July 16th: Emily Powell turns 10!!!!

I hope you had a great birthday up at camp, Emily!! I can't believe you are now in double digits. I bet yours and YaYa's birthday party will be most excellent and I hope you get lots of cool presents. I found this picture of the last time we were in Colorado together (you have sure grown up since then, huh?). I can't wait until you guys get here ~ we will have so much fun :)

Sunday July 22nd: The Bennett's (even Holly came out and went with us ~ YEAH!!!) and I went to Cheyenne Frontier Days, the "Daddy of 'em All" (it's a big country fair/festival).

We went to the rodeo in the afternoon and that was interesting! I don't know how those cowboys do that day-in and day-out, especially those bull riders ~ hose bulls are mean and huge!! The clowns were entertaining...

The Thunderbird jets flew over the stadium several times and that was really cool (they got pretty darn close!)

We cruised around the fairgrounds and played a few games ~ boy were we pathetic!! Maybe it was the heat, but we didn't even win one prize. But we had lots of good laughs; don't worry Bennetts: what happens in Cheyenne stays in Cheyenne!!

We went to the Trisha and Reba concert in the evening. The concert did not start out so good(although it had nothing to do with Trisha ~ she is fantastic!!). I don't think the speakers by our section were turned on and although we could hear the music, we couldn't hear anything when she was talking. This was in part due to the speakers but also because there were two extrememly annoying girls sitting directly behind us that were yapping and texting non-stop. They were singing wrong versus and loud and off-key (which normally wouldn't be a problem if the music was loud).

We ended up moving and then they ended up leaving so it turned out to be another good concert!! The concert highlight for me was the duet Trisha did with Reba ~ "does he love you". It was also raining pretty good with lightening and thunder so it was a neat setting.

Well Bennett's: another good summer concert. I'm glad you guys are out here (to take me to concerts, to cook me good steak dinners and to ride around in your truck ~ it is much bigger than mine!)

Moved into the House!!

Week of July 4th:

I closed on the house Monday mid-morning and the movers came Monday afternoon. I spent the entire week unpacking and having lots of stuff installed and delivered. The week went by very quickly but I was able to get a ton of stuff done. I was able to watch the fireworks from the deck!! It was very cool because I was exhausted and I didn't have to go very far to get an awesome view (I could actually see several other local shows in the distance). But I wasn't able to get any good pictures of the fireworks.

A few times a week, I see Hot Air Balloons in the morning and Skydivers in the afternoons from the deck. It is very pretty...