I'm not really sure what to write in my first blog. I guess it starts with whats going on in my life.
Right now I just graduated with my undergrad, a BA in Music, and am currently looking for a job. Depending on the job I get, right now the plan is to move down to Utah at the end of the year so my wife, Melissa, can do her student teaching and finish school. While down there I plan on preparing and applying for grad school. I plan on studying something more business/accounting oriented (Accounting was my minor). I've always considered myself somewhat business minded and have always thought about running my own business. When I was younger I could see myself owning a guitar store or a car dealership. I actually even like the idea of combining it all into one business. For now while I look for work I keep busy playing music for a few different groups. In fact, this week a bluegrass group I play for, The Teton Shadow Boys, will be playing a couple of shows at the Eastern Idaho State Fair. I also play jazz for a few different groups on the area.
I was born in Idaho while my parents were going to school at Rick's. I lived in Utah until I was about 13 and we moved back to the good land, Idaho. I graduated from South Fremont High School and then I did a semester at BYU-Idaho in Electric Engineering. I decided engineering wasn't for me that semester. Interesting side note, in my high school calculus class my buddy and I use to say that all of our lives everyone taught us that 1 + 1 = 2 and when we would go to college and study engineering they would prove to us that 1 + 1 = 10. So in my Electronic Engineering class where you study binary numbers I learned to in fact 1 + 1 = 10. I don't know how it happened. My buddy, who went to study Civil Engineering disagrees. He learned that 1 + 1 = 2.0000001, but never just 2. I gave myself two years to decide what to do while I served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Chihuahua, Mexico. I spent my first couple if months in the training center in Provo, UT. In Mexico I started in Ciudad Juarez and then I spent the next 7 or 8 months in small towns outside of Casas Grandes/Dublan. Then I spent some time I Parral, the same place where Pancho Villa was killed. We even found a museum dedicated to him. Then I returned to Casas Grandes to finish out the two years. I got home at 4 AM on Jan. 6, 2005; and started right into classes, literally; my first class was at 8 AM that morning. This time I was studying Business. I did that for a semester expecting to continue down that path, but something change my mind. My minor was in Music and the more I got into it the more I realized that that was what I needed to study. So I moved forward and changed to Jazz Studies with an Accounting minor. I almost did a Spanish Cluster, but this way I was able to take more Accounting classes (what was I thinking?). After a couple years I realized that I was going to be in school forever. I still hadn't taken any accounting classes in the first couple if years. Probably because I was in at least three music ensembles every semester since I switched. To help lessen my music load I switched to a BA in Music. I still had to take other classes but eventually I got down to just one ensemble by the time I graduated.
While going to school I met my amazing wife Melissa. We dated for about 9 months before we got married at the Mount Timpanogas Temple in Utah. She also is studying music. She plays the flute. We were married on July 22, 2008. On Nov. 11, 2009 our Daughter Ethne was born. she has been a joy in our lives as well as a great exercise routine. Everything else has been written in Melissa's blog.
