New Swim Suit!

Last week I went swimming on Monday and Tuesday, but before I went, Robert said he had a surprise for me (he surprises me a lot!).  So we got in the car and he just started to drive, while I sat there trying to get answers out of him.  He started driving the direction of the Riverwoods, so I thought maybe he was taking me to get Kneaders.  Of course he just smiled and didn't answer, so I really thought I guessed right!  Wrong.  Instead we went to Lime Ricki cuz he wanted to buy me a suit.  Unfortunately I wasn't swooning over any.  There were some alright ones, but they didn't win me over enough to make me want to buy them.  We then went to Downeast but no luck there either.  I kept telling Robert that I had swimsuits and I didn't need anymore, but he kept insisting the he should be me a new one.  We went home after our treasure hunt for a cute suit and I got my swimsuit on while Robert continued looking for a suit online.  He found a website with cute suits that I pinned on Pinterest and we looked on there.  The one I originally pinned was all sold out (it's super cute and too popular), but I found one that was still really cute and not sold out.  My new suit arrived yesterday!  I can't wait to wear it the next time I swim!  It's the perfect swimming weather (100 degrees!) but too bad I am stuck inside working :(  I wanted to try and go swimming on Saturday since it will still be in the 100's, but Robert's mom birthday is that day and we're still not sure what the plans are.

Robert sent me this pic while I was still at work.

That picture isn't the best, but I promise it's cute!  Hopefully I get the chance to wear it to the pool soon.

Ragtime

It was quite the weekend.  Friday night Robert went with his dad to a Father and Son's outing with his dad, so I went to "Ragtime" up at the Hale Center in Salt Lake with his mom and one of their ex-single's ward girls.

It was a pretty good musical.  The stage was interesting too because it was in the center of the room with the audience surrounding it.  I was wondering how they were going to do the acting (keep turning around and spinning in circles?), but it turned out the stage could spin around.  The sets were really good too.  Reminded me of back in the day when I took a theater class where we built sets and did all the backstage stuff.  Good times.  My favorite part of the play was the soulful voices of the black ladies.  Loved it.  Oh wait.  Rewind.  I got to eat pho for dinner!!!  So good!  Okay moving on.

I stayed over night at the in-law's house.  The next day Robert and I went to a little boy's birthday party in our ward, then we ran over to the movies to watch "Man of Steel" with Robert's family (his sister, Emmali, gave us a surprise visit from Idaho). 

So I ordered the tickets earlier that day, thinking I ordered the tickets at the Provo mall, so Robert and I are waiting there.  And waiting there.  The movie started at 3:20.  It was 3:30 and they still didn't show up.  Then Robert gets a call saying that they can't find us and they ask us where we are.  Come to find out I ordered tickets for the movie theater at the Orem mall.  Are you kidding me?!  (Just so you know, I hate missing the beginning of things, such as T.V. shows.  Like if I even miss 5 minutes, I don't wanna watch the rest and just watch it on Hulu the next day.  I know, maybe it's a little extreme, but I don't like missing details!!!)  It took us another 15 minutes to get down there (and we hit like every red light possible).  Luckily the beginning commercials were super long, so by the time we got there we only missed the birth of Superman, which I didn't mind missing.  Phew!  I was so excited to see the movie, but it turned out to not be as great as I thought it would be.  I loooved the Smallville series and I like the other Superman stuff, so this one was kind of disappointing.  First of all, they didn't even have Kryptonite in the entire movie!  Second of all, he has random flashbacks which makes the movie jump everywhere.  Third of all, I didn't grow to love the characters.  They didn't really develop the characters enough to make you grow attached to them.  And the last thing... the love of his life and girl-next-door Lana Lang was like in one scene of the movie.  Plus Clark and Lois Lane just randomly fall in love.  Retarded.

