Reflections of July

I can't believe it is the end of July already and less than a month from now the kids will be back in school. I don't know how time goes so fast but it seems to fly by and now I am realizing how behind I am in my blog, there has been so much going on around here this month and I have just not kept up in my journaling.
We now have another addition to our family-we got a Chiuaha on the 20th after lots of consideration and looking online and etc we got her from a pet store in Missoula-she is very loved and gets lots of attention..she is so adorable!!! Her name is Naya-pronounced Niya.
Our Niece got married and what a beautiful wedding, it was better than a fairytale. The place they were married was in the mountains near a small creek with lots of trees and grass-a place I had dreamed of myself of a wedding when I was younger. They went on a Carribean cruise for their honeymoon.
We have not had such great luck with our 4-H pigs this Summer and it has all been within a month and half-we have lost 3 of our pigs and used to have 6 so that each child could take 2 to our fair. They got a disease that pigs get that is common to Pneumonia and is very contagious we found all this out after finally having the last one that died tested and autopsied-we put the other 3 on medicine right away-Tylan and had to get that from the vet in Missoula. Our fair is only 2 weeks away and we are keeping the faith that all will go well. The vet said that they will not be contagious by the fair and the medicine will be out of their system so that they can still go to market. We have lost alot on these pigs this year and what a hard way to learn what they can get, there are actually alot of diseases they can get that just amazes me. The first sign we noticed with them is that they went off their feed and just moped around.
We had a great time with our family that came for the 4th-I love that holiday!! We BBQ'd
some steaks, corn on the cob and had a potatoe salad that my sister in law brought and then had ice cream for dessert. We went to the fireworks and then came home and did our own..very fun!
Yesterday the kids and I and a couple of their cousins went to Splash Montana and had a blast-we were very leary on going in the first place cause it wasn't very warm and the wind was blowing but the water was heated and it was great. I got some awesome pics. and will have to put them on later cause they are not on my computer yet. The new pool was open there and it is HUGE-it's called the Lake, I am so hoping we can get there again before Summer ends.
This month has been very busy and it seems like we have been going going all the time and my house looks like it too-yep, I have clothes on the couch that need put away and my scrapbook room is a mess. I think I have some serious organizing to do and then I can actually sit down and do something in there.
So that is my update for the month of July

Summer of Weddings

Last night my friend needed help with her daughters rehearsal dinner, she needed servers for the Prime rib dinner that she had made for her daughter and fiance. We got to the restaurant and we were locked out so her husband went and got the key and then it was a mad rush for us to get the place all set up and tables decorated..it turned out beautiful! Pink tables with rose petals and floating candles in the center of the table in a big beautiful glass vase. We did it in great time and got the last one done as the bride and her fiance and their wedding party came through the door. Me and my girls and another gal that we knew started serving up the plates for everyone..Prime rib, fresh asparagus, garlic potatoes and some rice too and rolls then for (what my girls called) a decoration some fresh parsley on the side of the plate. I stayed in the kitchen and the girls took the plates out as we dished them up-they did a great job. The to be bride just loved it all and even gave the girls a little thank you gift. We have known them for almost 11 yrs. and it amazes me where the time goes..it is hard to believe that tomorrow night she will be a new bride. Our niece is also getting married tomorrow at the same time in a different place and since our oldest daughter went to school with my friends daughter she was really wanting to attend her wedding-I don't think this would go over too well with my husbands side of the family. I am looking forward to Christy's wedding tomorrow-she is a special girl and I used to babysit her when she was a little girl-again, where did the time go? I love weddings so much and especially when it is family..there is something in that which makes me get all teary eyed. Besides these two weddings this Summer we attended one other and will also be going to my step brothers in August and have been asked to be the photographer. I hope my camera holds up and gets faster...lol it has such a slow shutter speed it seems like lately and this could be really annoying, I can just see me saying oh just a minute hold that smile or that pose or don't drop her I am waiting for my camera. I really hope not!
I will have photos to post later of the wedding but that is my blog for today-Weddings of friends and family.

Back on the scrapping track:-)

Tonight I finally spent some time in my scrapbook room working on some pages and it was really nice being able to get something done. I put together some pages that I had bought a few weeks ago at Scrapbook Hideaway-I love the Presto Packs, they are so much fun and Gina is so talented putting them together for everyone to do. I got the Easter and Happy Birthday packs and now will have to find some photos to go on them:-)
I also did a school page and put away some things that were taking over my scrapbook room and couldn't work til they were put away, I don't know where all of my stuff has come from..all of a sudden I have so much that I could almost open a store with it..Yikes! I am setting some challenges for myself for the rest of Summer to work on the supplies I have already and put pages together with what I have in my room-Use my imagination..maybe grab some things and whatever I pick up I will have to put together a LO with it-this sounds like a definite challenge to me:-) I have alot of paper, stickers, rub ons, ribbon, glitter, and now that I am a CM consultant I have albums and pages to use so I have no excuse..time to get those pictures scrapped. I am going to be uploading them after I have enought to put on my camera since it makes no sense for me to take a photo of my LO's one at a time and put on my blog..i am a serious photo girl and take Alot of photos so taking one each time I finish a LO makes no sense-guess I have alot to get done, it will be part of my day along with my housework and other chores during the day. If you don't hear from me for awhile you will know I am buried in my scraproom working on projects..Just kidding! I will be uploading LO's soon:-)

The day before my favorite holiday

I am so excited about tomorrow..I love this holiday!! Being with family and watching the fireworks, where we live they have an awesome firework show-it is the BEST one I have ever seen and seems like every yr. it gets better and better. At the end it is almost like they are falling right down on you because the finale is so amazing and non stop. Have you ever seen those weeping willow trees? That is what this is like except everywhere. People cheering and clapping-You can just feel the patriotism-I love the USA and am so thankful to live where we do. I am a music kinda girl too and that is what makes this show so spectacular-music along with fireworks-it is the good music with songs about America, soldiers and the things about the USA that makes you get chills and even tears in your eyes. Last year I took some photos of the fireworks but I also did some video on my camera and WOW this was really awesome to have the actual event on tape but as for now here are some photos from the 4th of 2007..these are my photos(only a few of many) that I still need to scrapbook. Hmm sounds like I have a project to work on very soon.