adam wood

Stewart Falls

2010-10-03T19:38:00.000-07:00

so i had a fever one morning and the only thing that could cure it was the mountains. so we did stewart falls in a two hour break that we had. ran up, played and ran back. just can't get enough of those mountains. here we are attacking the water fall. the picture made us look more like zombies.
just a good picture
here tyler is. it is nice that he is willing to be the guinea pig and test all the climbs for before i risk my life.

just some running shots of some woods thought the woods.

well tyler got home and no one updates or send around the weekly letter anymore but for what it is worth here is some what of an update. sent in the pod school applications a few weeks ago. school is crazy but i don't have class on thursday and saturday so i can slack off really good on those days. last week we rolled down a huge hill in a giant inflatable plastic ball, that was really fun. we are officially back to the days of living of peanut butter sandwiches and things of the like. conference was awesome. i don't know if i liked the talks or the orange rolls better. yum yum. that's all for now.

2010-08-17T20:45:00.000-07:00

i wanted to stick the picture of tyler's head in the water where we all did our but it is on tyler's phone and he is rocking out to the real dave matthews right now, the real one who is playing right now up in salt lake--what a cool kid. instead i found this wondrous photo of aaron--very nice.

tyler's sunday activity. like sister like brother.
max was pretty excited because grandpa made him strawberry juice.
poser--------------this is him posing for the camera, drinking.
it was a party over here sunday.
ok this one comes from our trip. tyler is officially fired as trip historian. we did the narrows and the sugar loaf and didn't get a single picture of it. we only have stuff from the car and right as we were leaving.

kung fu panda action. looks like a pretty good movie. it got watched 2.3 times i think.
it was fun to talk to grandpa down there

so week in review. probably forgot a bit of stuff but what comes to mind is the trip to st george. we left thurs morning after basketball and racquetball and drove down. missed meadow hot pots - sad day - but went straight to zions narrows. walked all through the water and had an awesome time there. (see http://www.zionnational-park.com/zion-narrows.htm ). then off to st george. mel and mom went to see cats and ty and i stayed home with grandpa and talked for a while - it was a lot of fun - he is a funny guy. then we went off to get a carton of ice cream (double berry cream cheese) and eat it on top of the sugar loaf till we got kicked off by the coppers. went over to tuachan and picked up mom and mel. that night was the largest meteor shower of the year so we went out towards a town called veyo and tried to stay at a pool reservoir thing place that looked way cool but had to much red tap so we stayed at some random coral thing on the side of the road and watched it. it was so awesome. lots of good ones. friday morning we got up and went back to get mom, had a good breakfast and got right back on the road to come home. it was a quick trip but way fun. that night we went up to todd's wedding reception and a good time was had by all there.

saturday was alpine days and we celebrated with racquetball in the morning ( just ty and i, mom and dad went up to the wedding), came home to our very own fireman's breakfast, then went on a good bike ride down the crazy rodeo trail - i almost crashed and i did get covered in stickers, (it has not been a good week for mt biking, i crashed on wednesday and hurt my side pretty good). after mt biking i got the trailer hooked up and went up to sand to pick up the brand new player piano. ( brand new for us, it is actually from 1923 and will need a lot of work before the player mechanism works) that night we went to see the fireworks and they we good as always.

sunday i was just reaffirmed that to have a good class all you need to do is bring a big bowl of candy. one of the classes had it and as you would guess i went straight to that class. starrs came over and we had fun then.

monday i got a lot of stuff done. just little chores that i have been neglecting. had a party with the boys from high school. patrick is off to school in st louise so we sent him off. played a bit on the banjo. this morning (tues) i rolled my ankle and it is pretty big, hopefully will only put me out for a bit. and that about sums it up for the recent past events.

horsetail

2010-07-27T22:29:00.000-07:00

it does bother me that i can never figure out how to upload these in the right order. so in the end it is pretty much just random and more backwards than not. so we will start out with the good picture of the horsetail falls event.here is the first try. kind of a miss-fire. whops
melody!!! jarrgh. oh well if the parents want to photo-shop here out it will make a nice picture. nothing against you melo but this is kind of a parents only picture.
here we start with the head dunking. it was quite the rush.

a marvolous reaction.

dosen't it look like so much fun?--ya!

picture of sticking our head in water. so much fun!!

i know, i know you know, i know

2010-06-06T08:04:00.001-07:00

Yes these have been long overdue and many have already seen them but here are some of the pictures of the trip to Alaska. It was truly a most awesome experience but also was a lot of driving. Interestingly enough, the way i loaded them is kind of in backwards order so after the first two picts you start at the end of the trip an go to the beginning

this was out on the whale watching tour. it was surprisingly awesome.

this is how we slept for quite a bit of the trip. throw all the stuff in the front seats and lie out in the back of the car. apart from melody, if you can guess what this place is i will give you a prize.

grand tetons

old faithful and my shoe

using my ninja skills to fight off the bad guys at old faithful

cool pot

hot springs. super interesting but i was kind of let down by yellowstone honestly. to me it just does not compare at all to the mountains that we have been seeing and if you know me i am quite partial to the mountains.

but i did really like this picture

glacier national park. this was truly awesome. still snowed in so we did not get to see to much but it was huge.

