blog!

i haven't blogged in a long time. i'm trying to make a new one right now but i'm watching a jackie chan movie on tv, so there might be some spelling errors or even the sentences might not make sense. if that's the case, just look at the pictures.now that i'm looking at this picture, i don't think it's jakie chan. all asians kind of look alike... if they're in the middle of fighting. but its still awesome.

but here's some of the activities that have been going on lately.

Stephen tried to do the dishes...

i don't think it was that bad of an idea, because now our floor is way clean too!

here's some friends from halloween

Erin and Stephen

Kimbre and Cole

these are from Garrett's ugly sweater christmas party

Garrett and Kimbre

Cole, me, Garrett and Stephen

This is when we saw the forgotten carols at UVU. it was really good! if you haven't seen it, i definatly recommend that you do.

me, Caitlin, Garrett, Kimbre

Jennifer, Cole, Stephen, Erin

and just for fun, this is what my bathroom looks like.

Here's Sierra from Thanksgiving. she likes to grab my hair. in that second picutre, she drooled all over the back of my head... and the last picture is fun too. i think her eye is open a little bit, just like how her mom sleeps.

Halloween!

here's my roommates and some nerd. we've got karl malone (that's my jersey that i'm going to wear to a Jazz game someday), sonny bono, stephen = High School Musical, and me.

halloween was pretty fun. i hung out with my friends and did some party hopping with my friend jessica. we went to a stake dance and i busted out my sweet dance moves. and we finished up the night watching the sixth sense with some friends. it was way fun!

ps. i constructed my costume entirely from clothes that i wear regularly. so eventhough it was easy for me to dress like a nerd from my own clothes, it was way hard to act like a nerd. actually i think i was pretty good at that too. you should have seen my nerdy run. it was way funny.

Cho Lee Je's family

i was pretty lucky this week and had an opportunity that most return missionaires don't get. i was able to see a family that we baptized in korea with a couple of my mission companions. it was Cho Lee Je and his family.

we met them in an area called bul-gwang. i served there for 6 months and had two different companions when i was there, elder brimhall and elder jensen.

here's elder brimhall the day he transferred out. here's elder jensen. he slept like that at night o he would already be dressed and ready

and have more time for scripture study...

we served in the bul-gwang ward and the church building is pink. just thought i'd let you know.

this building was orginially a day care type place for the children. i don't know if it was pink when we kicked the kids out and used it for a church, or if we painted it pink afterwards.

it is a 3 story building. one day we met there to carpool for soccer and we found some teenagers that broke in and we're smoking, eating our food from the kitchen, and hanging out in some of the classrooms. two of them ran away but i totally caught one of them. he didn't want to learn the message of the restoration.

we met Cho Lee Je and his family and began teaching them. they were totally awesome from the start. we saw lots of miracles happen with this family. here's their baptism day picture.

the family, except for the oldest son because he is in the korean army for 2 years, came here. they visited some friends in missouri and then came to utah. we met them here in provo after they went on a tour of BYU and the MTC, and we went to Salt Lake City together. we tried to get to a session at the temple, but we missed the last session by 5 minutes. they let us participate in other ordinances at the temple and it was amazing. it was so much fun to be with that family again. they are so awesome!

here's a picture at the hotel where they were staying.

the munchies

it's really slow at work right now so i thought i'd make a blog post. and this was the first thing i thought of to write about.

at work, when i'm not hungry but i want to eat, i always get the same thing. my first choice is always the chocolate chocolate chip grandma's cookies. when i thought they couldn't get any more soft, they came out with the "now even softer" cookie as you can see on the picture below.

lately, due to their popularity, these have not been in the vending machine, so now i get this awesome combo! M&M's and Cool Ranch Doritos!

and don't worry, i don't eat them at the same time, i don't think the flavors would mix well. and i am healthy too because i take a vitamin packet called Lifepak Nano. we sell it here and there's a bunch of free packets in the break room so i take that everyday.

i was thinking of bringing some doublestuff oreos to work with me and a cup and leaving a gallon of milk in the fridge. if you've got some good ideas for snacking at work, let me know!

-billy

teenage politics

hey,

i went to Salt Lake City last night to see MXPX! it was an awesome show! i saw them back in 2003 at the Irvine Spectrum in California and they still sound awesome live. i need to catch up on their newer music. they only played a couple songs from the album Teenage Politics, and only a couple from The Ever Passing Moment, the only albums i know pretty well. But, their other songs were just as good if not better than the songs from the albums i know. i shook hands with the singer and the drummer-that's 2/3 of the band! but the sand news is that i already washed my hands, so yeah.

the guitarist and the drummer

i think this is when they played one of the songs i know

here's jessica and me, the only mxpx fans from among our friends, with the singer/bass player. i was totally feeling tattoo-less. the other band that played was lagwagon. i liked them in high school, but they didn't play a good show. we left a little early because we didn't think listening to them play was worth becoming a little more deaf.

so if mxpx is ever going to play near you i encourage you to see them play. and if you ever see them at The Venue in SLC, there's really good tacos that only cost a dollar each across the street.

