The past month was quite a fiasco. It all started on July 23 when I flew out of Long Beach air port, thinking i was ready for the time ahead of me. I had no idea. Boarding the Jet Blue Airliner, I sat in my seat near the back of the plane. After a calm, normal flight next to two kind older ladies, I landed in the Salt Lake City airport. I turned on my tracfone to find a missed call. Hmmm... I wonder who it was. I see the name on the screen as I open the cheap flip phone as my sister, Alyse. She was coming to pick me up so I could help her move out of her apartment and into a new life in North Carolina. I open it up to realize it is saying i had a missed call from her, so i return the call. She had stopped at a little place off the freeway when Tommy, her adoring husband, could not figure out how to restart the car. After getting help from AAA, their car insurance, they were back on track. They pulled up about 5 minutes later.
We got back to their little apartment in Provo, and they showed what they needed me to do to help them clean up for the rest of the day. they would be moving out by Monday, and we could not even think about moving on Sunday. This meant hard work for 36 hours besides sleep, eating and occasional card games. After we retired for the night, Alyse decided that she would teach me her and Tommy's favorite card games, The Bean Game and Killer Bunnies. In the Bean Game you have to imagine being the best possible bean farmer and get money. Killer Bunnies is a game in which you attack other players' bunnies to obtain "the magic carrot". We played these games for an hour or two until we got tired and prepared to retire for the night. I did not go to sleep that easily though, since I slept in their 90 degree living room. The fan was pointing at me, but all it was doing was blowing hot air at me. I had to make do, so I just went to sleep. I woke up the next morning and we moved all day with Tommy's Family. We had in n out and then i went to south jordan for the sunday. The next day was EFY and it turns out that one of my best friends was IN MY GROUUUUPPPP!!!!!!!!!! I had so much fun you have no idea. Then the next week was Volleyball camp and that was fun too. Kevin Sagers, Futti Tavana and Ryan Boyce were my coaches. They were super cool. THen we had a Family reunion and then it was super fun too. Then we worked for Grandpa Myres and then got some good money. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good summer. Thanks mom and alyse for everything and the phone

Summer School stinks! I just had it for 3 weeks and did not have much fun. Sure, I might have finished a whole semester of health, but the first two weeks were on Abstinence and Birth Control! I mean, COME ON!!!!!!!!! I made a few friends, but none that I will really hang out with outside of that class.
It is really hot in here. It is not a good thing when you are sweating outside then you come inside and sweat even more. Stupid heat! At least in Utah and Arizona they have effective Air Conditioning. Well, it better end soon.
I went outside to get some icecream in the freezer when, suddenly, I couldn't find any!!! Then, I went to turn off the lights, and I see a small figure scatter across the bar above the garage. I take out my tommy gun and begin unloading rounds in its direction. I miss all of the shots, and look down to see R.O.U.S.'s digging through the garage door. I say a catchy phrase like "Oh yeah? you wanna see my R.O.U.S.? Its a Rifle of unusual size!!! HAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!" I blow their faces off with it and realize I don't have much ammo left, and they still keep coming! I take out my sword and chop off all their arms and give them to King Lamoni. Then, he joined the church and I went on protecting his sheep. Then, I went to bed. BYE BYE!!!

My picture afterwards is above

HI!!! The last time that posted an entry on this blog was on may 2nd. Almost two months. Since then, these things have happened:

• My birthday
• Lakers won the NBA Finals
  
• Camille left and came back from Nicaragua
• USA got kicked out of the world cup (i don't like them, so I don't care. GO NETHERLANDS!!!)
• I finished 9th grade
  
