The ups and downs of life and being a rebel fan!

Last night I was able to witness the Rebels win against Air Force! Great day! We're all happy we go out we are on top of the world! Now if we took it back to a week or so ago when Utah was in town and we lost! It was a whole other scene! None of us were happy we were all mad. None of us went out we all went home just not a good day! I'm just as bad as all my friends and we all get so worked up, mad, and depressed haha. It's not funny at the time because we are all mad, but to look back at it now it's so funny to me how mad we all get. In life you are either 1 of the two building blocks in life. Either A) we act for your self or B) were acted upon! now it's common sense to pick which one we should be in. That being category A although we seem to end up in category B oh too often. Me and all my friends are in category B when it comes to the rebels sadly enough. I guess you could call us obsessed haha. I picked up a saying on the mission to help me through hard times especially when it came to companions "the milk has been spilt!" That of course dealing with don't cry over spilt milk. When something happened that would have me upset or something I would say that to my self being the fact theres nothing I can do about the situation its already happened, it's time to move on continue with life. So many times it seems we let some hiccup in life totally derail us. When in fact we should just put it behind us and move on. One thing I could say I'm good at is seeing the funny side in a situation and just laughing about things. This though at times makes people involved in the situation upset them being in the B category at the time haha. An example of that being...

My companion, Elder Henri, and I had met this young couple for chinese. She was a member and he was not and we were teaching him. Well my companion did not like getting embarrassed at all. (so him being put with me not the greatest mix. me being a goof most of the time!) well jack was sitting across from me and amelia was sitting across from Elder Henri. Elder Henri had ordered some dumplings as seen above in the picture. We were sitting there talking about Jacks lessons and setting up a time for him when we could baptize him. Well Elder Henri picks up a dumpling with his chop sticks and bites into it. When he did so it blew up on the other side and the filling and the juices shoot out like a dang gun! They go all over Amelia like she just took a shower. Needless to say her white shirt was now brown and her face and hair were all wet. Elder Henri was a shade of red that I didn't even know was in existence. He couldn't even speak. Amelia was sitting there with juice dripping from her nose. ( I don't know what was in those dumplings, or how they cooked them, but man they sure can soak a person!) Jack was grabbing napkins to wipe her off. Then theres Elder Huntsman. Now picture my point of view. I had just looked up at Elder Henri when he bit into the exploding dumpling. I watched as the backside of the dumpling came bursting open. I then watched as the insides traveled that short distance across the table through the air. Making contact directly on Amelia's face. Elder Henri completely embarrassed for soaking her. Her being embarrassed for being covered in the stuff but more so because she knows that Elder Henri is probably devastated. Jack he too feeling embarrassed for the two of them. Well here I am a by stander. But heck that was hilarious. I was laughing soooo hard! Tears are just rolling down my cheeks. The whole restaurant of chinese people are all focusing on this one white kid in a shirt and tie laughing hysterically! Amelia and Jack started laughing because I was and the situation wasn't bad at all. Well for the most part Elder Henri wasn't the happiest camper at my laughing, but what can you do it was hilarious!

Another story about making the best of the situation and doing our best to stay in category A is...

Cory and I had travled from Provo to Park City to watch the BYU game at our buddy Eric's house. It's about a 30 minute drive most. Unless you are Eric then it takes about 2 hours. But hey is just a very cautious driver haha! Well any ways we leave and it's night time. I drove out there and it was my first time being a driver out there. Well it's just Cory and I in my car and we are headed back. Usually when we drive we have the music a bumpin' and just having a good ol' time. We were trying to hurry to meet these girls and go to a party with them. So.... we're cruising along and we run into some construction that goes for miles and we are stuck in between two semi-trucks. The construction has caused to be squished to one lane! We were like there was no construction on the way out, they must have set this up rather quickly we were only there for a few hours. Well that construction took forever and we were going so slow due to the semis. Well finally it opens up and we fly by the semis and again are just cruising. The construction and the trucks didn't bother us too bad because we were just in deep conversation. well its now been about an hour and a half. Cory says man I can't believe we haven't hit Provo yet and I was like yea I know that construction really set us back a ways. Well 10 minutes later I see this sign...

