1) Last Day of Work!= TODAY!
2) Magic Mt!= TOMORROW
3) Fres-yes!= TOMORROW NIGHT
4) Vegas!= MONDAY
5) Provo!= TUESDAY
6) ONE WHOLE WEEK OF AN ACTUAL SUMMER!= NEXT WEEK

I cannot wait! I never thought I would see the day that I would be counting down to get back to Fresno. But that day has actually come, and I only have one more day to count. We'll only be there for a day, but I wanted to see my family one last time before Luke and I head off to school, b/c I won't see them again until Christmas!

And I surprise myself every summer when I find that I can't wait to get back to Provo. Everyone's always so anxious to get out of that place by the end of Winter semester (mostly to escape from the dreadful weather), yet I've always found myself anxious to get back. This year will be especially exciting b/c WE'RE MARRIED! That entails:

-married ward
-married friends
-married housing
-married... just about everything.

We're excited for everything that's ahead, but especially excited for the next week or so! Bring on the fun! and a full week of no work for either of us! Summer has begun!

The Latest....

Yesterday morning as I was folding laundry and cleaning up, I heard "vroooom vrrooooom" outside our apartment, and I knew just what it was. Luke and his friend, Bobby had been working on their pit bikes, and by the sound of it, I assumed that they had gotten them working. I decided to step outside on our balcony like a good wifey and watch Luke ride around the parking lot, when I saw this:
a dead....rabbit?

I couldn't really tell what kind of animal it was.. but I was sad for it, annnnd also kind of interested. So as soon as Luke was finished playing with his bike and had come back home, I told him he had to see this. We went downstairs to the bushes beneath our balcony and scoped it out. Instantly I knew I was going to get made fun of.. It was some poor little child's stuffed animal that had conveniently been dropped right outside our apt.

I should have known better... why would any animal, in its last attempt at life, jump up and through the bushes to end its life peacefully sprawled out over the greenery? Its positioning made no sense. What a fool I am, to have fallen for the little child's unintentional "dead-rabbit" trick.

Anyways... This past weekend was adventurous. Luke and I drove to Santa Monica on Sunday to spend the day with my sister and brother-in-law. Church seemed to provide an equal amount of entertainment as it did spiritual growth as quite a few funny things happened throughout the day.

We spent the afternoon with them, ate lunner? (lunch/dinner?), walked NEAR the beach, took a few unprepared-for photos,




(I have no idea why the quality of these pics are turning out so bad..)

ate some delicious fondue, and eventually were on our way back to Rancho. We hope to see Hen and Jared again soon as we've made Labor Day plans together! Woo hoo!

The upcoming weekend will provide GREAT fun as well! We only have about 4 days of work left (give or take..) so we'll be packing up the rest of the week, head to Magic Mt on Saturday and then up to Fresno to see my family one last time before going off to school! Yippee!

As for tonight: we plan on getting lucky and seeing a few shooting stars as tonight is supposed to be prime time to see the Perseid meteor shower! I hope we can escape enough of the city lights to see atleast a few!

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