I love this holiday

The Fourth in Pictures...

Love Notes

Husbandman is in Bear Lake this weekend with his family. I had to stay home and work. :( Actually I'm glad I stayed because it snowed up there. Pretty sure it's almost June, Mother Nature, but whatever!

He's never been on vacation without me since we've been married. I've gone places without him a bunch of times, but I've never been the one left home alone. Let me tell you, I don't much care for it. Bandit and I have had some good talks, but I usually dominate the conversation.

So here I am getting ready for bed and missing my hubbs when I get the following series of text messages:

H: I wish you were here. I just miss you.
Me: I miss you too.
H: I'm shleepy.
Me: Well go to sleep, silly willy.
H: Ok... but I will dream about you so you can be here.
Me: Sweet dreams, love.
H: I need a goodnight kiss.
Me: :*
H: *falling asleep* lover you'd

Sorry for the mushiness. I'm allowed sometimes cause he's pretty dang cute. True story.

Stop gagging, Bird (that's my sister).

And thanks for painting my nails today. They look great!

She also convinced little brother to let her paint his nails. He said he didn't want her to but he knew we wouldn't stop bugging him until he let us so he might as well just get it over with. He is such a wise child.

Neon pink is definitely his color.

The Festival of Colors...

...was amazing! We had such a great time. This may be the only occasion where it is considered socially acceptable to throw dust in someone else's face. In fact, they're happy about it!

The sky carries a slight pink tinge.

There are a number of things that will never be as white as they once were. My teeth among them.

Yeah. That colored powder was everywhere! It was in every nook and cranny of my whole self.

Here's a video someone much braver than me made. No way was I taking my good camera out into this mayhem.

B, B and B take Seattle (aka Tourists, Togetherness and Already-Been-Chewed Gum)

Our trip to Seattle in pictures (but with some explanations so you're not like going, "Whaaaa??").

Let's start with a dash of husbandman yumminess. BAM!

Yup. This is real life.

The Museum of Glass

There's them ruining the beauty of the glass by acting like a demon from hell and a human blowfish. Sorry about them. I work with what I've been given.
But hey, if you can't beat em...

The Space Needle Restaurant rotates in a complete circle every 45 minutes or something. People leave notes on the window sill so they rotate over to you while you dine. We had some nice pen pals from Canada.

P.S. It didn't rain once the whole time we were there!

Sometimes when we're bored...

I know you've been waiting with baited breath to hear all about our Friday excursion! Well, quite frankly, I'm not surprised. 

Mom decided she wanted to go do something fun for her birthday. Little brothers suggested dinner. I suggested a movie. Mom suggested we fly to California for the day. It was a very difficult decision. 

So at 6:30 Friday morning we were hopping on a plane heading for the beach! I thought Berlyn's head was going to explode with happiness. We had a completely fabulous day in Newport Beach followed by dinner at Bubba Gump's in Long Beach. Then we hopped on the 8 pm flight back to Utah. If you ask me, that beats a movie any day of the week. Even if I did still think it was winter and forgot sunscreen. Oops. Sorry nose!

What did you do this weekend?

80's beauty

I found this photo of my mom today circa 1982:

Isn't she a fox?? She was a senior in high school here. I love her Farrah Fawcett hair!
Don't you think we should bring that back?

On to Weird Wedding Wednesday! I get asked all of the time if I've ever had anyone chicken out and leave someone at the altar. The answer is no... but I've been close.

This bride was nervous from the start. She was 26 years younger than the groom (now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger) and had only known him for a couple of months. She spent the majority of our time together in the bride's room before the ceremony pacing. We might have to replace the carpet.

I had to go downstairs and get the music prepped, so I left her with a fan blowing on her and some Kleenex stuffed in her armpits. We run a really classy establishment. When I came back upstairs, she had fainted. Dramatic much?

There was one failed escape attempt out the bathroom window followed by lots of talking, crying (makeup!) and hugging. I thought about just letting her go, but she really was crazy about the guy. She was just getting cold feet. I finally got that jittery wreck standing at the end of the aisle with a bouquet in hand. I do it all, people. I'm a wedding goddess. I'm now adding bridal therapist to my resume.

This particular bride and I still keep in touch, actually. She and her husband are now expecting their first baby and they couldn't be happier. Love knows no age limit.
Britt

Chillin'

Daytime:

Nighttime:

These are the Midway Ice Castles. They are A-MAZING! We went to see them on Monday (no school!) instead of doing housework. I thought this was a much better plan. Husband forgot to bring a coat so he had to wear the ladies' mink coat we had in the car. He looked like a pimp. Especially with the walking sticks they had for us to use.

We also swam in the big crater at the Homestead in Midway. It's basically a volcano and we went swimming inside of it! It was extremely warm (naturally heated) and extremely creepy (foggy and dark), but it was also super cool.

I can't explain this one.