Happy Thanksgiving

From North Beach, San Francisco!

The Tanners

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"What ever happened to their itty bitty teeth..."

First Timers

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Not much ice skating in Brazil or Saudi Arabia, huh?

Mr. Ambassador

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All the best to my departing students.

Cal vs Stanford

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Stanford 48 - Cal 14. UC Berkeley, what the heck?

Check the sweatshirt (yeah)!

Cheers!

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I blew out the candles and now I'm 23, it's official.

p.s. Christmas is a comin'

Portrait

One of my first semesters at BYU I met this awesome girl named Heather LeeAnn. She is an artist. We both like ANTM. One night she asked if she could draw me for an assignment in one of her classes. This is the product. Perhaps it doesn't look entirely like me, however, it's an interpretation of me and I think that is interesting.

B: If you could have anyone (dead or alive) paint or photograph a portrait of you, who would it be and why?

M: (Preface) I'm not trying to be poetic, artistic, or sentimental. (Answer) After visiting the portrait gallery I have come to admire many different types of artistic devices. It's hard for me to answer this question because I would choose a lot of people. Matt Clayton for his good ol' American style; my mom because she sometimes can capture me at my best; Steve McCurry, Rembrandt, or Dorothea Lange because I think they capture a persons whole life in one portrait.

Fearless...sorta

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I have no idea what got into me, but I held a taranchula and put a snake around my neck. I have always had this ginormous fear of spiders and I think I overcame a huge fear, granted, I only held the taranchula for a minute or so (sweaty palms), but nonetheless, I held that thing.

B: What’s the next book you’re actually going to read? No textbooks.

M: Seriously, I'm going to read the Bible. I had this guy ask me all these Bible questions and when I didn't know I felt dumb, so I only know one way to solve that problem - read it! Also, I'm going to read this book called Stiltsville as soon as it's returned to the Berkeley public library. A woman from the Avon, CO library suggested it on the library blog and I trust them to have good taste in reading material.