Summer Festivities 2008

WOW! I cannot believe summer is over! Not that us working adults get an actual "summer." All the days blur together anymore. Getting old sucks. Anyways, I've been horrible as far as posting pics on my blog of my summer activities. Bad Blogger Award! So lets start at the begining of summer. I went to Lava Hot Springs with my girl Sandra. My batteries died in my camera after like 3 pics, so this is all I got:

The water was so amazingly warm! It was so relaxaing! I definitely want to go again. We also spent most of the day rafting down the river. It was such a blast!
Here is me (pre-sunburn):

And here is Sandra applying sunscreen for the zillionth time! She's a vampire (and proud of it!)

In July I went to DCI (Drum Corps International) at WSU. It brought back a flood of memories! I haven't been in the marching band in nearly a decade and it was great to reminisce!

Cutest picture EVER! I'm not sure if D was more entralled with the cheetos or the drum corps:

Man I totally miss drumline. Especially the base line. :)

This band was my favorite! They did "Thriller" and even put down their instruments to dance the Thriller Dance! Awesome!

Maybe the Thriller dance was too exhausting? Drumline decided to take a nap mid-show? Love it!

I liked this band because the men were oh-so butch and masculine!

Wow...The formations!

Fantastic times! Thanks to Troy and Jen for allowing me to tag along! And it was also fantastic to run into Mark & Connie and their families too. I also ran into a girl from work. Small world in the marching band community, eh?

On July 24th it was Jo's official De-Vegitarianism party! Most people were rather confused at what this meant. Jo became a vegetarian on July 24th exactly 10 years before. She has deciced to eat meat again. (I'm not sure why-but I think it has to do with need more protein in her diet.) So she had this party at the Olive Garden and we had like 5 tables full of people.

I think there were at least 30 people there to witness Jo finally eat meat after a decade!

This is me and Jen in front of the Olive Garden:

Jo deciding if she can really go through with this:

She looks so pretty! Despite being overwhelmed with like 20 kinds of meat products (Fish, chicken, steak, etc)



Here is a pic of my good friends Jill and Jen at the Olive Garden. Yay! Good times.


Ok....now lets see. Random goofy summer times! Jen and I having sunglass contests?


Getting Jen her fake tattoo? (Dude-she's gonna kill me when she sees this pic is posted on here for the whole world to see!)


And then Last weekend I went to Bear Lake with Sandra and her family. My camera wasn't working, and I was afraid to take my good camera so this is all I have for now. Sandra's brother has promised to email me his pictures which will look a lot better. I'll update with those as soon as I have them. Here's me and San, the hottest hotties there!


And here are the waverunners we rented! So much freaking fun! I had more fun on these seadoos than i've had in years! I even fell off at one point. My legs were so sore from being tense and holding myself on the machine that after a few hours my legs just gave out. We were doing figure 8's and we hit our own wake and I just went flying. It was fun though! I love flying and swimming so it was a good mix. :) Poor Robert though, he felt so bad, not to mention I almost dragged him into the water with me!



Good times! It was such a fun summer, I'm sad to see it over. However, I love autumn and I will hopefully continue to have great times. I thought the summer would be difficult without Phil, but I've discovered how many great true friends I have that get me out of my house and keep me from getting lonely. I'm so grateful for everyone out there helping me to get over all the drama and emotional garbage in my life. I am especially grateful to my pyro friends like Jenny and JJ. You have welcomed me back to pyro even without Phil and have truely shown that you guys like me, and didnt just "put up with be" because I was Phil's wife. I wish I had better photos of the pyro from this summer. There were some good shows! One of our shows even hit the news this year. There was a fire at our Magna show! (I wasn't there, I was at the Lagoon show). Here is a pic from KSL:



Here is the link to the article by the Deseret News:http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5620,700241252,00.html

And a short video clip taken by a spectator: