to a nice suite for the big occasion. Since we had just moved to Arizona, we didn't know really where to go, but Kim had seen a History Channel special on this place, so we gave it a shot...turned out great.

the last missionary...

(Seth, Nate, Jake)

Well, the last missionary of my family at least. My littlest brother Nate (the one in the middle) left on his mission to California San Bernadino on September 12th. My other brother Seth is the other kid in the picture, he is down at BYU studying who knows what. And then there's me. I flew up to Utah from lovely Arizona to see him off, it was a lot of fun.