SIX MONTHS DOWN!!

YES! I MADE IT HALF THE YEAR WITHOUT ONE SINGLE SHOE PURCHASE... IT DOESN'T EVEN PHASE ME ANYMORE... EXCEPT THOSE TORY BURCHES THAT I HAVE TO WALK BY EVERYDAY... IT IS A GOOD THING I AM TOO SHORT TO WEAR FLATS.

My self control reminds of being in college. I was friends with the coolest girl for awhile when I was a freshman and sophmore and she practiced lent, so I being the follower that I am, also started. Over the years, I have given up shopping, candy, fast food, carbs (stupid decision), and have added things into my life like doing 500 sit ups a day and reading the scriptures... all good things. One year, I decided to give up chocolate. I must say that I am better at practicing lent than most catholics, mostly because I am so dang stubborn and already abstain from so much in life. I was roommates with Nicole at the time, and she rarely cooked or baked anything (even though she is more domestic than I will ever be). For someone's birthday, she made chocolate cake... a cake that she still won't let me try, but I hear is delicious... but, me being the stubborn, non-catholic, lent follower, would not try the cake because it was chocolate. She was so mad at me. I still feel bad about it.

Moral of the story is...

Even though I have probably averaged buying 2 to 3 pairs of shoes a month for the last 5 or 6 years of my life, there will be no receipts from shoes being purchased in 2008!

MONZA DAY!!!

Well, I am pretty sure this would have made the headlines if the media caught wind of it, but we kept it on the down low. We had a party on Friday night that will be talked about for years to come. It all started in April when Dustin bought a new waterski... a Monza. We had already been waterskiing for about a month, but it was snowing and it did not look like we were going to be able to ski. When we got to the lake, the sky turned clear and we were able to get out on the water! It was amazing. It was not the only amazing thing that happenned that day. Dustin thought it would be awesome to line the perimeter of the lake with tiki torches. Everyone laughed at us for thinking it could actually be done, but we made it happen. We planned it as close to a full moon as possible, which ended up being the first day of summer... very appropriate since this is has been dubbed as the "endless summer". Everyone that came had to bring 4 tiki torches and sure enough, with the help of the moon and glow sticks attached to our life vests, we were able to ski/tube/wakeboard until 4 in the morning... and were back on the water by 7. It was amazing... these picture don't even come close to showing how awesome it was, but you can imagine.

Cami turned 28!

It was my roommate, Cami's 28th birthday on Friday! We celebrated tonight with everyone. It was a great party. Cami is a super roommate. Everyone loves her!

This is Rachel and I. She is an awesome frined.
Me and Dustin kickin' it on the porch.
Cami is a huge fan of New York. Her brother lives out there, so she goes there often and the last time she went, she brought us back these t-shirts. We decided that it would be appropriate for us to wear the shirts for her birthday.
We all love NY, just not as much as Cami does!
Woo-hoo for another successful birthday party! Good cake, cool birthday girl, fun guests... good times!