Saturday, January 12, 2008

Seattle Bennett living in Colorado

First set of Roomies Alicia and Meags August 1997-December 1997

my favorite memory was hiding under 12" of Alicia's covers when she went in for her early morning breakfast before going back to bed and jumping out and scarring her
riding up on BYU campus with the girls in their tank tops and short shorts and me with a beard and getting strange looks
going to Chad and Mike's and when Meagan would get angry sending her home to get some sleep
7:00 am class 5 days a week and never getting to bed before 2:00 am
Ryan Beecher coming over and going to dinner with him out at that Chinese restaurant with the fish
going camping out at flaming gorge with the Beecher boys
riding Squaw Peak with Jake Meagan and Alicia
My first trip to Moab sleeping in the back of Jake's old truck and waking up under petroglyph


Second set of roomies Jake Weber and Jeff Harris January 1998- May 1998

Not knowing Jake was naked and jumping in bed with him to wake him up
bringing home a new date every night the first week they lived with me and freaking them out
Hiking up to the hot pots in the snow
Having Geof come out for spring break and snowboarding/skiing all day and staying up all night hiking, mtn biking down snowy slopes and sending Geof home so tired he slept for 2 days
going snow shoeing with Jake Jeff Alicia and a couple of other people up alpine loop
snow boarding 3 days a week with Megan Newport now Megan Weber
Road tripping out to Oakland to go to Jake and Megans wedding
Meagan and Cory's wedding and getting everyone sunburnt for it except me who was already golden brown from the neck up to the point where people laughed when i took off my shirt
Megan's friend that could get us into a gym after 1:00 am and playing volleyball, racket ball, and hot tubbing till the wee hours of the morning

Going to Alaska and hitch hiking the Alaskan/Canadian Highway

Third set of Roomies Geof and Justin August 1998- April 1999

Justin's poor dog Burton that we made him give away after 2 weeks of him working 80 hours and not taking care of his dog
Snowboarding/Skiing with Geof 5 days a week
Having class with Geof
Working at DownEast Outfitters with Geof and hanging out with Jonna and Dale from there, putting Jonna in a suitcase and Dale filming me while I rolled her around and she would reach and grab people and scare them to death (hilarious)
going up to Lowell and Mindy's in Heber
writing a note for Justin to do his dishes and him getting mad and then hiding all the dishes except 3 of the essentials and everyone knowing which ones theirs

Forth set of Roomy August 1999-December 1999 Aaron Mcglaphlin

I didn't know this kid but I never saw him either
Dating Jen LLoyd
Mom saying that it was alright to not have much in common and being ever so grateful i didn't follow that advice
Getting Jen sent out on a mission a viciously dating to find my real true love
Finding out about cheap Europe tickets and booking the first Euro trip and that one girl that came along that we still don't know who invited her

Fifth set of Roomies Chad Bernards and Kevin Fairhurst January 2000- April 200o

telling the new group of cute girls that moved into the ward we were their home teachers and then telling the elders quorum pres he needed to assign them to us because we already home taught them
developing my favorite home teaching style which includes cute girls, swim suits, and hot water
going "home teaching every night" (by the way Mindi still keeps in touch with a few of those girls)
we home taught all our groups like that
Snowboarding 5 days a week
working at the rehab
staying a wake 24-36 hours at least twice a week and finding out i could still function
having 4 jobs and working 72 hours straight
Kevin snapping his knee cap and being stuck on the couch for 3 months
Darla coming into my work to get Geof.'s address on the mission
going to Europe for the first time and having such a great time but thats another blog
coming back from Europe and Chad setting me up with his girlfriends roommate because she is the only other person he knows who has snow shoes
meeting Mindi for the first time
Mindi picking me up from the airport after mother's day and her giving me a big hug and knowing that she was going to be wife

Sixth roomy Steve Garvert April 2000-June 2000

his fiance Laural who got me the job at the rehab months before
Dating Mindi
going to Durango with Mindi and Andrew Gibbs (my best friend from high school) and him telling Mindi he will be her best friend because he wants to stay best friends with me
going to Sun Valley aerating and buying my 65 Volvo station wagon the one car I wish I never sold
Riding one of "Bike" magazines "5 Epic Rides" in Fruita Colorado and realizing "Bike" magazine has no idea what its talking about

Seventh set of final roomy and the 11th roomie in the Provo house over all August 2000-May 2001

Marring Mindi
lots of x rated stuff
going to Lowell and Mindy's up in Heber for Cale Ellery's blessing meeting Tony for the first time and knowing he was the one
going to Europe for the 2nd trip
Mindi going to the Rigby's every Monday night because I was working and she loved looking at all the baby pictures Jackie has of me ( more than my Mom )
4 years of going to Aunt Jacks for thanks giving
Alicia always being protective of me with every girl I dated and not liking any of them except Mindi

3 Comments:

At 3:48 PM , Blogger Jessica said...

Very funny Adam about Europe!!!

Meeting Tony? Was that my Tony?

Jess

 
At 9:02 AM , Blogger Adam said...

yes jess that was your Tony Mindy showed him to me and said that she thought you two should hook up

 
At 9:40 PM , Blogger Ellynn said...

wow adam. i thought i had lived in this house almost as long as you have. you definately take the cake!

 

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