the 4th!!

Precursory information: I love July 4th!  Always have.  Except this one was quite different than the usual.

This was the first 4th I have spent away from Rochester in a very very very long time.  Longer than I can remember.  When we are there we have a great day grilling and partying with friends and family and then we spend the majority of the evening at Silver Lake eating and playing games and watching fireworks and then getting stuck in traffic for the next 2 hours.  I love it.  It's predictable and I wouldn't have it any other way.

So how did we celebrate in our home away from home?

Well we grilled steaks and ate on our porch, which was delightful.  Then I really wanted to watch fireworks so we decided we would try to find a good spot to park and watch the show in Murray.  We didn't want to leave our car in case one of these wildfires broke out and we needed to make a quick drive out of state...  We found an awesome parking spot by a cemetery and right when the show started we noticed that our view was obstructed.

Giant tree right in the line of fire.  Seriously it was disappointing to say the least.  My pregnant hormones burst me into tears so we moved on to find a new spot.

We drove and drove for like 10 minutes (as a tearfully watched out the back window) and finally found a wonderful spot to watch the fireworks...

We pulled over on a very busy, loud state street and had the beautiful backdrop of best buy below for the remainder of our firework show.  It wasn't as glamorous as years past on a poo-filled silver lake, but it did suffice.

Needless to say it was a wonderful first fireworks away from home.  Our backdrop may have been ugly, but to me it looked a little something like this...

God bless america!

haley Johnson

just sitting around...

First off, for those who do not know, ABC family is doing a Harry Potter marathon.  So I'm watching that and flipping channels during the commercials.  What's on now?  Goblet of Fire

During one of those channel changes I happened to stumble upon a history channel clip of Balto, and yes, I did burst into tears during it.  That dog was amazing and totally deserves a show on the history channel and a statue in New York.

For those who do not know, when ABC family plays Harry Potter they include lots of deleted scenes.  Here is one of those gems that I laughed pretty hard at.  It's right after the durmstrang and beauxbatons students showed up.  Hogwarts welcomes them by singing the school song.  What to look for:
1) Malfoy's face
2) Either Crabbe or Goyle's excitement...(i can't tell them apart)
3) The hand motions

Love it!!
Haley Johnson

What a wonderful couple of days

Aside from the many things I have to do, there have been some good things these past few days.  Let me start with:

1. It was rainy so I got to try out my new coat that it's been too hot to wear!
2. Because it was so rainy, we went to get chinese food.  Ok that's a terrible reason, let's be honest, we were too lazy to cook and my feet were wet.  HENCE we got chinese food. (ps this is a picture of a raindrop cowboy riding an H2O molecule...enjoy!)

3. The owners of our favorite chinese place just had a baby boy that morning!  And the pictures were adorable, and the dad was in a great mood and he gave me extra steamed rice when I took my leftovers.  What a man!
4. I woke up and I was FREEZING this morning!  How wonderful!!! I missed that feeling of death freezing like I miss a lot of stuff.

5. Me and Mike went to Target, one of my favorite stores alive!

5.2 We bought Stephen's hot chocolate, one of my favorite hot drinks.

5.3 We drank hot chocolate!!!  (for night and morning)
6. I ate leftover chinese food for breakfast this morning!
7. I wore boots to school and I loved it!!! I felt like my feet were sleeping in bed all day!
8. I heard a little bird in the math hallway declare it was snowing.  I promptly ran out of the computer lab and straight to a door in the hall.  True enough, it was snowing and I almost wet my pants I was so happy! (I love the first few snows!)  In true memory of my mom, I am listening to Christmas music now.
9. Snow is not on the ground, BUT it is stuck on the mountains...so beautiful!

10. Provo tabernacle is turning into a temple and every time I drive by those burned-up ruins I want to sing the Hallelujah chorus!!  That will be my favorite temple alive!


few downsides: One of the coat buttons is not attached correctly, so it's about to fall off.  I didn't work half as much as I wanted to this week.  My fortune cookie basically called me a prostitute (you will be rewarded for the special gifts you give to others...clearly prostitution).  I almost slipped in the rain like 6 times.  My phone went off in class........I'll stop there.

HaleyJ  :)

What a fun night!

Well, I kind of worked a lot today, and I went to school, but my I had a grand night.  First I met up ERIN, then we went to my place and enchilada'ed it up.  Nachos and the whole 9-yards.  Then we went to the football game and I enjoyed a giant bag of peanut M&M's, and I'm pretty sure it couldn't have gotten any better.  Then BYU played pretty champ-like during the last quarter of the football game and then BYU kinda beat utah state AND cosmo had a mullet coming out the back of his neck.  I don't think I missed anything in that recap.  So tomorrow I am going to wake up early (9am) and eat both a plate full of bacon and waffles.  Oh what a beautiful conference morning!

haleyJ out!