trek, welcome to the us, new laser show

Well we haven't done too many exciting things lately since the last blog, but we did get to go up to Dalton GA to meet up with the Youth of our stake (Atlanta) and Marietta East stake for a pioneer trek where the kids pushed handcarts and had their own families and companies to take care of while the adults were their grandparents who weren't supposed to do much of the work, but walk. The kids ended up hiking in the mountains of GA for 21 miles over 2 days and the last day was testimony meeting and clean up day. Pete and I met up with them on the second day and hiked about 5 miles to look for them and then finally a truck caught up with us to give them their snack for the day and then we drove around in the back of this truck going super fast round these tight turns in the mountains overlooking deep drop offs... we said our "i love yous" just in case we fell out! But we finally got the right directions- due to the fact we were not told about one of the turns we needed to take! Finally caught up with them and then hiked the next five miles with them. I enjoyed it quite a bit as I was just in need of the exercise! Pete was there to be a "floating EMT" to make sure no one gets dehydrated and mend wounds. The only thing he had to do the whole time was tape up some girls knee after she biffed it when her foot got caught on the rope.

It was mine and Pete's first official "camp out" together and we got to use our tent again! but we did not sleep well due to the super hard ground that killed my back! But it was an experience anyways. After we got home we got to enjoy an evening with Whit and her family as Yvonne Tutt (her mom) finally got her citizenship in the US!!! whooo hooo! so we had a big ol party for her and whit and nate trust got her some fun festive things on sale from 4th of July to give to her.

This last weekend after a full weeks worth of work, softball, and basketball we got to play with some friends! After a sweltering hott game of tennis... THAT I WON!!! (1st time ever!) we went to Frontera and Stone Mountain with Dallin, Michelle, Jeff Neff, and Rach Fairclough and also met up with Nate and the King sisters at the laser show. The new laser show itself is quite dissapointing... i like some of the new things like how they put a few more songs in, but i don't like how they took some of the old fun sing a longs out... AND worst of all they switched the version of "devil went down to GA" to some rock singer and I really did not approve. They also added this thing that lasted forever with the chic fil a cows that did impersonations of all these movies like pirates 3, gone with the wind, and some others i don't remember and it was cheesy and made you chuckle.. but overall sorta lame. And to end it all they have i think it was charlotte church (good singer right!?) sing the national anthem but they used a version with a 2nd verse she made up to go along with todays society and it just went on and on and on! But it's stone mountain.. and they still have the Dixie song and the civil war stuff with the sword breaking part.. so once that goes... idk how excited i'll be to go to the show anymore!

Anyways Saturday Pete worked and i had nothing to do but... to read the new twilight book Breaking Dawn... yeah and i finished it that night. So i read from 10:30 in the morning with a few breaks till 1:00 that night and finished all 750 pages! it was just superb!!! I was very pleased with the book and the closure and the new exciting things that happened and it just made me so happy!!

Then sunday after church i got to see Lindsay and Alysa who i haven't seen in a long time and whitney was there while pete and nate got to play their ping pong games like they always do- it is quite competitive!

Work this week- got to watch space chimps- sorta lame (i liked walle better) just got done with Mountasia with put putt, arcade games, go karts and bumper boats- but they weren't working :( Pete has also gotten another fire lately in which he got to punch out a window to let some smoke escape and one where lighting hit a house and he had to move out a crispy motorcycle and cabinets out before they took out the roof and drywall like usual.

Sports- we are tied for 1st for softball and kickin trash lately- Stacy has aided our teams winning twice now and done a great job when we need her as a sub (and i got to play 1st like old times!!) Pete is going to be in the championship game tonight in the hammond park league and i really hope he wins cause they always do so good in the season then loose the last game... so hopefully that's not the case this time!

Well that's it! only two more days of nannying for me before the kids start school up again and i a back to ASP (after school program)!