Friday, July 1st
Not especially busy. Jake went to work, I had a normal day, and we did the show at night. The special thing was that we went out to Village Inn after the show for a slice of pie, as sort of a celebration that the show was closing, and to have some delicious pie. We found out that it's a heck of a lot cheaper per slice to buy an entire pie than to buy a couple of slices. But they were delish.
Saturday, July 2nd
We headed over to the Jordan River temple for our friend Bryan McNabb's endowment at 10am. I was worried about staying awake for the whole thing since we'd stayed up late-ish the night before, but we were asked to be the witness couple (it was our very first time!), and that kept us awake for the whole thing.
After the temple, we had the Sound of Music matinee, a brief shopping run in between for the two pot-lucks we were going to the next day, and the closing night. The difference between the two audiences was amazing. The matinee: dreadful. I believe I felt the love of theater, performing, and making people laugh being sucked from the marrow of my bones. The closing show: Awesome. We really closed the show on a wonderful note.
Check out these beautiful flowers Jake got me for the show close!
(via his mom and sister, who have excellent taste)
Sunday, July 3rd
We left the house at about 7am to pick Jake's Granny Clark up for Aveline's baby blessing in Logan. It was a loooooong drive. But it was fun attending a married student ward. It was my first time. And - the chapel was adorably teeny. With a really, really tall ceiling, for some reason. We had a pot-luck lunch at Travis and Aubree's house, which was delightful. There was so much delicious food; I wish I were eating it right now.
Aveline wore her mommy's blessing dress
4 generations: Greats G-ma & G-pa Lightner and Granny, Grandma Bev,
Travis & Aubree, and Aveline
After that pot-luck we headed back home to West Valley to prepare for that evening's pot-luck in Provo for the Peterson 4th of July get-together. We borrowed a mattress from Mom Clark, made a jell-o salad, and headed down. We thought we would be late, but we got there at least an hour before all the other Salt Lake Petersons. Faces were stuffed, tents were set up in GarBrit's backyard, fireworks were lit on the street for all to see, and fun was had by all.
Holy fireworks!
Vän kept us company all night
Monday, July 4th
After being eaten alive by the mosquitoes all night, we got up at about 5am to stake a spot out for the parade. I took the opportunity to take Jake on a little walk to the Allen's grocery store, about a 10 minute walk away from GarBrit's, for his Dr. Pepper fix. The parade was fun; there were lots of High School bands, minimal amounts of candy, lots of beauty floats, and political leaders of all positions.
Stuart had been looking forward to the police motorcycles
... wha... ?
Star Wars soldiers carrying flags
Llama fest!!
We cleaned up and headed back home to West Valley for showers and a nap. Then we went right over to the Clarks' for a delicious 3 meat BBQ! Chicken, steak, and bratwurst. It's what the founding fathers would have wanted. We played a couple of board games, Settlers of Catan and Pandemic to be specific, and watched the Magna fireworks from the Cyprus football field with the Wesemanns. Having those illegal fireworks legal now was pretty neat. There were plenty of fireworks to see long before the official show started.
Well, there you have it. Good thing all weekends aren't that busy.
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