so much mist. i came back kind of soaked

the perfect picture spot

the only way to get to the perfect picture spot

have to get the right order to eat the fruit snacks. don't want to end on one you don't want.

ok form

form out the window with the heavy rocks

perfect form. every lack or river we passed had a that we skipped in it.

i don't know how or why this happened.

i have a special talent. when there are no lights. i can use my knees as flashlights.

ocure paint fields

how we got everywhere so fast.

good timing with the train

i think this may one of the most picturesque pictures on the whole trip. the lighting, the food, the action, everything

lake louise and a bowl of fruit loops.

a big bus

i have never really seen these guys but they were all around. we saw so much wildlife on the trip. bear (black and grizzly), moose, caribou, elk, deer, porcupine, birds, bald eagles, osprey, fox, coyote, rabbit, etc... the more exotic were the lyxn and the wolf.

i caught a fish with my bare hands. the only fishing we did up there.

thats a good reflection.

totem pole we erected. i hope it is still standing.

gotta put in the gang signs

"world's smallest desert"

a normal morning scene

the north pole

this is when we summited mount indenali.

the floating sign that says the trail is where ever you can find it

these guys were super fun to watch. they played under our boat for about 25 min. then we had to go and look for whales. we saw five or six of them. super neat.

miss melody joined us for a bit

a sea lion chillin in the port

going into alaska.

this place was awesome. a forest of signs for acres. just like this.

chain saw capitol of the world.

this one if for klinton

awesome mountain lake at the end of one of the coolest drives that i have ever done.

these mountains north of whistler were incredible.

big old waterfall. i forgot to smile in this one. i was happy i promise.

super green

Adam Bowen Wood

they build this building specifically for me

the weekly bath

a tumor? guess so.

wapiti falls. rock skipping heaven and a beautiful waterfall with a gorgeous setup for viewing.

that is it for alaska for now. here are some of the adventures to arches and goblin valley.

the firey furnace. this is a must go place to see in arches.

going into a cave at goblin valley

perhaps the coolest place on earth

at arches we were kind of dirty so we went ahead and used pool

dinner preparations.

2010-02-14T18:25:00.000-08:00

even though i don't look it i was pretty happy. it was to top of stone hedge. super crazy hike but way rewarding.
looking up.
oh alpine
so kirstin called me saying there was a pirate ship in alpine and then i said ok. got melody and we found it. it is actually a tank w/ a harpoon sent out to slay the white dragon. sound intense. when people explain it they say "ya and it has danny glover in it". (i don't know who he is)
my car. so awesome. after we blew past canyons security and parked 'er up in the middle of the resort. ya when you drive the prancing moose you get special privileges at ski resorts.

2010-02-13T09:04:00.000-08:00

2010-02-09T20:25:00.000-08:00

power suit

auckward scene at karaoke hA!

what you do in mexico

on the boat

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2010-01-17T19:43:00.000-08:00

the usual bout of pictures.

so after the 5k snow shoe race and then a few hours skiing i met up with some good friends and guess what we decided to do...more snowshoeing. it was awesome fun. we climbed a good hill and shot some good picts at the top. ( i was quite tired when i got home from this day)

we went up for a caden's b-day celebration and all made angry face. a great evening.

weston doing his usual attack on the turkey leg. he has won the rights to the leg at every turkey dinner and this is why. he wont mess around when he takes on the leg.

awesome ice caves up in midway. i said before i left for the night i would see them so as we were driving home i stopped and took a quick pict

here is right after finishing the snowshoe race. so much fun.

unfortunalty i started in the very back and had to run past 51 contestants to my 18th of 69 contestant finish. it was aggravating getting past all those people but ohh well. it was still way fun.

i saw this at grandma's and thought all would benifit from seeing this picturs of our great father. what a good trooper.

ohh. and i also saw this at grandma's and the above was my reaction.

cool rainbows in the cloud flying out to california. to bad my camera dosen't pick up colors all that well.

and last. a sight i would not mind looking at for the rest of my life. so nice.

well that is the end. i think you are all awesome.

HaPPY NEW YEAR!!!

2010-01-03T21:08:00.000-08:00

and so melody was like. hmm lets light it on fire. and i was like. ummm ok. so we did it and we did it w/ a cup-o-gasoline. yep the old octane thrown ever so grace fully from the dainty Kirstin Starr. yep the tree is in a better place. bring on 30 (20+10).

A Very Merry Christmas

2009-12-29T21:32:00.000-08:00

as usual this post will be the normal colaboration of random photos and captions so here it comes.

the new big thing is snow shoe racing. these are a few of when i ran up to horsetail falls. i really am thinking about competing in a 5k they have coming up. this is on where i ran up a ways past the meadow and then, due to lack of daylight i turned around and ran all the way down. there were some pretty good ice-chunks on the face when i got done with it all. such a rush. it really takes running to the next level.

these few are from when i went up w/ my dad on boxing day. truly a most rewarding experience.

i tried a hand stand and, though i don't know how, got quite a bit of snow down my pants.

these start the christmas fun.

steph is pretty good at holding 3 kids on her lap all at the same time and keeping them all entertained. awesome

mel and i found a house w/ alot of good lights and had a little shoot in front.

the greatest christmas tree in the world.

science experiments

i shot the milk lid at mel and the carton did not quite hold up

a good picture. especially of melody. HA!

the end. any questions or comments please call.

chair man

2009-12-20T23:12:00.000-08:00

2009-12-06T22:26:00.001-08:00

yep i'm an artist.

