the most memorable moments in my life (that i can actually remember) thus far

• learning to ride a bike
• the birthday party in Iowa when i got the Aqua CD
• going to the roller rink in Iowa
• learning to play the saxophone
• getting my very own saxophone
• having a paper route
• walking home from kingsley with Kevin, Nick, and all the other kids
• Boy scouts camping trip sliding down that really muddy hill
• taking swim test at burns park pool to be able to use the diving boards
• My Waterloo days with the hot air balloons
• bike riding with Mitch
• freshman year marching band playing music from Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
• Making bunches of friends freshman year
• Photography club in middle school
• foolin around with Paul Rosentrator
• going to middle school at U.T.T for a semester
• West High football games
• Moving to CA
• Rocky Horror Live with Audrey Robinson
• Working at the Waterloo community playhouse on the play Grease
• volunteering at the theater in Waterloo during the time the musical Chicago was there
• playing LaCross for a semester in middle school
• playing waterpolo sr. year
• Making it to the top 3 best marching bands with West High
• Making it to finals playing elton john music with tustin high
• slumber party at torys house before i moved to CA
• marching band soph & Jr years at tustin
• jazz band soph. year
• going to Utah with jazz band
• Jen scaring Samantha by popping out of the attic hole in the tuba closet in the band room
• Bar hopping in San Diego with Mikey (and some of the rugby guys) and getting a tranny to buy me a drink. Then seeing Corey getting punched in the face right in front of me
• visiting chicago and the chicago museum of art with 8th grade class
• visiting San Francisco with Sunny
• Watching the 1st sex and the city movie in SF with sunny
• San Diego day trip with Amber, Jessica, Katherine, and Jess' little brother
• sunnyside pre-school with lindsay schuler
• meeting and becoming friends with Jen R
• accepting that i am gay and into 'bears'
• going to college (even if it is community college)
• coming out
• taco tuesdays at del taco back in high school
• las vegas with jen, sunny, & tim
• art classses with Maydee as my teacher at SAC
• hanging with Kyle & Chase
• Working at In-N-Out with Amber, Jessica, Katherine, Derek, Kristen, Paul, Amber leonard, and all the others
• meeting Amber w for the first time
• meeting jessica for the first time
• meeting taz for the first time
• when taz came to visit me in CA
• graduating high school
• Jen teaching me to drive
• passing my drivers test with jens car
• pool parties with lonnie and toro
• meeting hadrian and being exposed to SD life
• meeting mikey solano
• Going to The Hole for the first time
• going to the Weissman house museum
• going to Hurst castle
• theme park in des moines with band in middle school
• the story jen wrote me asking me out
• photo shoot with donato
• visiting donato at his place in LA
• scaring amber w. so bad she criend
• singing whats love got to do with it in the stand at INO and having the customers applaud us
• 4th of july 2010 in SD with mikey and alfredo
• the random time Mikey Solano said I love you to me
• first time at bear night
• go-go dancing at bear bar
• jessica saying "i LOVE this song" to pretty much every song on the radio
• Jessica stumbling with her words trying to copy the carls jr commercial "if its not in ur...if its not on your....wait what!?!" and me and amber just waiting for her to finish and figure it out
• level 7 with amber
• drink ups after rugby games with mikey and rudy at the hole
• getting art entered in the student art show at SAC
• filling a pillow case full of candy on halloween as a kid
• rendezvous with Don O. in the tennis courts bathroom
• playing w/ race cars and race tracks with visiting aunt and uncle in des moines