One Fine Day

This is one of those...."What? I did what???"

"Shame....I am scum".     "Lower than scum".

Hahah...I have no idea there wasn't even a flash.

Why is it that girls pay more attention?

"In another life I was a great dane".

"You want to me to sit next to that?" (Yes the dogs had to deal with the junk a few inches away because I wouldn't clean it up until I was completely done with them.)

Yesterday I watched the movie, 'One Fine Day' with M.Pfeiffer and G.Cluney. It was pretty cute, yet predictable and I don't really like M. as a mother character in the movie. That's beside the point. It tells the story of two people who amidst a horrid series of 12 hours manage to end up in a place ten times better than anything they have been in for years. 

I'm waiting for my O.F.D. ending. Luckily it's only about noon. 

Last night after a tedious and tiring catering job,  I dropped into bed and was completely out for about 4.5 hours before the whining started. I figured it was just someone being rudely woken up this morning by an early life-guarding shift (linc). When dog whining doesn't stop you know some dog is going to explode, has already exploded or will shortly get put on the bad list for the day. Yeah, the second option would be more likely. Yeah for 5:30 a.m. mornings that welcome you with off-keyed whines and rancid smells. 

I'm glad I don't have perfect eyesight because I had no detailed image to stare at while cleaning.  Thank you mom and dad for your less than perfect eye genes. 

So lovely, I was back in bed at 6 thinking  everyone's internals should be empty? HA. Three hours later I was trying to disinfect my body from the past 14 hours and what should I notice a moment before I get in the shower...oh joy day........morning repeat.

Thank you mom and dad for an excellent sense of smell where bad smells are concerned.

Now it is 11:41 and am on my FOURTH load of laundry (first load had a double cycle because I was not convinced at its sanitation level).....third load was repeat from the morning and fourth were my back-drop sheets that cute Annie felt the need yet again to empty herself on. At least it was on a sheet.  I wanted to do a shoot with the two poochies and I figured they could suffer/enjoy not being outside for a bit. Not to mention I actually had time today to work on something I have been meaning to do for quite some time. 

I can only conclude that the dissapearence of their 'mom' has created some extremely bad nerves at home. a;oiva ;oweuvh;aehru;auhrv;ahug;.  Despite everything Buck and Annie never fail to make me laugh when you tell them off and they want to put on an 'innocent and weak act' (like pictures above with Buck in photo number 2. 

float time...

So my mom and dad have spent some numerous hours in the past few weeks working on a float for our stake in the Children's Parade on the 19th. I'll get more details and post so you guys can come and watch. I just wanted everyone to know that I DID help (a mere few moments compared to my mom). We tried about three different kinds of nails to attach the lettering on the CTR ring face. Luckily our extra roofing nails and gun did the job perfectly! Heck ya....that gun is heavy...I felt so special because we were standing on a slant the entire time..only sliding down once or twice. Yeah for sweaty feet. They DO serve a purpose. There are going to be a few oriental and african kids on the float and then whoever wants to join in a walk along it from our stake is more than welcome to! I'm really psyched because little kids are hilarious to watch and I want to see what all of the other stakes came up with!

The panda side is officially dedicated to the fan-tabulous Swapps over in Beijing! You go guys!

(parade pics will follow later this week)

don't worry we weren't drunk

Happy Birthday Elen!!!!!

Today I went to one of the most fabulous birthday celebrations in the history of my life (ok....the joint wedding cake/diane head with marshmellow hair...was a close tie). Our dear friend Elen turned 23 and in honor of this great stage of her life a 'cocktail' bonanza was plotted. Everyone had to come in b/w white attire (yes there were even cufflinks present!) Anne's cute family friends were the hosts in their beautiful home, waitress (Julia), bar-man (Alex), and greeter (Beau!). Stellar familiar photos of the three are below in B/W.

Anne completely outdid herself in fabulous food (Lizzie contributed an amazing marzipan dessert...sorry my camera battery died or it would be documented) and little gift bags (yet again my battery died or else I would have the contents posted). I picked this particular photo of the Granges because 'baby Jade' couldn't be more adorably bored with the whole idea of photo taking. .....hahah. I think the photos speak for themselves.....

green days

One reason I love Western Europe so much is that it is unbelievably green. There's a lot of green where I live but usually not so concentrated as over there.......however.......July seems to be pretty green this summer up the canyon. I think it sent me on a happy high for a while. They had closed off the road for another week so we had the luxury of walking up with no traffic whatsoever (ok there was one van but it was full of someone's grandparents and they had a cabin up there somewhere). The dogs came with us of course. I would highly recommend living in Utah in July, despite the 100+ degree weathers:S Just make sure your car has extreme AC or love the wind.