2009-11-23T12:04:00.000-08:00

Wusssuuuup?! qt pie!!!!!!!!!

ok i had nothing to do with that first line. i did not write it. sorry to the world for not updating my blog in like two centuries.

well life is awesome now that ia m not working nor going to school. like dad alsways says, he is so jealous of me. All i get to do is work around the house and play sports. so catching up for the last 3 months or so and just in time for most all of you to come see me personally i will now update my blog. so here come the pictures like i have done from B4 (its a hit, you sunk it!!!)

most of these pictures come from when we went to disney land / california adventure / majic mountain. (ok troops i do know how to spell magic, but I think it is more majical with a J)

these were some pretty big costers here. crazyness

we left the trip short 1 arm.

this was one of the crazy big big roller coasters we went on. at the end they send you spiraling into the ground and everyone semi blacks out. awesome.

we saw this picture up in the sky tower and though aucKward.

majic mountain from the sky tower.

crazy craZy roller coasters. this one they send you flying through out the park on your stomach like you are flying.

hurrah for disney land during halloween.

our friend the cheif.

space mountain. personal favorite.

Jack Skellington took over the haunted mansion and made it awesome. while we were there, there was a present to Kirstin, spelled just right to. i thought neat, so the next time through we tried to get a picture of it but it was to dark so they all came out blurry like this.

here you can see Jack watching Pan fend of Hook.

the haunted mansion.

ok this was one of the greatest picture from the trip. as you can see we are pretty awesome but i would like to draw your att. to another part of the photograph. the lady in your upper left hand corner was requesting to get off the ride right before it started and almost did. but she went anyway. she did not see much of it though. she was completely chocking her husband or a compleat stranger. that would have been awesome. i think they would have become really good friends after this ride.

this was a really funny acukward moment for the people taking the picture. if you want the details you can come ask me in person and i will be able to get you the story. its pretty awesome.

space mountain again. soooooo so awesome.

i got to control the gas. and stephanie got the steering wheel.

the ground at disney land. we had no trouble keeping our shadows there.

here is san fransisco from the golden gate bridge. first time on it and definitely worth the crazy trip.

well ladies and gentlemen there you have it. more goodness to come. wahoo!

ps Real Salt Lake it the greatest soccer team in the world

pss stefaniy heelped mee wif mi speelin

2009-08-16T17:41:00.001-07:00

due to a bit of negeligence on my part this post will be a little bit different than usualy. i am not at all into making it pretty or anything and nor am i now but usually i throw up a bunch of picts of my recent life and then narate. latley i have not been so good on the picture taking so there is not much updated but there are a few. on the 24th of this month i will have been home from my mission for two whole years which is just crazy to me. yep time is going. it just doesn't stop. it is a pretty interesting thing. i thought it would be fitting to throw up some pictures of when i got back and life around then. so here they are.

these are just at some football game we went to. i cant get enough of that wave.
me and my little bro. i am greatfull he had the camera for this even. we got a little bit of logging in.
dan j was there. pretty cool kid.
so i told tyler that he had to learn and so he did. he got pretty good before he left. we will definitely rock out when he gets back.
awesome poster for the welcome home. i imagine we've got at least one more of these to hang up. get ready alpine. 11 more months.
some good friends
another one of ty
the greeting party
mom moms the greatest.

the last family that we saw baptized. and elder warken who returned just last month.
so this one was only last year. mel kept on wanting to straiten my hair and i told her she finally could and this was the result, pretty good. someday my hair will be that long again but right now i got keep it pretty short, bummer. the cut came about 15 min later.
so this one was the recent one that i told you i would get up. yesterday we went to the big sur. cool but arguably not worth the drive. one more thing i can say i've done and can check off the list. the first owners left it in there will that no one could go down to the bottom so that all can enjoy it beauty from afar. i say that is retarded. things are cool to look at but i am all about doing. i just wanted to go stand under the waterfall. that would have been awesome.
here was a cool sunset. unfortunately my camera is on my phone and is not the best camera but it was truly a might sun set. so awesome.

just want to give a congratulations to all my friends. tons are getting married. even bryson and his mickelle had their baby. Patrick and Abigail got married. as well as steve carroll, chris noorda, dan skow, dan and dan went at the beginning of the summer and just as fate would have it they had to both marry Adrians--great. some day i might start to think about getting on that train. i'm sure there are other but those are the ones that come to mind right now.

well thats it crew. thats all i got. hopefully i will start to take more picts. i am going into a new stage of selling the next weeks as most people are leaving. we will see how long i can last. hopefully i continue to rock it till the snow falls. wish me luck and thanks for all the support. rock rock on.