Art City Days

This week in Springville was Art City Days.  Robert and I were going to go to the carnival on Friday, but decided not to go after driving by and seeing that there wasn't much to it.  But rewind.  Thursday Robert and I had our date night.  We ate at Buffalo Wild Wings, then went and saw the Star Trek movie in Lehi (we got a gift card to spend there so we thought we'd use it).  It was a fun date, even though the dinner was too much meat for me (I need variety... like throw in a salad or side dish or something), and even though I'm not a huge fan of galaxy spaceship type movies.  Star Trek was a good movie, don't get me wrong.  It was just a good one-time see.  Part of it may have been that the earliest showtime (it was a school night after all) was in 3D, and that movie was not a good movie to see in 3D with all the movement and lights and all.  Yes, I got a headache.  But mostly it's because of my reason number one of not being a huge fan of those types of movies.  I would have to be in that type of mood to watch those movies (which is rarely, but it does happen... like when Robert and I had a Star Wars marathon).

Fast forward back to Art City Days.  Robert and I decided to sleep over in Springville because I was going to the parade with his parents the next day and he had work early in the morning, and with the roads being closed for the parade, we decided we might as well sleep over.  So instead of going to the carnival on Friday, we just washed our clothes at his parent's house and listened to the bands that were playing down at the Arts Park (they live just above it, so we got a free concert in their backyard).

Just waiting for Foreigner to start singing

Saturday was the parade day.  I didn't really take pictures, mostly because we sort of sat behind a bunch of people so the view wasn't that great.  Plus there wasn't much to take pictures of ha.  They gave out lots of free stuff (like at most parades haha), but the thing I remember most was just being super sweaty.  It was pretty warm, but the sun felt nice up till I was soaking through my clothes.  After the parade Robert got home from work and we took a nap, then after the nap I washed our car while Robert went to the neighbors' to mow their lawn.  Later that night we made homemade ice cream and hit some golf balls around the yard.

We ate some ice cream, then took some over to my family.  We stayed a little bit to play a couple of games of Uno (which weren't fun because Robert won every time!  JK.  It was still fun.) and then we started a game of Hand and Foot, but the fireworks were starting so Robert, Karson, my dad, and I went back over to Robert's house (well, his neighbor's house) to watch the fireworks.  We got there just in time to unfold our camping chairs and sit down to watch the finale.  Hahahaha. 

So after two seconds of sitting, we went back to my parent's house and finished a couple of rounds of Hand and Foot.  And I lost horribly.  Like negative points horribly.  The two times I have played that game I have not been good at it.  But it's still fun.

The Next Babe Ruth. Okay, Maybe Not.

Last night was Robert's last intramural baseball game.  Their team didn't last very long in the tournament, but that's okay!  It was just a group of guys wanting to have some fun.

Just tossing the ball around before the game to warm up

Robert playing short stop (I think?)

Hey batter, batter.

It was a good game.  It was a pretty close one too.  One thing that could have made the game better was if the dumb ice cold wind would have stopped blowing!  It's June!  Why is there a winter breeze still?

Star Club

Okay, I didn't know how serious about astronomy some people are.  Not until this weekend.  I guess my father-in-law's boss is one of these serious astronomy people who has a huge telescope.  This telescope includes a keypad that allows you to input what star you want to see, and it finds it all on its own!  I didn't know telescopes were that high tech!  So on Saturday we were planning on going to the BYU soccer game and then to this star "party", but dinner ran a little late.  We skipped the soccer game and went to the star thing after dinner.

Here's our delicious homemade pizza.

On our way to the "party".

Don't let the opening paragraph fool you.  While I may sound excited about high tech telescopes, the only thing I thought was pretty cool was seeing Saturn through the telescope.  It looked like a fake little cartoon drawing of Saturn.  Anyways... I just don't see what is so exciting about seeing bright white dot after bright white dot.  It would have been cool to see galaxies (like those spirally looking ones), but there were too many clouds in the way.  So I just got to see Saturn and a bunch of white dots.