A Post for My Mom

My mom requested a new post so here's to you, Mom! It will be sans pictures but at least there will be something new to read. When my parents came to visit we did so many fun things! We went to Seattle and saw our old houses and some of our friends. We also went to Mt. Hood and hiked around, which was cool because I don't think Lane and I would've ever gotten over there without them. While we were on Mt. Hood, we went on an alpine slide, which is one of my most favorite activities. It's like bobsledding down a mountain, only in the summer! My mom and I played in the clay a little bit and made some fun stuff, and all of us went down the river one super hot day and went swimming. Lane caught lots of crawdads and made a crawdad "prison" (he let them go when we left, don't worry). All in all, it was a great trip and a great week for them to visit (it was overcast the day they left, no joke. and it hasn't gotten hot since).

Recently...Lane and I have been washing windows, which is actually quite a lucrative job when we have clients, but it isn't as often as it used to be because of "dun dun dun" the economy. Still, it's working out ok and then we have time to do other things like organize the house (me) and play video games (Lane). Just kidding about that last part (kind of). We went and played tennis on Saturday and it was really fun! I'm horrible but I still like it anyway. I think Lane gets kind of frustrated because he played tennis in high school so he has to go really easy on me the whole time. I'm thinking about taking a tennis class at BYU to get better though.

So lately I've been trying to do new things that are fun so I can have some good hobbies. I started trying to teach myself to play the piano because I never learned ( I took clarinet and violin in elementary/middle school) and it's such a great skill to have. I'm no Mozart, but it's fun to try. I'm also trying to learn how to knit. I just realized the things I'm trying to do are things that are so helpful to have an instructor in...seeing things done makes so much more sense than reading directions. So if any of you are in the Portland area and would like to be my piano/knitting instructor, please let me know. I can pay you in raspberries and apples.

We finally bought our plane tickets out to Florida the middle of August for Kylie's wedding! We were roommates all through college until I got married. Lane and I are so excited that she's getting married. Now we can go on couples dates! Oh also we're so excited because Lane finally gets to go to Disneyworld for the first time. He is ecstatic.

Right after Kylie's wedding we fly back home and have to drive out to Utah because school starts the end of August! I decided to spread out my last semester over 2 semesters so that I'll actually have fond memories of college, and so I can afford to take some fun classes. Therefore, my mention above of taking tennis class. I think I'll also take a beginning piano class, and Lane, Kylie, and I are all taking a flower arranging class which strangely enough counts toward our GE's.

Ok well this has been a long and random post so sorry if you can't follow it, but this desperately needed to be updated, and next time I promise I'll give you pictures.