• I went on my high adventure
• My friend Steven McCombs moved back to mexico

These are a lot of things, and I will go in order.
My birthday was a big thing. I got to eat Cocoa Puffs and go to Red Robin. I played volleyball with Austin, some of his friends, and Kipp Muir. It was a lot of fun, and to finish it off, all the school stuff with people singing and wishing me happy birthday. I am now 15, and only 3 years left in high school.
My school year finished, and as I said, only 3 more years of the Irvine Public school system. My GPA went up from a 3.33 to about a 3.6, and I will do even better next year. I hope that it just goes up and up to a 4.o next year.
The Lakers also won the NBA Finals. I hate them, but they barely got through the Suns, who are very good. I was pretty excited that the Suns even got that far, so i was okay with that out come. I still HATE the lakers with a deep passion.
On another sports note, the biggest sport event in the world began. The world cup. Anyone who knows me knows that I have no desire to become a major soccer fan or player. But... Every four years is completely fine for me. I am cheering for the Netherlands and pretty much any African nation that was in it. I am not a USA fan, and I never have been. It is a lot of fun figuring out soccer and watching the best go at it head to head. So far i have rooted for Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Algeria, the Netherlands, Uruguay and Ghana. Only 3 are left, but whatever, hopefully one of them wins. USA got kicked out by Ghana on Saturday, 2-1 in a pretty good game.
I went on the High Adventure from Thursday until Saturday. It was a lot of fun. The first day we drove down there and just messed around camp from 6 to about 10. Then we went to sleep. The second day, we went to the beach all day. We drove to the kayaking store that rented us snorkeling gear and kayaks to go and snorkel near some caves. It was so much fun, and there were some pretty cool things under water. Then we just hung out and went boogie boarding for a while. After that, we went back to camp and sat around for a while. Connor had his water polo ball and also a box for his tent. We figured out how to play basketball with it and that was fun. We then went to sleep and woke up that morning sorer and more tired than the day before. we were exhausted, but that didn't stop us from tubing for 2 miles down a little river that ran through the whole camp site. I have some bruises on my lower back, but it was loads of fun. Then we packed up and went home.
One of my good friends, Steven, moved back to Mexico today. He moved here for a year to see what it was like, and I think that he liked it. He was a cool dude, and I am going to miss having him here as another Mormon kid at school. He was really funny and nice, and just like his cousin, Connor, who he lived with.

My new phone



No other photos will go on, but later.



Fancy phone, eh?

Heyyyy! So, I will start with volleyball. We are 3 and 5, which is okay, but we can do a lot better. I lost my starting spot, so I am not playing very much. It's okay though, since I got to play for the first half of the season. It is a lot of fun and I am giving up school basketball for club volleyball, or at least most likely. Also, I really don't like online shopping anymore. Stupid Target hasn't given me my iPod that I ordered even though I ordered it over 2 weeks ago. Here are 5 reasons why you cannot trust online shopping:

1. They have things cheaper, but they will just charge more with shipping and handling
2. They must be up to some diabolical plan, since they made me pay more than I would have with just going to Target.
3. They say "you can be a guest" on the website, but when I want to "track the package" they don't let me see the package ID
4. It takes a long time
5. I just am really mad at them, and I could only think of 4

Also, Momotombo's mark that it left on me in Nicaragua has almost gone away completely.

3 more to my bucket list:

• Meet a big time celebrity
• Go to Europe
• Eat Escargo

Here we are again. A month later. Different people. I have discovered what poor really means, and what the word "need" really means. I have rendezvoused with long lost family members from Idaho.

You know what is a crazy song? Oh Fortuna. I listen to it and it gives me the chills. The reason I am thinking about it is my friend, Brent Wong, and I are making a commercial for Things Fall Apart, pretending that it was going to be made into a movie. We have about 12 days, and we are doing well. I have three minutes to write as much as I can. We had a volleyball game on Thursday and we destroyed University High School, even though they were up 8-1 in the first game. In the second game the closest they got was 5-1. I got a really dirty serve that was really bad. It dropped about 2 feet off the net on their side. It was crazy. I love volleyball. Alyse is mad since I only got 3 things on my bucket list. Here are 3 more:

• Get a drum set
• Eat a real philly cheese steak
• Have 2 4x4's at In-n-out in one sitting.

There you go Alyse. Only 3 more weeks until Nicaragua.

