Sugarland and Del Mar Fair!

Ok it's been a while since I've posted now, had the eventful weekend and just not as much to post because mom and dad were here so I wasn't posting for them! :)
Anyhow, past week, me and Lori went to the Del Mar fair and saw Sugarland while we were there, pictures pretty much describe it all. We will lead off with fair, then progress to Sugarland.

So here we are progressing into the fair, just wandered around a lot at first actualyl bought those sunglasses I am wearing in the picture, saw a bunch of crazy Carnies out doing their Carnie things, and it basically just seemed like a large Info-Mercial.












Progressed onto some pitching game of guess your speed win a hat. I just wanted to see how fast I could pitch it, first ball was 74, I guessed 77 for the second ball, and hit exactly 77 and won ourselves some little Surfer Girl hat, it was great.








Progressed over to that ridiculous toss rings onto coke bottles game, and they were having a special deal of get 40 rings for like 2 dollars so we thought what the hell we'll give it a shot. Ah I left out, we met my friend Jackie and her friend Nick (pictured) at the fair as well. So we're tossing the rings just joking around, next thing we know, Nick sticks one on there. Win's that Giant Dog on his shoulder there, quite the animal really.

This is me and Lori at the top of the ferris wheel toward the end of the night.

This is just a view looking down at the fair after dark, such a fun place!

Us taking our seats at the Sugarland concert, had great seats! Was pretty strange to notice the guy there which you can see in the corner who was there by himself to watch the show. Good times though, he got up and sang and danced with us anyhow!

This is the view from the other angle of where we were sitting.

Then here we have Jennifer Nettles and Sugarland up singing! They put on such an amazing show! She sounds absolutely stunning live and her personality just can't help but crack you up she's sorta geeky, but cute ah it was just fun!

Video was taken during their opening song Baby Girl, such a classic song. I apologize for my singing, wow, Lori really is a sweetheart for seriously letting me go on singing, once you hear yourself sing that does it for me, I'm never singing again! Anyhow, try to tune my horrible voice out and note how amazing Sugarland is :)

Home from Lehi and a fun weekend!

So just got back from Lehi another awesome, but too short trip.
Got to see some good old friends, and unfortunately talked with more, but didn't get to see them. Sooner or later Lance we'll get to chill. I will post some rodeo pictures shortly when I get back home. Had a great time, the whole weekend, flew in Thursday night and got to play and hang out with T and Brit, unfortunately missed Ryan as he was animal sitting for his sister. But we all just layed low some, played some Halo. Then Friday mom picked me up and headed down to good old Utah County for my good friend Mark's wedding. Mark is James Straits little brother and I had the honor of being a Groomsman for his wedding. And it was a blast, good times, I really love their families and Mark's new bride Heather is also great, so it was a really fun time, plus I looked ravashing in my tux so it was good times all around. Did that most all of the day on Friday, didn't get home till about 10:30 then just hung out with the parentals and chatted some at our house. I really miss our house, something seriously amazing about having a creek running through your front yard, just so peaceful. Then Saturday we woke up early and headed down to the old High School Booster club breakfast at the park. Was really great there, it's just like a high school reunion really, but man Lehi is sure growing, hardly recognize most the people. Plus it's really weird to think the demographic of people that are my age and my old friends are primarily the ones who are pushing the baby strollers around! Saw good old Bergholm there, and Marc Hadfield swung by, also got to see Dave Christofferson, Toni Bond and their baby, such a cute little kid! Saw Amberly Felix and learned she was getting married in a couple weeks! (I seriously could attend a wedding every single weekend back home.) Chatted there, had a good breakfast and then headed back home to help clean-up the house for a bit before my parents were having a little Pre-Rodeo party. Brought Hil to the Rodeo and always have a good time there, it's another high school reunion place really, and we had a great time. Stayed after the rodeo for the dirt-dance out on the rodeo ground, met up with Marc and Dixon out there and danced around and just generally joked around for a while. Then headed back home, up early Sunday morning and flew back home! Will update with stuff from home shortly, will also get pictures up to show the weekend soon as I get home. Headed to Sugarland tonight with Lori, really excited!



Me Britt and Ty Thursday night, looking reaaal good too!

Ok now it is really hard to see in this picture, but me and Hil are actually in the bottom right corner, kind of blurry. Front row, she is in blue, I am in a white t-shirt with black cowboy hat on. Three people to the left of where the person standing up walking is in the red.

Me and Hil after the rodeo out in the arena.

Dix, me and Marc! Good times with some good old friends.

I love my friends.

Haha just an amusing email from a friend at work:

From: DT Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:10 AMTo: DT; WH; CT; RH; JS; DS
Subject: lost phone
All- I lost my cell phone so please either respond to this message with your cell # or send me a text telling me who you are.
Thanks.

From: Will Hyde [mailto:will@thehardagegroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:43 AMTo: Dylan TaylorSubject:
RE: lost phone
8**-8**-0***
WH

From: DT Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:10 AM To: WH
Subject: lost phone

Thanks homes, stupid phone fell out of my pocket at Lagoon on Friday. I was screaming like an idiot at pedestrians while riding the white rollercoaster and that apparently was enough to set it free. Now I have h's old phone.

DT
Assistant General Manager

Moving!