2009-07-12T16:51:00.000-07:00

aowghis;vnzl ,

yep i know i am the one in the family w/ the least up dated blog right before this moment. i know that many of you have been wanting to know what is going on in the life and so here it is. i sell and then sleep and that is pretty much all that goes on besides the things that go on in-between. the selling is actually pretty fun. i meet some crazy folk out there and just lots of weird situations but i really enjoy it. it is awesome to learn all the stuff that i am learning about human behavior and the stuff that is related to that. (right now i am in the middle of making spegetti so that may be why my thoughts are disjointed). the other things on the side are really fun to and those things will be the following pictures. so with no further adoooooooooo.

there were a few more photos that belong to the most recent shoot when the parents and mel came out to california but this was one of the best winners (they are all winners but this was awesome).
i got me some real court shoes and ya i thought i would go for a ronald mc donald look (esp w/ the church socks and bball shorts--yep it was sunday)
here it the spegetti i told you about. it was really good.
this was a winner for the thanksgiving photo shoot. i though you'd enjoy
this was an awesome one of mel's hair
and for any of you who have doubts i do miss skiing as much as ever. i love it.

so this is a more recent on when we went to the red wood forest by santa cruz. ( i don't think they are as big as the ones in muir woods but that are still quite large). santa cruz was yesterday and after the woods we played on the beach. Frisbee then volley ball then once it got dark we went body surfing and that was so so so much fun. i love it. there are few things that bring me that much joy in life. i love boogie boarding almost but not as much as soccer, b ball and skiing. it ranks really high up on my list of fun things to do. though we did not have a board our bodies did well enough and we had loads of fun.

this one was one of the first times we went to san francisco. yep awesome.
this was the second time we went. cool little steep street. bring back memories of the greatest car chase scene of all movies.
cool pict of the gg bridge.
in the chocolate factory.
so this is my new shuffle i am pretty excited about. even though it is 4 gb i still have to be pretty selective about the tunes that go on. also in the background in the ghetto blaster that gma let me take. she is awesome.
so my whole life i have been fighting my cowlick and now i have decided to embrace my hair for how it automatically goes.
more red woods

this is a tribute to dans J's thunder pose

this is meant for jeff K.
here is on the hike w/ the family during the reunion, sadly i don't have many picts of that. i think mom's and melissa's blog are the best spots to see what went down there. i really enjoyed going back and i must declare i do love utah. i just cant get enough of the mountains there. there is just something about home. it is awesome.

so i never new you could just go to the grocery store and buy spirits but apparently you can. i didn't look at the price because if the worth of souls is greet in the sight of our heavenly father (who owns everything) i did not want to know how much that would be for me.
my volvo. i find them all the time out here and it gives me a certain longing for my car. man i love the volvo. in the word of ty "Find Me My VOllVo!"

this car had a lot of stickers
i was worried that they would open the door and see the birds were dead before i talked to them but then i saw they were fake, then i thought who keeps fake dead birds in a cage in front of there house, weird people. they didn't deserve pest control so i went on to the next house.
here i found where Sid lived. though i did not find a soldier strapped to an explosion device i found this bracheosaurs nailed to a tree straight though his neck.
cool view out in fremont
this was a neat feature in a park. you could actually spin the globe and trust me i got it going pretty fast. in hindsight i guess i would of been pretty funny seeing some 22 year old kid all by himself in a white polo shirt trying to get some random globe fountain thing go as fast as it possibly could. nope i don't do drugs, i look for all the natural highs.
here is some of the beach when we went to wicked. that was pretty awesome.

only ty and mel will understand the importance of this one. Tyler we sure did miss you watching the chip and dale cartoons at gmas.
notice the Tie?
this is the cactus that decided to run its self into my hand. i don't know why. the bug bites i can understand but the plants are after me too? if so i am in big trouble.
cool little pict i took upside down out the window of a car.
from coy tower
the order on these picts is messed up. this one if the proof that i got to bar 12' up.

i saw this bar and i am like ya i can touch it. so using my jackie chan powers i ran up the wall and got it.

and that is the end. hopefully i can get to taking more picts. for all you folks out there know that life is so good for me right now and i am doing really well. i get to study alot on the doors for the mcat thanks to aaron for his flash cards. i find time to work out, play bball, play random things and have tons and tons of fun. yep life is good and the beatles are rocking right now in gmas music box. have a wonderful week and if your ever up for a talk you can call. seeee ya.

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2009-05-17T12:14:00.000-07:00

well family and friends, i know that it has been a long time and i am sorry. between finals and getting out to california and settled out here i have not had time for much extra stuff but today is a good day to get another random number of picts up and out to you guys for your viewing enjoyment. so here is the random go of what has been going down in the past few weeks. as there is not specific order just read the captions and enjoy what is going down in my life.

to start things out i will explain to you how wonderful the world of ice-cream is. i love it flat out. this morning i decided to do a little pancakes and though, " what would be better than to throw on a bit of ice cream" and yes it was as delicious as it looks. there is just something magical about eating some thing that is both super hot and cold at the same time. i.e. hot fudge sundays, and apple pie a la mode. maybe it is just the fact that it has ice cream in it but i will tell you that pancakes and ice-cream w/ maple syrup or strawberry jam are sooooooo double awesome.
this picture is of our vacation to st george and buckskin canyon. which was so awesome. the first day we got there we played at the sugar loaf and it was raining so hard. (not your typical st george) but it was awesome. we did the little slot canyon/ crack in the rock and then some sardines. this is when we had finished our game and were all soaking wet.
this is when we first got to the sugar loaf
here is the next night as we were making our way to buckskin canyon we went thorough arizona. and for a number of people it was their fist time in the state so we got out of the car to celebrate.
while at lovely st george we went to the lava caves and threw our own rave party. yep glow sticks galore. on the way out we were so bright that we didn't even need a flash light to see where we were going. it was truly an experience to remember.
we found a stone dragon and took if for a ride at snow canyon
this is in another little cave thing. we had a cool photo shoot and the found a really echoee spot and did some Buddhist monk chanting. that was way cool.
here are some real life pictographs. i have always wanted to see some of these all my life and now that i have i can check it off of my list of things that i want to do. wahoo.
this was another cool spot that we found next to the pictographs.
on our way out we went in search of a ghost town and this is all we found. nothing except for a multicolored mountain. the mountain was awesome but definitely no ghosts.
some coyote fell into the canyon and some of the girls found it quite attractive.
in the canyon.
another photo of the same spot.
an idea of what it was like. it still does not quite do it justice at the supreme majesty of the canyon but. . .
a biker in san fran. there were a bunch of sweet cars there. this guy had his music hoppin.

