Lacey's Baby Shower

Lacey and Asher had their baby shower today over at Lacey's mom's house. Cori and I decided to go to it together since my mom left earlier in the day for girls camp for the week... I headed down early so that we could have our sister lunch date... How could I turn down a trip to Red Lobster with my sister???

After getting done eating we headed over to Judy's for the shower... They had some really good food there... Too bad I didn't take any pictures! Here are a few of the pictures I ended up taking...

Reasons I Hate Our Apartment...

I am trying really hard to stay positive in my life however there are a few things that get me down and really bother me... And since this is my blog I figure if no one else wants to read it (cause let's face it... I hate it when all people do is complain!) they can just skip over this entry... Here are my top reasons for hating this apartment and wanting to move...

5. People I hate to tell you this... but my car belongs to me... I don't know how many notices we get from the managers about keeping our animals on leashes, this applies to everyone... Keep your cat or whatever it is off the hood and top of my car. I am tired of new deep scratches all over my car. The theory of... this is my car... also belongs to the person or people who have now broken into my car twice and thrown everything from my glove box all over my car...

4. When we rented our apartment it clearly states that if we have anything go wrong after hours we are to call security... Where is this security that they speak of? Never once has anyone answered the phone for them... nor do they actually patrol the apartment building like they are supposed to... We will get more into incompetent people in a minute...

3. I don't understand the reasoning of the people who work here... They decided to paint the parking stalls a few days ago... which is fine... however WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!

Okay... yes they do look a bit better with the new paint but BLACK???? It really sucks that the lights don't work and the stalls are just calling out to people... "BREAK IN TO MY CAR!!! No one will even see you... Oh yeah... look around security isn't anywhere to be found."

2. How is it that everything has broken down at once?

Something... who knows what happened to clog the sink. The sink ever so nicely decided to back up into the dishwasher as well...

The air conditioner is leaking and we have to have something to catch the water in or it will get all over the bathroom sink and on the carpet...

The thermostat is stuck at 60... I am getting frozen out of my own apartment...

Lastly the coil broke in the oven and I found this out when I turned the oven on and a fire started in the oven... Thankfully it was small and went out fast...

Remember incompetent people that work at the apartments? The picture above was taken after maintenance came and "fixed" the problem... Last time I checked moldy green water in my dishwasher wasn't there in the first place... The great thing was when it randomly decided to start leaking all over the kitchen floor... Back to the statement about getting papers from the office about after hours stuff... they also gave us a paper for emergency maintenance. I guess a flooded kitchen doesn't qualify as emergency. They told us they would be over in a few days to fix it... The house smells lovely now!
And now for the last...

1. Our apartment has been broken into a few times. And YES we have been home each of the times and scared them away. We live in a third floor apartment and they love to jump the stairs onto our balcony...

It is definitely time for us to move...

Creek Flooding...

Our apartment is right next to a creek... This creek has been increasing in water for quite a while. I have been watching it and it has been kinda exciting to see it rising... Thankfully our apartment is on the third floor...

4th of July Celebration...

The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays! For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated in history and the events leading to the Revolutionary War is one of my favorite things to learn about. I am so grateful for those who came before us that fought to free us and keep us free... Thank you!

So last night was the Stadium of Fire. While my family doesn't normally go to the stadium we do our own celebrating. We have a bbq and light fireworks while we wait for the Stadium to have their fireworks... This year Eric decided that we were going to bring the dogs with us (which is the biggest pain in the butt but it is better than coming home to a disaster in the bedroom!) Ammon and Lacey were here from St. George and Ammon's friend Ron and his dad, brother and friend joined us... It was so much fun to celebrate with the people you love... This year Utah lifted its ban on fireworks that go off the ground, however they really should give lessons on how to light them off... Our neighbor's lit one that fell over and started shooting at us and then started a fire... That was fun...

I got a little bored waiting for the air force fly over so I decided to take some random pictures while I waited... (The fly over is my favorite thing ever!...) 

Death Day 2011

It really amazes me how fast time goes by. Five years ago today I lost one of my heroes... I will be the first to admit that my dad and I didn't always get along... in fact for a few years there was a lot of tension between us but all the same I consider him to be my hero and he is greatly missed! I can't believe all that has happened since this day... (For those that don't really know the story... I have it on my old blog... you can read the story there by clicking HERE) Since this day my family has a tradition of sending red balloons with messages written on them to my dad. I love doing this! Here are some pictures over the past five years...

Here are the pictures that we took this year... Whitney was the only one not able to make it to the cemetery (after all Australia is quite far) but Dion and Whit let balloons go over there...