2013RECAP // 2014GOALS

Well shoot fire, I havent been on this bad one in a while. Lets do a quick 2013 recap to get you up to speed:

(pics below)

January:
Was home for winter semester
Starting physical therapy on my third knee surgery
Got and worked an internship for Turner Public Relations in downtown Denver
Visited the #shel9 crew in Rexburg

February:
Continued physical therapy and internship
Enjoyed Valentine's Day by myself
Enjoyed family time

March:
Finished physical therapy
vacationed in Aspen and Glenwood Springs (home to the biggest hot spring pools) with the fam.
Got ready for school

April:
my car died leaving me stranded in the mountains.
my parents which should receive the parents of the year award, came with a new car they bought that day for me to use and helped me get to my best friends wedding just in time.
Finished my internship
Moved back to Rexburg
Started my senior year of college
HAD FUN

May:
continued school and work for grounds crew and Poobah Marketing (remotely)
visited Colorado with all my school friends over Memorial Day
Turned 24!
Swam a lot outside, jumped a lot of bridges

June:
continued school but quick my grounds crew job.
continued to swim and spend as much time as possible outside
went fly fishing inside of Yellowstone National Park
Started a new job with The Dealio (ill explain the company below later)

July:
Finished my first semester of senior year
partied a lot
got good grades
drove back home

August:
7 weeks off from school, my last big break
went to North Carolina with my family to a beach house for a week, AMAZING!
went to Mexico with Skyler, Sam and her family.
went to Laguna Beach for a week to visit my friends Jayme and Kelsey.
jet skied a lot at home
worked from home
(I was able to travel for practically free, I somehow had about 20,000 travel points in my southwest account, so i decided to use them before they went away, I have no idea where they came from.)

September:
Moved back to Rexy for last semester of college.
Continue work for The Dealio
enjoyed the last bit of warm weather
golfed a lot

October:
partied
continued school
#shel9 bought power ranger morph suits for halloween
Threw a sweet halloween party
still golfed a lot
quit drinking soda

November:
Went to Utah to visit Taylor E. She is grown up now, and still a babe.
Did my Senior Showcase project and rocked it!
Surprised my parents and came home for Thanksgiving.
finished up golf season
still soda free

December:
My last month of college
Accepted a full time job with The Dealio after graduation.
Celebrated Dillon's birthday, it was his first semester. we had a blast.
Got all A's and one B
GRADUATED with a major in Communication with a PR emphasis
Came home for Christmas and saw all the fam
Celebrated NYE with friends
still soda free

and now I am here...

Needless to say, it was a very good year for me. Started with some physical and emotional trials, but overall extremely blessed and grateful for what I have. I love my family, their support and desires to see me do my best. I love my friends and knowing that I can count on them and trust them for anything. I love my life.

Now lets talk some goals:

1) Read more (scriptures, motivational books and novels of my choosing)
2) Create a system where I take advantage of my time and do my best.
3) I want to be the best employee I can be at my job.
4) I want to get healthy. Routine exercise and much better eating habits. continue my soda free fast
5) Think more about others and stop thinking about myself.
6) I want to attend the LDS temple weekly.
7) I want to keep a highlight journal daily.
8) I want to have no idle time, stay busy and focused.
9) I want to have less drama in my life
10) I want to make others happy, so that I can be happy.

Help me fulfill these goals. And I'll help you too.

Life is great and I will do better at updating this. Once my job starts I will get you clued in on it.

Enjoy the pics.

