It's been another multi month gap. Time to Write.

I'M BACK! Maybe. I'm never consistent with this thing, but I can be as random as I want.

Senior year. Holy cow. I'm still trying to adjust. It's already going by super fast and I feel like I'll be out of here and on a mission in no time.

I'm quite overwhelmed with my classes though. Definitely giving myself a good amount of college prep. 4 AP classes! Literature, Chemistry (which is arguably the most difficult AP test), BC Calculus, and Psychology. Not to mention my college writing class which can be a lot of work too. I love it though! It gets hard at times but I just love my senior year.

A little flashback to summer time, I am a lifeguard, and that was some fun times. I only had one save, but it was a save none the less. Lots of guards parties which make for great memories and lots of time in the sun. Unfortunately, I don't get too dark so...My tan didn't turn out super good. But I got to go to Yogurtland many a time with my good friend Jessica and that was tons of fun!

I went to New York City...twice! The first time was with the family. That was tons of fun. Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Mary Poppins and Spider-Man on Broadway. It was definitely one of my favorite places. Me and New York have a bond. This bond led  me to ask my father to take me with him while he went on a business trip, and much to my surprise, he said YES! Woah! So I had a whole day in New York City alone, and I was never "lost." There were moments where I got confused, but even with a Subway mishaps and much train hopping and getting off at the wrong station, I still managed to navigate myself back to my hotel room. On my own I went from mid Manhattan to the World Trade Center memorial and museum, then I walked over to Wall Street, and across the Brooklyn Bridge. Stopped for some grimaldi's pizza under the bridge and journeied back to my hotel and then to Times Square, where I happened to get a picture of Lady Gaga doing some kind of interview (not my favorite celebrity, but still someone famous!) I love New York everytime I go back. Maybe I'll live there one day. That would be cool.

But I came back to good old Orem, Utah. Back to Senior year. So much fun. It's still blowing my mind that first term is almost over. As for college plans, it's looking like Tim Gardner will be headed to the "Y."Lives exciting.

Well I'm out, It's getting late, and I need to sleep.

Love you all
Until next Tim(e)

Especially for Youth: Secret Servants 2011

This last week I went to my final year of EFY at BYU. and I have to say it was absolutely amazing.

Monday I met my group and I have to say each and everyone of them made the week 1,000,000,000 times better! Our male counselor decided that for EFY he would jump on the Star Wars fan boat and so we were his padawans all week long. He walked around with a lightsaber and it was super funny and cool.

We started the week off with a fireside on being benevolent. The Session director Brother Martin, asked us to talk about a story from President Monson about being benevolent. When he asked for a volunteer to come up and share, a whole group of kids got super excited and started pointing to this one boy. So, this kid gets called up and Brother Martin asks his name. And the kid's answer: "Paul Monson" It was Pres. Monson's Grandson! I was pretty shocked, but it was pretty sweet. After that we had some home evening games and set some goals.

Tuesday we started the day bright and early with a devotional, went up to the Wilkinson Center and had a morningside, which was followed by classes, and I had the great opportunity of getting a lesson from the awesome Brother Butler who teaches at Lehi High School Seminary. He was hilarious and by the last rotation of classes it was pretty much a battle to get into his class. he was phenomenal! Then we ended the day with a super awesome dance where I danced with some super beautiful daughters of God. It was great.

Wednesday was very similar to Tuesday. Devo, Morningside, Classes, etc. But instead of a dance we got a super rainy games night! It was highly enjoyable. It was full of awesome cheers and rain dances and imaginary roller coaster rides. But the best part of the evening, PIZZA NIGHT. oh yeah! That was great. Nothing like a bunch of guys trying to out eat each other and hanging out.

Thursday was super spiritual, and since this is an open blog, i am going to be on the skimpy side of details and it was highly spiritual and I don't think much of these experiences are to be shared. But I felt the Holy Ghost greatly and had an increased testimony.

Friday was a sad day. We had some For the Strength of Youth activities, and a service project and another dance, but it was time to say goodbye. We got pictures and stuff and all of the boys were knighted to Jedi Knights by the presenting of a sticker and a knighting ceremony. It was a sad evening, but it was definitely an awesome week.

Thanks to all my new friends. I thank you for your testimonies and fun times we spent together! To the beautiful daughters of God I met this week and my fellow Jedi Knights, I thank you for an amazing week!

until next Tim(e)

7 months later...

So being so passionate about my blog I bet you are super excited that I actually have a post! (What! No way Tim! That's so cool!)

This'll be quick but it's a post nonetheless and we'll hope I can keep up.

This summer has been great so far. I got my first job as a Lifeguard at the scera pools. We went to new york city as a family which was awesome (For more details, go see my mom's blog Cathyg-footnotes.blogspot.com she is doing an incredible job documenting it and I couldn't do anything as good so go check it out! Start at day one and work your way through. :) ) And I just finished a wonderful final year of EFY at BYU.


I will document my time at EFY in another post tomorrow, and try and make it inspirational and entertaining for all of you.
Until next Tim(e)