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I love the summer olympics.  It is completely amazing to me.  I just finished watching some men’s gymnastics and can’t believe how strong these guys are.  The best part so far though has to have been the American finish in the swimming relay on Saturday.  I couldn’t belive it.  It looked like they finished at the exact same time.  You’ve gotta love the thrill of a finish like that.  It got me thinking about something Seinfeld does in his act.  Have a listen.

So it is 5 months until Christmas.  Do you know what that means?  It means that it is time to start thinking about Christmas gifts.  As anyone who read this last December, or this, or this in January, knows that I make a lot of my Christmas gifts, and last year I was down to the wire to get it all done which resulted in a major disaster.

Well this year, I am again making some of my Christmas gifts.  I’m so excited about one of the gifts, that I started it over a month ago.  Chad told me that if the gifts I am making aren’t done by Thanksgiving, then we are going to go buy something to take it’s place.  I don’t know why, but he doesn’t seem to want a repeat of last Christmas (and truthfully, neither do I)

So here’s to no late nights finishing last minute Christmas presents.  I’m going to make it this year!!

We live pretty close to the airport.  Close enough that I see planes daily taking off and landing.  Seeing planes around the airport has always made me want to be on vacation.   It never fails, even if I had just returned from a vacation, two days later if I looked up and saw a plane taking off I would want to be on vacation again.

We also live close enough that I get to take people to the airport.  Today was one such day.  My parents are taking my brother and sister to Hawaii.  So this morning I got to drive my family to the airport and leave them there while I drove home to get ready to go to work.

I am so jealous.  I’m not necessarily jealous of them being in Hawaii, but just of the fact that they are on vacation.  Due to the fact that Chad’s work might go on strike, we aren’t going on a vacation this year.  Next year though, we are planning a big vacation.  It can’t come soon enough.

I love going to concerts at USANA amphitheater.  There is just something about being under the stars on a warm summer evening listening to live music.  Last night Janel and I went to see John Mayer and Colbie Callat. 

Thanks to Rachel for scoring us free tickets.  We had a great time.

I love John Mayer’s music.  Chad and I used to dislike him because some of his songs sounded like he was “screaming a whisper”  Thank goodness I came to my senses.  His last cd was great.

The music was wonderful,

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His skills as an entertainer other than music leave a lot to be desired.  Half the time, when he spoke, we just looked at each other, Huh?  Maybe he was drunk or high, but some of the stuff he said made no sense at all!

I’m glad we got to go and for free no less.  I don’t think I would go to his concert again though…I will stick to listening in my car where I can sing and dance as much as I want to.

It’s all I can say.

My friend Celeste is moving to Nebraska in a month.  Her husband Ryan got in to law school and they will be moving so he can attend the University of Nebraska.  They have a little boy and a baby girl.  We decided to get together at Rainee’s for a farewell playdate.  This is something we do, and even though I don’t have kids, I still attend the playdate.  Between the four of us there were 8 kids and none of them belong to me.  Rainee, Celeste, and Kenzie all have baby girls less than 4 months old.  It made me totally jealous.  All of their kids are so cute, and they all seem to have such a fun time when we get together.  They played outside in the water while we chatted inside.

My Kolby and Ava (Rainee’s two oldest kids)  I love them like family!

Us adults had a great time too.  We grew up in the same ward and have known each other forever (well Rainee moved in to our neighborhood in 2nd grade) but that is pretty much forever.  We always have a good time together.  We are going to miss Celeste when she goes and wish her all the best.

Last night Chad and I went out with my brother Brian and his wife Donna.  I love that they live so close to us.  We have a lot of fun with them, and it helps that they only live 4 minutes away.  We went miniature golfing at Swan Lakes in Layton.  No windmills and clowns mouths for us though, we are serious golfers, so we did the putting course (really long putting greens with none of the obstacles of a normal miniature golf course.)

We had a lot of fun.  It was surprisingly warm last night (I forget it is July), but it was still enjoyable, and we went early enough that we didn’t get carried away by mosquitos.  You run the risk at that place.

We finished up the night with banana splits at our house.  So much fun!  Can’t wait to do it again guys.

Chad took this shot of me channeling Tiger…It didn’t help.

We had a lot of fun yesterday, but I have nothing to show for it.  I spent all evening taking pictures, and some good ones if I do say so myself.  I was so excited to see my pictures of the fireworks on my computer that I came right home and tried to transfer them to my computer, but ALL my pictures from yesterday had mysteriously dissapeared.  Only the pictures from yesterday and nothing else were no where to be found. 

I am totally bummed.  There will be no scrapbook pages happening about my family’s 4th of July from this year and I feel totally responsible.  I was up late trying to find my pictures, but they were just gone.  Then of course, I dreamt about finding them all night.  Arghhh!!!

My job has obvious perks.  I work very close to home, have Mondays off, work for my brother-in-law who insists I don’t work too hard.

The perk that is undenyably my favorite is something that might not come to mind when you think about job perks.  I meet awesome people.  I love the kind of job that I have and the fact that I work closely with people over a period of time and get to know them.  Some I know better than others, some I can even recognize their voice when they call, and some have become my friends.

Today Lisa came to see me.  She had two of her three (soon to be five) kids in tow.  I love it when she comes to see me.  Thank goodness she started coming to Kelly to have her pictures taken or we would never have met.  Same with Hailey and Anne-Marie.  There are people who will call the studio just to check up on me because they were thinking about me.  I love that.  At very few jobs do you get close enough to your clients that they become a part of your life outside of work.  I’m glad that is the case with mine.

The 4th of July is my favorite holiday.  I love the festivities that go along with it.  I have very fond memories of the 4th of July when I was younger.  The days festivities would start with the Kaysville parade.  My grandpa would go down to the parade route early in the morning and get us a great spot usually under some kind of shade (a house, or a tree) and always right on the edge of the curb.  No sitting behind other people for us.  The edge of the curb allowed us to get the maximum amount of candy.  You know the high quality stuff: salt water taffy, hard candy, tootsie rolls.  It was awesome. 

The next thing would be running through the sprinklers at my grandpas.  I don’t know what it was about that, but it was so much neater at Grandpa’s than at our own house.  Our afternoon of water fun would be capped of with a barbecue.  Hamburgers, chips, and tuna salad with some kind of strawberry shortcake for desert.

The best part was yet to come.  At dusk we would head over to Davis High for fireworks.  They always put on a great show, but to me the best part was hanging out before the fireworks started.  Sitting on blankets on the grass in the dark having a great time with my family. 

Ever since I was little, I would get so excited for the 4th of July, and now is no different.  Especially this year.  Since we have been married, we have gone to Bear Lake with Chad’s family over the 4th of July and I have missed out on MY kind of 4th.  This year, we decided to stay at home and so I get to have an old fashioned 4th of July with my family.  I don’t think there will be running throught the sprinklers, but maybe a movie to replace it.

What are your 4th of July traditions if any?

Happy 4th of July!!!