California

i was going to wait to do this blog because i wanted my dad to send me some photos from his camera to post on here, but he hasn't sent them yet. so i'll just add those photos to my blog later.

i flew into california, long beach airport last thursday the 24th for sierra's baby blessing. it was so fun to go to california and be with everyone, well everyone except jody and dieter, they couldn't come, but it was fun anyway. when i flew in my mom, jenny, sierra and i went to souplantation, where i used to work, for dinner. we were there for about two hours and i was eating the whole time! some people may think that i might not eaten very much anyway because i eat so slow... here's some pics though!

that's me eating an ice cream cone and there's my mom and sierra

i don't know how sierra did it, but somehow she managed to pee and it went through the diaper, through the blanket and on my mom... they changed her right away and wrapped her in a different blanket then gave her to me. it looks like in this picture sierra and i think it's pretty funny that she peed on mom.

well, the next day, friday, i met up with some old friends from high school and we ate lunch together at pick up stix. i ate with stephen nelson, kenny palmer and sean april. that was so much fun, i had a good group back in high school. we went to balboa island as a family too. it was fun. we all went to the salt water taffy place on the island and then my mom really wanted to go to the toy store there. it was pretty cool. we also ate at BJ's and had pizookies for dessert! those are sooo good!

here's the pizookie!

here's some pictures from saturday morning. sierra is so fun.

she already recognizes her favorite uncle!

during the day, my dad and i went to taqueria for lunch then we went and saw hancock at the birch street theatres. it was pretty fun. then we had a family bbq which was delicious. i think i also got some campitelli cookies on saturday too.

on sunday the baby blessing was great. jason blessed sierra and did a great job. here's a pic of sierra in her little white dress with her parents.

i was supposed to fly out sunday night for provo, and when i got to the airport, i found out my flight was delayed 6 hours... while i waited i just read my book with the occasional break to do some people watching and what not. about 4 hours into my wait, they announced that my flight was cancelled. so, jason picked me up and i went back to their house. i caught a flight monday which had a stop in las vegas. i sat next to a pretty old lady. when the plane was taking off, we were both way excited and said to eachother at almost exactly the same time, "take offs and landings are my favorite part!"afther that, she was talking to me non-stop. during the flight she was looking at land marks and guessing which cities we were flying over. it was pretty funny because she'd get so excited and prove to me which city it was by explaing all the surrounding landmarks. i had my tv on the flight tracking channel so i could tell her our speed and altitude every couple of minutes too. she asked where i was flying to and i said salt lake city, and for the rest of the flight she kept asking me about seattle eventhough i told her about 5 times i wasn't going to seattle but to salt lake city utah. haha, later she asked my major and when i told her psychology, she said that she sat next to a psychologist on the way to california... and the psychologist was from seattle too. i love meeting people on the plane!

oh and here's one last picture. you know you're professional at holding babies when you can hold one like this...

going to see sierra

i'm going to california this thrusday and i'm gonna my niece! this is my new favorite picture of her... until she's big enough to wear the vans slip ons and bib i got her. i'll probably like that picture the most!

4th of July!

hey, i'm finally sitting down and writing about something!

for the 4th of july i went to idaho with my roommate darren and we stayed with a relative of his. we left provo around noon in a car w/o air conditioning, so the trip up there was pretty not fun. our mouths kept getting dry and the slurpees we got from a gas station (not 7-11) ended up making us feel way sick. also, in idaho, darren got pulled over and given a ticket for speeding. that was pretty funny. the picture is kind of small, but that's the cop car in the side mirror.

that night we all went to watch a firework show. it wasn't that impressive, but it was still fun. on the way there, darren got pulled over again because he didn't signal when he made a right turn. the police asked if we had any illegal drugs or weapons and asked to see my i.d. also. it was pretty weird. darren didn't get a ticket though. the next morning on the 5th, we hit the rivers! we went kayaking in the morning. it was so much fun. at first i got in my kayak and paddled about three times then completely flipped over! it was pretty embarrassing. but once i got back in, i never fell out again and was even going down some rapids sideways and spinning 360s and what stuff. that's definatly a hobby i can get in to.