Chao-

Curt

 being cray cray

 me and T-NAS-T

 Oh herro

 Spear Siblings

 Giant slip n slide at the sand dunes

 We get rowdy

 #Shel9 roomie pics

 excellent form

 me and Tay Tay

 hi mexico water weenie. i hate tubing

 Nicole and I enjoying some shooting

 somebody call 911, shortys fireburning on the dance floor

 dat reach doe sammie

 i like guns.

 me familia

 that one time

 group dating, so 2013.

 the crew at a demo derby

 me and chadicals.

 me and my bestie

 oh hi anna

 RZR

 leannnn back, CO style

 Wii Not Fit soccer team

 dats an AR-15

 me and Tay Tay

 IM ON A BOAT

 traditional pic

 the crew in CO

 fav pic of 2013

 try to catch me riding dirty

 USS North Carolina with Lucy

 spread my wings and fly away

 love, love love IDAHO

 hi sammie

 hey TK

 guns go bang bang

 The Dealio crew

 hi hi sam sam

 ouch

 more ouch

 hi braden

 L U C Y 

 Hi Mexico

 get me armani

 Miles and Emma Wedding

 Boi Band

 Cowboys and Indians Dance Party

 kool hats

 Back street back alright!

 Da Boys

 We so hood

 The Fam Damily

 dancy dance

 FALL

 Frozen

 Date auction

 Dealio Charity Event

 #Shel9 Christmas Card

 hi pops

 63rd Ward! ( for two years!)

G R A D U A T I O N

Life Lately

Hey friends.

well last time I blogged was in february i think, so my bad but you can keep up with me on facebook  if you really want to know what I am up to.but i just wanted to talk about something that I have been studying lately on my own. certain events in my personal life and family life and made me ponder this idea a lot over the last few months.

Am i seeking humilty or being compelled to be humble? Instantly i think of Alma 32 in the Book of Mormon. This whole chapter focuses on faith and our ability to exercise it. A major part of truly exercising faith is to see where we are in our lives. We are natural and we make mistakes and we often are compelled to be humble, but wouldnt it be great to live your life seeking humility always or at least a lot of the time?

I can count numerous times where i hit a road block in my life and finally was humbled through it. I am thankful for those moments but it sure would be nice to constantly be humble or looking for chances to be. In this life, we are learning, growing and trying to become like our Heavenly Father. I think being able to do that is a huge step forward in becoming more like Him. I am not better than anyone else, and I have way too much to work on, but I think that I can be better about seeking humility in my life.

I am not preaching, but just asking, are you seeking humility or being compelled to be humble?

Read it: (click it)

Winter Update: 2013

Family, Friends and Foes,

I hope you are having a good winter. I am here to give you a little update. Last time I blogged was ALLLLLL the way back in 2012 (dec 31) so really not that long. But anyway, let me update you on my life, my happenings and all things that go with it.

I stayed home on my off track and am here until April. I was able to land a sweet internship with Turner Public Relations. TPR is a "boutique public relations firm specializing in PR, social media and digital communications representing some of the world’s best resorts, destinations and brands." 

I am having a great time and learning a lot about the Public Relations and Digital Communications world. As a digital communications intern, I work with online content for some of our clients. My job includes writing blog posts, creating content for Facebook and Twitter outlets, creating themes and boards on pinterest, researching influencers that will help our clients online and help overall build and sustain our clients online presence. It has been awesome to take what I already know from school and my other job Poobah Marketing, and apply it to a PR firm specific to a certain industry. It has been great to be in an office setting and seeing the business world. I am also getting a good taste of the Agency world and how fast pace and high stress it can be. I am very thankful for this internship and the priceless experiences I am having and learning. I will end my internship in mid April right before heading back to school.

So I have been doing the internship part time, Tuesdays and Thursdays  and I spend the other days working for Poobah Marketing. I have told you about them before. I interned with them last winter. They are a local SEO marketing firm. We have a diverse clientele, but majority of our clients are medical related professions. I have worked for them for a year now and have learned amazing things and learned how to use great tools online. This winter I picked up some additional responsibilities with the company and I am very thankful for it. A lot of the things I have learned with Poobah have paralleled the work I do at TPR. So it is really cool to get engulfed in a line of work that I am interested in. I am really learning about what I want to do, and what I am capable of as a person. None of it has been easy, but as I push myself and dedicate to the work, it all works out.

