This One Goes Out to the One I Love

There is simply no man in the world that I would choose besides this one to be the father of my children.  He has been an amazing dad to our babies, our children, our teenagers and now our adult children.  My greatest wish and hope for my future grandchildren is that they will have the privelege of having a dad who follows their dad's example.

Three promised links

Third time is a charm!

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant http://youtu.be/aZZRYUV3tDU

Hang on Sloopy/River of Dreams http://youtu.be/ZuiOcyb8FAM

Summer Highland Falls (sorry Max) http://youtu.be/l5eh8OxSRMg

I love you all,

Dad

Billy Joel Concert Memories

Sorry the links from last night didn't work.  I have included three tonight in this and the next two posts - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Summer Highland Falls & Hang On Sloopy/River of Dreams.

This is just to give you a flavor of what a great time we had.  Billy is still an amazing performer and I only wish that all my kids could have been with us!

Maybe Madison Square Garden all together in the future...

Last Billy Joel Post for the night

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant with Lexi, Soph, Luke and Timo.

http://youtu.be/ZWYuD93zPsQ

Billy Joel "Hang On Sloopy/Middle of the Night"

I thought Sam in particular would like this!

http://youtu.be/4rc1j3sZRyo

Dad

Billy Joel Concert at the Q

It was an amazing concert.  One could hardly believe Billy Joel has been performing for 50 years.  I am not sure exactly how old he is, but his pipes are still in amazing shape and he plays piano like a 25 year old.  He and his band played for over two hours straight, every song a gem.  He could have played for another two hours and we still would have known every song.  

He is really mixing up his sets with each concert and played songs like 'All for Leyna', 'Summer Highland Falls', 'The Entertainer', etc.  The highlight as usual was the entire crowd singing Piano Man along with Billy - really cool stuff.  He also mixed Hang On Sloopy 'O-H-I-O' in the middle of 'In The Middle of the Night'.  I will try to put a clip of that on next.

I only wish Max, Sam, Corey and Jack could have joined us.

Love to all - my microphone does not smell like a beer tonight!

Dad

Senioritis

Fambam,

  Well after a four month hiatus of blogging it seems like a good time to restart. Dad kicked us off with the cruise post so I'm attempting to follow up in a sufficient manner.
  This semester has been so much FUN. As Max will certainly confess, I am still a nerd and study far more than he believes a senior (or anyone else for that matter) should. However, I've just been loving life and doing as many fun things with my friends as possible. I try not to dwell on the fact that I'll be out of Provo in July because I get sad and instead live for this valuable time I have left for my friends. It's an interesting way to live; at least for my social life I'm trying to follow Harold Hill's advice and not build up too many tomorrows so I don't end up with a bunch of empty yesterdays. Anyways, here are some pictures and the stories that accompany them:
  About a week or two after I got home I decided I was in a sledding mood. Veronica (the girl Phil dated last year and got really close to us) had texted me so she and another friend and I decided to go to a local hill. It hadn't been a very snowy winter so the hill was pretty much all ice with the occasional grassy spot. Such a blast! We bruised our butts big time but it was possibly the fastest sledding I had ever done, the ice just let us fly. We all woke up the net morning with our butts/knees/bodies banged up a bit. The other guy, Tyler, that came with us has become one of my best friends and I hang out with him almost every day. He's from Boston; great guy.

Me, Tyler, V

  We had a ward date activity in January. It was just random pairing and I ended up getting put with a girl that wasn't in our ward (because our ward has high guy activity but struggles with the girls). We were on a group date with six other couples and it was way fun, nobody really knew each other and we painted and played games. Fun girl, haven't talked to her since then.

I believe her name is Ashleigh

  I still absolutely adore my friends from D.C.. We've gotten together a couple of times since being back and this was just one little dinner thing we did in january.

Harrison, Sam L, Flaka, me, and Ivanna

Then we had an AMAZING trip to Colorado as roommates. Dane was the only one who missed out; he has an opportunity to make like $2,000 being observed for clinical trials so he opted for that. Can't blame him for that but we had such a blast. All of Andie's (Rick's girlfriend) grandparents live in the middle of nowhere Colorado and we just had a blast with them. The pictures are mainly from Ouray (a town near where her grandparents live).

Me, Creighton, Bronson (roommate), Sarah, Andie, Rick (roommate), Olivia (Phil's girlfriend), Phil (roommate), Tyler.

Not sure what I was doin with my leg there...

The guys of the trip

Really Macey's?

Roommate Guy's night: Creighton, Bronson, Phil and  me (Dane/Rick were with their girlfriends)

Festival of colors; possibly one of my favorite traditions out here. I thought we all looked surprisingly good! Creighton, Meghan (friend of Creighton's), and Mallory (a friend from last year's ward).

My Lakewood hat is finally the appropriate mixture of colors to properly represent our city.

Other than that, life's great; glad to be out here and loving my time. Stoked to see the Ohio family this weekend! I love you all so much. 

With love forever and always, Sam