Drewshizzle And The Boys

     It's been a great couple of weeks.  Morp (girls-choice ugly prom) was fantastic.  My date dumped a bucket of red paint down the back of my shirt and not many guys can say that.  It included pizza, Curses (the game), paint wars, and McDonald's.  What a night!
     It was the end of third term last week.  I can't believe that the year is almost over.  Now just for testing...  Also, Yours Truly can legally drive other people!  Booya!
     On Saturday, Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band came to Timpview for a private concert.  Beno, Taylor, and I, tripled up for an awesome date (myself with Kimberly Russon).  It was a super fun night and everybody had a great time.  The band's sheer musical talent, energy, and goofy sense of humor make them great performers.  I would attend anytime.  Here is one of their music videos:

     On top of that, I was fortunate enough to attend the ward talent show earlier this evening.  Yes, I did participate.  I was planning on doing a solo performance on the guitar or banjo, however, a couple of awesome brothas recruited me to form a band.

    
     Not bad for one practice, eh?  Thank you Oak Hills 2nd Ward Young Women for your support ;)  We hope to be back next year even better than before...

-Drewshizzle

El Cheapo 2012

     Imagine a date, the theme of which was being cheap.  Add to that a school-sponsored dance and a whole lot of fun people and you've pretty much got El Cheapo.

     Our group consisted of Beno and Alyssa; Micheal and Kristen; Josh and Megan; Parker and Jennifer; Simon and Emily; and Nate and Emily.  Oh, and, of course, Yours Truly.  Could it be more ideal?

     I asked Kelsey Herdman who just so happens to be a fantastic girl and a great friend.

     To my relief she said, "yes!"

Pix below:
 

Josh, Parker, Jennifer, and I with the tricked-out "El Cheapo-mobile."

     We began with some fantastic chalk-art competitions at Kiwanas Park.  The drawings included sketches of Y Mountain (or in our case a pirate ship... whoops), fruit drawings, sketches of dates, and finally a great work of group-art.

Yes, we did, indeed, decorate a sidewalk big time.

Our group creation...

     Next, we headed to the Provo City Library for a surprise book hunt.  Each couple was given a checklist and tried to find the thickest, largest, or most colorful books.  We then compared results at the end of the time limit.

Yes, we found some pretty sweet books including David Bowie and Dinosaurs.

This is during the competition.  We didn't win any of the contests, but we most definitely found the coolest books.

     We then headed to a park.  On the way there, we found a cooler sitting on the side of the road with just the perfect amount of Cup-o-Noodles and french bread for dinner (thank you fairy godmother).  Micheal happened to have a camp stove in the trunk of his car.  While the water heated in the pavilion, we played a couple of intense rounds of capture the flag.  Then we enjoyed a dinner of Ramen, French bread, cider, and brownies.

The noodles were very warming in the chilly night air.  Did I mention that this was a candlelight supper?

Me in steam.

     And lastly, we headed to the dance.

3 Girls enjoying El Cheapo.

Andrew pulling an amazing improv. dance move.

     I am rarely one to really enjoy dances.  Even if I do enjoy one I rarely feel any desire to stay longer than 30 minutes.  This one, however, was fantastic.  We had so much fun that we stayed until the very end.  Afterwards we headed to Micheal's place for ice cream sundaes.  I spent a grand total of $2.05 on dinner for my date and myself.  I've been on good dates, but this one might just take the cake!

Pan Fishin' With Sadie Hawkins

     Most of my many hours spent fishing, I have spent in the pursuit of trout.  Yes my friends, I, like most in Utah, am a trout fisherman.  Last week however, I made the decision to deviate from this path and go pan fishing in Utah Lake with Matthew Clark, Pat Houston, and Elijah Urquiaga.  And what a good decision it was.  It turns out that a double tailed Mr. Twister grub impaled on a jig, reeled in at just the right speed, close by the reeds makes the black crappie, large-mouth bass, bluegill, and perch go crazy.  We ended up with 26 black crappie, 10 yellow perch, 2 large-mouth bass, 1 white bass, and a bunch of bluegill (which we threw back).  It turns out that the high water levels in Utah Lake this year allowed lots of little fish to hide which in turn fed the big fish and made them even bigger fish.  All in all, a sweet afternoon!  Picts Below:

Our catch arrayed out on the boat.

So who's Sadie Hawkins?

     Sadie Hawkins' is one of the two girls' choice dances at Timpview High School.  Unlike conventional dates, Sadies' is a date where the girls provide transportation, tickets, and fun activities to boot.  In other words: it's awesome!  I was asked by Megan Cook, who happens to be extremely awesome as well.  Imagine my surprise on finding my side porch covered with a story written in chalk and underlined words which I had to decode to find the secret message.  Needless to say, it was a great night.  Our group met at Megan's house in the afternoon to play games and eat dinner.  Dinner turned out to be a 6 foot long sub with Lemonade which was utterly delicious.  Next we all piled into the car and headed to the Dance which was lots of fun as well.  After a quick stop at Days for some ice cream we returned to the house to make brownies, ice cream sundaes, and play Apples to Apples (one of my top favorites ;) late into the night.  Picts below:

The school's banner ad.

My shirt, handiwork of Megan.

Our excellent group (or most of it; one couple took a while to arrive).

We took our pictures on a tandem bike.

The six foot sandwich (we were all pretty excited :).

     That was pretty awesome.  

     On a side note (I promise you're near the end), I just finished reading Inheritance, the fourth book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.

Spoiler Alert!!! (highlight the text below only if you have read the book!!!)

     What an amazing book!  I can't believe that it's actually over.  Done!  It makes me so sad to think that there aren't going to be anymore about Eragon, Saphira, Arya, and Firnen!  I just knew it would be Arya.  I am unashamed to say that I shed a few tears along with Eragon at the end when he was forced to part from Arya after they are finally happy and together.  Ah, the beauty of bitter-sweet endings.  Parting is such sweet sorrow!  Ha! you didn't know that Yours Truly was a romanticist, now did you!  Well yes, I am.  And what an amazing book it was!  The problem with great fantasy books is that they are like the Mirror of Erisid in that you could almost get lost in them and wish to be in the imaginary world created by the author because your world, in comparison, seems dull and uninviting.  I certainly do.  Perhaps that is part of what makes great fantasy: a world worth fantasizing about.

     If you hadn't read the book and you highlighted the above text anyways, shame on you.  You have committed a grave crime and must read the book immediately!

Atra esterní ono thelduin. Mor'ranr lífa unin hjarta onr. Un du evarínya ono varda. 

-Andrew 

Leather Jackets, Dances, and Harleys

     Today I'm writing to document an awesome Halloween Dance and an even more awesome Halloween costume.  This was a dance with three stakes, Oak Hills, Provo, and Provo East, all full of great people and imaginative costumes.  Music? great.  Decorations? super spooky.  Treats? excellent.  Andrew's improv. dance moves? not so much.  Before the dance a friend and I hit a haunted house set up by some of our friends (and I thought I was big on Halloween :) which was awesome and very professionally done.  My costume this year consisted of a pink and white shirt, a sweet hair-do, a leather belt, a pair of leather boots, a black leather jacket, and a pair of classy aviators to complete the effect.  Yes my friends, this year I dressed up as a Harley-rider.  Only one question remains: how to get a Harley to ride...  Pix below:

The full costume, boots and all.

And with the aviators on.

Credits
Amazing Costume: Anne (couldn't a done it without her)
Amazingly Attractive Hair-Do: Awesome Big Sister
Spooky Haunted House: Hannah and Friends

Stay tuned for:  Wallace, Stripey, and Lisa the Halloween Spiders.