Brady's New Blog

Hey y'all, I'm starting a new blog. It's just a place where I can write down some thoughts. Posts may have political undertones and religious overtones. However, most of my posts will probably just be humorous observations about life. For example, I might write about my belief that Optimus Prime should be next in line for a Nobel Peace Prize. It will be a private blog so let me know if you want to be allowed to read it. I only have one post on there now, so check it out to see if you want to join.

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Unmethodical Happenings

Lots of stuff has been happening in our lives. We have been juggling things around from mid-terms to watching "the office". Melissa life is just completely filled with bedpans, sponge baths, and open ended robes... and it's not because Brady is getting lazy either. She has to complete 230 clinical hours at a hospital this semester. Brady is keeping busy as a full-time student AND employee. Office politics are starting to ware down on him, but he is still going strong at Wells Fargo.

Not too long ago, one of Brady's best friends was visiting Provo. Dave Firmage plays for USU Soccer and they were down here playing BYU. Turns out that BYU has more than just football and basketball... who'd a thunk it!? Unfortunately, USU lost. But it was good to see Dave, his wife Chelsi, and "Mamma Firmage" again.

We also went with Doyle and Chelsea up the canyon for a Sunday Afternoon picnic. The leaves had all changed colors, the weather was perfect, and Melissa made some great eatin's. We walked around to enjoy the nice fall colors. We even ran into Brady's old roommate and long-time friend Eric Volmar. You just can't escape Davis Darts, no matter how hard you try.

We spent last monday night buying Halloween decorations. Brady is a holiday nut and just loves getting into the spirit of whatever holiday is coming up.

Yesterday, we had a very interesting experience. Brady's Aunt went to the temple for the first time to receive her endowment. She has been preparing for it for a while and Brady was able to get work off, so we met up with family at the Salt Lake Temple. It was Melissa's first time to the SLC temple and enjoyed it a lot. It was a wonderful day. We also met up at Mammy and Pappy Morris's house and had some catered BBQ. Yesterday was both a spiritual and physical feast. We had to make a run for it after dinner because no one wants to play "tackle the guy in the shirt and tie" with nephews who didn't actually eat BBQ but rubbed it on their faces. T'was good times.

I would post pics, but blogger is not letting me. Sorry

Our New Apartment

Well, we haven't updated out blog for a long time, but we have tried for the past two weeks to upload a video of our old apartment. Our old apartment was a wonder to behold. However, the only thing wondrous about it was how it was still standing. Here is historic Provo, your lucky to find a house that wasn't built in the 1800's. I'm pretty sure that some of the first settlers built our apartment. It was freakishly small. It was only a studio apartment (basically, we were lucky that we didn't have an outhouse). Melissa's closet was in the kitchen and Brady's closet was the only thing separating the bedroom from the living room. Our bathtub was pink... which was pretty amazing. Water would leak through the door and light fixture when it rained. Needless to say, we are grateful that we are in a new place.

We now live in an apartment complex called Heritage Court. We have room to spare and even have wall-space to hang pictures. We have central air and a garbage disposal!! Brady's last two apartments didn't have a garbage disposal, so he's pretty excited about having one again. Brady was also excited to change wards because our old ward started at 8:30 am and he was the 2nd counselor in the Elder's Quorum. Little did we know that we moved into a ward that starts at 8 am and Brady was called as the 1st counselor in the Elder's Quorum in our new ward. Our ward is really great and we are getting to know a lot of people.

Good Riddance

Brady finished his Calculus course a couple of weeks ago. He was taking it Independent Study and it took a long time to get it all finished. Now he is free of math classes for the rest of his life (although he thought that when he finished his AP Calc in High School too). So to commemorate the occasion, we gathered up some friends in Provo Canyon, started a fire, and made a sacrificial offering so that Brady's burdened soul could be free of such devilry. After a quick oration under a full moon and with his staff in hand, Brady cast his math materials in the fire. The integrals and formulas were charred down to the very derivative of the hellfire they were concocted from... ashes, nothing more. After the flames had consumed the damming fodder, the smoke of freedom reached heavenward. It also got into our eyes so we all went home.

I Don't Know What the Title Should Be!!!

After a long and vicious search for a teleportation machine, or an affordable fighter jet, we decided to go with our third option... a Toyota. We went through quite the experience buying our first car that has less than 250,000 miles on it. We found a Prius about a month ago which we were going to buy, but the owners sold it behind our backs, and we have been on the search ever since.
We finally found a good family in Lehi who were selling their 2005 Toyota Camry. We also found a credit union offering auto loans with 2.9% apr until next July. We went in to see if we would qualify for the rate by ourselves and we got a deal! Instead of the 2.9%, we would get 9.5%! Awesome! So we got Momma and Pappy Morris to sign on the car with us. But when the credit union pulled up their credit report, they realized that they did not have the documentation necessary to put them on the car title with us. So they gave us the promotional 2.9% with no cosigner. That's what happens when you pay your tithing.
Now, we both have a car. Melissa is very excited because she gets the Camry and Brady is excited because he doesn't have to keep driving to Orem 2 or 3 times a day. Anywho, we are happy about it. But as Murphy would have it, on the first day Melissa was driving the car, an animal decided to defecate above our new Camry. However, judging by the size of the splattage, we can't tell if it was a bird or Dumbo himself. Needless to say, we washed the car yesterday.

What should we do to celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord, Jesus Christ? How 'bout eggs!?!

Well it has been a long time since we have updated our blog. It seems sort of pointless considering that all our random happenings are published in the highly circulated Morris Family Newsletter. Anywho, we thought that since March and April have been pretty eventful, we should let everyone in one the goodness.

     In March, we went on our annual trip to Arches National Park. It was much better weather than last year and a lovely 75 degrees. It was a lot of fun. I was sort of torn between my invited friends and those who usually go on the trip with us. It was sort of sad that I wasn't able to spend a lot of time with both groups, but it was still a lot of fun.

    The week after Arches, we went to Spanish Fork to hit up the Krishna Temple. They were having their annual Spring Festival also known as Holi: The Festival of Colors. It was a ton of fun. Since I have learned a lot about Hindus in my world religion class, it meant a lot more to me (not to mention that I didn't participate in the chants because that is how they worship Krishna the avatar of Lord Vishnu). Last year, we were walking up to the temple when the initial burst of multi-colored chalk dust occurred. This year, we were in the middle of it all. It was hard to breath and the dust tasted disgusting, but it was a lot of fun after that. It was good times.

     For Easter, the Easter Bunny visited us while Melissa was in the shower. He brought us lots of candy and a kite. We have also been using this week to study the last week of Christ's mortal ministry. We have tried to follow it chronologically and it has been really rewarding. We are so blessed for the knowledge that we have. Not to mention that General Conference was last week. Everyone is going crazy with how intense the world is right now with economic uncertainty and increasing world conflict. It's refreshing to hear from inspired men who are calm and optimistic about the future.

     Hopefully we'll be better about updating our blog... but don't hold your breath. I also tried to post a couple of pictures, but it will only let me do one. So I posted our Festival of Colors picture. We look like a Jackson Pollock painting... or gay chimney sweeps.