CAMPING!!!

So it all started last Christmas... I got Jon sleeping bags for Christmas (thinking we'd be having lots of camping adventures). THEN we got a tent for our wedding! Yep, this meant we were BOUND to do lots of camping! But one problem... our last semester at BYU was snow filled (and Jon HATES being cold), in May we were apart (boo) and we left glorious Utah in June and moved to Mississippi. Oh don't worry- there are PLENTY of places to camp down there... but they were all in the sweltering heat with mosquitoes and gators. I know, I know, we're kind of wimpy. NEEDLESS to say, our tent and sleeping bags had not been used... UNTIL one beautiful day in Houston (high of about 60 degrees) we decided to go camping... on our BALCONY! (Give us a break it was kind of a last minute thing...)

You can see our tent through the sliding door

We roasted mallows...

Told ghost stories...

And tried to sleep on a really hard floor...turns out that normal ground is a lot softer than wooden planks ;)

Our Mom Visitors

Welp- sadly it has ended. I just took my mom back to the airport to return home :( These past two weeks both Jon's mom AND my mom paid us a visit- making it the best two weeks EVER. We don't get many visitors being way down here, but we're both SOOOOOO grateful that they were able to come out. Here are some pics of our many adventures with them in Houston....

We went over to the Houston temple...

Drove down to Galveston...

And played in the water!

Both at the ocean and in a rain storm!

Went to a play

Ate out with BOTH moms.... Pappasitos...

And PF Changs!

Made more yummy food at home...

And played lots of games!

THANKS FOR VISITING US MOMS! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE COME BACK ANYTIME!

U2 Concert

Despite Houston's bad traffic, there are a few perks that come with living in the 4th largest city in the nation... one of which includes that EVERYONE comes here for concerts- including the INFAMOUS U2!! Jon and I discovered that U2 would be in Houston while we were living in Mississippi this past summer, and jumped all over the opportunity. Thanks to eBay we found some good priced tickets on the FLOOR!! Needless to say, the concert was magical, Bono was incredible, and the beer drinkers and weed smokers next to us were an especially nice touch ;)

We just walked to the stadium... we live less than a mile away

Yeah, we're just a LITTLE excited

That's right! We're in the floor access line!

Our wrist bands to get onto the floor (and we're STILL wearing them!)

INSIDE!

The Muse opened for them... they were really good BUT...

U2 was AMAZING! That's Bono right there! 20 feet from us!!!

A.MAZ.ING

"With or without you...."

Yeah soo.. this place seats 90,000 people and I'm pretty sure EVERY seat was filled!

The Edge on guitar

"It's a beautiful day!"

And then their screen came down! Bah! Sooo coool...

Thoroughly enjoying ourselves

"Vertigo!"

"She moves in mysterious ways"

And it ended appropriately with both disco balls all lit up.... pretty much INCREDIBLE!!! What an awesome night!

Amelia's Debut as a Choreographer

Yep.. that's my name on the program right there. You'd better get my autograph now kuz I may just be famous one day.... hahaha yeah right. I've been working for the past couple of months with a kid's theatre company, "Kids Backporch Productions," helping them choreograph for their Biblical musical of Queen Esther called "Esther-Ordinary Faith." The kids were cute (and sometimes crazy to work with)... but it was a LOT of fun... even though it nearly consumed my life ;)

Here are some pics from their OPENING NIGHT!

 

 

 

 

Me and my cute little residents of Sousa

 

Piano!

We bought a piano off of Craig's list! Yeah, yeah I know... it's in our bedroom- we dont' exactly have room to put it anywhere else. BUT for the time being it works AND it's nice to have a finger work out again ;)

Land of gators...

SOO, before I taught my class on Friday- Jon and I went on a little walk down by Nassau Bay and ths is what we found! What looked like a cute lil' boardwalk on the side of the water...

was actually a DEATH trap!

It's ok... Jon fought them off with his bare hands...