on the way back we had a blue viper pass us going about 120-130 weaving in and out of everyone. it was super impressive and awesome looking. and then we saw a yellow lambo as we were getting off the freeway but he wasn't opening it up like the viper was but it was still such a hot car.
cool bread
more cool bread
even more cool bread . it was fun to see this stuff in san fran.
i sorry it is sideways but while i was out selling i found this light that was being eaten by a tree. i though you would also like to enjoy.
this was a flash back to the mission. some guy w/ a little a little ice-cream tray. ohhh that brings back memories.
this one if for klinton and kirstin
our first weekend i was there we went to the byu rugby game. we were down the whole time but were able to pull it out in the end. definilty not the favorite we were able to pull it out in the end after being down the whole game. super fun and ya we stormed the field and hugged people we didn't know, that is what life is all about.
so the night before i left mel and i had a summers worth of fun. pulling a whole bunch of capers. like switching out the max's pops for the kix and saran-wrapping the entry way off. ( ya we got the parents good on both accounts (dad said mom let off a good scream)). also a little something that i taught melo--but that she has been sworn to secrecy of. if you want to i can teach you but only in person. so ask me next time i see you.
here is my toe after i broked it. it is still being dumb but is slowly healing
here is when we got free choclate milk after coming home form skiing. that was really cool.
aftermath of the festival of colors. ya i was right in the middle. it was huge.
on our way out from the colors festival
some of the aftermath of when they threw all the colors.
before it started. the effigy they would burn.
a snow man i built up at snow bird. ( one of the hardest parts of leaving was not being able to finish off the season.)

and that is all i have for now. life is going good for me in california. we had our first few super hot days but i have been thought worse. i just will trust in my faith bottle of spf 50 sunscreen. k awesome i am out.

any questions or if you looking for a friendly hi don't hesitate to call. i may not answer but ill get back to you.

keep dancing/rocking out 1987 style.

2009-03-15T22:04:00.000-07:00

so i got some picts to work

riding of into the valley of the goblins
dane standing on a turtles head

in the slot canyon
a quick jerkey break before we start down little wildhorse

ya this hole was awesome. i fit my whole self in the hole

k well this weekend was awesome. i fulfilled a life's dream and got to go to goblin valley. i have always wanted to do it and it was worth every bit of want to go. i totally did live up to the expectations. i only have some of the photos and i don't have time tonight for much of a post like usual so i will just get a few for you guys. we also did some slot canyons and played around in the san rafael swell which was mega fun. also i forget how impressive the desert night sky is w/ out light for miles on end where we were the only people for a really long distance. it is truly awesome in the purest sense of the word. defiantly enough to blow you mind. also a lot of the picts we took in the valley are on a different camera so you will have to wait but i will get you guys a super good post someday soon when i have more time.

2009-03-08T17:06:00.000-07:00

so here are some quick random posts of the recent and late advancements of my life. i don't know how to control the order after i upload this picts so you guys are going to get a random sample of kind of everything over the next two posts but you guys should be somewhat familar w/ the way i post. i am for quantity and not as much quality so it may be a bit messy but i am at least getting the info and the picts out ta all y'all. these first few are a bit graphic going back to the leg chop so those faint of stomach can jump the fist few with my permission/blessing. nararations will go on right under the photos so you can kind of know what is going on.

ty wanted to see a pict of my leg all healed up so here it is. 100% better. just a weird line w/ dots around it.
these ones needed to be cropped a bit and were not put on w/ the rest but they were requested for as well so here they are. Here it is right after it was stitched up and before they put the wrapping paper on (don't open 'till christmas).
here it is after it was cleaned up by the people at snow bird. they were nice to send me to alta view.
k i think the grossness is over now it is time for fun. here is where we got our old man with the silly string. look at mel's bicep. keep doing those curls. such definition.
this was before we pouched uvu campus. yep you don't need to brush and floss all your teeth, just the ones you want to keep.
here is steph. she is super awesome but is also sideways. that is ok we will still keep her.
and a few of matilda. she was super fun.
this is the picture of aaron that come up when ever he calls me up. it is like "i want to talk to yoU!"
i think babies would learn how to swim in about a day if we had them do it. walking is a lot harder. they are constantly in a position to swim.
here a couple of pict of when grandma took us out for chinese on dad's b-day. happy birthday dad and thanks grandma. i told weston to stick the chopsticks in his mouth like a walrus and this is what i got. he is awesome.
yep. good food.
i dont remember what garret was eating but i sure it was scrumptious.
this was a picture of my open closet through the eyes of my ipod. i think mel took it but i am not sure. i am sure however that it is a neat perspective on my closet. i thought you all would like to enjoy.
i never knew how to do these puzzles where you have one space and you have to align the blocks in order to make a pict but i worked on it over christmas break w/ this child's toy and got the system down pretty good. this is the final product.
hey
the temple lights when we went up. that was super fun and a good christmas concert.
the jazz game w/ the cousins family. if you look closely the bear is doing a hand stand on a really high latter. we have the greatest mascots here in utah by far.
i was using my flotation powers to put the christmas lights on the trees.
we were going for the "o pensador" or however you say the name of that statue out in france of the guy thinking effect.
for some reason this boy like weird things like getting stuffed in the mail box. what a champ.

