Labor Day Weekend.

Labor Day weekend was great to us. We spent it with family--both mine and Zac's. On Saturday, we headed up to Kaysville with my side of the family for a Family Reunion at the one and only Cherry Hill resort. My family has been going here as long as I can remember, and I always get so excited when the day finally comes. Cherry Hill is an RV park that has swimming pools, water slides (well, only two, but the tube ride is the best one I've been on by far), mini golf, a rock climbing wall, batting cages, playgrounds, an ice cream parlor, and a cute little convenient store. It's one of the best places in Utah. When my family arrived, we set up the canopy, put on our sunscreen and headed to the water slide. It's one of those water slides that you can ride all day and not be bored... just tired. There were ten of us--me, Zac, Jake, Matt, Steph, Daniel, Erika, Rachel, Melia and Sara--who went down the water slide all at once. It was hilarious to look back and see the train of ten people on tubes that you were a part of--especially when the rule was strictly four people per train. I wish I had a picture. Even a crappy one. It was hilarious.

After the water slide sucked all the energy from us, we walked back to camp to eat lunch, watch movies, eat junk food, make froot loop necklaces and earrings and sleep. After our nap, Zac and I went with everyone to hit up the arcade and play mini golf. We must have gotten bored with both, because we didn't even play any games in the arcade, and we only played about eight holes of mini golf. Still fun. We drove home exhausted.



The next day, Sunday, we drove down with mom and dad Swenson to their cabin down in Fairview to spend the night. That night was filled with pizza, card games, sunflower seeds, shooting BB guns, a visit from Robbie K and her husband, camp fires, scary stories, and a movie. While Eli, JoJo, Whitney, JT, Sophie, Zac and I were sitting around the campfire in the darkness telling scary stories, JT found a rock to wipe his boogers on, and then threw it into the bushes. Sophie and I were oblivious to JT's booger wiping, because the second that rock hit the bushes, we both screamed at the top of our lungs, and before I even knew what happened, Sophie was on my lap, hugging me for dear life. It was a great sight! She didn't get off, either, until Whitney told her that she could sit on her lap. Oh, Bouge...

The next morning, we woke up to mom Swenson making us breakfast! It was wonderful! When breakfast was over, we bummed around--played more card games, ate more sunflower seeds, and took some pictures. Zac even carved my name in a tree, next to his that he carved back in 2001. Then the both of us went on a ride together on the four wheeler around the mountains. If you've never been to the Fairview mountains, I suggest you go, because it is a treat, especially with the wind blowing in your hair. Nature is gorgeous. There's a reason Heavenly Father made it this way. It's for us!



The day after we came home from the cabin, I started my new job. I am loving it so far, and have convinced myself that it is the best job ever. Why? The pay, the benefits, the people, the free lunch on Fridays, the casual dress, the hand scanner, the drinks, the customers and even the work. It's fantastic. The only job better than this, that I can think of, would be to be a Photographer like Jaquilyn Shumate. Really. Isn't her work amazing? And she works with her husband. How great is that?!

Anyway, there's my Labor Day weekend in a nut shell. It was pretty grand.

Last weekend.

Last weekend, Zac and I wanted to get out of the house and do some fun things before he had to go back to school. On Friday, after coming home from work, we were going to go to our Ward Campout just for the night, but then it started raining, and we remembered that we hate driving through canyons in the dark (remember our elk encounter?). There was an outdoor concert that was being held that same night just a few blocks from our apartment, so we decided to go to that instead, but not before we got some dinner at Two Jacks Pizza. Ryan Innes and his band were playing first, and we really liked them. Ryan had some serious soul, which I am always quite fond of. Did I mention they closed off a whole block of Center Street for this show? So we just stood there in the middle of the street and listened to him play. It was a great time. The other bands who played after Ryan Innes were not so good. Zac and I decided to go find a place to sit, and watch people instead of intently listen to the music. People watching is so fun; I don't even know why. We saw a pair of lesbian couples. It was weird. When you see lesbians, especially in Provo, you really can't help but stare. It's just weird.



On Saturday, Zac and I packed up the car with food and headed up to Park City for a day trip. We started the day off shopping at the Outlets up there, but then quickly realized that the Outlets weren't cheaper than the regular stores they had down in our neck of the woods, so we stopped shopping, and drove to a park. It started to rain while we were trying to find the park, and so when we got there, we took a quick nap in the car and waited for the rain to pass. We woke up about twenty minutes later and found ourselves a nice spot on a picnic table, where we started making sandwiches for lunch. Then we decided to go walk Main Street. It was pretty, and took a few great pictures. I started to get tired while walking Main Street, and after a while, we decided to go back home.



Zac's now in school, and we're excited for this weekend, because we're going to Cherry Hill for my family reunion, and then up to the Swensons' cabin. It's gonna be awesome!