Introductions

Well, I'll start by telling you a little bit about me. I was born in the once small community of Alpine, Utah. Alpine was once a picturesque little place that could be compared with Mayberry from the Andy Griffith show. I still have strong ties to the place. My father was born there. His father was born there. My grandfather's father was born there... and I'm not sure how far back it goes, but I believe that the we landed there in the late 1800's. I'll do some checking on that and perhaps inform you in a later blog.

My grandparents and an a couple of aunts still live there in Alpine, and there is even a road that bears the family name (at least it did but I think that there are plans to change it to "200 North" or something romantic like that). The point is, what Alpine Utah used to be will always be a part of me.

I lived in Alpine until the ripe old age of six and then my family decided to move to the bustling community of Lehi, Utah. I decided to go with them. I lived there until I was 12, spending the majority of my time as a gangly, unpopular little red-headed kid who got in fights on the playground and exercised my mind by devising new and elaborate ways to get out of doing homework. They were happy times, but alas, they too would end when I again decided to follow my parents as they moved to Elko, Nevada.

In Elko, I attended junior high and high school. I ran around with by best buddies and I discovered the joys of off-roading as Elko has no shortage of dirt roads to be explored.

I'm going to skip ahead a little because I've done a lot of things, and they might get mentioned in later blogs, but I don't want this to be a life history.

So, anyway, currently I reside in Marysville, Washington. I'm up here on an internship in the aerospace industry. I'm studying mechanical engineering at BYU-Idaho. It was in in Marysville that I met Katie and somehow convinced her to marry me. Don't ask me how, just congratulate me.

Katie and I will be heading back up to Idaho to attend school right after we get married in Utah. We have a lot of driving in our immediate future.

Ok, that's all from me.

Later,

Martell