Witty vs. Funny

There are certain people in my life that bring out the funny in me. I don't know why but somehow around these people I am witty when usually people and myself included would not describe me as witty. However, these certain people also find me hilarious which is kind of funny to me because I'm not. I'm mostly surrounded by funny people which is the way it has always been. But when I get around Enrique (you know who you are), Jim my fiancee, Kyle F., Sara & Brady M., Karine W., or Chelsey S., we have a grand ole time laughing it up! Not to be confused with the word "fun." I am certainly fun! But Funny goes to my friends and relatives: Carren, Laura, Leah S., Mary, Kyle S., Graham, Kacey, Damon, Carly or Uncle Nate, just to name a few. And there are other people in which I am exactly the opposite, unfunny, as can be. Namely, when I am around my brother, sister-in-law, Uncle Nate, Dad, Tayler, Whitney. Oh wow, they are all family members! Perhaps, because they are all so witty and I just clam up and can't even crack a joke let alone tell one correctly. And then there is Jim. Jim always gets this surprised look on his face when I actually come up with something witty. Now I know people have different definitions of funny and I've been throwing "witty" out there too. I know I can be funny (mostly it is made up of people laughing at me and I'm okay with that) and it is very rare when I'm witty except when I am around those mentioned above. So to all the funny people out there I applaud your efforts. Keep making me laugh. I need it!

Miracle or Hard Work?

There is a cool story behind this bloom of an orchid. Four years ago my aunt went to Hawaii and smuggled this orchid plant back on the plane somehow. Each year she was telling it to bloom and each year it would refuse. Also with each passing year she was getting more annoyed and threatening to throw it out. But she didn't and now in the fourth and almost final year it has miraculously bloomed. That has got to be some faith or love to the plant who taunted her for four years. I for one would have kicked it to the curb long ago but no, my aunt, kept on believing that it would bloom. And bloom it has!

From my Dad!

Hayley, maybe you could forward this to those involved on my behalf.
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To my true friends,

This email is a hard line to draw. saying thank you is easy, admitting I need this kind of attention is not.

I have a bad habit of not sharing my faults, not even with myself. Although I know they show to everyone else.

In recent months, the realization that I could no longer continue my life by myself became real.

It was like a nagging pain that became noticeably worse every day. actually, every hour of every day.

Maybe everyone reaches this infamous place in their life. however, for me, it was unfamiliar territory.

In physics, nothing can stop the law of gravity.

As Emmylou so eloquently sang, "you keep on falling because their is no bottom". I was so there.

A place where every aspect of life was in a freefall. It is a terrifying place to find yourself. Still is.

That's when Hayley called suggesting a fast. Bless her heart. I didn't even tell her what was going on in my life.

So I thank her, and each of you for your thoughtful act on my behalf.

I love you all. I may be out of site and mind, but i think of you all more than you can imagine.

Right now I am truly grateful for your love and faith. Words cannot describe.

What a great gospel plan we have been given here on Earth.

Again, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Love,


Mathew

Seahawks Game

A few weeks ago Karen and Jim took Tayler and I to our first Seahawks game. Jim and Karen have 4 season tickets and so it was great fun to see all the regulars at the games. However, I was in so much shoulder pain and on so much drugs that still didn't even touch the pain that I tried to enjoy myself as best I could but seriously have never been in that much pain before...well in a long time anyway.

So we were playing Arizona and we just got creamed! So much so, that Karen and Jim both suggested we leave at the start of the 3rd quarter. Now, Karen and Jim are very much like me in that we don't leave early from games EVER, we stay and support out team. But we had been playing horribly and they were just sick to their stomachs about how terribly we were doing and I think they knew how much pain I was in by the evidence of tears on my face. So we said the next score by AZ and we are out and 5 seconds later that happened!

We still had lots of fun pregame! So here are some pics of that!

Tay Tay grows up

Here are some pictures of Tayler moving into her dorms at University of Washington! I felt special that I got to be the actual one moving her in. They put a "dork" flag on our car and everything, kind of like the dork dot you get when you go into the MTC. So after we moved her in to the tiniest dorm I ever saw and met Kim her cool roomate, we left and went to the LDS institute building and got her in a ward and everything! So as Tayler goes out into the world her two sisters will be right here in Seattle with her! Hurray!