A typical summer weekend....

I can't believe how quickly summer is flying by! It is almost the fourth of July and once that passes I always feel like we are on a countdown to the start of the fall semester, Labor Day, and for me, the start of travel season. My traveling is really going to pick up this fall because I am taking on some new territories. I'm adding Washington and Idaho to my normal territory and made the decision to do some fall travel in Oregon as well. Oregon is typically a spring travel season for us, but my spring travel went so well that I'm adding it to fall to see if we can increase interest in Creighton in that area. It is making for some interesting trips for me - including a crazy trip through Idaho, to Sacramento, CA and then to LA (I'll be gone almost two weeks straight), but I think it will be fun. Traveling alone is a very interesting process. I tend to read many, many books during travel season because I carry a book with me everywhere I go and this year I am hoping I can get some crochet projects done too. Carrying yarn hardly adds any weight and since most of my travel is on the west coast I can get some work done on the plane. I'm looking foward to getting my travel plans (plane tickets, hotel and car reservations) settled because that is usually the most difficult and time consuming part of the process.

Matt and I had a pretty relaxing weekend overall. I spent Friday night with Lisa watching the CWS (LSU vs. UNC) and working on my latest crochet project. I'll post pictures once I have more of the project done because it has an interesting pattern when finished, but it is hard to see while it is in process. I was searching online for yarn this morning and found some great stuff at Bernat which is a company I have not purchased yarn from before. I often have about 20 projects I want to work on, but try very hard to only have one project going at a time because I tend to have problems 1. getting things finished and 2. not getting confused when I have more than one project going at a time.

Matt and I walked in the Elkhorn Days parade with Jim's campaign yesterday. Parades are strange because the candidates have to do them (particularly when their opponents walk in them as well), but I'm unsure of the effectiveness because the public does not really learn anything about the candidate by seeing them in a parade. I doubt most people even know what the candidate is running for or what party they are a member of when the parade is over. It was a very nice day yesterday so Matt and I did not mind spending a chunk of our day at the par

Matt and I spent yesterday afternoon putting together the hutch we purchased for our dining room. We picked it out a long time ago at Target but had not yet purchased it because we had other priorities. It went on clearance about two weeks ago which prompted us to go ahead and purchase it. The hutch has been in pieces (the box did not fit in either of our cars so we had to take it out of the box to get it home) in our living room for two weeks. Below you will see the pictures of our dining room before we added this new piece and our dining room after. We are pretty happy with the results and I am thrilled to have someplace to store our serving pieces.