WHAT a WEEK!

i had a whole week off last week from summer school.
it was exhausting but i also did alot of fun stuff!

for the FOURTH OF JULY we had a BBQ with derek's parents and sister.

we had hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, fruit, veggies, strawberry pie, and homemade icecream



 we played TICKET TO RIDE then relaxed until it got dark enough and headed over to green river for fireworks. regan and bailee actually liked them until the finale came...
the booming kinda freaked them out!

i spent tuesday and wednesday checking things off our summer to-do list:

i plan on sewing my jeans right after i finish this blog :0)

and all we have to do for the guest room computer is reboot it and get a wireless router.

then all the BIG projects that cost alot of money...

on thursday i drove to utah to spend a couple days with my family.

my sister tanyail and i practiced some soccer moves...

this is the only pic i have of us together but she is coming up in 2 weeks to hangout with me so i'll post a video of our soccer skills :)

we had a picnic outside and watched BEASTLY!

on friday we woke up early and headed to west jordan because UTAH IDAHO SUPPLY (a teacher store) was having a back to school extravaganza!!!
we got there a half hour early and were the 6th people in line.
 We put our names in a drawing and hoped to win free stuff!!!
. . .

at 8am they opened the doors and before we could start shopping 10 people were going to get to the the "2 minute dash" around the store to get items on their list. there were 10 different lists and 10 different items on each list. at first i didn't really care about winning because most of the stuff was elementary geared merchandise and now that i am a high school teacher i couldn't really use the stuff... so tanyail and i sat there and made fun of the contestants running around the store like crazy morons! but as time went on i got super bored and i thought it would be cool to just win a bunch of free stuff so i started hoping they'd call my name. suprisingly the 5th list was ALL MATH STUFF! i told tanyail that i really wanted this one and she told me "your not going to get it..." well dondondaDON they called my name! i was EXTACTIC! and suddenly i became a crazy moron running aroung the store trying to snag all my items. i was knocking things off shelves, screaming, and sprinting around the store...
needless to say i was the first person to get all 10 items on the list!

i added up the $goods$ and i got over $70 worth of great school supplies!

then i ended up spending $85 more on other stuff but it was way FUN!

Tanyail even won a $10 gift card! :0)

After our exhilerating shopping experience we went to ihop and ran some errands. sadly when i was walking back to my car after breakfast i noticed someone had hit it :0( there was no note or cars around with new dents (believe me i checked)
so now my new car has a yucky looking side bumper. GRRRR

well friday evening i went to my sister toni's house and
we made cupcakes because she was having a birthday party on saturday!
i have this snazzy cupcake book that gave us this idea:

we melted jolly ranchers and cut out stars and hearts and put them on cupcakes.
they turned out so cute!

saturday morning i had a soccer game...
it's crazy that i drive all the way to orem to play but they dont have
competitive outdoor teams here in wyoming and i miss playing so much
that i am desperate!  the fun part is that i get to play with my sister!
we won that game 7-0 and i scored 2 goals!

after the game i headed back home to rock springs.
when i got there derek was waiting to take me out on a date.
we went to rock springs international day and applebee's.
then we relaxed at home and watched some world cup (previously recorded) soccer games.

on sunday i was not excited to go to church because i was going to miss the
US play BRAZIL but we recorded it and planned to watch it at 12. MAN ALIVE
if you saw that game you know what i am talking about... what a roller coaster,
i am not going to lie i did shred some tears when the game was over!

i was so HAPPY we WON!

then finally to wrap up our weekend we went on a hike.

we took the dogs and walked for about a half hour until we found a nice spot,
laid out our blanket, had a short FHE, and then

 took the scenic route home...

we saw about a half dozen elk, deer and baby bambi's, lots of antelope, and even a moose!

it was a great week off!