This Is What

an ID card looks like when I am mad they are charging me 10 dollars for it, and they won't let me use the picture I took 3 months ago. (with some photshop mods to info on my card.) I guess I showed them.

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Garrett in my wife-beat

The Happiest Place On Earth

Is definitely Gunn Ho, Bear Lake. That cabin just makes me so happy. The multi-colored carpet, furniture, and cupboards hold so many memories for me. I observed how the actual building, and the lawn, and the beach could make me enjoy myself even without anything specific to do. Maybe it's just that I feel like my life is so monotonous that the change is so welcome.

I was at the Bear Lake cabin since Tuesday. I went wakeboarding every morning with the kids my age. Our moms would have brunch cooking when we got back. We played volleyball for a few hours, then headed back to the beach for sunbathing and water weenie riding. Repeat for 4 days. It was so hard to leave. I just wanted to go boating forever. And honestly I'm just venting. I can't wait until I have a boat.

I Am Exceptionally Frustrated Right Now

So what better time to post? Right. I am sitting at work waiting which just stinks. I hate waiting. And I have been waiting for a while now, and I just don't want to get into it.

This weekend was pretty decent however. I spent a large portion with Matt. And well family all around. Matt came to Provo on Friday, July 3rd to sleep out and save a spot for the parade on Saturday. I am constantly agreeing to things like this with Matt because I have this desire to be the 'coolest' big sister. Sleeping out all night on the streets with a large crowd was a golden opportunity to score more points in The Matt's Favorite Sibling Game. I don't know who had a better time though, me or Matt.
We slept on University Avenue (it's a main street in Provo, so lots of cars, plus lots of cars because it's the 3rd of July in Provo, along the parade route) I sat with a couple of my friends and we just couldn't get enough of staring into the street at the bikers, the scooter owners acting like bikers, the teenagers, the cop cars, the sirens, the projectors lining the streets with guitar hero (because if we are going to sleep out for the parade, we don't want to be bored, and we sure don't want you to show us up by bringing your cooler and tent to the street.)

I got tired around 1 and pulled a blanket over my head and went to sleep. Apparently it started raining, then pouring. I didn't notice a thing. My friends asked me in the morning, "How on earth did you sleep through the rain?... and the bikers dragging the street all night?... and those obnoxious kids playing UNO at an unreasonable noise level just two feet away?" I just shrugged. I actually don't know how. I do remember waking up two times in the night and frantically wondering where Matt was. I don't remember if I actually found out the answer to that question ... Matt is hysterical though. I woke up for good at 6 am and Matt wasn't sleeping next to me, so I sat up and called his phone, and started looking around. I saw him before he answered his phone, 20 feet away, across the sidewalk, surrounded by three girls. I almost died laughing. Matt told me the girls had dry blankets and his were saturated. I told him I was proud of him for being solutions oriented. He and I headed home at this point and slept through the parade (really, sitting in the blazing sun would be irrational.)
Eric, Matt and I spent quality time watching tv, and Brian and Cathy fed Eric and I some delicious brats for dinner. We watched fireworks with Brian and Cathy, Mom and Dad, and Wayne and Lois.

Eric and I watching fireworks

Here's the cute baby girl we love:

Matt teaching me how to nose manual: