doing: messing around on the computer for the morning.
feeling: SO very tired! my sleep needs to catch back up with me SOON!
listening to: Mikes computer game... the guy on there has a little bit of a creepy voice.

the week has been a little crazy. i dont feel like i've slowed down for a few days now! i feel like theres so much to fit into these first few weeks of August that we can't stop or we'll miss it all!

first stop, the Nationals! i love the Nationals, i'm a wierd one. i love all the people, the stands, the races, the randomness that the town gets into! and i LOVE Sunday morning about 10:00 when there isn't even a whisper of anyone even left in town! haha! i told Matt i wish we had a tall house so we could sit up there and just watch all the campers scatter.

we, again, had our awesome campers in the backyard! we love them! they are so fun and so easy to get along with! i've known Justin since high school and i'm so happy every year when him and his family(inculding his super sweet wife) come and stay with us in August! on my list of "reasons to NOT move" they are one of them! i'd be so sad if we moved far away from the track and they couldn't camp with us anymore!

also, as you know, Mike is home. since we can't really "show him around" knoxville-since he's from here-we've just been cooking him food and letting him sleep in late! it's really been fun and so easy to have him here. he is part of the family and he just flows right into our routine. we'll all be sad to see him go, he's leaving wednesday. but its been great to have him here. because he got to be back for the Nationals this year, i'm pretty positive he's consumed more alchohol these last 2 weeks than he has for pry the last year. ........what are friends for?!
on my list of "reasons TO move" having a guest room for Mike so he doesn't have to sleep on the couch is one of the tops!

work has been long. August has been killing us. but we're making it, and people have been happy with their stuff, so that makes us happy! as soon as school starts our schedule will clear up in a snap! that will make us happy becuase we'll be able to get caught up on orders and things and still have time for that stuff we've been having to put off. this time of the year makes us thankful, because if we were slow at this time we'd be in serious trouble!

at home things have been good. Ethan's just starting to come out of his " i don't need food " phase. however, the 24 hour rottenness hasn't subsided yet. he was so awful yesterday i thought i might explode! and of course this morning he's been sweet as sugar-just so he could go to the fair with G&G Russell! rotten.

of all the things we are fitting into our August the State Fair is one of them. we went yesterday simply because it was NICE outside! i figured we'd better take it while we can because the rest of the week might be 100+ temps again. so we went, we ate, we walked around, we did the fair.

i haven't been too excited about things lately. there was a Hanson concert earlier this month, Aerosmith will be in Omaha this weekend - and neither one i really "cared" to see. sure i wanted to go,... but i just didn't care to push the subject too much on Matt. it sort of makes me sad. and the fair was one too. i wanted to go because i always want to go. but i wansn't planning out my food intake like i usually do. and the one thing i really wanted i let go of pretty quick because there was a long line. i got my lemonade and mini donuts though so i came home happy!

well, i think i should do soemthing with my day off. and Matt will be home in an hour for lunch.... so i need to figure that out too.

i'm just so lazy though!! haha!


Matt and Ethan at the Nationals parade on Saturday


Me and Matt


Ethan and I working on floating!