1. The day after school got out my first born was baptized! The past eight years have gone by so fast. I'm so proud of him and the way in which he really was prepared for this. We had a beautiful day!
2. My husband and I took a giant leap of faith and bought a new business--which I'm sure I'll end up writing about extensively at a later date! The home office of our company sent us this cool welcome basket. The cookies were surprisingly quite tasty!
3. I'm learning to live on a tight budget. Not that we've ever really been living the high life, but our upcoming change in employment is going to necessitate a rather drastic change in lifestyle while we get things going. Some fun books I've read lately: "Beating the High Cost of Eating" and "You CAN Afford to Stay Home With Your Kids." I love the public library!
4. I planted a small garden. It's just tomatoes, a few herbs, a cucumber plant and some green peppers. Last year I planted only tomatoes and was so overwhelmed at harvest time that I decided to diversify a little bit this year.
5. My husband and I went to an amazing awards ceremony. Our dear friends Tyler and Meredith came home to Utah so that Tyler could be awarded the Silver Star for some impressive things he did while deployed to Afghanistan. Our friend Chad was awarded the bronze star in the same ceremony. It was actually quite a big deal. My husband is an incredible person and as an extension of that he has some pretty incredible friends!
6. My little brother got married! It was such a joyous occasion. We partied for two straight days. Thirty of my mom's thirty-two grandchildren came for the celebration so my kids got tons of "cousin time" which they love. My new sister-in-law is absolutely delightful.
7. I got to go out to lunch with "The Babes." For some reason I tend to have names for the people I hang out with. My high school friends were called "The Harem" and my college gang was called "The Babes"--I guess we were all fairly confident girls. We were so fortunate to have two of our out-of-state Babes here during the same week so we could all go to lunch together. Unfortunately one of the local Babes was out of town but we take what we can get these days (We missed you Meggen!). I love how true friends can go months, or even years, without seeing each other and when we finally get together it's like no time has passed at all.
8. I ran a race! One of my friends and I decided way back in January that we would run the Freedom Festival 5K together on July 4th. Neither of us really trained up for it but we figured that three miles would probably not kill us so we did it anyway. My sister decided to join us too, even though she hadn't trained either. It was quite fun actually. I was surprised how well I did--I honestly thought I would pass out as I crossed the finish line, but I actually felt really good. It inspired me to get into better shape and I've gone running three times this week!
Judging by the looks of my calendar, the second half of the summer is going to be just as interesting--if not more so. I think I might even be relieved when fall comes, maybe life will calm down a little bit!
7 comments:
I love getting caught up with you and your family. It was fun to be with everyone at Roberts wedding. Your kids are growing so fast. Will be interested in hearing about your new business. Grandpa Olsen would be proud of your garden. Love ya, Sally
I always figured the name was ironic because we were so NOT confident. (Or maybe I just revealed more about me than the rest of the Babes . . .)
Thanks for the great update on your life this summer! It is good to hear you are happy and busy. I know really missed out on the Babes lunch! I am sure you had a great time. The picture of y'all is beautiful, as is to be expected. Hope you ate some bread for me! °Ü° Love ya!
I was so excited to see your comment on my blog! I am going to link you to mine so I can check in often...if that is okay! We feel so lucky to have you guys as our neighbors & hope to get to know you a little better! You have such an amazing family!!
I have wondered who would pay to buy designer cookies--we have such fabulous recipes and cookie bakers in our family, who would buy them? Now I know.
(FYI, my post-race recovery took about 3 days. I ran 1/2 mile after that, but since then have been reading a book my husband bought me about running without injuries. At a rate of 2 pages per day, I may be through it by next year in time to run July 4th again without having really trained!)
It sure looks like you're packing tons of neat things into your summer. Isn't it great? Not a dull moment. Your lesson in RS was wonderful today. You seemed so at ease. You always do such a great job.
Do tell us about said new buisness! No more military life for you aye! I don't blame you one bit- good luck with everything. Very cool to see the pics of your family and familiar friend faces!
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