Wedding Day 1:48 PM

Ok today is actually the 7th of November but there has been a lot going on lately in my life so I’m going to try to catch up.  On the 13th of August I got married to the love of my life, Tamanna Kalra.  It seriously was the best day of my life.  Tamanna and I decided that we had the best wedding day ever and there was not one thing that we would have changed.  We had our wedding in the Salt Lake Temple and our Reception at an indoor garden up in Sandy, Utah called Le Jardin (the Garden).  we had a great time and here are some epic pictures from the wedding day.

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Cape Lookout 11:44 PM

So Jeffrey Costello gave me a perfect opportunity to road trip down to Portland.  He set a goal this summer to go from the Canadian border to the Mexico border on hike bike.  Check out his blog if you want.  But his dreams were crushed when out buddy Dave cut his hand open the night before the big day.   So after a week of helping Dave through surgery, Jeff was ready to start his trip solo down the coast.  And since he had no one to start his trip with I volunteered quickly to help him out since deep down in my heart I always wanted to do this tour with them.  So I drove him out to the coastal town of Netarts, Oregon from Seattle on a Friday night.  It was late when we got in so we just pulled into a park and set up camp.  In the morning we found out that the park we camped in was a public park that was on the outskirts of a neighborhood.  But it really was a great camping spot seriously 100 meters from the ocean.

In the morning we found a small little café called the Schooner where we at breakfast, it was a really cool place:

After some of the best breakfast I have ever had we decided to look at Jeff’s ride for the day and it looked like he had three major capes to battle.  I volunteered to take him to the top of the first cape, Cape Lookout which was the hill of them all and let him get a good start at the top of the hill.  So we drove there and he got packed and took off:

Little did I know I would find a trailhead there with one of the best 5 mile trails I have ever done:

It was such a cool trail and a beautiful day to do it.  At the point of the cape I was able to get past the cliff ropes and look down and see 10+ sea lions and other cool things:

It was a successful day!

Redmond 9:55 PM

Redmond, Washington is my new home for the summer.  It’s funny that the last couple of summers of my life have been very random.  Alaska, Benin, Alaska, Alaska, India, Europe, India again, and Washington.  I really feel like i couldn’t live a better life.  I’ve been richly blessed in my life and i can’t figure out why.  I’ve travelled to a lot of really cool places and i have met the most beautiful and smart girl you'll ever meet and now I’m sitting in a house in Redmond working for Microsoft.  I don’t think there is any room to complain about any bad things.  

Dates are getting more solidified for me and Tamanna and our wedding.  I'm gonna post this only so that people can see that we are getting married but the details are still in limbo.  Actually most of them are set just some of them could change.  Like the place for example in the last three weeks we have changed from Alaska, to Hong Kong, to California, to Utah.  Our present plans tell everyone that we are getting married on the 13th of August in SLC.  The reception will be the same day and then for a honeymoon!!!

Other than that life is going well.  Jeff and Dave are meeting me in Seattle next week and I’m gonna do part of their Border to Border adventure with them for Memorial Weekend.  How could it get any better, biking, running, working, money and must i mention again my incredibly hot fiancé! haha

ok well this is just a small post today so enjoy the pictures

I'm Engaged 9:39 PM

alright well I've been holding off on this big news just to allow it to settle into my mind and into my life but I've always been really excited and so i just wanted to let all of you know that I'm engaged to the love of my life Tamanna Kalra.
Now I'm going to assume that everyone will want to know how I knelt down on one knee and asked her.  so the simple story is that after a wonderful week that we had been having we decided to enjoy our Saturday to the max and we went snowboarding up at The Canyons in Park City, UT.  We snowboarded all day long, and I'm not a very good snowboarder so I was getting frustrated trying to scoot along on all the flat parts.  Not to mention I had my friends boots on which were too small for me so I was paying the price of not clipping my toenails that day.  Towards the end of snowboarding I was not in the best of mood so I had mentally decided not to give her the ring but we did decide to go get some oreo milkshakes afterwards.  Now if any of you know me well enough oreo milkshakes are my favorite and I could not have asked for a better upper.  After I had finished my oreo milkshake I was in a great mood and I was ready to get engaged on that day.  We had already planned on going to the hot springs in Midway, UT so we had our swimming stuff in the back of the car.  We left Park City and drove to Midway and spent quite a long time soaking in the hot springs.  I don't know about you but hot water really is the best thing ever invented as an apres-ski event.  We talked a lot and met some big groups of people who seemed to share the same love for hot springs as we did.  we even started naming all of the hot springs we had been too.  When we left the hot springs we drove up above midway a little and relaxed in the car for a little bit.  It was in this moment that I decided to propose in this setting.  So I slowly tried to think of a plan of attack and nothing came to mind other than just asking her.  She then asked me if I could tell her a secret (this is something we do often just to share funny old experiences).  I really wanted to tell her about her ring being in my pocket but instead I played it off regularly and told her some story instead.  Later I told her that I had to get something out of the back of the car, so I got out of the car and opened the back of the car just to show her that I needed something but instead of returning to my side of the car, I walked over to her side of the car and opened her car door.  She was really confused and wasn't sure of what was going on until I knelt down on one knee and pulled out the ring box I had picked up earlier that day.  I then asked her for her hand in marriage and she said, "yes"!!!!!
We got engaged March 6th, 2010 and we plan on getting married in Anchorage, Alaska in August of 2010.  I'm super excited!!

Updated: Our official wedding date is the 19th of August, 2010!

Updated again: Our official OFFICIAL date is the 13th of August in SLC

St. Valentine's Getaway 11:04 PM

So this last weekend being valentine's day on Sunday and presidents day on Monday i was blessed with a four-day weekend. so what better thing to do was to leave Provo and head to Jackson. Bradley, Ty, and I took off friday morning after Bradley's class for a weekend in Jackson after convincing our loved ones that we could leave them for the two day prior to valentines day. Tamanna and Mallory had decided to meet us in Jackson on Sunday but until then we had another grand Mancation.
We spent all day on Saturday hiking the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort looking for the freshest lines around. The weather report reported 10 new inches overnight and over 2 feet in the last 72 hours. it was day bound for goodness. we seriously had fresh tracks all day long and we've got some good pictures to prove it. Ty's buddy Will Gardner took pictures all day but i dont have them yet do just have a little patience and you'll get them. at the end of the day i was so exhausted. we made a total of three amazing runs on Saturday and that just goes to show how much hiking and how long the runs were that we did. we started around 9a and ended around 4p. what a day of beautiful skiing.
On Sunday Ty left to go to New York for a toy/game fair while the girls joined us in Jackson. we spent the evening at bradley's nephew, Miles birthday party. he had a castle cake and cool presents and a full turkey and yams dinner. it was super fun we had wrapping paper fights and watched bedknobs and broomsticks (it's been forever since i had seen that movie). when we left we headed back home pulling behind us two snow machines for monday's expedition. we ended the night all cozied up on the couches watching the Winter Olympics.
Monday morning we woke up to blueberry waffles and then got all dressed up in our winter gear and headed to the trailhead of the Granite Hot Springs. The Granite Hot Springs were about 20-30 minutes off the road by snow machine so we had decided to take a trip out to them since i still had sore legs from hiking so much on saturday plus who doesnt like wild hot springs in the middle of the woods. the snowmachine trip was so much fun. the hot springs was built up pretty well with a full pool around them to satisfy all the tourists that came on dogsleds and snowmachine tours. we showed up and it was a little crowded but nothing was going to steer us away. it was seriously so much fun and i think everyone liked it.on the way back i let Tamanna drive the whole time and she did exceptionally well. we even got up to 60MPH on the snowmachine. well thats what the speedometer said. i dont know it if it was miles or kilometers. haha.
Now i hope this Jackson trip can count as a good valentines day present for Tamanna because it was quite the opportunity to relax and just enjoy being together. all in all it was a grand weekend and i loved it. but once again i find myself at school today loaded down with tons of work because i did no school work over the weekend. oh well better stop blogging.