Today is my blogging day. Otherwise known as Sunday. Seeing that Alyse is always making "Lists of things to do before she dies", or "Bucket Lists". Here is mine:

• Go to BYU as a student
• Start Volleyball setter at Northwood
• go to a killers concert.
  

and that's how far I've gotten. Too bad.

Well, I got a mark on my face that looks like I got in a fight, so people said things like "Did you get punched?" or even "Do we need to report bishop Murphy for this?" (That last one was a joke, so no one get scared). I had a game on Tuesday against Aliso Niguel and we destroyed them pretty good. It was a lot of fun. THursday we had one of our worst games as a team. We got beat by Irvine 25-23 and 25-21. It looks close but we should have killed them. The were bad. Selection Sunday is today. BYU better get an easy team so they can actually get past the first round this year.

Hey. Today is my blog day. I have had quite a few things happen to me in the last two weeks, so I should tell you about it. Last Saturday was Cole's party, and it was a load of fun. It was an Olympic Party, and kids got medals made from string and chocolate coins. It was a lot of fun to see the creative activities be played by the little kids. Alec, Tyler, Barrett, and their friends all came and spent the night that saturday along with Charlie Bollard (his parents were gone) and the alpine myres. IT was a lot of fun, and charlie brought over his xbox 360. I had my first volleyball games. We had 2 scrimmages against University and La quinta. We beat them both handily. Also, we played san juan hills as our first game and we won. I am trying to get used to the whole JV thing, but it is hard. As the only setter, I cannot get hurt or have a bad game or else we will be in trouble.

T'was a good 2 weeks away from the blog. I found out a new favorite song, even though i don't know what they are saying. Alyse posted this on her blog, but I will too. The song is by a post-rock icelandic band called Sigur Ros. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyI4p0yjDQ is the link, since I cannot figure out how to put it on the page just as a video.(help me with that alyse) For those who don't speak fluent Icelandic, the lyrics are at the end of my post.
Last weekend, Bethany and I were at the Alpine Myres house to help Evan with his eagle scout project. It was a lot of fun being with them and hanging out with them. On Saturday, we drove there to Del Mar, which is half way to the Myres House. We went to dinner at this Chinese/American Resturant. It was alright. Then we went to their house and hung out then lifted weights in their garage. I was sore for a very long time. After we went to church the next day, Evan Isaac and I went out into their back yard and shot the BB Gun at thrown away water bottles that were filled with water. It was a lot of fun there. At the Eagle Project, we planted about 1000 trees. It was fun helping him.
VOLLEYBALL IS STARTING!!!!! I am so extatic for this. Guess what...I MADE JV AS A SETTER! I am really excited because it is so much better than basketball. I am the only freshman on JV, and there are a bunch of sophomores and juniors. I love it.

Here are the lyrics

Smiling
Spinning round and round
Holding hands
The whole world a blur
But you are standing

Soaked
Completely drenched
No rubber boots
Running inside us
Want to erupt from a shell

The Wind
An outdoor smell of your hair
I breathe as hard as I can
with my nose

Jump into puddles
With no boots on
Completely drenched(Soaked)
With no boots on

And I get a nosebleed
But I always stand up
(Hopelandish)

And I get a nosebleed
But I always stand up
(Hopelandish)

From: http://lyricstranslate.com

This week could have been described as good, exciting, weird, or crazy. The week began with a day off on Monday and all I did was homework and went to basketball practice. Then on Tuesday, something amazing happened to me. I had a burden like no other lifted off my shoulders...er...maybe my teeth. My braces were finally taken off. I finally can look in the mirror without seeing the large magnetic field beneath my lips. I get my retainers tomorrow, but that does not cancel out my happiness that I got a barbed wire continually catching my lips detached forever. Then on Wednesday for young mens we combined with the Priests and learned a few jujitsu moves. That was a lot of fun. Our team is 3-2 in league. I haven't played in a game in league, and I don't know why. Whatever. I really don't like him, and in the most latest game against our rival, Woodbrige, we lost on a last second tip shot by their team. I don't really care since I did not play. As a family we went with the Alpine Myres and saw BYU beat SDSU in front of a hostile crowd due to a monster game by Jimmer Fredette.

