An August Update

This month has been good! I've liked it! Then again, I've always loved August. The only bad part was going back to school. And even then, I was ready to see my friends most of the time, so school wasn't that bad.

I came home for a couple days at the end of July before leaving again, so J planned a big date weekend. We spent every moment together. It was fun. Some of it was going to Olive Garden together and to Captain America with Ty and Em. It was a great date!!

Then, I drove to Spokane for my friend Janet's wedding.

It was a 7 hour drive, but not too bad, actually. There were beautiful parts of Oregon and Washington that kept me occupied.

You know something kind of crazy? I listened to ONE mix the entire way there. My Disney Mix. What's so crazy about that, you say? Well, I didn't repeat ANY songs the entire 7 hours...wow.

Anyway, I went to her endowment at the Spokane Temple on Thursday.

It was beautiful. I was/am so proud of her! She looked just lovely, the session was very special, and I just loved being able to hug her in the Celestial Room at the end. What a beautiful experience.

I could definitely feel the spirit strong there.

Friday, we set up the reception. It was at a family friend's house. It was gorgeous.

Here are some pictures:

JP and I set this up. I'm very proud of it :)

JP's mother in law and I hung ALL of these lanterns. 7 trees, 8-9 lanterns each...that's a lot of lanterns

The beautiful couple :)

The next week was my birthday week!! I've always had the love of stretching my birthday from one day to an entire week. So it's a birthweek! This one was definitely a birthweek!!

Here's J and I at the Cheesecake Factory. YUMMY!!!

The rest of my birthweek consisted of Tucano's lunch with J and Paige and watching My Fair Lady friday night with J's family because I got that for my birthday. Then, Saturday, we went to Roaring Springs. I wanted to go to a water park and had never been to this one, so we went!! Linda, Kristin, Tyler, Ty, Em, Paige, and J and I went. It took some convincing for some, but they all said they had lots of fun. More than they expected. We had a blast! And we went on every ride!!!

It was an awesome birthweek. ;)

John bought a pretty new car. It's 1970, 18 feet long, and roars like a good, ole fashioned car. It's a cool car.

Last weekend, we went to a family reunion for J's dad's side. It was a beautiful park where there was a lodge with running water, big, spacious fields, and lots of space.

Here's a picture of the drive.

My handsome husband being the snitch while playing Quidditch

Gma and Gpa Taylor brought old coats and jewelry that we could take pictures in.

This was a mink coat that would be worth $7000 now. It was realllly warm. and Pretty!!!

The old farmers. I got to keep that bonnet! Gma Taylor made it for the pictures, so she said I could have it since I'm a teacher, I'll have lots of opportunities to use it!! :)

We made S'mores. J's had a HUGE marshmallow.

Kristin got my camera. so we had fun.

It's been a good month!!!