Along with working these two jobs, I have been continuing my physical therapy for my knee. I ran for the first time in 4 months last week! and it felt great! I have been going twice a week and starting the week after next I will move down to once a week, which I am stoked about. I have also been going to the gym every day and getting back into shape. I started counting my calories and have lost about 10 lbs so far. I am eating around 1720 calories a day. It was hard at first, but I am getting more used to it. In fact this week, I am going on a fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds and water only diet. I am going to try it this week and see how it goes. I am excited to really push myself. I will try it this week and then I head up to Rexburg for the weekend to see my friends. But before I get, i use this app to count calories and record my exercise. It is called "My Fitness Pal" If you are in the need to dieting or even just an easier way to control what you eat and know how much you are eating, then get it on your phone. it is great.

but life has been great. I have been able to use my new shot gun a little which has been great, but with all this gun control crap going on, all ammo is selling out, so that is a little frustrating. hopefully it gets better.

But life is good. I am very thankful for the experiences I am having this winter. Every winter I learn a lot about myself, my potential and what I need to do to prepare for the future. Everyone needs time like that, so make some so you can do the same thing.

Much love, and enjoy the pics

CS

2012: Chalk Another One Up

Well hot dang, this year was pretty amazing. I do not intend for this post to be super long, but just wanted to recap this last year for me. I had an amazing year and learned a lot about others, myself and about life in general.

January 2012: I stay home for the winter semester, and was able to land an internship and job. I started interning with Poobah Marketing (www.poobahmarketing.com). This firm specializes in SEO and online marketing. The internship was amazing, and I have been working for them part time this whole year. I have learned a lot about what I want to do as a future career because of this company. I am very thankful for it. I also worked at Caroba Plastics. They make plastic pieces for medical parts. It was a factory, pretty cool to learn about and I am thankful for that job, but glad it's over.

February 2012: Was a pretty chill month, just worked a lot and enjoyed home. I was able to snowboard with my brother in law, Jordan, a few times. I also hung out with Chandler Brown and Abby Gallacher a lot. A pretty quick month.

March 2012: I continued to work for both jobs, but this month was fun and crazy. At the end of the month I went out to Utah for the Festival of Colors to meet up with all my besties from school. It was an awesome weekend and I had a blast. I also was able to snowboard with Skyler. But it ended up not being a good thing, haha. I got back from Utah and had a really bad pain in my lower stomach. Turns out I had a hernia, so I had to get surgery. School started 3 weeks later, so it was pretty rushed. I had surgery while my parents were in Hawaii so my sister helped take care of me. it was a pretty minor surgery and all healed well, I just had to take it easy for a few months.

April 2012: I was suppose to go to Mexico with Sam and her family right before school but because of surgery I had to bail out. I was a little bummed but that is ok. School started up and it was awesome to be back! The first bit of school went great. I was working for the school doing landscaping and had my online job, so I was busier than i have ever been but also was saving money too. It felt good. Oh and I got pink eye, that sucked bad.

May 2012: Up at school and my birthday was this month. It was a good birthday, the big 23. I am getting old, haha. Spring semester is the best at school. We do a lot of stuff outdoors and have a blast doing it. Met and made some new friends and gals and it was awesome.

June 2012: a continue of may pretty much. we just had a blast and did alot of bridge jumping, camping, shooting guns and doing manly things. haha.

July 2012: 4th of july rocked. it consisted of getting pulled over for shooting fireworks out of the car on the highway, floating the river with a bunch of friends which turned into me and Sam having to hitch hike on a road back to the end. We also saw the Rexburg parade, and then we headed down to Idaho Falls. They have the best firework show west of the Mississippi. We got a sweet spot right on the river across from where they shoot them off. We were with all our friends and it was a great way to end an adventurous day. haha. July was also the month when the semester ended, and we had made some sweet plans for our 7 week break.

August 2012: at the end of july, i went down to Bear Lake with Taylor Klein and his family along with Sam, JOJO and Miles. We had a blast. We got raspberry shakes for dayz, went to the lake, 4 wheeling and shooting guns. it was just so fun, and we made many great memories, such as the bear lake dance place. (ask me about it if you really want to know, hahaha) After being there for a week, i headed back to CO and spent time with my family. all my siblings were able to come back for my baby nieces baby blessing. Larissa had her baby, Lydia earlier in the summer. So we spent many days at the lake jetskiing and made some sweet videos with our gopro camera. After being home for a bit I went down to Mexico with Sam, her family, TK, and Annalisa. and we had a blast. right on the beach. got tan, had fun and just relaxed. It was so fun and nice to get away and enjoy chilling. I got back from mexico and was home for 2 weeks and then went off with Dad to NYC to watch the US Open for Tennis. we also did some sight seeing, saw the Dennys and just had a blast. I got back to denver a week before school started, skyler flew in to party and jetski and then we headed back to Rexburg.

September 2012: Fall semester started and we were having a blast. School is school, but i really liked my classes this semester. first good month.

October 2012: the month from hell, haha. school was going great, but I ended up tearing my ACL and meniscus in the same knee ive done it before twice on. We were playing soccer when it happened. I did school in a wheelchair for a week and decided I needed to come home. My dad flew up the weekend before halloween and packed me up and we drove home. it was really hard to leave but i needed surgery. So i got home and prepped.

November 2012: I had surgery Nov 8th and it went really well. I got a new ACL and they had to remove my meniscus this time. So no more soccer or football and maybe no snowboarding, we will see. I just need to be smart and protect it. I started physical therapy two weeks later and still go. The PT is awesome. Recovery has gone super well, and I was able to go to Dallas with my family to see my extended fam for thanksgiving. it was really fun and I enjoyed the trip alot. My knee was doing good too. I also found out i could go back to Rexburg for finals for the last two weeks. I had be given access to continue my classes from home, so I did not have to drop any classes. Very blessed.

December 2012: i flew back to rexburg and suprised everyone. I didnt tell anyone except for Skyler. haha it was so fun to do that. School was great, ended up getting the best grades ive ever gotten, so i was stoked! And it was fun being back and seeing everyone and meeting new people too. I look forward to spring. I came home from school and just been continuing to do PT for my knee and enjoying family time and Christmas. I got a shot gun and it is dope!!

Overall this year has been full of memories and trials, but everything has been amazing. I feel like i packed a lot into this year and it was amazing. I am thankful for everything I've learned and for the experiences I had. This next year should be a good one too. I am back home for winter, landed another internship with Turner PR as a digital communications intern. I am stoked. (www.turnerpr.com)

I am thankful and you should be thankful for your year too. Happy New Year~

Curt

Back to the Grind

Well last time I updated you all I was in Colorado. 3 Days after that, I was back in Idaho. I had kept it a secret to all my friends except for a few who would help me surprise all of the rest of our friends. I flew into Idaho Falls on Dec 1st. I came back to see friends and finish my schooling. I was able to do all my school work from home, and wanted to come back for finals and make sure everything was squared away, and it has been beyond busy, but also a really good time. Seeing old friends and throwing them off those first few days were awesome. haha. I got a lot done with school and tomorrow I will be done after my final two presentations for classes. It feels good to have another semester done. I have also had a lot of fun with my friends this last week or so and have met a few new friends that I am pretty jazzed about to.

Essentially, I feel really blessed right now. Heavenly Father has really blessed my life. I have had a great recovery with my knee, been able to do school and come back and finish the right way. I am excited for this next winter with my continuing knee rehab and new internship with Turner PR in Denver. I am a little bummed that I have to leave. Rexburg is a fun place with a lot of good people. I will miss my friends this winter, but hopefully get to visit. I have learned a lot about myself this last month with recovery and all the down time. I have learned what I need, what I want and what is most important for me at this point in my life. I know that the situations I have faced, the trials, and the people I have met are all part of helping me become a better person. And I like it.

Life is good.

This is betty, our car. we bought this for 400 bucks.

this is a cow/newest friend from today

Erin, Curty, Cow, Macy