The hunt is on...

Have you ever played Where's Waldo? I love to play it along with ISpy. But when it seems like you've misplaced something, you want it to be just as easy to find it as in the games. It seems like our new house is  giant black hole waiting to steal something important while we're not looking. I've misplaced by school binder and a library dvd. Which were of great need these last couple weeks. You can only ask the question "Now where did you have it last?" only oh so many times. But what else can you do?

Wet Ducks

          Today was a fun day. It was Dad's day off of work and he went straight to working on some more remodeling. For lunch we headed to Costco and while we were there we decided to purchase the new hard wood (laminate) flooring. It took a lot of work to load it onto the cart because they are heavy. The weather has been overcast for a couple of days now....heh heh heh. So we pushed the cart of flooring to the otherside of the parking lot where we are parked, and over to our trailer. We get over there and we see a little hail starting to come down. In a matter of seconds we are in a complete downpour. I have never seen so much rain come down so fast! We all jumped into the truck because we were getting drenched.  We just sat in the car for about 5 minutes hoping the rain would let off, meanwhile we hadn't brought a tarp and the flooring was just sitting in the cart outside. We keep hearing Dad say Why! Why! Why! Everyone else just thought it was funny. It was the first time this summer it had to rain.
            It was flooding the parking lot. We all jumped out of the car because we needed to at least hurry and load it because it didn't look as though it would stop. I had never been in nor witnessed that much rain. With half of it being rain and half hail it was like standing under a cold shower. My older sister and I were getting pelted, it was so wet I had a hard time keeping my pants up and we were laughing so hard that it was difficult to lift such heavy things. It was hilarious! We got all loaded and we quickly got in the car and we were soaked to the bone. My sister and I were ringing out our shirts and squeezing water out of our hair.
            Then finally on our way home about 10 minutes later, it stops. We went inside after unloading then and we had to open all the packages and had to quickly wipe them dry. As Mom said, "It's the first time we are mopping the new floor".  It was fun. I would do it all over again if I could. I think everyone would have except Dad. :)

Fair Week Day 1 & 2

             It's fair time again! We drove to my Grandma's house and got here yesterday. When we got there we found out that my Grandpa took my Uncle and Cousin fishing. Later on in the day more family came and we decided to go into town and watch Despicable Me 2 at the theatre. It was so cute, it's well worth the money to buy. After the movie we went to Jack in the Box for dinner and played a big mean round of the game Pit, back at home. My Aunt got my cousin and I addicted to a Despicable Me 2 : Minion Run game on our tablets. Beware, you can't play it just once.Then we ended the night off with my cousin and I watching "Shark Week : Megalodon in current waters?". It was so much fun.
            Today we woke up early to go to the parade. We parked ourselves in the shade but by the end we were baking in the sun. The parade seemed a lot longer this year. After the parade we hung out awhile at the house until the men returned from fishing.  They caught and brought home a big bag of trout. They said they wouldn't complain if they went back out. We then went to the local D.I. which is pretty much a must every time we come. Later in the evening we went to the fair grounds to watch cattle sorting. It was very embarrassing but when I sat down of the bleachers during the cattle sorting, my pants caught on a nail and I was stuck where I sat. I didn't mention it to anyone until after about 10 minutes of trying to maneuver it off by myself. Nope, I ended up having help. It was embarrassing but funny. Then we got a Maple Bar, and headed for home.
             
             

Very Busy

I keep looking at the blogs that I follow and I am really envious of their dedication. One blogger blogs every other day, which I really wish I could do. Either I have nothing to blog or I have so much to blog that I get busy and sidetracked. But here is what I've been up to.

First, we finally moved. At the moment we are doing a lot of remodeling like taking down wallpaper, fixing the old kitchen to make it Mom's way, and getting ready to put in new flooring (both carpeting and tile).
The problem with moving was that we had to bump up the move-out date so we could be into our new house sooner. The reason for that is because of family vacation. The new owners wanted to close on a date that was right in the middle of the 2 week trip. So we asked to make it sooner.

