Ships and Cherry Blossoms at UW.

Click on this first picture is it worth seeing blown up.

I'm coming off the high of spring break to face the reality that there are only a few weeks left in the semester. The pace / feeling at the law school has definitely shifted. I have a feeling my next few weeks will be rather void of interesting stories. Fortunately, the last couple of months have provided plenty of material for this blog.

After church last Sunday, Noah and I took advantage of a beautiful day and went exploring around Seattle. Our first interesting find was the fisherman's terminal. I've always wanted to be a merchant marine, so, this was a fun side trip.

The ships varied from the enormous utility boats to small skiffs. They also varied in level of decay. Some of the boats seemed to be nothing more than scrap rust. (Brenna has a boat too)

Some of the residents of the harbor were living on their boats, which made me wonder what it would cost to buy a big boat and turn it into a floating house.

Our next stop was the cherry blossoms at UW. This was way cool. I don't think I've live in an area with a big cherry blossom bloom, so, this was a new experience. The plaza was pretty busy with people this afternoon. But it was a conspicuously an Asian affair, I seemed like 9/10 of people was Asian. Go figure. Maybe we don't like to get out and look at flowers.

Anyways, we took some brilliant photos of the square that I hope you'll enjoy. 

Fortunately, Noah is very good model. 

Kylee's Wedding

~ Congratulations Kylee and Jeremy ~

I hope they name their future son - Adam West.

So, two weeks ago, I traveled to Boise to attend my little sister's wedding. I've been holding off posting this because I wanted more pictures from the reception, but since I have yet to receive them, I'll post what I have.

It was a very long day for me. My flight left at 7:05, so, I had to get up at 4:20 to catch the first light rail to the airport with enough time to check in my bags. Unfortunately because I travel with a 30 lbs of textbooks, I have to check bag when I fly. For some reason the airport was really busy at 6 in the morning, I usually don't have to wait in security for more than 5 minutes, that morning it was close to 30 min.

I landed in Boise with beautiful weather. It was a crystal clear winter day. Unfortunately, I didn't get to enjoy it and I spent the entire day at the Boise Library working on my Memo. After six straight our in the cramped study room in the library I was finally able to escape and go to the wedding.

Before the ceremony, we had a nice dinner at the Cottonwood Grille with the two families. My Uncle DuBose, my dad's older brother, and family.  I hadn't seen them for a very long time. I don't have a picture of the dinner, but this a good one of the family at dinner the following night. I think dad should join, with Uncle Rusty and I, in the beard club.

-Onto Kylee's Wedding -

She had the ceremony at Bishop Bates's house. He used to be my young men's counselor, so, it was really fun to see him again. They live up on top of the foothills in Boise, which gave us a beautiful view of the night skyline and valley.

Bishop Bates gave a very nice sermon on building on a marriage on the principles of the gospel followed by the actual vows, rings and kiss. We had a good time after that crowding around for pictures, toasting the happy couple, and cake.

As they left, Kylee tossed her bouquet which Brenna caught. I thought this was amusing because Kylee was the one who caught the bouquet at my wedding. So, maybe Brenna will be the next one to fall :-p.

Andrew's Wedding + Snowshoeing

There have been so many events over the last couple of weeks that I'll need to spread out the blog posts.

This one will be picture heavy.

The other big perk of going to the JRCLS was that I got to spend Valentines Day, Chinese New Year, and President's Day with Noah. On Valentines Day, we met up with the family at Grandma and Grandpa's House. We had a nice dinner and then made treats for Kylee's wedding reception.

The following day Noah and I wandered back up the canyon and spent the afternoon snowshoeing.