What a week!

Wow! I better not be falling behind on my blogging!  I have been scolded by a few for not posting yet this week, and for that I don't really apologize to be honest, because it was a wonderful weekend, such a wonderful weekend in fact that I didn't have time to sit on the computer and post about it.  To sum it all up a little bit for ya..  Last week was amazing.  First of all, we had the Fourth of July.  Our actual fourth was a little boring. we had the day off which was really nice! and we had the missionaries and one of Zack's good buddies Brian over, so that was fun! Oh, and I made a really delicious banana pudding with yummy strawberries and blueberries on it to make it more American (picture below)!  But the rest of the night was pretty chill.  We didn't want to spend money on fireworks, so we didn't buy any of our own, and lets be honest, doing your own fireworks is much more fun is 1) you can spend a ton of money on them to get the big ones, or 2) you have a group of people to do them with, including kids.  Since we had neither of those, we decided against it.  We did go Mini golfing again, but that was not something I like to remember too much primarily because I went out with cute curly hair and came back with straight stringy hair.  It was SOO HOTT!!!  I mean I grew up in Vegas and it was still KILLER! Humidity is NOT my friend.  Now that being said, I did like 10x better this second round than I did last time, so I was happy about that. And also we found (and I caught it!) a frog outside our house on our way back into the air conditioning. (picture also below!)

So that was Wednesday, Thursday night we went to a Fireworks show! YAY!! weird that they didn't have one on the actual holiday, but regardless, we were happy to go.  As far as I'm concerned it was great because it extended the holiday out a little longer, and who doesn't love a longer holiday?  Besides starting half an hour late, the show was pretty awesome!  We had these great people behind us.  Well this great man.  We will call him Larry.  He was an absolute crack up! He is what I would call... redneck. Yes, full blown redneck! He pronounced America Uh-mur-ica, and said it a lot as he was explaining to his son how the fireworks go off.  He told his son that a man with a torch was basically running back and forth lighting off one firework at a time.  Soon after that those fast fan-like ones were going off.  I wondered how the man ran so fast from each one with time to light the others as well.  It made for a great picture in my mind!! (for those of you who don't know, it is all electronic now.  They use computers to do the show).  So while it was a pretty great show, it did make me miss the Kaysville show.  There was no music or anything that the fireworks went to and it just didn't have quite the same feel to it.  Regardless, it was so wonderful to watch the fireworks wrapped in the arms of the man I love!

After the Fireworks, we took a day off from all of the fun. We had to rest up for Saturday!  Saturday we woke up early in the morning and went to the Chicago Temple! It was so fun!  Driving to Chicago was awesome too! It was really cool to see the city and to think, wow! this is real! We are really here!  A year ago we had hardly even thought about coming here and yet now, here we are!  There are pictures of all of that below.  We had planned to go to the Zoo or a museum afterwards but we took longer in the temple than initially planned (which is always a great feeling!) and then the traffic in Chicago was so horrible that we decided to go to Michigan City and go to the outlet mall instead!  It was a really great day and wonderful to spend so much time with my sweetheart.

Then, this week, on Tuesday, I could never forget that we had our 3rd wedding anniversary!  Both Zack and I said how it is so weird because in ways its like, holy cow! THREE years!  That is so long! Where has the time gone???  And on the other hand its like, holy cow! THREE years! That's it?!  You mean you had a life before me? And I had a life before you??  I'm sure it only gets worse with age but man, it was great to celebrate our anniversary.  Zack got me some sexy new TOMS heels and some HOTT Nike work out stuff and I got him some SWEET new Basketball shoes and a nice fitness shirt to go with it.  It was definitely a wonderful day.  Well now that I have rambled on enough about how our week was, here are some pictures! I hope you enjoy.

Til next time!

Chicago sky line!

Me watching Fireworks

The Frog that I found!

Outside the Temple after a wonderful session!

This cool fountain at the temple!

The day of fireworks, Zack looking out over the bridge into the distance.

On our way to the temple! The long drive must have been taking its toll on zack. Or maybe it was all of the outrageous toll fees that were taking their toll on him.

laying in the grass waiting for fireworks to start!

Zack loved that the building was so tall that you couldn't see the top of it.

Another Fireworks shot from Zack

Waiting for Fireworks to begin!

For my first try, I think it was pretty good! And now I learned a lot of great tips to help me make it look better next time!

Crazy Storms ahead!

Hello again! This week has been pretty fun! I think the most notable thing is that we have had severe weather all week! Earlier this week there was really crazy and heavy, but beautiful thunder storms.  It was pretty windy, but no real warnings yet.  But today, when I was rudely awakened from my Sunday nap by a crazy howling wind, I got pretty nervous! There is this giant tree outside our bedroom window that I always look at when I wake up, and it was swaying to and fro. It definitely looks like it is going to fall down.  However Zack and I are very happy that this is happening today, since we are together, if there were to be a tornado, we won't be separated.  But I'm watching the weather right now and it looks like the storm has died down in our area for the night. So good news!

Also this week we honestly had a pretty relaxing week until yesterday.  We look forward to Saturdays a little too much!  We especially love it because we get to spend time together!  Zack goes with the guys in his program and they play basketball at noon and then we hang out and maybe play some call of duty (yes, I have decided to like playing xbox because Zack likes it and it allows him to have some relaxing Zack time but I feel like I am a part of it since we are doing it together), do a nice little dinner together, and then go on a date!  This week we got a great deal and were able to pay for 3 date nights for the price of less than 2!  One of the local Put Put golf centers had a great deal so be bought 3 rounds of miniature golf for less than the price of 2. You can tell we are pretty excited about it!  Zack absolutely KILLED me, but what else is new?  It was a really fun date night!  And, I can't help but mention the HOTT pants he bought me! I have been dying to get some colored jeans, and last night he got me 2 pairs! 1 pair that is coral colored and one pair that is red.  I seriously love them and they are so incredibly cute I cannot wait until tomorrow when I can wear one!  Well, enough of my talking away, my mother in law requested some more pictures so I will be doing my best to fulfill that since I think it is a great idea and a bit of a scrapbook that we can look at later. So without further ado,(what an odd word!  I had to look it up!) here they are!  Enjoy! Til next time!

Zack playing some ball!

Going up for a big shot!!! He is up against who I think is the best guy that they play with (I call him headband because of the sweet headband he wears, also if I didn't know Zack I would call him arm band because of his sweet arm band that he wears every week), and by the way, Zack schooled him!

A tree on campus that fell over due to the severe weather.

Zack in on the action! He is in the green basketball jersey

Making a jump shot! that kid next to him in the gray is his buddy brian.

I worked out here for a while while they were playing ball. You can't see it because of the lighting but out the window is a beautiful view of campus. it was rather nice to work out there, if only that building had air conditioning!

You can't tell but this was the game winning shot! Go Zack!  Just like him, winning it for his team!

Another shot that he made.  No, he was not shooting at that hoop in front of him, there is another one outside the picture.

This hole killed me.  if you notice, I have 9 fingers up. Thats how many times it killed me. nine shots to get that stupid I mean um silly, ball into the hole.

We both wona prize! Zack got a coupon thing to get like 50 tokens for the arcade for only $3.50 and then I got $2 off the next time we come to play! too bad we already payed for three visits! Oh well! We still won!