Hey! This week was New Years, and we had a the Rasmussens over for New Years Eve and then the Alpine Myres came over the next day and we went to Knotts Berry Farm. On New Years Eve, We just stayed home and chilled with the cousins. It was a lot of fun watching Travis Pastrana jump 269 feet and then we watched Wanted. (Clean) We had a lot of fun that night, and we had a lot of eggnog. (Thanks to Uncle Brian) The next day we went to Knotts Berry Farm, which was a lot of fun too. We rode rides, but after a while, we got bored. We decided to play Sardines, which is where you have one person hide, (or in our case, one pair) then other pairs go to find them then stay with them for the rest of the round. Evan Myres and I were the first to be it. Austin and Isaac were the first to find us, then we hit a time of about and hour when no one found us. We went on to the log ride, and got wet. Then we got caught by Camille and Bethany. Then Alec and Maranda. Then we just called Grant and Mateo because they would not have found us. Then we went on a few more rides and then left to go and eat. We ate at the Knotts Berry Farm Chicken Dinner resturant, and I got the Chicken and Dumplings meal. It was actually really good. We went home, and pretty much sat around with cousins, then went to bed. The next day, at 7:00, My dad, Brian, Austin and I went golfing on the same executive course that my dad, Tommy, my dad's client, his son and I went on that same monday. (Executive courses are not any better than other courses as their name states, they are just smaller.) The first time I had golffed was that earilier monday, and I hit a 59. That time I hit a 46. Pretty good for a second time. Austin got a 58, and Brian and dad just beat us.

Hello. This week was christmas, and it was an exciting one. The craziness began on monday, the 22nd, when I had no money to buy Alyse and Tommy their presents. You see, our family has a tradition of having each kid being assigned another kid (and in my case, kid and spouse) in the family. I was assigned to Alyse and Tommy. For about the last 2 months, I had been broke. My mom always offered me chores to do as a way to earn money. I had never accepted before, but now I had to since Alyse and Tommy were having their first christmas with each other. I asked what they wanted and they said that they wanted to get more board games so that their game choice was increased from Monopoly and Phase 10. I cleaned the inside and windows of my mom's car so that I could get $40 for that. It may seem like a lot to buy a game and some stocking stuff, but after one trip I ran out of cash. So I had to work some more. I had to go and clean out every bathroom, vacuum the upstairs, and mop the kitchen for $30 then I finished up and only needed about 7 of those dollars. I used $3 for tithing and $20 for a little gift for dad. For christmas I received a Phoenix Suns Sweatshirt (From Bethany and Denice, who bought it and sent it to Bethany), a Phoenix Suns Hat (Santa), a book(Santa), and a few other things. It was very exciting.

A lot has happened since my last post. Basketball season has started, my grades are going up, and a lot of other things. I am not very happy with my coach right now because he is not playing me as much as I expected. I have played some good minutes in some games, but not in every game. Now he is angry because we are losing to teams that he thinks are not better than us. He asked us a question wondering if we are there to win or to have fun and play basketball. I am really there just because I love basketball. My grades are up, almost to 3 a's and 3 b's. I could bring that up, but i am kind of scared that my anchor will bring those down. Any tips?

Hey. I had an okay week outside of basketball. My coach makes us run and run and I hate it. We would do a drill perfectly and he would make us run. My grades are doing okay, but I need to bring them up a little bit. I will though. This last Friday was bring a friend to seminary day. I got 6 to say that they could come on Thursday, but on Friday 3 came. That is still good though. It was Cole Murray, Austin Von Blasingame, and Navdeep Sodhi. Austin, my brother, brought 7. 13 said they would come. Brother Lopez and Brother Bollard were good and really friendly. Austin Von Blasingame said it was good because of the donuts at the end, and Nav and Cole both thought that it was good. All is well.

