white trash weekend

i'm a little late posting about our past few weeks, but that's ok.  last weekend we headed to brigham city for peach days.  i had never been before and josh hadn't even heard of it but we decided it was worth the 30 minute drive even just for a bushel of fresh peaches.  when we got there we met up with lindsey and ryan and mikkal and ben and were able to catch up for a bit.  lindsey and ryan have the cutest baby boy, reagan, and i know i have posted about him before but i can hardly stand how cute he is!  every time i see them, i want to hold reagan the whole time.  we're buds.  i only wish lindsey and ryan lived closer so we could play more often.

we then met up with jill and angie (some of my alaska girls and now good friends) and we played around the peach day festivities with them.  i love carnival food so i was in heaven and it was fun to walk around the little venues.  i especially love events like this so i can do some major people watching.  i was amazed at the level of white trash surrounding us.  i saw more nasty wife-beaters on fat old men and more butt cheeks hanging out of girls' shorts than i have seen in quite some time.  it was really quite entertaining.  this picture of us is pretty bad but i laugh when i see it because it shows our two personalities quite well (it's also the only picture we took at peach days).  josh is pulling the "i'm sick of this and want to go home" face while i'm saying "let's go get another funnel cake."

after playing at peach days for a bit, we headed back to logan where we wanted to attend yet another white trash event... the demolition derby.  another thing that has been on my list of "to-do's" but i'd never been.  it was a riot!  the place was packed and it was fun picking out the trucks/cars we wanted to win.  we saw a couple of trucks flip over and start on fire and that definitely got the crowd going.  i think we migrated from brigham city to logan with all the white trash people because many of them were at the derby too.  had we planned better, we would have dressed for the occasion.  josh said he wanted a pair of overalls and flannel shirts so he could fit in at those kind of events.  i shot that idea down instantly. 

like i said earlier, josh and i have been keeping ourselves busy with school and work.  well, me with school and him with work.  but i did find some time this week to do a little project that made me happy.  my manager at work has a sister getting married.  she wants silk flowers at her wedding and they knew that i do flower arranging and asked if i'd put together her bouquet and then later do the corsages and boutonnieres for the wedding day.  i was excited they asked me, but a little nervous that it wouldn't turn out how i had imagined.  i found some time thursday to go to the store, pick up some essentials, and put the bouquet together.  her colors are mostly green, brown, and a cream color with a little splash of red.  i worked on it for an hour or so and was quite pleased with how it turned out.  my manager and his wife loved it, too, which was a relief to me!  i've always wanted to do flower arranging and wedding flowers for a job but really haven't had too much time to invest in it so this was a fun way for me to get to do something i love to do.  josh even helped me out which i was very excited about.
we were also fortunate enough to have josh's aunt, cousin, and parents come up to visit us this week.  his aunt and cousin were here from california and they made a special trip to come see where we live, where we work, campus, and our lives up here.  it was fun to hang out with them because with them living in california, i haven't had a chance to get to know them very well.  i'm excited that his whole family lives in cali because now we have an excuse to go visit and a place to stay!!  it was fun having them all here and it was sad they had to leave so soon!

this weekend has been pretty low key.  josh and i had to work friday and saturday but we did make some time to watch a quite disappointing game between usu and utah last night.  we decided it probably wasn't worth our time to venture up to the stadium so we had kellan and shelly over to watch the game from the comforts of our living room.  we were grateful we weren't out in cold watching our fellow aggies fall to a 58-10 loss.  our football team is quite sad and everyone knows it.  but you can't help but have a little school pride even though you know you're going to lose.  josh and i both wore our utah state shirts but halfway through the game, i was tempted to put on my utah shirt.  i was raised a ute fan, but am now a true aggie so the game could have gone either way for me!