John and I were talking about how when he was starting high school he remembers thinking about his life thus far and thinking how long he had been alive, and how it seemed to be forever. And now looking back, the same amount of time has gone by and it seemed to go in the blink of an eye. We then discussed how the older you get the faster time seems to go when you look back at your life.
I can't imagine life going by faster than it is now! I made a decision at the beginning of the year to do a blog at the end of every month, and each month I almost forget to write one because I feel like I just did the month's before.
Anyway, on to July.
It has been a busy and hot month! We kicked it off with 4th of July. We spent some time up at snowbird, walking around and taking the tram thing up to the top of the mountain. The view was amazing! After we headed straight down to Provo for a friends party. It was so fun! Yummy food, fun games, and of course it ended with fireworks! Olivia went bobbing for apples, it was so hilarious! There was a pie eating contest and John came in second. And Olivia and John enjoyed running around looking for the direction fireworks could be seen from. Oh, and I forgot one thing! We went to the mall to see if there were any sales, so John could get more work clothes. We ended up in H&M, Olivia saw this sure cute strawberry dress, she LOVES strawberries and calls them "awbrries". Well, she pulled it off the rack and would not let go! Since it was on sale for only 5 bucks I caved and bought it for her. She would not let the thing go until we put it on her!
The next weekend we drove down to California and went to Lake Arrowhead for a friend reunion. Luckily, John's friends from high school live in Las Vegas now so we were able to split the drive up into two days. Olivia did so well on the drive! It was awesome. We got to the cabin Friday afternoon and left Sunday after church, the chapel was so cute! Saturday we went to Lake Gregory and played. The whole trip was fun! It was so good to see my friends and have our kids play. It is a little weird that we are not silly high school kids anymore and are like real adults, whatever that means.
The next weekend was my girls trip to Denver to see Adele, my first night away from Olivia! We left Saturday morning, the concert was Saturday evening, and we drove back Sunday morning. Super quick, super fun trip! Adele is seriously so amazing live. She is adorable, funny, and so real. Also, hearing her songs live and with the background of why each song was written, I totally cried moat of the show. (Don't judge me, you had to be there to get it). Olivia did so well with John while I was gone, too, and I'm so grateful for that because I was super nervous!
The next few days there was family in town so Olivia had fun playing with her second, third? Whatever cousins.
Then it was Pioneer Day weekend. It's a Utah holiday. On Saturday we went to a friends yard sale and scored some awesome stuff! They are moving to Hawaii! So fun. Then we left and realized the AC in our car wasn't working so we went straight to our mechanic. We then spent the next few hours walking to the mall and chilling, then walking to a breakfast place and eating,back to the mall, John scored some pants for work for $12! And then back to the mechanics. Turns out they sent out for the wrong parts and quoted us incorrectly. They had our car in their system as a 2001 and it's a 2008, he said the parts were way more expensive but he would charge us what he originally quoted us! But the car wouldn't be done for a few more hours so John's sister saved us and took us home. We chilled, eventually went and got the car and then went to a Pioneer Day festival thing. We walked around, got some shave ice and laid out blankets for the firework show. This firework show was seriously legit! The fireworks were right above us and so big! Olivia kept burrowing into John because they were so bright! It was loads of fun! Sunday we went to walk around the Bountiful temple after church. It ended up being closed, for cleaning or something, so we chilled in the shade across the street and went to a friends for dinner. Much fun. Monday John had the day off so we went to this really awesome splash pad that had like a little river through it.
This last weekend in July we are just chilling, we are probably going to go swimming and enjoy our time together.
Crazy, fun month!
