My favorite people right now

Seriously I am 10 years late on this, but I have been watching The West Wing from Netflix and I am loving it! Every singly character is my favorite (besides Toby for some reason). It is such a good show. I cried on the season 2 opener and I am basically hooked. And an added bonus, it makes me feel smart to watch it. Did anyone else watch?

The 4th

I was so happy that Juan and I both had the 3rd of July off work. We spent the day lounging around, getting errands done, and we walked down to the duck pond and played with Juan's new remote control car. It says land/water on the package, but I was very afraid to put it in water. Juan did it anyway, it stayed afloat for a few seconds, then wheels started to spin and it started to sink. We decided that it just means it is water-proof. Regardless it is pretty sweet and I am proud of my purchase.

Ha ha this picture cracks me up. Juan posing with his new toy.

Quick pic at the park.

Friday night we went to Trafalga. We were last at Trafalga probably 2 years ago with Craig and Lorel and we loved it. I always want to go back and we finally did! We went mini golfing and to the batting cages. I lost mini golf by 1 point. I was pround of my skills. We went with our good friends Amanda and Brian.

Our photo shoot at the batting cages, yes we are nerds.

Saturday we spent at my parents house. We bbqed and played games. Thanks to m&d for letting us crash their house while they were out of town.

Picture a little blurry courtesy of my niece Sami (8 years old), the photographer.

My husband, the genius

Congratulations to Juan who has just been accepted into the BYU Accounting Program!

Dude is 25!

We celebrated Juan 25th birthday in Denver this weekend. I bought him Alias and also a remote control car which is awesome. The best part is when I was reading the reviews for that particular car, they all said, 'my 5-year-old loves this!' Well my 25-year-old husband loves it too!

We ate at Denver's Wazee Supper Club for the yummy pizza. I loved the whole setting of the place, definitely would go back.

And being an ice cream expert, I had to try Bonnie Brae's Ice Cream. It was good, but not my Maggie Moo's.

16th Street Mall. We walked this the first night and Juan wouldn't let me cross the street because he wanted to go up one side, down the other. Well by the time we got to the side with all my stores, they were closed. Juan is finding creative ways to avoid my bad shopping habit.

Larimer Square.

Everyone be sure to tell Juan how old he is now. (I'm strategically ignoring that I'm only 7 1/2 months behind him).

The Tale of love and fate

You guessed it... of a handbag. This is a good story.

So I was at a Shopko in Wisconsin a few days ago and fell magically in love with a beautiful purse (pictured). I was with my friend Julaine who is a penny pincher, so I just couldn't buy this expensive purse in front of her. I lamented and texted a picture of the purse to Juan just to share the beauty.

Next day I'm at the airport and get a text from Juan: "Hey love, I'm at shopko right now. I was going to surprise you with that purse you wanted, but it's not here." Sad day, so I mostly gave up on the purse.

Cut to today. I had a few things to get so I stopped by Shopko. Ok I'll just look 1 last time for the purse. And yes, it was there. But that's not even the good part, it was fantastically 50% off!!! What!

No denying it. Meant. to. be. Juan couldn't find it 2 days ago because 2 days ago it wasn't on sale. It was destined I find it today.

The Trip

Thank you to everyone who let us stay with them, gave us rides, and made time for us to swoop in and interrupt their lives. It was such a fun trip! Here are some of the highlights:

My old stomping ground: Greendale, Wisconsin. Love it there.

Juan had a list of places he had to eat. Here we are at Kopp's for burgers and frozen custard. Juan's list of places were for the burgers, but of course being an ice cream expert, I had to get the frozen custard at each place as well.

We didn't go to a Brewers game, sold out unfortunately. But we walked around the park and took some pictures!

Another one of Juan's places. He loves the hot fudge sundaes. He always makes a note to say Pres Bush stopped here whenever he was in town.

Last couple days of the trip I stayed with Julaine, her husband, and her new baby! It was fun to have some girl time while Juan went home to Provo and studied his brains out.

I'm not one to try new non-chain restaurants. Julaine took me to Skip's and after we had ordered I discovered she had never been there before! We were in luck, the food was pretty good.

Me at Lake Geneva. It was a perfect day.

There's baby Addison. I didn't get many pictures of her! Julaine loves to put bows in her hair and has like 20 of them!

On the way to the airport I just had to get a picture with the ring leader. Julaine's town Delavan used to have a circus, so there was a huge elephant and giraffe in their town square.

Jet set

We are leaving for Wisconsin today! I am excited for a vacation and to attend David's graduation. Juan has been a busy bee these days, I hope he finds time to relax even though his class isn't over until the 17th. Quick trip at the end of the semester... smart? no, but worth it to see his little brother graduate? Definitely.

On a different note, I chopped my hair. I don't love. I'll be happy in 10 days when it's a few inches longer.