Bambi Nuggets Redux (and the Tulip Festival)
This graphic, which I found so hilarious I asked to steal it, was created by Dennis at Mormondaddyblogs.com Well, this is interesting. And disturbing. Remember the conversation I had with my four-year-old daughter, Anna, wherein she alerted me that she needed to...
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The Time I Almost Played Trivial Pursuit With Ken Jennings
You know who Ken Jennings is, right? You know! The guy from Jeopardy. (crickets) The one who went for many many consecutive weeks as the champion and broke all kinds of records. On Jeopardy. (sound of moths pinging a light fixture) He recently just competed against a...
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Choose your own adventure! Or Part II of the colonoscopy story
After some serious, profound, soul-searching, I recently came to the conclusion that Los Readers (that's you, btw) were probably tired of reading about my anus. Whoa! Anus over-share! Oh. my. gosh. Seriously Kensington, is he talking about his anus AGAIN??...
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Life Lessons Learned From Eagles
I have been mesmerized the last few days. By this: Online video chat by Ustream It's a live feed of a family of eagles in Iowa and it has been observing the family since the hatching of three eagle-babies earlier this month. Millions...
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The story about when I had a colonoscopy, Part I
I had a colonoscopy on April Fool's day. It was kinda funny, because then I went around telling people "I had a camera shoved up my butthole today!" and people would sit and wait for me to be like "APRIL FOOLS!!" but then I wouldn't, and it would dawn on them in this...
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Bambi Nuggets
Hello Bambi. While reading Anna her bedtime story which was a book version of Disney's Bambi, we got to the part where hunters kill Bambi's mom. The following conversation ensued: Anna: Why did the hunters kill Bambi's Mommy? Me: Well, hunters kill for sport....
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Racism
I'm becoming an Ethnic Minority Mental Health Specialist. Because as a 30-year-old white male from the suburbs of Utah, there's nothing I understand more acutely than marginalization. Yes, if there's anything that towheaded little The Weed in a blue suit is going to...
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The Day I Realized I’m Exactly Like Jimmer Fredette
Tragically, BYU lost Thursday. It's a heartbreaking development for all alumni, but I think it especially strikes home for me because I recently had an experience that felt pretty much exactly like what the team, and especially Jimmer Fredette, the team's star,...
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New Pet!
You know your blog is becoming the center of your universe when you start contemplating life-time commitments for a photo op. I seriously thought about getting a dog the other day so that I could post pictures of it on my blog. Not to care for it. Not to love it. Not...
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Wedding Planning
My sister-in-law Kaitlyn is getting married in May and she's really lucky because I'm so good at wedding planning. Like with themes. I think I'm pretty talented at choosing a theme that will tie an event together, and leave the guests thinking "whoa, that was...
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Food. And Gangs. But Mostly Food.
Wife and I grew up on the same street in Kearns, Utah. This is the house I grew up in. I just found it on the internet, because technology is amazing. When our parents moved there, it was a neighborhood on the Utah Wasatch Front West Side (throws up a sign)...
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Hide and Seek
So, Viva, our two-year-old, has a hilarious and also terrifying habit. She has decided that there is very little in this world more entertaining than hiding from us. The thing I don't get though is how sometimes she's so amazing at it, and other times her hiding spot...
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