So shortly I will be moving from good old Pacific Beach up to Cardiff, which is just a little north of Del Mar and will put me much closer to work. Moving date looks like July 5th which hopefulyl I will then have the family out visiting and they could help too which would be great! The new place is going to save a ton of gas! And my new roomie Sandy is great and we'll have a lot of fun!From the new place I'm seriously considering riding my bike to work at least once a week potentially more. Going to inherit a bike from my friend Lori, I haven't even biked in probably a good 10+ years so it will be an adventure to start for sure! But it should be fun.
This week has been a really fun one. Tuesday, had intentions of a bon-fire and Jen farewell and a bunch of people came over, we all just ended up hanging out though and it was a great time. At least I know I had a great time! :) Wednesday got out on the dance floor at In Cahoots and did a little Boot-Skootin and dancing it was also a great time. Finally got some good rest on Thursday night, now I'm stalling at work and getting ready for Lori's B-Day party tonight and then Jen's wedding tomorrow!

Green Dimes - Stop Junk Mail

https://www.greendimes.com/

Just stumbled across this site, haven't actually tried it yet, but I know some of my Eco-Friendly friends would really love this. Particularly you Jen, I know how that junk mail bothers you! :)
But anyhow it looks like just a thing which you can sign up for and then you can remove yourself from like Credit Card mailer lists etc.
In fact for the basic plan it looks like they will pay you a dollar to sign up.

Then if you want you can get like a premium package and other things which include like:

• Automatic removal from more than two dozen junk mail lists in our database
• Junk mail protection for unlimited names per household
• Unique Catalog Screener – Tell us which catalogs you want stopped
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• Quarterly report cards detailing our progress in reducing your junk mail
• Customer Service with 24-hour response time
• 5 trees planted on your behalf with our non-profit tree-planting partners

Tiffany Visit

So my friend Tiffany from back in the old Chase Suite days came to visit this past weekend and we had a great time. Wednesday night when she flew in I picked her up and headed straight to the Cubs game. (21st row, thanks Sam!) Seats were amazing and gotta love watching the Cubbies! Unfortunately Padres got them this night and Hoffman even came in to close and held the lead for once! Thursday just went to La Jolla, had some good little Mexican food. Friday we met a bunch of my softball and new San Deeego friends down at PB Ale House and then proceeded to Thrusters and just danced the night away some, was a good time all in all. Saturday woke up and helped Linsey and Thomas pack up and get ready to move. Then went to the Zoo good times, will update with some pictures from there later. Came home Saturday night and played some rousing sessions of RockBand, I think Tiff got hooked for sure. Sunday, had 2 softball games. I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but I loooove softball. A division game with Roshambo we won 21-11 or so, and B divison game at 3 we won 19-11 so overall we had a good time. So as to make it indirect arrogance, I'll just quote a clip from Division B captain weeks recap. "In any case, we pretty well dominated, giving up 6 of the 9 runs in one inning with a couple of errors. I think we had 3 innings on defense where we put them down 1-2-3 and we batted around in each of the first two innings, scoring 5 runs in each inning. Zac, Will & Eric each had 1 legit home run (I think mine was legit and not an error - I was a little busy running the bases) and Will had the 4 base error home run. Congrats & thanks to everyone for a great game." Then we had some lunch at the bay, headed out to Coronodo to see the Hotel Del and came back went to a movie then had dinner in Old Town. Really jammed as much as possible into a few days!

Me playing with a Monkey at the Zoo, he grabbed my hand it was the coolest thing! He had the smallest little hands! Then he about bit me, and I realized hmm this probably isn't the best idea as I pulled my hand back and realized no more than 2 feet away was the this animal bites please watch fingers sign.

This one's for you mom! :) Even the big goofy smile!
Our seats at the Cubbies and Padres game! 21st row gotta love them Cubbies! I swear there was about just as many Cubs fans as there was Padres fans at the game. Even during the 7th Inning Stretch. "Root root for the Cubbbies!" it was awesome.
Me and a giant bear. Just reminded me of Anchorman.
Me feeding a small goat in the children's petting zoo. I seriously cannot believe the patience these little guys must have! Poor little animals you've got kids screaming yelling pulling their hair etc. etc. I just feel bad for them!

Fun times in San Diego for the weekend, I'm exhausted going into another work week! Gotta love it!

Torrey Pines Hike

Went hiking up at Torrey Pines with some good friends Mark (The Chaplain) and Matt (The Keeper) and new friend Melody. Just a beautiful place in the world really, it was my first time hiking up there and really can't believe I haven't made the time to get there it was just gorgeous and a really fun time.

Mark, Me, Melody and Matt. Just at a lookout point along one of the many trails there.

I believe this was up at the Torrey Pines Lodge, a really good timer picture done here.

The "act like you don't know your picture's being taken" pose, I feel like we got a little too into it. But it looks like we're having a good time!

Typical, I close my eyes in a picture, pretty proud of myself again, still a great view. Melody must have been telling me something really funny because usually I'm so photogenic! And by photogenic I have perhaps the worst percentage of closing my eyes in photo's of anyone I know...

The end of the hike lets out at the beach and we just walk back to the car from there. Such a beautiful place in the world. I do recall me and Matt throwing some rocks and of course my first throw was "Hey look lets aim at something ridiculously too far away" throw shoulder out, it's hard being this awesome sometimes.

Anyhow it was a nice little hike with some great company and good times!