Hey there. If I did not tell you, I got very embarrassed at school last month. It all happened when Umang Mehta, Austin's friend, wrote a poem. It was about a girl that he liked, but he thought that it would be funny if he said it was from me. He gave it to a band of sophomores who were playing for red ribbon week. He said to say it is from Dallin Murphy to Mallory Mortensen. She is a girl that people have been saying I am going to marry her for years.

True love is a myth. Love is as true as it gets.

Hey there. Yesterday was the BYU game, and I missed Monday and Tuesday's school due to the illness I was talking about in my last post. Then on Wednesday and Thursday I was not allowed to practice in basketball. I did play In my game on Saturday. I did not play the first half, but I did play in the second half and scored a shot. (for Andrew!)Then I got in again late in the game and did really bad. We did win and they were a sophomore team so that is good. We also had 2 sophomores from JV because we had been put in the schedule to play for the JV team because almost the whole team had to take the PSAT. After that we got to go to the BYU VS SDSU game and we won. We did not play that good, but MAX Hall did good. We went with the Alpine Myres and we had a lot of fun. We had really good seats that were about 20 rows from the field.

This week was hard. Half of it I was sick, when the other part I was packed, as in my schedule. Last friday I went the the Northwood vs. Irvine football game, and we won!! Just kidding. We won the first half minus the final 15 seconds. Then we got slaughtered. You don't even want to know the final score. Then the naxt night was the Stake dance. It was pretty fun. I saw some people from summer camps. It was cool.
I am very sick. I hate it. I have a fever and a runny/stuffed up nose. It is so bad. But life goes on, and I have to get through it. It is what Andrew Coleman would do, so I have to. I am probably getting this keyboard all germed up for the next person to use it. So I need to go.

The last time i added a post on here was after Alyse's wedding. Since then we have been to yellowstone, school, and many other things. I will start though, with the Utah reception for Alyse's wedding.

Alyse's Wedding reception was run by the other family in the wedding fiasco, the Leiningers. It was at this home that looked old and small from the outside, but it was a large palace on the inside. They had an ice cream bar and a great cake. There were a lot of people there, and I am especially thankful that Eric Andrew Coleman, my biggest blog fan, showed up.

Then Yellowstone. "Ahh, the beautiful scenery, the large herds of elk and bison, and... Eww, what is that smell? It smells like rotten eggs, but about 300 of them." That the first impression of Yellowstone that I had. All though there was that, it was a fun time being able to bond as a family.

BYU won. Twice. Once against the number three team. They knocked out the 2008 Heisman trophy winner. I am so glad that they are winning because now can brag that my favorite team is one of the best teams in the country. There you go UCLA fans. MAX HALL 4 HEISMAN!!!!

Oh yeah, and school started. Yay.

This week was nothing compared to last week. We did get toilet-papered again, but we got them so bad. If you want to see pictures, you have to go on Camille Murphy's Face book and look at them.

It was my first time and we did a great job. we got it in their trees, we got it in their backyard, everywhere. Sadly though, that is the only thing that happened that is worth noting.

Mom says that I need to talk more about the wedding. Hows this:

The wedding festivities began on May 8, 2009, when Tommy Jeffery Leininger decided that it was time to ask Laura Alyse Murphy to become his Eternal Companion. She said yes. All throughout the summer, the mothers were frantically searching for everything for the wedding. Clothes, flowers, ties, food, and many other things. The fathers did the same, but they had work so they could not do as much. The Aunts and Uncles helped out, and so did the cousins and friends. It all started becoming a reality that it was happening on August 21, when we had the Family Dinner. We had food from the Murphy favorite, Stone Fire Grill. Friends and family from all over came. As everyone filed out, the stress began to file in. Everyone was frantically running everywhere, well almost everyone. We drove to the temple at about 10:00. There were more cameras than at the Grammy's. Flash after flash, i felt like a star walking down the red carpet, and I wasn't even the main character. It all became good when at about 12:45, we saw them. The bride and the groom, smiling brighter than the noon sun, holding hands walking out of the temple. If a picture is worth a thousand words, there were too many words to describe this moment.