Then, because of multiple reasons we decided to put our little dog Sadie, down. We knew it was the right thing to do but it was really hard. We said goodbye and it's odd to see her for the last time and think that you won't see her again until heaven, that in a couple of hours we wouldn't be able to do things we her anymore. She was one amazing dog. She was so patient with us. Infact, when she was a pup we use to dress her up in baby doll clothes and sit her upright and push her around in a baby doll stroller.  It gave us comfort to know that Grandma B. was probably waiting to meet her. Grandma really loved her. We laughed when we reminded ourselves that we asked Grandma what we should name her, when we first got her and her only name response was "Bonnie".

After moving in just enough to get our vacation packing done, we left for 2 weeks back east. We went all over the place. We were on the lawn of the Washington Monument on the 4th and got to see the fireworks. We went and walked the Boston Freedom Trail. We saw the 9/11 Memorial. My favorite part was going to the American History Museum and seeing Julia Child's kitchen. More details are on Around the Butcher Block. But it was so much fun. It also was the first airplane ride for half the family and we got to take 4 of them!

Last Saturday I got back from a week long girls camp. It was way fun. I got to be a Youth Camp Leader. This camp was with my new ward and so I got to know the girls from my ward a lot better. I got a really bad sunburn on my face and it just goes to show you should never ever forget to put on sunscreen. My lesson was learned.

This is my summer thus far. I still have another girls camp with my old ward and then we might go to Grandma's for the fair. But we are not sure due to the home renovations.

We Like to Party!

Tonight we celebrated my sister's birthday. She is 21! Her birthday was earlier this week but with everyone's hectic schedule we planned it for tonight. My brother and my sister-in-law came and it was awesome that they could come. You always know that the party wouldn't be as great without family members. We had a nice dinner and then opened presents. For dessert we had some really amazing cake pops that my sis-in-law made and brought. (They were french vanilla and red velvet! :) ) It was really hot today, it got up in the mid 80's which is definatly a change in the weather we've been having. But because of the weather we bought some water balloons and played catch in the backyard as party of the games. It was a really fun night. Having her birthday and her being 21 doesn't seem right. It doesn't feel like we are getting any older. I'm very happy that she is a part of our family.

A Little Update

      Well the photo challenge obviously was permanently put off. It was fun while it lasted but it seemed like when the smallest thing happened it took me away from the blog. But now I'm back with a little update.
       A couple of posts ago I said that I was moving...well sadly we are STILL in the process of moving. We had an open house yesterday and we had a couple of groups go through so I guess it was a small success. But in order to get the house ready to be shown, we have condensed a lot of stuff (as in packed and boxed). It's been pretty boring around the house because my sister and my mom and I had packed all of our fabric and we are going crazy. The dilemma we are in right now is that we have access to the house we are going to be moving into, but in order to fully buy and move in officially we have to sell the house we are sitting on now. It feels like an extremely long process.
       Tonight I went to my mission prep. class. I absolutely love it. I've been going to it for a couple months now since they started it in our stake. We have already gone through each lesson and now we’re to the point of doing scenarios. We were set into companionships and then our topic was the restoration. My "companion" and I went up there are (not to brag) but we nailed it. It was so exciting. We introduced ourselves, stated why we were there, gave the message and then bore our testimonies. I still have a couple more years to go but I really can't wait for the real thing on my mission. At school I had an experience to give my testimony in a copy of the Book of Mormon to my friend and that felt really great too. I am so grateful that the mission age was changed.

Day 11: Something Blue

My picture for "Something Blue" is my Hardy Boys Mystery Books. I love them to death. I collect them. I also collect the Nancy Drew Mystery Books. I know that they are definatly under my reading level since I am a junior in high school, but they are so much fun to read. I mainly find them at library sales and the D.I. With us moving, I've had to box them all up. Which was not much fun because I always see them in the open. They are the only books I have on my bookshelf.



This is not all. :)