later in the evening, we went to a different river with huge rapids and did some white water rafting! darren and i were sitting in the front of the raft. those rapids were pretty big and sometimes they'd send me and darren flying in the air. we mostly landed back in the raft, but once i got bounced up and then the raft moved to the right, so my lower half was in the water and i was holding on to the edge of the raft with one arm and holding my paddle with the other. it was pretty intense!

also, we got a new roommate. management didn't even tell us that he was coming, so i came home from work and there he was... everyone should get a chance to meet him because he's really interesting... here's a little taste of the new guy.

so i've got some good news...

we lost all three games of bowling tonight.

but we didn't lose by that much.

and it was against the best team in the league.

and no one on our team has bowled in over 2 weeks. we're a little rusty.

and i think it might have been a practice game.

we decided to go with "the bowling stones" - jody's idea.

so i think we've got a good chance of doing well this semester.

that's all

-billy

summer bowling

okay, a new season of bowling league is going to start on july 2nd. we need to think of a new team name and individual bowler names. so if you want to help out and think of something clever, that would be great! so all 4 of you that read my blog, think hard!

i've thought of a couple that i think are way funny, maybe i'll make a list and post that up later. if no one gives any suggestions, i'll assume that you're all just as not creative as me and my team. and that's not cool.

this picture of a bowling ball is to motivate you to think of a good name. if you don't think of one, don't be suprised when you see mr. t pop out of the a-team van and yell at you, then shoot something with a million bullets from the same clip. he does it all the time. he'll do it too cause he owes me a favor. i'm the one that told him the chuck taylor converse allstars are the shoes to wear when all you have is overalls and huge amounts of gold.

Paint

i couldn't sleep the other night so my methods to make myself tired were painting a sweet picture on the paint program that comes on a computer and playing minesweeper.

check out my picture.

i think it's pretty cool and there's not one specific interpretation so maybe if you can't fall asleep sometime, you can look at this and see how many interpretations you can make.

the 200 club

i finally made it to the 200 club in bowling. just barely. there's not really a club that i know of, but that's what we call those who have broken past the 200 barrier. last week i bowled a 204. this isn't a post to brag or anything, my mom and sister told me to, and i've got some time at work right now, so i figured i'd post about it.

it felt pretty good to bowl over 200 especially since the people on my bowling team were making fun of me for never being able to do it before. and now i don't know what else to write. here's a picture.

i don't usually wear a sweatband when i bowl, but it was team uniform night so every team that wore matching uniforms got 40 points added to their lowest game, so we wore those sweatbands as a team uniform. they're pretty sweet because they are reversable and the other side is blue. if i didn't have any scruff on my face, i'd kind of feel like bleeker from juno with that sweatband, not that i made anyone pregnant or anything, just cause of the yellow sweatband.

Sierra!

Hey, my sister Jenny and her husband Jason had a baby on June 6th! it finally happened after 9 months of weekly comparing the baby's growth to some sort of vegetable! it almost seemed like jenny would be pregnant forever.



so the baby's name is Sierra Anne Sneddon! here's a picture.

so now i'm totally an uncle! uncle billy! maybe when i'm old it'll be uncle bill. we'll see. it'll be fun to see sierra when she's 6-9 months old because that's when she'll be big enough to wear the vans slip-ons with black and pink checkers and the skulls and matching bib i got her.

hey.

not a lot is going on here, but i'll post some pictures so that should be cool. i'm on day 20 of not shaving now. it's pretty sweet. here's a picture of what i look like.

also, it was my birtday on friday! i got some awesome gifts from family in the mail. my sister jenny sent me campitelli cookies. those are my favorite, after my mom's cookies of course. i used to get campitelli cookies every morning in the summer with my neighbor, forest anthony. when we were really young, we'd ride bikes there, like our little red schwinn with the banana seat and the huge yellow bike from jc penny's that our million year old neightbor, Dez, gave to us.

when we got a little older, we'd ride our skateboards there. we'd always ride behind "the good guys" store by the loading dock and it was always a rush to go down the hill there and try to dodge all the pebbles and stuff that would make you come to a dead stop on your board and make you fly off. so eating those cookies tasted good, and also brought back a lot of good memories. i remember jenny went with me once on her longboard and she ran over a garden hose and flew off her board! haha. good times.

i also got some sweet bowling shoes! mom and jody sent these to me.

they are way awesome huh? i'm going to go use them in like 15 minutes.

on my birthday my good friend matt keller bought me some korean food and then we went to someone's house and played a card game called pounce. i had a birthday cake and everything. i even spelled my name on the cake using tons of tootsie rolls. it was so delicious. we finished off the night by watching my big fat greek wedding with the group.

friday was not only my birthday, but it was graduation from training at my work. tuesday i start as a real employee out of training. crud. it should be fun. i need to learn how to speak korean better.