Christmas Break 12:17 PM

Ok so i know i have not written on my blog forever. I'm sure i have lost some followers for sure but I'm still here and I'm still having a crazy adventure for my life. The reason i have not had much time is my school work and other life planning activities that I've been thinking about. I would like post a little adventure I had though during Christmas break.

For Christmas break my girlfriend, Tamanna Kalra, and I went up to Alaska and spent two weeks with my parents. We were both able to get tickets and fly up together to Alaska. Tamanna had never been to Alaska and i figured that she’d have a blast if she came home with me. So we took off after finals to what became some of the best two weeks ever.

We had a lot of different adventures: we were able to go up the south fork of Eagle River and go play in the snow and take a nice hike. Tamanna likened the scenery to a swiss mountain village.

We also played outside a lot in the snow just sledding around the neighborhood and enjoying ourselves. I honestly felt like a kid again being able to dress up in all my snow gear and walk outside to play all night long on the sledding hill and making rooms and hallways next to the house.

Christmas day was a very fun day we were able to just relax and sleep in and then wake up to some very good presents. I received two bike jerseys one from Tamanna and one from my parents. I also got some other bike gear and other things. Tamanna got some nice presents too from my parents and her mom and dad. It was a fun day to just spend in the green house sharing presents and stories. Later ton Christmas day Tamanna was able to talk to her family and see how they spent their Christmas day. They spent it riding elephants and sitting at a resort beach all day. What a Christmas. I would have never imagined a Christmas like that but it sounded really fun.

We also were able to make the annual ski trip for Christmas down to Alyeska. The snow was not new snow and the weather was actually very warm, maybe even too warm for December but we were able to visit the condo and enjoy a night there and wake up to the stomping of the neighbors ski boots. Tamanna and I rode most of the day, and really enjoyed it. Well at least I hope Tamanna enjoyed it. She learned how to snowboard when she came to Utah 4 years ago. We went all over the mountain and had a very fun day. I bought her some new Scott goggles for Christmas and she wore them but wasn’t very impressed with their perspective. But she did look good in them!

The week after Christmas we spent a lot of days around the house. My mother and I taught Tamanna how to knit and I started knitting a scarf but I did not like it. We also visited Jitters, a local loved coffee shop. And we were also lucky enough to find a matt hopper playing a show at a café in the south side of town. We had a super fun Christmas break and there were a lot of memories made for sure.

For new years we were actually headed to the airport at the turn of the year so we didn’t celebrate too much because out flight left around 1 am on the 1^st of January, 2010. Since Christmas break we have both been super busy with school and have had small time for playing except for on the weekends. So I know I’m a little late but since this is my holiday post I will wish everyone a very late Merry Christmas but more importantly a happy new year to everyone.

Bradley and Mallory's Wedding 10:29 PM

Congratulations.

This wedding was seriously so fun. James, Gabe, Dave and I were able to get stand by tickets to go to Seattle and be there for the wedding and reception. It was so much fun. When we got there mallory's dad gave us there old jeep cherokee which didnt have any power steering and also no headlights so that eliminated any night driving. Thats when we started our 3-day adventure in seattle and boy was it fun. we did Pike Place, Iva's clam chowder, REI, Bellevue, wedding preparation, H&M, and so much more. It was a blast and i want to thank the Cooneys for such a good weekend and for their wonderful car that put up with us.

A week later we went to Jackson which was way fun and stayed at the Roney's so that we could go to the Jackson reception. it was way fun and we celebrated Halloween up there also at the Roney's by carving pumpkins and having a fabulous four person dance party. i loved it. we danced for almost 2 hours in a home theatre it was way fun.

October has been good to me. I can honestly say i don't regret any day or choice in October!