2009-03-08T15:58:00.000-07:00

so this will be the second of two quick posts and since i don't really know what is up with computers we are going to leave the font as blue and underlined because i don't know what is making it do that. also i don't know how to fix the order of the picts and this is how they were loaded so i will just narrate as we go down the order but this will be the second time you are going to hear this so enough talk lets go.

this one just looked really funny. we were on the freeway and the horse was jumping out of the car. well i thought it looked funny at least.

here is one for us to all remember my little b. this was taken the night before he went into the MTC. he is rockin it out in NC. such a cool kid.
max's interesting food selection keeps getting more interesting. here he was making salt water
here he was trying it.
and he decided he really liked it so he went back for more. but this time w/ a greater salt concentration. he kept on going for a bit and would have drank all the salt if we had not stopped him.
just a pict of me up skiingeating up at snowbird
birds eye view of the table
so funny story w/ this picture. when i hurt my leg the lady at the coffee stand offered me a hot chocolate and i told here nicely that i wasn't quite in the mood for one of those with my leg bleeding and all. so i went back there and talked to her and she gave me a hot chocolate and it was awesome. tons of good cream on top. yumm. she was surprised that i was skiing already and dan let her know that i was back a week later on one leg. she was supper cool and, as we all are, super grateful that i have made a full recovery.
so a sliver of dan's ski passed through his glove and went into his hand. that was pretty crazy.
this is the rock that cut my leg open. i was so surprised that we could find it.
here is where i jumped of from and landed on the rock. kind of depressing that is was something so small.
looking down into AF canyon from the far side of snowbird.
i am making the snow.
max always grabs my head phones. he loves rocking out.
i don't look all that happy in this pict but it was probably the greatest tasting peanut butter sandwich i ever had.
this is that same sandwich and a miracle happened with this. i reached into my pocket to grab the sandwich and what do you know came out with it- - A tootsie pop :) - -what a happy day. it was one of the best tasting lunches i have ever had.
here's Klint and the people working on there house. congratulations to the for the awesome job they are doing on it.

k well that is the end of the posts. hopefully i can get some more cool stories and picts for the next one. we are trying to do a road trip so i will keep you posted on what happens.

p.s. we went to cory's cabin up in the uintas and were pulled on sleds all day behind snow machines but we forgot our cameras so no picts. sorry folks you will just have to use your imagination. good luck it was pretty much of the HoOk!

2009-02-08T22:27:00.000-08:00

cowabunga!
snow shoeing adventure
hiding in the snow waiting for the sasquach graveyard shoot
gelato at the zermat in midway
Behold the J-dub. the biggest hamburger you can get for thr33 bucks. a one time experience. basically it was a challenge and i totally destroyed it but from now on i will stick to the jr j-dub or something less.
going home parachute style. yes i am ready.
so this on looks so cool with the cross and all but if you notice i did not quite get around fast enough so the landing was not all that pretty but we will get you a good one here in a bit. landing and all.
one the way back.
i was doing the "i think i smell a rat" dance again (its a white stripes song)
this one makes me look like a ninja preparing to pick out the sickest line to jump with flaming trees.

and that is if for right now folk. hopefully i can continue to rock the snow and the school. (sorry i don't have any action picts of me in the testing center--there are no cameras aloud in there) but until next time clan rock rock on.

adam

2009-01-25T22:56:00.000-08:00

k so i was not out near as long as i though i would be and now am throwing it down on the slops greater than ever. life is fun. it is hard to find the right ballance between social, school, and ski life but i figure i should at least always be doing something productive and then it will all turn out to be ok. here are some pict of the latest skiing adventure rocking it up there on the slopes. ps i used dans pocket rockets and i will tell you what, skiing tech. has improved lightyears since my last pair of skis. the a-wings have the paint job but not the goodness inside.

also i had a revelation in the kennedy center on campus the other day and that was that i quit. just for a bit but i am pretty excited. more details to come.

life is awesome. so much fun in every thing.

