Lagoon, Fair, and Pineview

Courtney and I took Josh and Lexi to Lagoon last week.  We did the water park and a few rides.

The Davis County Fair was this week, and I do love the fair.  Sean, me, Josh, and Lexi, Heather and her kids, Scott and Wendy and their kids, Courtney and Curtis, Brittney and Anthony, Katie and her date Chris, all met up at the fair.  Good times.

We went camping up at Pineview this weekend with Scott and Wendy's family and Katie.  It was so much fun!  We need to make sure we do that every year.  It's been too long.

Josh and Lisa

Courtney took her chair to the edge of the water to sit with her feet in, and then gradually kept taking her chair farther out, until that's where she was.  And eventually she fell over.

And now, for the best part of any camping post, the soon-to-be-critically acclaimed feature, "The View From Under My Awning," in which I show... the view from under my awning.

We have this corner of our house that is crazy good for tomato growing.  I don't know what it is, but they pretty much turn into like shrubbery.  Like tomato shrubs.  I'm sure it's because I put too many plants in one small spot, but still.  It's pretty awesome to behold.  Tomatoes and potatoes are all we are going to get this year, pretty much.  Well, turnips and beets, but who likes those?  And radishes.  Blech.

Back to work this week.  So not ready.  Blarg.

Courtney's Wedding

The wedding went well, no major catastrophes, I had fun, so I call it a success.  We started out at about 9:00 am, picking up her bouquet, the boutonnieres, and the loose flowers for the cake.  The florist was giving us this big spiel on how fragile the bouquet was, and how she shouldn't leave it sitting outside during pictures, and should have someone run it in to the refrigerator between pictures, and I was all... um, do we just need to plan to take the pictures in the refrigerator? and Courtney was all... mom, shut up.  Turned out it was all fine, whatever.  We got to the building and decorated and got all ready.  We had to make a billion flower centerpieces and we hung pictures up and put some things up on the mantle.  That's mostly it.  Courtney had a couple of hair and makeup pros come in to do her all up.  The procession walked to a couple of songs from Lord of the Rings performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.  It was such beautiful music.  Curtis' cousin Colby performed the ceremony, and it was lovely.  I wish I had thought to have a video recording of it.  They had a sand ceremony and recited vows that they had written.  Then we had a family dinner catered by a company that brought out a big grill and made beef and chicken kabobs, au gratin potatoes, fruit salad, pasta shrimp salad, green salad, rolls, and brownie ice cream sundaes.  Once that was finished, we started the reception.  She had a first dance with Curtis to "I Love the Way You Love Me," and then after the first verse opened the dance floor to everyone.  Then she had a daddy-daughter dance to "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time On You," and opened the dance floor up to any other parent-child combos who wanted to dance with them.  I was able to force Josh into dancing with me for about 20 seconds.  They smashed cake into each others' faces.  We did some dancing and visiting, and I had Kneaders bring in fruit tarts and some different kinds of brownies for the reception.  All-in-all, I really enjoyed the evening.

Song of the Day

I have this weird thing with songs sometimes where I don't like them at first, but then one day I decide I love them. Like flipping a switch. I didn't ever dislike this one; it was just melancholy feeling so I didn't listen to it. But now I love it.  "Amarillo Sky" is the same way.  And I hated Eric Church's "Springsteen" when it first came out, until one day I decided I didn't hate it, and now I luuurve him and pretty much everything he sings. Nasally twang and all.  He's adorable. Anyway, back to Jason Aldean.  Love this song.  

Weird Kids and Summer Stuff

Kids are so weird.  I love them.  After school Josh's friend said, "It's so hot today, right when I walked outside I broke into like 3 sweats." Hmmmm...   Do we have to count them all separately?   I didn't know that was a thing, but now I think I will do that.

Tonight Josh was going outside and he's all... Mom, I want to see if I fart when I run, if it will make me go faster.  Uh huh.  My little genius.  I really worry about that kid.

Yesterday at the splash pad, Lexi came running over to tell me that there was a BEE!  And the all the kids were yelling BEE!  And then Josh came wandering over a minute later all... "So, there was this bee?  And everyone was all freaking out?  So I flicked it off.  C'mon people.  Be a man."  Ha!

Omigosh this weather.  This freaking weather.  It has been so beautiful.  I love it so much.  I need at least another month of 90+ degrees.  Utah is bitter cold and gray and brown and just ugly for so much of the year... I love these blue skies and the puffy white clouds and the heat.

We've been having some good times...  Courtney's wedding, which will be getting its own post; a Chamberlain family party; a Rasmussen Sunday dinner; visiting at the pool with Lauralee, Mindi, Cami, and Marilyn; a picnic at the castle park with the Rasmussens; and the splash pad with Josh and Lexi and Sean.

Next up:  Davis County fair, hopefully with Heather, Scott, Wendy, Katie, and assorted children; camping at Pineview with Scott, Wendy, and Katie, and assorted children; possibly a Lagoon afternoon.  Gotta squeeze every last drop out of summer vacation before I have to go back to work next week.