Happy Birthday Lindie!

Happy Birthday to the cutest, best big sister in the whole wide world!

I know I won't make it to the computer tomorrow so thought i'd wish her a big happy one a day early!!

JULY!

July

For as boring as my everyday life usually is out here I find it very hard to understand how I couldn’t manage to make time to blog a little in over a month. But if you’re bored today like myself you’ll maybe enjoy it because it’ll be nice and long. I’m not even sure what I blogged about last.. maybe gender?? You see I’d check real quick but the cool thing is I don’t have Internet so I can’t. So I get to lay here and type it all up and then head over to the clubhouse to submit all this great stuff.

A life without Internet and cable has been a struggle. This means no netflix, no bachelorette, no facebook, and sadly no blog stalking. The pool was fun and all but now it’s like bathtub water and I can’t be in this 100+ weather with humidity 100%. And to top it all off all my friends out here have up and left to Charleston and we decided to stay in Columbia since I will be moving home so soon.

So let me back the month up and give you a run down of it all.

First, the Fourth of July. Hardest day of my life to date. Never had I ever imagined missing a fourth in Richfield. It’s like the best time of the year and I thought for sure even though we we’d go out and do summer sales I would make it home for the fourth. But no! L I don’t think Chad fully understand how much I must love him for the sacrifice I gave up this summer. After a week full of tears and that night after no parade, no city park lunch, no bull rides, no fish grab, no family bbq & no fireworks I knew something had to be done. I made the contract and he knew if he wanted a happy wife he would sign or forever regret marrying me. On the upside of the fourth though we did enter a volleyball tournament. We didn’t last too long but we put in a couple games and sweated like dogs. Last fourth I think I had 30+ pictures to upload, this year I’ve got maybe 2.. Sad.

The Sunday after the fourth Chad and I decided to go for a little Sunday afternoon drive. We went down to the state capitol building and walked around and saw a few things. After Chad wanted to see the gamecock stadium so on our way to try and find it we found a baseball game going to pulled over and caught a few innings. It was fun to go out and see a little more of the town we hadn't yet. 

Last week the 13^th I believe I headed to Atlanta for the gift show with my sisters and mom. The cool thing about it this year was I only live like 3 hours away so I got to drive there and meet up with them.  Lindie and I have always wanted to do our own little thing so when I went home back in June we came up with a little game plan and made these magnet boards that were different and cute and fun and just all that good stuff. My parents told us we could have a little corner of their booth at the show to try it out if we’d like. So instead of us throwing in 5 grand to see if it goes we took them up on that. A few days before the show we realized we had to have business cards for people but that we had no business phone number, so…… Lindie decided to make our cell phone numbers the numbers on the cards and brochures. Bad idea. The show ended up doing really well for us and we never imagined putting in the orders we did or having that success. The bad part though is now our cell phones are business phones till we change that. So we had to change our voicemails and sound like idiots. But I guess if your making some money money it’s worth it? We’re so excited for the January show and do our own booth. I wish I had some pictures of our little creations and our time at the show but of course I don’t. While we were in Atlanta our cousins came from Florida and paid a visit. We got to go to the Braves game and spend a little time with them. At the Braves game we were honored to witness a man in a wedding dress jump onto the field and try to dodge security guards. We got to celebrate my mother’s birthday and just had a really great time as sisters and mommy.

I also in Atlanta got to do a lot of shopping. Shopping for the baby that is. I got so many cute things and outfits. I would if it wasn’t completely pathetic post every little thing I got but for now just post my favorite little outfit and sleeper. Oh and my favorite shoes.

I’ve been making lots and lots of bows too! Here are a few I’ve made. I made the white one today and the others just along the way. I won't post all the bows either. Ha

Last, Chad and I bought our stroller today! Yay! I love it and it’ll be home waiting for me when I get there!

Chad’s got about ten or so more sells till he hits 100 and I’m so happy and proud of him! We want to hit that before we come home for Bear Lake and Jordon and Mary’s Wedding! We are leaving Sunday morning the 31^st on our drive back to Utah!! He’ll get about a week off and then off he’ll fly back to South Caroline for 2 more weeks and I will stay in Utah working on getting orders out and getting the house back together. He’ll be back the 22^nd for School and then we’ll both be home at last! Hip Hip Hooray!