Graduation - It's over!

On December 14th I graduated with my bachelors in Accounting from BYU-Idaho. It was a long road but had a great experience at BYU-Idaho; wish I didn’t have to leave.

Kati and I

Katie, me, and Kati

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Up or down?

That depends if you want chicken salad or to be serenaded by a violin!

Last weekend we had a dinner date in an elevator! At each of the three floors we strategically placed different dinner items so we would visit each floor. In the middle of the date we had a friend, Charles Andrews, outside of the elevator on the third floor and when the elevator door opened the started playing his violin for us. It was great! He also played a slow song that we danced to.

As we were first getting the chairs into the elevator I accidentally pressed the “911” button (with the back of a chair) and then we heard a voice asking if we were ok. It was kind of funny!

Thanksgiving!

I spent Thanksgiving this year with Kati and her family. We did a lot of little activities and it was nice to have school off for a whole week and spending time with her. It was nice to not worry about a busy school schedule. We also saw the lights on temple square just before we returned to Rexburg.

Every year Kati’s friends get together and have a “blessed feast” the day after Thanksgiving. Lots of good food and fun (and plenty of sandwich meat).

Start of a new semester! - Fall 07'

This fall semester was the fifth time that I helped out with BYU-Idaho's New Student Orientation. This semester I was the student mentor for about 14 other student leaders. It was the best new student orientation that I had been involved in…lots of games, food, fun, singing, laughter, spiritual rejuvenation.

The knot game!

Spider web!

Frozen t-shirt. Trying to warm in up (it's in the middle)

Almost got it on.

Group picture on our bus ride to the cabins.

Group picture.

Group cheer! Purple number six!

Discussing some of the foundational talks of BYU-Idaho.

Tallest to shortest blind folded.

My co-mentor leader, Emmer.

Breaking out in Disney songs on the way home! It was a whole new world!

Feel that passion!

Letterboxing...I can do that!

Rexburg, Idaho is a very small town, but no place is too small for faithful letterboxers. According to letterboxing.org there are four small Tupperware boxes in Rexburg. On a cold and dark Saturday night my roommate (Mike) and I took our dates on a little search for these boxes. Two out of four is pretty good, right?

Mike and Whitney after they found a box!

Kati reading the notes in the letterbox book.

Our stamp!

Kati and I after stamping the book!

Looking forward to BYU-Idaho

In addition to interning with the Flash and Real, I have been getting ready for my last semester at BYU-Idaho! This fall I will be one of the Co-Directors for the Student Ambassador program. We work through the admissions office to communicate and build relationships with prospective students and their families. As we share our testimony and enthusiasm for the school we are able to attract to campus those students who will take advantage of what BYU-Idaho offers. Here is our website: http://www.byui.edu/admissions/studentambassadors/. It needs a little work.

I will also continue as the President of the Sports Administration Society (SPAD), which I started last winter semester. It is going to be a great semester for SPAD! Our main events will be our two trips down to Salt Lake to visit the Jazz, Grizzlies, Bees, Blaze, U of U Athletics, SCP Worldwide, and Real Salt Lake. After our visits we will be volunteering at Real Salt Lake games in the evening. On September 19th we will see David Beckham as he comes to take on Real. It is going to be great! Over the last couple of months I have had more than 75 students express interested in the society...and I haven't even been on campus!

SPAD members Lisa, Jaimie, and Cameron helped me at one of the Real games this summer. Society website: http://www.byui.edu/Societies/SPAD/.

I can't forget ultimate! No BYU-Idaho semester is complete without playing a little ultimate frisbee. Last summer I started the competitive league for Ultimate at BYU-Idaho. It took a lot of work to get it launched but it quickly become one of the most popular competitive sports. This fall I will hang up my playing shoes (leaving behind an undefeated recorded and five championships) and pack my whistle while I coach one of the girls teams. It is going to be fun!

The Real Flash

For the summer I have been living in Provo doing internships with Real Salt Lake and the Utah Flash. For Real Salt Lake I have been working on their Operations Team that has mainly dealt with game day set-up and tear down. For the Utah Flash I have been apart of their Marketing Team and have helped with gross root events, call lists, inventory system, and excel anything.




Devin at a booth at a Orem Owlz game (Minor League Baseball).






Devin made many new friends with all the free Utah Flash tattoos that he had. All the kids loved him!



Christas in July?!? I'd never heard of it. And apparently neither did Santa because he doesn't look too jolly.






At a Real Salt Lake game in front of the Xango blow-up.




Utah Flash: http://www.nba.com/dleague/utah/ - Check this site in a couple of week...there should be a picture of me on it!
Real Salt Lake: http://real.saltlake.mlsnet.com/t121/index.jsp