Break time.

Soooooo grateful for this little break that graced my presence this last weekend. Break from school. Break from homework. Break from eating healthy (Rik, do you ever eat healthy?) Break from dance. Break from work. Break from the gym. Break from chores. Break from a lack of sleep...etc. It was BLISSFUL!!! However, Black Friday shopping...not so blissful. Happy Turkey day to all y'all! Let the reviews, study sessions, and finals begin!

The best balloon fest ever.

Sometimes my family goes to the balloon fest in Provo and it's loads of fun. However, today was especially great. That's because when we got there, the balloons looked liked this...

But then the wind made them do this...

And the people started to jump out of their tipping baskets like this...

And this crazy man...

Started yelling at everyone to "get out of the way!" so they didn't get squished by the balloons like this...

....so help me if you get squished by a parachute as heavy as a feather.

Then kids started jumping on the deflating balloons like this...

And that was the end of the balloon fest. The whole thing lasted a total of 5 minutes and I'm so glad we were there to witness the hilarious sight. I wish my pictures did the experience justice, but Nik and I spent most of the time observing and laughing instead of snapping photos. It was a priceless sight to see people frantically hauling chairs, children, blankets, etc so they wouldn't get attacked by the balloons :). I hope you all had a great 4th of July today, I know me and Nik sure did.

Fireworks.

Every year for the past 5 or 6 years, my family has gone up to the Durrant's property to watch the Stadium of Fire. It's the best! We have the best seat in town. I'm sure it's great inside the stadium, but I'm convinced the show is better while eating tons of goodies, playing in the grass, and lounging on a blanket in the shade with friends and family.

 I kid you not when I say that I have 60 pictures worth of fireworks on my camera from last night. I mean they're cool, but not THAT cool. It's just that my mom kept saying "Oooo! Get that one!" every 5 seconds, and "Ah you missed a good one, be ready!", and "why did you take a picture of an ugly firework, get one like THAT, hurry!".  Eventually I gave up and just handed her the camera. But then words just flew out of my mouth like "Nice one mom! Keep going!" and "Did you get that one?!" I couldn't help myself... hence the millions of terrible (most of them turned out bad) firework pictures I have. It sure was fun though :)