i'm going to go bowling, maybe i'll add more stuff to this post later.

bye

hey everyone, here's a little bit of what's been going on.

the bowling league started on wednesday! we were short one person on our team, so it was just three of us against a full team of four. we won the first game, lost the second, and totally dominated the last game and won by 111 points! and afterwards we ate lots of delicious ice cream. everyone on our team did really well and i'm looking foward to wednesdays now so we can bowl and have fun and win. not to mention bowling regularly will give me the chance to beat my sister jenny's high score of 199. i kind of don't think i'll be able to beat it, but maybe i'll get lucky. oh yeah, our bowling team name is Muchos Puntos (some people think it's a swear, but i think it means 'a lot of points'. either way it's awesome). and we all are going to have mexican names for our individual bowling names. right away jamie announced that her name will be queso (cheese). it was like she had that one stored away waiting for a time when a mexican name was needed. she decided that fast. and matt is jesus (pronounced hey-zeus). i'm guessing it means jesus... i'm not sure. i don't speak mexican. i'm still trying to think of a good name. i kind of want a name with that hard "h" sound, like i'm spitting up a lugie.

also, i'm not the only person at my apartment anymore. my cousin chris is here until the 28th so he's sleeping in the other bed in my room. he's been having fun going to ward activities and putting new pipes on his harley to make it even louder. it's pretty sweet, and i think i want a motorcycle now, but i probably won't get one so don't worry mom. it would be nice to have a vespa though since gas is so expensive! and my roommate darren in back from california. when he was there he had his wisdom teeth removed and found out he has two tumors on his right knee. we all think it's pretty cool. but tonight we ate pizza and watched the movie "CONGO" with the killer gorillas that protect diamonds. the movie wasn't as good as i remember. that seems to happen everytime i watch a movie i haven't seen in over ten years.

yesterday i got a call back from the company where i applied. the company is called nu skin. it's a pretty good paying job and i'd get to speak with the korean clients on the phone. so i start my training on monday. i've got a pretty sweet shift too, its from noon to 6pm. so i can still sleep in and party all night! and i found out that if i'm stressed or tense i can get a massage at the company. it's a pretty awesome deal!

that's all.

Today my MTC companion, David Rodriquez (he's mexican), got married. It's funny because our group all voted that he would be the first one to get married when we all got home. You better watch out Jason Woodruff, cause you were voted as the second to get married.
it was actually fun picking out wedding gifts. i didn't really want to get something from the registry because that kind of feels like cheating to me, like looking at answers for a test. i was trying to think of a really good gift, but not something expensive because i'm not working right now. i ended up getting them two games, Battle Ship and Guess Who. that's what i would want. and i don't think you can be a family until you get some good board games. it also works out that those are both two-player games which is great because when people get married it seems as though they gain a husband or wife, but lose all their friends. two player games are vital.
We also got to the reception right when it started. actually a few minutes early. that was so weird. i've always shown up to receptions later when there's more people there than the wedding party people, like tonight when we got there it was just the bride's maids and groom's men and all of their grandparents. at least tonight we got first dibs on the reception food! it was delicious! and we didn't have to wait in a redicioulsy long line to shake hands with the bride and groom and their parents.
Overall, i think wedding receptions are pretty cool now. they sucked when i was younger, but they are fun now because i actually know the people that get married, the food is great and lots of times there is a chocolate fountain involved, and i'm way good at catching that little sexy thing that the groom takes off the leg of his wife, sometimes with his teeth, and slings it into the crowd. i think i've caught three of them. their magical powers of making you get married quick haven't been working though, probably cause i've i was on a mission and we're not allowed to get married on our missions. now i'm just adjusting back to school and normal life, so maybe when i try to get married the power of three of those things will totally lead me to the coolest girl in the world and help trick her into thinking i'm the coolest guy in the world.

PS. There were no churros at the reception. that's like minus ten points, but if you are mexican, that's like minus 10 billion points.

hey everyone! i made a blog. i'm a blogger. maybe. there's a few reasons why i wanted to make a blog. here they are:
1. now i can comment on friends and family's blogs
2. people told me to make a blog.
3. i was reading my old xanga posts the other day and it was way fun, so this can be like an online journal also for my future reading amusement.

if my spelling or grammar sucks sometimes, don't get mad, but remember that i was originally bad at it, and whatever i used to know about it was lost sometime during my stay in korea. believe it or not though, i used to be the boggle champion in my family. now even my sister-in-law can beat me. haha. she's way good though so that's okay.

anticipate some good blogs! i'm going to buy camera batteries and put some sweet pictures on here and write stuff that isn't boring!
-BYE