I see this and I think to my self "why the heck would they have a welcome to wyoming sign in the middle of Utah? " This doesn't even phase me. I just keep on driving and talking with Cory. All of the sudden Cory sees a sign. Now Cory served quite a bit of time on his mission in Wyoming. He sees a sign to a city that he had heard of while serving his mission. He goes "Oh My Gosh! We Are In Wyoming!!!" I reply with "That's Why the Sign said Welcome To Wyoming!!!" Hahahaha! The first thing we do is we start laughing soo hard! Both of can't breath. Wyoming was almost the death place of Cory and Tyloy because we were laughing so hard. We weren't even looking for an exit at this time we were just laughing at the situation so bad. We had driven an hour and a half north when we should've traveled 30 min south from Park City. It was one of the best nights though. We had a really good conversation and it was just some good needed time between two best friends. Needless to say we lost three hours of the night. We missed the party, and used up a lot of gas! In the end though it was great. We could've easily let that put us into category B but instead we realized theres not much we could do we were already in wyoming so might as well enjoy it.

Life is all about ups and downs. Its our job to act for our selves and not let life choose how we are acting or feeling. We have to make the best out of bad situations! Nothing does that better then to just laugh at the situation instead of crying about it. So instead of crying over spilt milk lets laugh over spilt milk. life will be that much sweeter for us all. Not saying that I never get mad. The next rebel loss will probably make me upset yet again, but I have to try my best to just move on. Because in the end "The Milks Been Spilt!"

Past Present Future!

So this blog isn't so much about Tyloy, but more about what's going on in Tyloy's head. (this could be scary to a lot! but hey its all about expression!) I was with yet another brother of mine Tanner. He has a one year old son going on two here pretty soon. I was thinking how crazy life is! How Tanner used to be a one year old and now he has a one year old. I was thinking how weird that must be for his mom (mom #3 for me!). Whats funny is when I see bums on the street or like a show about bad people even such as Hitler I picture them as a child. Hitlers parents had this son who they loved and he probable like most kids was a cute sweet boy. They would've never guessed that he was to grow up to be one of the most infamous tyrants in history. Our life revolves around time. Yet we can't control it, it never stops. The present instantly turns to the past and the future instantly to the present.

 

This is still on topic don't worry! When I was 14 or 15 me and my best friend Cory went to my grandmas in Idaho. We didn't have our license, but then you don't need a license to drive grandpa's golf cart! Well we are cruising on the lovely streets of the neighborhood beeping at girls of course. We were hot stuff in that thing. Well Cory is driving and a car is coming down the road so to get out of the way Cory turns down a dirt road. We were gonna wait but I mean it's a dirt road! So we head down this road not knowing where the heck it goes. Well all of a sudden theres a sign that says "slow". I say "Cory why does the sign say slow?" His reply "I don't know." Hey that works for me so we keep going. Well we turn the corner right after that dang sign and I swear it was like we had reached the end of the earth. The dirt road, now all of a sudden paved goes straight down! It's too late for us to do anything. (well for cory to do anything I was helpless and a passenger through this whole ordeal.) We are flying down this road. This is a new speed record for any golf cart ever. I'm screaming like a little fairy. I'm yelling at Cory to hit the brakes. He's screaming at me saying shut up I am hitting the brakes. Pretty much the brakes were nonexistent! Halfway down the mountain is a hairpin turn to go straight down the rest of the mountain. We are in a top heavy golf cart we're done for! I think when I see the turn is when my scream becomes more high pitched and I start crying. There's nothing I can do my life is in Cory's hands. (those are good hands to be in but they could've been in batman's hands for all i care and i still would've been in the same state!) Well we reach that turn and I don't know how he did it still to this day! There was a gate that was open right through the turn leading to a driveway. He steers through the turn and through the gate. Well we haven't lost any speed if anything we are going faster. We now have three choices. Go straight which from our view was a cliff incase we wanted to reach the bottom of the mountain faster that what we already were. To the right is this beautiful home. Yea its beautiful but it's not made of pillows! to the left was the mountain. By now I'm hitting a note not even Mariah Carey could hit. I turn to Cory and he looks at me and it was like in a movie when your saying goodbye because this is the end of the road we don't say a word we just know what the other is thinking! well he chooses the door to the left! Before the mountain was a curb about 6 inches high we hit hard and everything went to slow motion. Golf balls and tees are flying up in the air hitting us. I hear golf clubs clanking and flying. Bushes are coming coming in through the sides of the cart. We go a bit up the mountain and then we roll backwards and stop against the curb. We sit there for a second breathing like we just ran a mile! Both of us have our heads leaned back looking up at the roof. Then we start to laugh! We lived through it! We loaded up the cart, made sure it was A OK and then headed back up the hill. I always try to picture the people in the house if they were looking out of their window what they would've saw. Two boys flying out of control on a runaway golf cart down their driveway into a mountain haha!

