.show's over!

The results are in from my favorite show

The Bachelorette

Jillian picked Ed!!
She definitely didn't disappoint me since he was my pick for her from the beginning!
Man, I should be a matchmaker or something... I never miss with these things!

Now we'll just wait and see if they actually stay together this time. A pretty rare occurrence with this show.

.good reads

About to finish The Kingdom and The Crown
book series by Gerald N. Lund

They are really great books and I highly
recommend them all.
My favorite thing about them is how real they
make the scripture stories of Christ's life feel.
It's really like I was there.
But, let's be honest now. The real best thing
about these books that kept my attention
was definitely the love story.
It's always all about the love story for me.


Brilliant!!
























For those of you in the book club: I know, I know! I have taken forever to read these books! We started reading them together last December (I think) and I'm just now getting through them... It's pretty pathetic how little I read lately!

.Introducing...

The Sweater House!!

We've been driving past this little house on our way to church ever since we moved here.

I call it the sweater house because it's basically made out of one of those ugly old sweaters from the 70's. It makes me laugh every time.

We had Air's sister Tessa staying with us this week. Lots of fun!

It would have been even more fun if it hadn't been raining all week...
We went to Ice Age 3, got screamers, shopped, jumped on the trampoline

sad that our legs are lost...

there's a troll living under the tramp

We watched one of our favorite movies. Hot Rod. Highly recommended! I love that Andy Samberg.

I guess we're pretty cool.

and we ate at Red Robin
I love it when people think you're taking a picture, but it's a video... haha

We celebrated a little since Air's parent's finally made an offer on a house up here!

I don't think he's cutting the watermelon

UPDATE: The offer was accepted! They'll probably be moving up here at the end of July!!
We can't wait!!

.my Mom, not your Mom

This Saturday (July 4th) my amazing Mother ran her very first 5k race. Something that I've not yet ventured. She took first place, although she was the only person in her division (age 60-64). She ran the entire time without stopping or walking.

To some this might not seem like a great feat. You may be thinking 'What, 3 miles? I could do that in my sleep.'

But to me it's been absolutely incredible to see her, and the way she's turned her life around since she was diagnosed with pre-diabetes a few years ago.
She immediately changed her diet and dropped pound after pound. She eventually started to walk on the treadmill. Walking turned into running, until now she runs almost 3 miles every day!
I truly admire her so much.

Here she is with my sister Gwen at the 4th of July race in 2003 (the year I graduated HS).

And here she is now (note that she is ahead of that seemingly very fit lady in grey)


and with my brother Tyler


What an inspiration, right!
I'm fairly certain that my mom weighs less than me now. (Hmm.... on second thought, I hate this stinkin' race!)

I can't be too sure, but I think my Mom is pretty happy these days.

And she deserves it.

.Meanwhile, in Canada...

While all of you American's are getting ready for Independence day, we're already celebrating Canada day up here! July 1st! It's probably the only time that we are ever one step ahead of the US. haha

Sure we don't have any fancy dancy parades and we can't do our own fireworks without some kind of permit. But we can definitely have BBQ's and go to city firework shows! (It's pretty weird to think that just last summer I was in the Draper, Utah parade sitting on an enormous boat/float waving and throwing candy all day.)

I love parades and fireworks. A lot

We went to our friend's, Adam and Kyla's house for a BBQ and card games

Then we all went to Sherwood Park for an awesome fireworks show! We had a perfect view sitting right by the water!

The next day I got to have Air's little sister, Tiana, all day while her parents went house hunting.

We jumped.

and hosed.

and played frisbee.

Lots of fun! :)
She didn't want to leave..... ever.