i'm a Honda S2000

You live on the edge, and you live for the adrenaline rush. You don't need luxuries, snob appeal, or superfluous gadgets. You put your top down, get your motor revving, and take all the curves that life throws at you at full speed. So what if you spin out occasionally?

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pictures

As promised. Pictures are posted below.

4th of july

You gotta love Cache County. Hryum City doesn't want to compete with Logan City's fireworks and Logan City doesn't want to compete with Salt Lake's and Provo's fireworks. So what do they do? Hyrum has their fireworks on the 2nd and Logan has theirs on the 3rd.

Joe and I went to Hyrum City's firework program. I work with a lady who's house is a couple of blocks away from where they light the fireworks. It was amazing because the echo of the fireworks rumbled down Blacksmith Fork Canyon, making is seem like we were in the middle of a thunder storm. Very cool.

The next night we watched Logan's fireworks from my grandma's back lawn. The kids dog-piled Joe and Carly (my 2-year-old niece) ended up laying on or next to him for the rest of the night! She would call out the colors of the fireworks as they exploded and would even turn around at us with her mouth wide open and her eyes opened wide and exclaim, "Wow!" Very cute.

The next day we then went up to Boise for a nephew's baptism. Little did we know that the 4th of July is our brother-in-law's favorite holiday. He probably spend over $100 on fireworks. He went to a store that had a room partitioned off where the "good stuff" was being sold. It was a good firework show though, very memorable with the drunk neighbors too.

Joe's sister loaded us down with lots and lots of baby stuff when we left. Our car was so packed, we could hardly see out of our back window! We got a pack-n-play, a swing, a vibrating chair (I'll have to post a picture), a kick-and-play thing (the baby lays on its back and plays with things that hand down in front of his face and by his feet), a humidifier, an umbrella stroller, a johnny-jump-up, a crib, and much much more. We got back to Logan around 7:30 last night, but spent the next couple of hours assembling everything. I'm kind of excited to use everything now!

Happy belated-4th of July! We hope you all had a fabulous holiday.

zion national park

Joe and I went camping to Zion National Park the last week in June. We went with family who came from California, Idaho, and Utah. I have to say that I did pretty darn good for a 7 1/2 month pregnant woman can do. It was around 5 or 6 when we got there the first day (we had to stop every 1 or so for me to stretch my legs and use the bathroom) and it was still UBER hot! Luckily we have a smaller tent and were able to squeeze in between my sister's family and Wayne's family under the most shade. We hiked around for a little bit that night and ended up in the water to cool off. As we were walking, we met this huge stink bug. He kept positioning himself so that his backside was always pointed to us.

The next day we all went up to the Narrow's. The shuttle we got on was apparently running late and the driver was a little stressed out. She was going to make my brother, who is in a wheelchair, wait for the next shuttle. She wouldn't put the ramp down for him admist all of our protests. My bro told the lady that he was getting on the bus, got out of his chair, and walked up the steps. Joe grabbed his chair and they got him on the bus. The lady couldn't stop apologizing.

I think everyone thought I wouldn't be able to hike for very long in the Narrow's. Joe pointedly told me that he was going to leave me to hike up as far as anyone wanted to go. We all stayed together for about an hour and then the women and most of the kids turned back. One of my sisters had a hold of my arm like I was an old woman. She finally gave me a walking stick and told me that I needed it more than she did! When we got back to camp, we all went to the river to cool off. I found a little spot in the middle of the river where there were three rocks; one on either side of me and one to sit on. The water was moving fast enough that it felt like a cold hot tub!

The next morning we packed up and drove home. Good weekend, but very hot.

My favorite wild animal that we saw. One of my nephews picked up the goldfish after we took a picture and for a second I thought he was going to eat it. Crazy boys.

pregnancy rant

Just a bit of advice for you all out there in blogger world: if a pregnant lady is putting on a few pounds, please PLEASE don't tell her. And if she's having seconds or thirds, let her eat in peace; you may walk away with a bloody stump for offering your bit of advice.

I've been retaining a bit of water, and consequently, am blowing up a bit. Don't believe me, just look at my feet, hands and face the next time you see me. The funny thing is, I know that I'm blowing up. I can feel it!

A friend of mine told me the other day that she saw me and Joe driving down main street on his scooter and told me that I was too fat to ride on that any more. A lady at work even told me that I looked heavy! Thank you.

I'll end before I get too carried away, but please be kind to the pregnant ladies.

nursery decor

My mom and dad have been packing up their old house and moving into their new house. My mom found a box of old baby clothes and wanted me to pick out the ones I wanted to use. I didn't want to use any of them, but I did come up with this nursery decor idea.

Both of the outfits in the shadow boxes are ones that Joe and I wore when we were little; as you can tell from the photos in the right-hand corner of the frames. I think they turned out really cute.

Thanks to both of our moms for helping us get the outfits and photos!

Here are pictures a little closer to the frames.

books, books, books

A little old lady sells children's books out of her house in North Logan up by Lundstrom Park. She is a retired school teacher and is so cute! She has 2-3 sales a year and you typically have to read about her "yard sales" in the paper unless you call and find out the dates of the sales. She's had two sales already this year, but she is having one more right before Christmas. Anyway, I bought all these books and flashcards for under $50 which I think is amazing!