2008-12-14T19:52:00.000-08:00

k so i don't know how to control the order so they are out of how they should be. kind of a weird experience and a really long post to result. just know that all is well and i am go back for 100% recovery and i will soon be throwing my self of cliffs, doing barrel rolls, throwing it down in b-ball, and playing soccer--all the stuff i love so much about the life. before we get really started just want to shout out a thanks to all the people that helped. my buddies dan j, dan s, david paul, steve carroll, hunter (dan s's little b.--a trooper). the patrollers, dr. donald (i think his name was) childs. and especially my fam. they are truly the best. there are some more picts but i need to crop them to make them available to the audience. if you don't like weird stuff like cuts and such you may just want to not read this one or at-least skip the picts. good luck. have fun and enjoy your day. rock rock on.

so this is my story as i am sure there has been much speculation as to what exactly happened to my leg. it is not all that great but kind of interesting. so last saturday i was heading off the tram going toward wilber and turned of above wilber and about 50 yrds from the top we dropped a little cliff. dan went off and was fine and this is some thing that i do all the time so i guess for this I was not trying to really protect my self and scope out the landing and all that. so after i went off i turned up hill to slow me down and right as i did that i ran into a rock with my leg and fell pretty hard. got pretty shook up and checked if my feamer was broken and it wasent but then i felt a lot of blood going down my leg. dan came over to check if i was alright and i told him i was ok but i was going to slide down the rest of the mountain on my bum because my leg was really hurting. so i got about half the way down on my bum till that started to hurt to much and not make all that much progress so i flipped around and swam freestyle head first the rest of the way down till i got to the piste (groomed area). there i strapped on my skis and rode on one ski to the lodge got there and hobbled to the bathroom with the help of dan and all the stall were used so i waited 30 seconds and had to cut in front of two nice gentalmen and opend up my pants and saw the big hole in my leg and stepped right out and told dan that we had to go and call ski patrol to get me off the rest of the way. so i laid out near the coffee shop and then waited for a few minutes. the nice lady offered me some hot coco but i kind of was not really in the zone for it so i just laid on the floor with my leg up on the stairs. so the ski patrol got there and put me on a back board and then carried me out and placed me into the tobagan and took that the rest of the way down.

i played around in the clinic down there but after a few looks from some of the personel and alot of oows and wows they said i best go down to alta view and get it fixed up down there because they didnt have the skillity to fix it at the clinic. which i am super graterful for that. if they went ahead and just did it i think i would have gone thorgouh a lot more pain. so when ever they took off the bandage it started to bleed a lot so they wrapped it up but soaking up what blood they could and trying to put as much pressure on it as possible and that, was by far the most painful thing that happed the whole expeirance. so they eventually got it wrapped up and ready for transportation. and rolled me out to dans car and i got to ride in the front seat. wohoo! we went down the canyon and it was super snowy with alot of cars on the side of the road. it took us about 40 min i think (i was kind lost track of time for the whole expirence) and went striaght to the alta view hospital where my father was waiting and helped me out from there. we said good by and thnaks to all of my friends and went into the waiting room for five miniutes. they placed me right next to the fish and i came to the realization that dispite all of the pain i was in i would so much rather be me than be one of those fish. dont get me wrong i would love to be a fish. i think it would be way cool being able to swim and do all they do but the life i lead is so much better i think and i love living it. so the first nurse that checked me in got my symptoms in general and i mean really general she asked me my name, i told her adam and then she wrote down what was wrong with me and she put "leg, hurt". i thought that was pretty funny but i guess they know what they are doing. so they sent me in and sat me down and then they got to work on me. first the did what they called irragate the wound, basically they washed out all of the bad stuff by squirting in a saline solution and get it super clean. they were all pretty excieted to see what it all looked like alive and healthy as opposed to a cadaver and formaldehydie. after that they sent in another one who shot my leg up with a bunch of litakin (sp?). then the docotr came in and assesed it with another doctor as to the plan of attack to fix it all up. so then he went to work and was there for a couple of hours stiching me up and he did a few layers. and after they wraped me all up, took out the iv, and put dan's nascar pants on (thanks dan, loved the pattern) and they sent me on my way.

the crash went down a bit after noon i think and i was out of the hospital and on my way home at five to six. we stopped at smiths to get some antibiotics and that took a while and i was super hungry so i dug into the big chicken that i packed for lunch all barbarian style because i was forkless. (we wernt in my volvo where i keep a pair of plastic utensils) but i did not spill a grian of rice and kept it super clean and even better my dad brought out some fritos which were just the right thing to top it off. eventually we got home and just chilled around there. then went to bed and that is the end of my story. sorry for the order of the pictures.

2008-12-12T10:33:00.001-08:00

so all of this is supposed to go in backwards order so you might want to read from the bottom up. i dont know why the letters are all bule and underlined but some day i shall be a mighty blogger.so tons of the next fotos are from a little foto shoot mel and i, we had thanks giving night. that was awesome.

so this one looks like mel is going to be shot. awesome special effects.
good old friend 2xl

a personal favorite.
we are trying to get the effect of "have you see jordan crook"
the krishna temple. that was a fun little event. i have one of me there but it turned out really blury.
real salt lake game. that was super fun.
tie dye damage. super cool date thing.
lydia at thanks giving.

k well this blogging thing is harder than it looks but i hope to become a more regular poster than just once a month. so hopefully i can get better at it. well it is finals week here at byu and today and tomorrow are reading days so we all know what that really means. skiing days!! the best way to get rid of the stress before the finals. hopefully my grades turn out ok the nmr stuff in ochem is looking pretty intense but i think i will learn it before thrus. well since the last post we have had some thanks giving fun and that was probably the best weekend of my life. couple of turkey bowls and playing with some freinds from the home town. also i was able to go skiing which is always so much fun. and the best part was thanksgiving itself with the family. many of the picts to follow are those we took thanks giving night. mel and i, we were board and did not want to go to bed so we had a little foto shoot and the results were actually pretty pretty. there is other good stuff in there. as the captions will hopefully denote.