Now back to the topic. That story is how I think of life. It's going no matter what you do. You may see warning signs, but you have to act quickly other wise away you go. You usually don't know what lies ahead. Some times your life is put in the hands of those you keep around you. That is one of the best memories of my life! It could've been the last memory of my life, but it wasn't. When Cory and I set out in the cart we weren't planning on testing the brakes! I think a lot of times we as the natural man try so hard to slow things down to make sure we have a plan ahead or to try to make the present always define the future. If my dad is reading this right now he is saying to himself that I'm the worst at that. I'm always wanting my future to be decided by the present. When a lot of times who knows what the future holds. We have to make sure we take care of the present and take care of the future as it comes. The present never directly defines the future. Growing up my little sister right under me Amy and I hated each other. All the way up until i left on my mission. We did not like each other at all. My parents will be the first to vow for that. If you asked me then what I thought our relationship would be like in the later years I would've said we wouldn't talk I could careless about what she was doing. That would've been my answer by definition of how the present was.

Yet here we are. This taken a month ago as close as can be. We talk all the time. We hang out!!! I don't think anyone would have ever guessed! I love her to death! I care what she does. I guess the one good thing about continually moving down this road called time is we can always change it! Cory and I could've given up going down the hill, but instead we did what we could to brighten our future! We have to make the best of today to reach the best of tomorrow! Oh the lessons of life!

A boys life with no brothers!

My grandpa Duane said you should only be able to count your closest friends on one hand! Those people that you count are the people that you could call no matter when what where why and they would be there for you. I'm a very social person and I have tons of friends. So I took a step back and thought who are the five people that fall under that. It made it easy when I thought to my self, being a boy with no brothers who are the guys that are my brothers. Who are the guys that have I guess in turn helped mold Tyloy into Tyloy! Once I came up with that I found 5 guys pretty fast.

My cousins Rikky and Ryan. These guys are as close to real brothers as I guess you can get. All three of us being with in three years from each other. We grew up with each other. We just went out for a midnight breakfast earlier this week and we were just laughing and telling stories of the "Good Old Days" I love these guys to death. Rikky now married with a kid and Ryan to be married this coming month our lives are moving on yet we are still close as can be!

Then there's was Petey my closest non related brother. We have been best friends for over two thirds of my life. Yea I calculated that! We have been through it all! So much we've been through yet so much still  is to come. We met in 2nd grade and never looked back. We do and will always have each others backs.

Who could forget Davis. We knew each other through high school, but never were best friends until we moved in together up in college right after high school. That created a duo that will be best friends until the day we die. Ever since then we have been like white on rice. I'd do anything for this kid and he'd do anything for me.

Then Good Ol' Greg. I met him through Rikky and Ryan we have been friends for a while. We didn't become super close until right before our missions and then were like inseperable after our missions. He's for sure up there with the other four right now in my life.

I guess this is a pretty random first post on my blog, but when I was sitting here thinking of what to put and my grandpas advice shot in my head. Then I figured these 5 guys are what has made me who I am at this point. So I had to give credit where credit is due. So I guess the question to everyone else is who are your single hand friends? I love all 5 of these guys and would do anything for them. I thank them for everything they have done for me. May the memories continue to flow!