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As you can tell, we go to lots of concerts! Last night we went to Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack for the Cross Canadian Ragweed Concert. It was really good, we had a great time! I met the lead singer and bass player, but of course didn't have my camera at the time. I was coming out of the bathroom and there they were! Brian has a new potential drummer named Dustin, he is pictured below with his girlfriend Stephanie, Brian, and Jason. I did get a demo to CCR before we left, so hopefully Brian will get a call!
The view from our booth.
The lead singer Cody Canada
We were up close to the stage in this pic and the previous one (in case you couldn't tell)




I talked to Jeremy today and he is doing good. Still no news on when he will be home, but we are hoping for July 5th...Which would mean that Jeremy will be home in 38 days!!

Riverfest 2008

Well we had a long weekend! We attended all 3 days of riverfest and I am so tired! The first night was great, we saw Shooter Jennings and Sawyer Brown. Shooter was great we were close to the stage and had a great view! Sawyer Brown was great too, he sang some older country songs and he is really funny.

This is Shooter Jennings (Waylon Jenning's son). He is actually really good. Their band has a 70's/country feel to it. Brian, Calvin(his friend) and I really enjoyed it!

This is the lead singer in Sawyer Brown
On Saturday night Ashley and I saw Jake Owen and Miranda Lambert (one of my favorite singers ever!) We had good seats and didn't have to stand up at all. There were more people there Saturday night too. Brian and his friends saw One Republic across the river.

Sunday night was insane! I have never in my life seen so many people crammed into a place. Once we got far enough in, I realized I wanted to go back to the car. Brian and his friend Jason were already close to the stage for ZZ top, we dropped them off to "get us a good seat". Ryan(another one of Brian's friends) stayed with me and Ashley so we wouldn't have to walk by ourselves. We walked as far as we could until the crowd came to a stand still and turned around. A guy gave us $13 in food and beverage tickets because he didn't want to deal with the crowd. I will not be back at Riverfest on a Sunday night for awhile probably. It isn't worth it!! I can't figure out why it was so crowded. Was it ZZ top and the fireworks or was it that people don't have to work Monday? This picture is before it got really bad.
Ashley took this picture of them, I found it really funny that everyone was totally exhausted. My clothes were literally soaked with sweat, crazy humidity hair, sticky from being so close to people, dirty, and very sore from the previous days of walking. The guys couldn't even deal with the closeness of the crowd. After 5 songs they couldn't take it anymore and called us to pick them up (Ashley, Ryan and I were already driving around). That started the game of cat and mouse. We were on our cell phones fighting traffic trying to find each other. Finally, we got to the same intersection after Brian and Jason ran forever carrying chairs and blankets trying to get to us and beat the red lights. When the light turned green they were almost to me but I had to go :) and they had to back track a little to get to us. I don't know why but I was getting a kick out of the madness. Ryan was hanging out the sun roof calling for them and scaring the heck out of everyone around us. The picture below is right after we picked them up (Jason is on the right, still holding onto one of the chairs they were hauling around....Ryan is in the middle and Brian on the left).

Once we were all together again we realized we had a total of $28 in tickets we had not used. So naturally I drove over the river and dropped Brian and Ashley off at the other gate to go in and get stuff.This took awhile and they finally met back up with us as the fireworks were going off. What to do now? All we wanted to do was GO HOME. What a night.

Thunderstorm Warning

So this storm came out of nowhere! It scared me. I grabbed grandma's camera once I got to their house (where I always go when it storms). Grandpa and I watched Deal or no Deal once the satellite signal came back :). It got dark really quickly and the rain was pouring off their house.


It was like 7:00 when I took these pictures. Waayyy too dark for 7:00 p.m.!!

First trip to the lake 2008

Jana and I headed out to Lake Degray early Tuesday morning. The day was beautiful and we had a blast swimming at the little beach area close to our camp site. Andrew arrived with the boat later that night after he got off work. The next day we went out on the lake and swam some more.We grilled both nights and had so much fun! I can't wait til Jeremy can go too.
You must have s'mores

Pretty new lights
We were close to the bathroom and showers which was nice, there weren't many people there so we had the place to ourselves.
Jana and I put the tent up all on our own before Andrew got there! We discovered lots of spiders too, at first that was a little scary but we got used to it surprisingly.

We were having too much fun on the front of the boat Wednesday.

Andrew caught a tree
We were being so lazy...why not?

Andrew was the captain
Eventually we went swimming off the boat. It was pretty cold actually.

Mom kept Logan on Sunday and I took this picture, he was being so cute! I had to post this one.

Down to Business!

Tonight Brian sang at the Ice House, he did good! His one man show was entertaining as usual. We had lots of friends and family there it was really nice. Thanks to everyone that came!

Below: Logan, Eric (Jeremy's Brother in case you couldn't tell) and mom


Sisters! I wonder what they are looking for? Me and Janey(long time family friend)
Ashley and Logan dancing to Brian's music.

Brian and Uncle Glen
One of the family tables...clockwise

(Mom, Logan, grandpa, Uncle Glen, Jody and Amanda(cousin), Aunt Rachel, Aunt Reba, Grandma, and Kareem)

Me and Logan
Brian entertaining
Jana and Andrew
Chloe and Aunt Jana at home after the show :)

Look out world...

Barney told a funny joke :)

Chloe's Aunt Jana picked these bows out for her the other day, good choice!

Big thanks to Kira for taking mine and Jeremy's picture this afternoon. I got to talk to him again on Skype! Kira and Eric have Skype now too, so they all got to talk today. I got to see Logan for a little bit too, he is so cute!I I didn't get any pictures though, we were trying to get everything set up with the computers so that Jeremy could see and talk to everyone. Maybe tomorrow I will get the chance to take some pictures of everyone.