fun from the last year

2008-11-17T08:22:00.000-08:00

due to the lack of knowledge on how to blog and all this i lost a lot of my writing but in summary this post contains many picts from the facebook so a lot of you may have seen them. also they are really scattered in the order so sorry about that but this is my attempt to catch up from the last year of not blogging at all. so grab some pops and sit down and enjoy the stroll down memory lane for the last year (for the most part). awesome have fun.

k this is some of when we went to zions and did weeping rock and angles landing and a whole bunch of other stuff.

on top of angles landing.
on the way up to kings peak. i had to move so down so the camera could get kings in the backgrond (or what we thought was kings) (its not that i was tried or anything...right)
k this wasent last year but its a pretty chill foto
this is the trolls wateringhole we ran into on the way back from kings. you can ask patrick montandon about the troll story, its a good one.
here is when we went to st george and ate some tai food. some spicy awesome goodness. thanks mike and jake.
super pipe championship. it was pretty double awesome. some twos thrown and then my favorit the 1260. so crazy these guys really look like helicopters.
rock scrambling on the sugar loaf in st george
this was the only pict we took when we when to st george w/ the fam. we had sooooo much fun there was no time to get out the camera. truly a great vacation.
one of the greatest snow goons we have crated at the wood house hold. the snow packed so well we did the whole thing in about 25 min. it was awesome work. and it terrorized the neighborhood for weeks to come at night.
snow goon from the back side in the process. i love caden's get-up.
he is after me aaaahhhhhh.
good morning shovelings
this is the slot canyon above the sugar loaf. way fun i am back there some where one or two people.
ya this one speaks for it's self.
sending my little b off. i think this may be one of my favorite picts. really. it captures the summer sunday afternoons kick back style. and max is awesome.
this is our group of friends as we got ready to preach to the world. such good guys. i really did grow up with the coolest group of people. never been a kid so blessed in that respect.
i really like halloween and some times i wish is was the headless horseman.
so last week i broke my thumb and this is what she looked like from the out side. it is just really annoying. typing right now is a pain with the splint and contrary to what the "popular park ski kid" belief is it is not easier to ski / spin / whatever on the sticks with out poles. i did a whole day with out them, it just looks weird, feels squirrelly in the air, and is not stable shredding down the steeps. skiers should use poles. end of story
last year lovein life goin up peak five.
up kolob canyon about to conquer the world.
b 4 mish at niagra w/ some buddies
prepare to meet mr angry eyes.

way sweaty but on the way up to lone peak. super super cool hike.
so last year i sported the leprechaun of death get up. that was a fun day.
on top kings. that was a good quick hike. we did the whole thing in one day and rocked it.
up top kings again.
keeping the fans entertained during the lunch hour w/ some tip turns.
horse tail falls. there has always been a little part of me up there.
some high stakes w/ my bros.
Halloween get up
just a cool pict
funny story behind this one but i dont have the time so if you want the details you can ask me later or just talk to dan jimenez for the best details.
early air
playing crazy face. its a good game that is an awesome past time with my sister
getting pumped for Christmas morning. my favorite time of the year.
choir tour a long long time ago. this was a fun one.
awesome day on the slopes with my brothers and my dad.
another great day but we replaced aaron with mel. she is not quite as fast. but is pickin it up quick. (its pretty hard to be as fast as aaron)
on top of the look out area at canyons
claps before sponsors. why i do what i do?-- its for the people and the chair lift. gotta keep the fans entertained. gotta give the people what they want.
camping up af canyon. pretty weird lens but it is a good pict.
before the mission. man how i miss my blue shoes.
the best carin in all the uintas. there were some crazy squriles in this one. they where throwing some crazy back flips. probably one of the most athletic animals.
up top bean hill. best place for hot chocolate and nilla wafers.
first barrel roll of the season. and no this is not where i broke my thumb. the pict just show me going into it. we'll get one of me fully inverted before long and throw it up for the fans when my i can grab a pole again and we got the snow to do it. give me a couple of weeks. just hold on.
i'm-a star, going back ward . backwards flying shooting star. waaahooo!
auctioning off the pb&j. lets start the bidding at two dollar! two dollar!
so here i am in the awesome sweater. ya i make it on alot of magazine covers.
up top angles landing
super tired up af canyon
after a bit we woke up

the next bit is of the family picture shoots. good times good times. my family is by far the best

caden kind of stick out a bit in this one but he is awesome still
me and my little sister. she is crazy. for sure.
good totampole one

and that is it i am done. there are many other adventures that need to be posted but this will do for now. hopefully publishing it works. ill get you some videos later and make sure i do lot of fun stuff to keep the fans entertained. but you guys gotta be understanding as well a lot of my time goes to studying and i am not going to post picts of that because honestly who wants to watch some one reading book and doing practice problems. if you ask me that is really BOOOOORIng. welp, till next time. rock rock on 1987 style. adam

first go

2008-11-10T08:20:00.000-08:00

well all my family has one and some of them including my little b cant see what is going down on facebook and the pictures are just too much in his in box and now i am running on with this sentance so stop.

k this is kind of a test go to see if i can get get to understand how this all works. so hopefully i can find a pict to test as well. and it works and yep i like to ski.