The Fray, New Job, and Boating....Oh My

Wow, I have a lot of catching up to do. It has been nice to be busy and having fun. On Saturday July 18th Clark and I went to see The Fray at Usana Amphitheatre. Lorie got discount tickets and was already going to take Katie for her 13th birthday so she asked if I wanted tickets to sit on the grass for $8. So I agreed thinking I know some of their songs, mostly the old ones, and I thought Clark liked them too. Well come to find out Clark doesn't really care for The Fray and wasn't too excited for the concert. But when I told him that it was going to be a big family affair he agreed to come along. I think he secretly enjoyed himself and he knew more songs than I did! Not sure who the first opening band was, but the second band was Jack's Mannequin. Apparently they are a big deal and everyone loves them. I had never really heard of them before. They were good, basically they sound like all the other bands out there. Kinda reminded me of Something Corporate since he played the piano (Sorry if you are a fan, they were good but I'm not saying I LOVE them). It was fun to just sit outside and enjoy the weather and music. Also note to self: Outdoor concerts equal great place to people watch! There were four girls in front of us that would not sit down! A girl behind us even walked down to them and asked them to sit down... they refused saying they paid for a ticket so they were going to stand. My thing is if you are paying for cheap seats to sit on the grass you can't stand the whole time. Plus they looked silly because half the time they just stood... no swaying to the music or clapping. Just standing. There were a few times when most everyone was standing so that is fine. But when you are the only ones standing you look ridiculous. Pay for the seats up close where everyone stands the whole time! There I said it!

Waiting for the concert to start laughing at the crazy people!

I stole these two pictures from my Dad!

Everyone that came L to R

Lorin, Paige, Tyler, Clark, Me, Allison, Dad, Lorie, JD, Mindy

and Katie and McKinley up front! Oh and Mindy's brother came with a date and he kindly took this embarrassing picture for us! You can tell we are all laughing because we turned to take the picture with the stage in the background, so we had half of the hill staring right back at us. It was pretty funny, especially when Brad had to move back a few times to fit all of us in the pic.

The next item of business to blog about is my new job! We are still managing the apartments but I got a part time job working at the Child and Family Support Center. This place is such a great resource to families in need. They offer parenting classes, counseling, step-family classes, nursery etc. Most things are free or a fee is paid of about $20. I'm really excited because this is basically what I am going to school for. To help kids and families! I will be working in the crisis nursery and I just hang out with little kids all day. The nursery is a place where parents can bring their kids if they are going through a crisis and feel like they need a break for a few hours no questions asked. We also get kids who have been abused and they can actually sleep at the center. I start on Tuesday so we will see how it goes.

And finally our boating trip to Newton Dam home to the finest green water in Cache Valley! The water looked pretty nasty but once you were in there, you didn't even notice. We were just excited to be boating! My cousin Paige and her husband Lorin invited us to go boating. Clark has been wanting to go all summer, and luckily Lorin's dad has a nice boat and he asked us to come along! We had so much fun. Seriously Clark can't stop talking about how much fun he had wake surfing! So thank you Paige and Lorin we really appreciated the invite :) The boating trip consisted of Lorin, Paige, their daughter Polly, Molly, Erin (my cousins, Paige's sisters), Lorin's Mom, Dad, and his brother Ross. It was a blast!

Here I am catching some "air". Ha ha it was my first time actually getting off of the water. The wake was pretty big so I didn't have to try hard, it just kind of popped me in the air. Clark took a video but I'm too embarrassed to put it on the blog. I think I look like a goof in it.

Clark wake surfing. This was his second time surfing and he did a really good job. The first time he went the wake wasn't big enough, so this time it was a lot easier.

This picture looks cool, like he is actually surfing in the ocean or something!

I didn't go boating at all last year, and I think only once the year before so it was so nice to be on a boat! I love boating so if any of you with a boat out there want to invite us we would love to go!!