not Hawaii

For our summer vacation Jamey and I had this grand plan to go to Hawaii for super cheap and celebrate our 1 year anniversary and get awesomely tan and enjoy our last summer of freedom for a very long while. Surprise, it didn't happen -- I'm more to blame for that than him, I have an incredibly difficult time spending money for my own enjoyment. However, something even better happened. We went to California, with his family, mom plus 3 of 6 siblings ain't bad, with a house full of nieces and nephews thrown in. I think my in-laws are insanely awesome for picking up on a few days notice and taking a week's vacation with us.

  

I can

In a rare bout of domesticity today, I bottled cherries. Whenever I do something homemakingish I want a gold star and lots of praise, hence the same day blog post. Jamey is on-call tonight and so there is no one to admire my work with me. But they are beautiful. 23 pints. I've never had bottled cherries but Jamey likes them and since his birthday is Monday I thought they'd be a nice gesture. I toyed with the idea of wrapping a few of them up so he'd have something more to open on his birthday, but they're too pretty to put away. Only one of my bottles has yet to pop - I LOVE THE SOUND OF THE LIDS POPPING - so I say not bad for my 2nd time ever canning, 1st time ever without my Grandma Griggs. My mother-in-law gave me a few pointers too which was nice, since she's the only person I know to ever bottle cherries.

oh happy day

Let the blog updates begin! First things first, and this is not chronological, my mama got married. She was the most beautiful bride, and not just because I was the one who did her hair and makeup. I wonder if the beauty of the day, because it was a beautiful day, had more to do with my waiting for forever for it to arrive or with it being absolutely perfect. It was an outdoor wedding at the end of June in Las Vegas and I didn't see anyone with sweaty tacos. Who lucks out with weather like that? Jeff's family all came and they completely transformed the backyard to be wedding worthy. Thomas gave her away, I was the Maid of Honor, and one of Jeff's oldest friends married them. Delicious food, beautiful flowers (Mom's bouquet ended up being a gagillion times larger than we anticipated and though it looks lovely and delicate in the pictures, do not be fooled, it weighed more than a pregnant lady carrying twins), family, toasts, sunset, beautiful dress, chocolate covered pretzels and marshmallows, and every other wonderful thing you could possibly think of. And now for pictures (from my phone- Rachelle's blog has fancier ones)

  

bless that blogger

Did you see? Pretty great stuff. I actually got on here to start the posts of my fabulous two week vacation, but those will wait. Blogger was launched over a decade ago and sometime in those two weeks that I was away they fixed it. The big it. The it that has driven me crazy since whenever it was I began reading blogs, before I ever wrote my first post. if you care, I wrote about the frustration here. And now it's fixed. When no one cares to talk about what some has posted, or when multiple people do, the section reads "No comments." When only one person has something interesting to say, this is the really wonderful part, it reads "1 comment"!!!!!!!!!!!!! No "S"!!!

redemption

Not that you all care, I know you don't. Rachelle might because she called and informed me that tuna casserole is disgusting. But I made roast last night and it was delicious and I have redeemed myself as a domestic poser. I was super domestic yesterday. Woke up by 8, made cookies, made the roast, finished my church lesson, loved my husband, lalalalalalalalalala. And today I woke up and have accomplished not a thing. I love summer.

summertime

Summer has begun. Wonderfully. Lazily. I hope it stays this way. In my two days so far I have enjoyed a bike ride, the swimming pool, two naps, a movie, and a new book from the library. Cooking has been the only thorn in my side. We're down to the cupboard basics which you always buy in hopes you'll never have to use them. I haven't been grocery shopping because of finals, and now that it's summer I just don't want to be bothered with such menial tasks. So I made tuna casserole the other night because Jamey wasn't home and he doesn't like it and it's not my fav but I could stomach it. Unfortunately for him, he surprised me and came home right when I'd stuck it in the oven. I felt so guilty feeding it to him for supper!! He said he didn't mind. Good man. I am not so good to humor him though. I went to the Temple this morning and on my drive home he texted and asked if I'd like him to fix some lunch. That was easy. But when I came home he had made Ramen, and put a boiled egg in it. Tuna casserole was my childhood standby which he dutifully ate, Ramen and egg was apparently his, which was incredibly hard for me to stomach! I think I made him feel bad, but then we laughed. Again, good man. But I still don't want to go to the grocery store. If Ramen and egg isn't a good enough motivator I'm not sure I care to analyze the depths of my summer-induced slothness.

Finals Week!

My friend, Amber, nailed it on the head. After leaving 3 comments in one night on her blog she emailed me to ask if it was exam time again and if I was doing my best at procrastinating? Yep! Not that I mean to, I jsut despise memorizing useless facts. The interesting ones I don't mind so much, the ones I see no use for drive me crazy. Today I had to write a paper on "Success and Leadership in Pharmacy" It's a real winner. It is actually something I do care about, but hello? It's the end of the quarter, the sun is out, it is GORGEOUS outside and I want to be anywhere than with my notes and Microsoft Word. While I took a little study break to talk with my mom I decided to get the super glue back out to fix up my cracked thumbnail. I guess I was enjoying talking too much because I ended up gluing two of my fingers together. Genius. That was a boost of confidence for the rest of my exams! Jamey's still at the library studying and I just want to eat pie for dinner. But that would mean I have to go to the store to get some, not worth it. So I'll have a fudgesicle instead.