11 years of riding and going

This is a pic with my first bike that was taken just after I turned 17. I wasn't the cutest kid in high school, but that's ok.
I have been having this random craving on and off during the past few years, and recently during the past few months to buy another bullet bike. Last summer when the gas prices sky rocketed I decided to buy a scooter. Well the prices have come down a little bit, and I have been getting bored riding that thing around, so I sold it.
I know there what you're thinking. A bullet bike? He's going to kill himself on it! Let me reassure you that I am an excellent driver. I bought my first motorcycle when I was a senior in high school at the age of 17. My friend TW drove bikes and got me into it and helped me to find a cheap bike. I had to do some major fixing it up but eventually, after re-welding the frame straight and bending the forks back straight, I had a nice ride to school.
Since then I have owned 3 other bullet bikes, a scooter, and now I finally when out and bought a new bullet bike! This is now my 4th bullet bike. I liked my last bullet bike so much that I decided to stick with Suzuki GSXR. My last bike was a 01 600cc.
I am excited to announce that I am now the proud owner of an 06 GSXR 750. This bike has more nuts than the 600's. I love it! After riding it around for about 20 min. my riding skills came back and it seemed like it wasn't too long ago since I last drove a bike; even though it has been 4 years!

I bought it at a place up in Salt Lake. As I was driving it home on the freeway, some wind caught my sunglass and tossed them off in the middle of the freeway. Luckily they weren't too pricey, but that is the first time that has ever happened. I need to be carefull which way I turn my head at 90 miles an hour.
There are a few guys in my ward that ride bikes to, so maybe I'll have some riding buddies since my best friend Dave doesn't have a bike anymore.

Cutest nieces ever

The cutest thing happened to me today at Walmart, when all of a sudden my two little nieces came running up to me shouting out my name.."Ustin, Ustin, Uncle Ustin!" It was so dang cute! They ran up to me and gave me a big hug on my leg. They miss their uncle, and their uncle misses them.
I'm so glad that I can be an uncle.. Like all other aunts and uncles know, it's great to be able to hand them back over to their parents when they start crying, and don't have to worry about finding a baby sitter, but being a babysitter.
Kaylie is two, and Averie will be turning four in August. Someone should designate a day similar to mother and father's day for aunts and uncles day. They should call it Auntcles day.

Birthday party with friends

This weekend Dave's girlfriend celebrated her 25th birthday. Dave is my best friend and he is always trying to find some kind of way to make his girlfriend Kim feel so loved. I swear she probably melts out of her shoes everyday by all the great things Dave does for her. He took her out to the Zoo during the day, so he put me in charge of organizing and decorating a surprise birthday party.
We got some peeps from the ward over, and some of Kim's friends from her work. Jay kept blasting the music and eventually someone called the cops to complain about the music being too loud. They didn't do anything, so it was all good.
We had a fun night. We had some good dancing by busting out random dance moves. That was probably the funny highlight of the night.
I love all of my friends. I'm so lucky to have a lot of good friends in my ward. They are REAL friends who will do do anything to help you out, and everyone is just chill and fun.

Donut Falls

The month of June is quickly turning out to be one of the rainiest on record. With that being said, I have had a few days off work here and there. I enjoy having extra days off work. This way I can venture out into the mountains and find new places to hike to. My recent find is called Donut Falls.
It's located about nine miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon. The hike is about 3/4 mile, making it short enough to get even the most out of shape people up to it without breaking a sweat. It was more like a walk through the woods until I got to the falls.
Once at the falls, you need to tread through some of the water and climb your way up to the donut hole where water from above comes through a hole on the top of a rock and crashing down into a nice enclosed cove. It's a little slick making your way up, but it's worth the climb.

Unfortunately this hike was way too short for me, so I probably won't be going up there again anytime soon unless I'm with someone who would love to go on a little stroll trough the woods to see a neat little waterfall. Where will my next hiking adventure bring me? Guess now for your chance to come with me on that hike ;)

Action packed weekend

This Spring has started out busy for me and I haven't been the best blogger lately. Sorry to all of my friends and family out there who were wondering where I went. Since I started working doing asphalt maintenance again for the 6th summer straight, I have been super busy.

This past weekend I was able to get out and finally enjoy some time with friends and family. I went to the Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband concert on Friday night. My mom bought me a couple of extra tickets, so I took my buddy Javi. It was a really fun show. If you haven't seen Shupe and his band live, then you must go. The band is known for its ability to stretchout musically in all directions. They will for sure have something that will please everyone in the crowd. The band is packed full of energy as they play, and they run all over the stage with a little bit of choreography included. They also performed three new songs that Ryan wrote over the winter. Here are a couple pics from the show.

As if going to a sweet show wasn't enough, I finished my week going to the airshow at Hill Air Force Base with my mom and little brothers.

I love aviation and fast jets. Ever since I was a little tyke growing up in Nevada I wanted to be a pilot. I was born and lived in Tonopah until I was 7. Tonopah used to be the home of the Stealth Fighter. Planes always used to fly by and wake me up in the mornings.

This airshow wasn't as great as the one they had just a few years ago, but there were a lot more people in attendance this year. It took us over an hour once we got to Layton before we were able to park the car! There were WAY too many people there!
Some of my favorites from the show were: The F-16 demonstration, F-18, and stunt planes doing their flips and twists. I was a little disappointed that the F-22, or B1b didn't do any flyovers. The F-22 is my new favorite stealthy plane, but for some reason it wasn't used. The show went well and finished the day off with the Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds are great and everything, but after seeing the same routines at every airshow, it starts to get a little old. Overall it was a great day and I had a lot of fun watching my jets thunder by.