Edwards Haps and Mishaps

I hope you all had a fantastic 4th of July!! our weekend was pretty good…the weather wasn’t so great at times…but it was still fun! We wanted to go camping on Friday night but it turned out to be a night full of lightning and thunder…probably not good to be sleeping under a bunch of trees! Saturday night we went and hiked up onto a mountain and watched the Stadium of Fire. It was pretty neat to watch from up high, except we got there around 8 and the fireworks didnt start until 10…so we sat up there on a jagged rock and Shaun was starving but we didnt want to miss the fireworks so we just sat there for a couple of hours…not really knowing when they would actually start!

Sunday we went to church and then drove up to Kaysville to visit the mom and dad Edwards…and Taylor and Dan…and Beamer…and dad just got back from Europe and gave us all the chocolate we could eat basically! We have already polished off all the candy we got and i was really tempted to break into the one we brought down for Christer and Cat…but i was strong and i held back! That was fun to visit them.

Monday night we wanted to go camping and the weather would be fine, so I went and drove all through the alpine loop searching for a spot…only one campground had three spots and they were all so close together and not worth it…so i drove around in a hot car for over two hours in vain! That was pretty frustrating, but oh well. we were able to go on a 20 mile bike ride in the morning and enjoy Provo Canyon, that was really nice! All in all we had a fun 4th of July. We barbecued with the neighbors and watched our other neighbors light off illegal fireworks (hoping the cops wouldn’t show up.)

I hope you all had fun! Strazzo fam…you need to come to Utah to visit soon…i dont know if august is soon enough! Just kidding, its only about a month away so i can handle it! Well, i love you all and hope you are doing well! Take care!

Hey, I put some new pictures from Memorial Day weekend and from this past weekend on the Webshots Gallery so feel free to look and see what we have been up to! We love you all and hope you are doing well, and Kelsey, you should move to Utah, that’s my and Shaun’s decision. You dont have any say in it! :)

YAY!!! i went to my last weekend of instructor training and i did a whole lot better this weekend than last! I still dont feel ready to try out and teach at 24 Hour…but i think i will get the relief society in my ward together once a week or something! that would be some good practice! Anyway, we had a pretty good weekend…i thought…we went to a parade and fair in Orem on Saturday night. I think every single family from Provo to American Fork was there…it was so stinkin’ crowded and there were people from all walks of life there! It was fun to watch all the different people. Sunday we hung out with Cooper and Alisha and little Jenelle, she is one cute little girl!! Our weekend wasn’t too exciting on paper but it was a good weekend! I hope yours was fun and exciting as well! Mom Edwards…if you guys need more help on your backyard let us know! we are excited to come up and sit on the grass when it’s in and just hang out in the backyard when the sun is going down (if the mosquitos dont eat us!!!) Ok, well i love you all and hope you are doing well!!

My husband is just way too nice! I don’t think he knows how much i love and appriciate him! As i was away most of the weekend for that instructor training he kept cleaning the house so it looked marvelous every time i came back! He has been making me lunch..he went to the store at 7 in the morning just to get food for my lunch! he is the best! I love a clean house and a good lunch and i love Shaun even more!!

As i mentioned above, i went to an instructor training for 24 hour fitness this past weekend…and i go back next weekend! I was pooped by the end! We worked on step aerobics as well as cardio classes…i had to stand in front of everyone and instruct them on what move was next…while starting on the right count and remembering what comes next, and cueing on time, and being upbeat, and adding in motivational cues…let me tell you, it was crazy! I thought that since i have danced and done cheer and just moved to music a lot that the music would be the easiest part. Nope. It was a lot harder than it looks! oh well, i will just keep on practicing! I have wanted to be a fitness instructor for a long time now so i am not giving up! I want to help people feel good about themselves!

Well, i love you all and hope you are doing well! Take care!

Yesterday was our friend Tanya Warren’s birthday. She had a Harry Potter birthday party and she went ALL OUT! we had licorice wands, chocolate frogs, cockroach clusters, basilisk eggs, acid pops, we were sorted into Houses by the sorting hat, there was an herbology station and a Divination table…we played Harry Potter Scene It..and it was just really fun…and funny!

So, we had a really good weekend! We planned to go camping in Gerogetown, ID where Ryan Robison’s parents own some land. We were all pretty excited to get away for the weekend…however, the weather wasn’t so great! It was cold and drizzly…so eventually Shaun and I headed out. We spent Sunday in Kaysville and Dad made a great pot roast!

Later that day we went for a drive and ended up in Benjamin, UT. We found their cemetary and went for a walk to look at all the veterans. Benjamin was a blessed town because of all the veterans that went to fight in all the wars since…gosh, i dont know when (the civil war was on there), only 4 were killed. It was really neat to see all these people who fought for our country. On TV all weekend there were war movies…so we watched “Saints and Soldiers” and a special about saints at war…I really felt like we were able to think of the veterans this weekend rather than just consider it a 3-day weekend.

We hiked the Y on Monday and we have some pictures which i’ll put up when I can get them on the computer! We also played golf and bocce ball at the pak with Cooper, Alisha, and little Jenelle, and then we went to Toole to visit Kyle, Rachel, Molly, and Matt…and all their little ones! That was fun too…I think altogether we had a pretty good and action packed weekend!

I hope yours was just as good!

Its funny because I am here at work with well, not really a whole lot to do…and it has been like this most of the week, I have just been pretty bored HOWEVER, I have accomplished more this week than any other week here. I feel like I am getting way too much credit. I try and get affidavits for “success stories.” I broke my week record and have had 11 affidavits come in this week. I also had one lady who LOVES Prosper send in a an autographed headshot (she’s a comedian) so we could put her success story up in our lobby with her headshot. I have had 2 people send me pictures of their investment properties to go along with their stories…and everyone thinks this is fantastic and that I am working really really hard to get all this done! I send out an e-mail or give a call that may take 5 minutes of my 8 hour day so I feel kind of bad that it looks like I am doing a lot more than I probably am. Hmmm…oh well! Not sure why I wrote this, I guess it has just been on my mind today as I feel I have accomplished little this week when “on paper” I really have done a lot!

I am at work right now…pretty bored…i have work to do but it just gets SO repetitive!! Oh well, i hope Mom Edwards is doing well after surgery and we are excited to see Kerstin! We are also excited to go to the beach soon and to see the Strazzo clan…and little Baby J…and not much is going on. Shaun might get a story printed in the Daily Universe…we’ll keep you all posted on that! Well, i love you all and i am so happy to have married into a great family! We pray for you all and hope you are doing well!

This is so cool! we have a website! I am at work right now…workin’ hard (listening to all to crazy old coaches around me cracking jokes to eachother and laughing really hard like they are funny…and they’re not) Oh well, i have my own little cubicle and picture of my cute husband on my desk!