Watermelon love

Ray Ray loves watermelon.

Pioneer Day

We decided to go the the Pioneer Day Parade in down town Salt Lake. We went with a couple girls from our ward. Kimmi on the right is in the Sunday school class we teach and her sister Hailey is pretty cool too! Kimmi's twin brother Jordan was marching in the parade so we cheered him on.

So if you want to get a halfway decent seat for the parade you have to get there early. We got there at 7:30 and watched people while we waited for the parade to start at 9. Sweet bonnet. (If you want to get really good seats then you camp out overnight. Yes people really do that.)

And then the parade finally began!!! Kimmi told us that this parade is the 3rd largest in the country, after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and the Rose Bowl parade.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf. He's in the 1st presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He's pretty cool. And he was pointing right at us!!! Yeah we're pretty cool too. :)

Temples dot the earth float. All of the floats had Mormon history themes. David and I decided that if you don't know anything about Mormon history than this parade would be pretty boring to you.

There were some pretty cool characters at the parade.

And there's Jordan! His band was number 97 out of 103. It was worth the wait. It was a good parade and i think we'll make it a tradition. We are Utahan's now. :)

Appointment Annoyance

Yesterday i had an appointment to get some blood drawn for some blood work. I chose the earliest appointment available so that i wouldn't miss much work. I figured I'd be in and out no problem. I got there 5 minutes early signed in and planned to wait for 10 minutes head in get the blood drawn and get to work. 20 minutes later another lady goes up to the receptionist to complain that she's been waiting a long time. The receptionist's response, well one of the doctors had an emergency and had to go out of town. So i went up after her and said i had been waiting for 20 minutes and i didn't need to see a doctor, just get some blood drawn. She checked with the medical assistants and i guess they were waiting to get my blood work approved. Which i believe should have been approved 2 weeks ago when i made the appointment with my doctor at my side explaining what needed to be done. Yeah.

OK doctors, i understand have emergencies. But the least the office could have done is call the patients and inform them that one of the doctor's had an emergency and the wait will be longer than normal. They could have given the option of rescheduling or coming a bit late. But no they didn't even tell people the situation when they checked in for their appointment. I know it's not the receptionist's fault but some common courtesy would have been appreciated.

So after waiting 30 minutes in the waiting room i got called back and the medical assistant took 2 minutes to draw my blood and i was on my way. Needless to say i am liking this office less and less the more i go. We'll see if the track record improves or if I'll be doctor hunting in a few months again.

Ta Da...

Finished product! I've been eyeing that dark red color for a while but i couldn't decide what to do with it. I didn't want to paint a whole room that color because that would be pretty intense. A few weeks ago i saw a commercial about doing designs with paint by taping off a section and painting them different colors. Not rocket science i know but i had never thought to do it before. I decided that that would be the perfect way to use my red and not have it be overpowering. We decided to use the same gray we used in our bedroom because it looks nice and isn't too dark, and also because we had an extra gallon of it from when we painted the bedroom. Anyway, i really like how it turned out and i think the stripe is fun. We were actually surprised at how easy it was to take the tape off around the stripe without it tearing any paint off. Everything worked out great. And after a couple trips to Bed Bath and Beyond and Kohls we have so lovely matching black/gray accessories. We are ready for our guests!!!

Teaser...

Ray Ray

Ray Ray has grown fond of cuddling up in blankets. He'll get all wrapped up in them and then enjoy the good life. We've come home a couple times to him completely tangled in his blanket in his crate. He chews holes in that blanket so it's actually kind of scary when one of the holes is super tight around his neck and he can't move. Maybe he'll learn his lesson. Probably not.

Moab

Raft for the Cure brought us down to Moab again this year. (If you're in Utah and like outdoorsy stuff you should totally check this out next year!) We got a big group of friends together, camped, rafted and ate great food. I found these huge marshmallows at the store and couldn't pass them up. Colossal S'mores.

Chilling at the after party the night after rafting was over. The shirts were orange this year!!! Orange!!!!!!

Our friends rock.


Love Birds.

How can you not love someplace this beautiful?!

Love you Moab!!! See you next year!

The floor!!! Epic project...

Right after i took this picture ray ray got on the stairs and puked. He eats everything and has a weak stomach so he pukes pretty often and we were excited for the new floor because it would be easier to clean his puke (the least of many reasons). But he just wouldn't puke on our new floor. Silly little dog. But i digress...

Here is our new floor!!! We've been looking forward to replacing the old floor (old bleach stained carpet that was in the living room and the dining room. i know who puts carpet in a dining room!) since we bought our house last October. And over the past couple of days it has finally happened! David, his dad, and Brad put in a couple extremely long days and nights (they were up until 4am Saturday, slept a few hours, worked all day Saturday until the sun was rising this morning they are such troopers!) working on the floor. They were so great to take part of their holiday weekend to help us out with this!!! And the floor looks fantastic! I love it already. It makes our lovely house just a little bit lovelier.

We got a new throw rug to go under the coffee table i refinished recently (bought it at DI for $10 and refinished it to look like that, it was a very fun project.) I think everything looks great together.

The other benefit about having friends and family help with projects over a holiday weekend, other than the extra day off work so you can recover from the project, is that you have a great excuse to invite tons of people over for a BBQ and show off your new finished project. And that is what we'll be doing the rest of this lovely 4th of July evening!