I Know, I am Totally Lame

I have been bad about blogging but I don't feel like I have anything to blog about. This is just a post to put something new on the blog. I have become a major TV lover...but I have also been reading a lot so there is some balance in my life. Here are my shows for the fall.

Community

And there are a few more I am ashamed to mention.

I have recently read these books

I am currently reading

And I'm about to read this

Washington

We got to spend some time in Washington with Chris's family and we had loads of fun. The main event was camping in Fort Spokane. I think most people know that I am not fond of camping but I still had fun and it was just nice to spend the week with family. Here are some things we did and things we saw

When the sun was out it was really hot but once the clouds came I had to get bundled up! Luckily the water was pretty warm so I actually got in.

Fishing, I did not take part in this.

Playing Mexican Train at night. I don't know what Joshua is doing.

We're just hanging out in our tent waiting for the rain to pass. There was some incredible thunder, I loved it!

And when we weren't camping we were finding Banana Slugs, going to the Ballard Locks, going to tide-pools, and checking out the lucky pig at Pike's market.

We had a really great time and we miss all you Lanshes and Bredensteiners already!

Hairs Cut

I had the most wonderful hair-stylist when I lived in Utah. Since living in LA I haven't found anyone that I love quite as much, or if I like them they are too expensive for me. My bangs are covering my eyes and I am in desperate need of a haircut!

Does anyone have someone they love in the LA area? How much do they charge for just a cut?

4th of July and Birthday

The holiday weekend was tons of fun! Every time the whole family gets together it always ends too soon and I get a little sad that next Fall we will be moving away. I'll just enjoy living close to them while I can.

To start the weekend Chris and I had our "engagement" photos taken by my talented sister and sister-in-law, Diane and Lacy. If you want to look at more pictures by Diane you can find them here. We had some fun and escaped with minor injuries (Lacy got stung by a bee!).



We planned to have my brother-in-law's family over for a 4th of July pool party and BBQ but the morning of we found out that one of the Jones family had the swine flu! So it was just the Ranes swimming and eating way too much food. My BFF Shelly spent the weekend with us too and she found out her twin brother had Swine Flu on the same day! Then I found out that Ron Weasley had Swine flu! I know, crazy.

On Sunday we had a combined birthday party for Scott, me, and Talie (June 30, July 6, July 12). Thanks for making my favorite cake Dad and for the waffle iron mom! I've been itching for a waffle iron since Chris and I got married.



We played games, swam, ate, and had a great time all weekend. The boys played golf on Friday and Chris managed to hit someone with his golf ball and nearly hit a ball into someone's house through an open window. It was a very eventful round of golf.


On my actual birthday, Chris managed to get off work early enough to take me to a delicious dinner and spend the evening with me. My birthday present this year was me getting to shop, shop, shop and then Chris got to decide what I kept. I made out like a theif in the shoe department and also got nice pair of jeans and a shirt.

Wow, the music legend has died. I remember listening to the Jackson 5 when I was really young and never stopped loving his music. If I could see any concert ever I would pick Michael Jackson back when he was in his prime.

How did my favorite dance end up in the bottom? What is wrong with you voters!? How could you not put Phillip and Jeanine in the bottom. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

SYTYCD Predictions

Week 2:
I am just going to make some predictions about who will be in the bottom tonight.

1. Phillip and Jeanine: Tango.
This was one of the most painfully bad dances I've seen on the show. Mary said she thought Jeanine kept in character but I felt like her "seductive" face was a little scary.

2. Jason & Caitlin: Hip Hop
This was just ok and the judges didn't seem to like it. I hope they don't leave because I absolutely loved their Bollywood number last week.

3. I can't decide on a third because I felt like there were several mediocre dances.

These were my 2 favorites from this week.

Brandon and Janette: Disco

They had so much energy it was incredible! I'm glad Lil C finally admitted that Brandon is good.

Max and Kayla: Pop Jazz
I love this kind of funky character dance and I think they did it very very well. I couldn't get over how terrible Max's outfit was, it made him look so feminine, blah!

I found myself disagreeing with the judges a lot last night. For example, I thought Evan and Randi did the Jive really well but Mary and Nigel didn't seem to think so. Also, I thought Melissa was boring in her Jazz dance with Ade but the judges thought she did great. Whatev, we'll see how people voted tonight!