My Best Friend's Wedding

This is a video from a really good movie called "My Best Friend's Wedding". If you haven't seen it, you've got to. The gist of it is When Julianne's best friend tells her that he met a woman and they are getting married in four days, she finds out that she loves him and wants him for herself. So, she sets out to break off the wedding, but things prove to be really difficult, since the bride seems to be "the perfect woman". Julianne even tells her best friend that she's engaged. (I can't remember why, though. It might have been to make him jealous.) The guy she becomes engaged to is a very close friend (the main guy singing in the video) of hers who happens to be gay. In this video, her gay friend is getting back at her by embarrassing her in front of her "love". We listened to this song about 15 times yesterday, so I decided to just put it on our blog. We're basically addicted to it. =) If only people would just randomly burst out in song in our lives...it'd be so much fun! Anywho...enjoy!

Proud to Be an American

God Bless the U.S.A
by Lee Greenwood

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I'll gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
'Cause their ain't no doubt I love this land.
God bless the U.S.A.

Andrew and I left Rexburg at about 6:10pm to go to a close town called I.F. (or Idaho Falls for all you non-Idahodians... it's about 30 minutes away from where we live). We weren't sure exactly what time the fireworks started, but we wanted to get there early because last year we only caught the last 10-15 minutes of the show, and we had to stand up. While we were driving to I.F., we heard on the radio that the fireworks show wasn't going to start til 10pm. And we got to I.F. at around 6:40pm. Anywho, when we got there, cars were EVERYWHERE. People had made their own parking spaces in the middle of the road, along the yellow divider line. It was crazy. We didn't expect so many people to be there that early. Fortunately, we found parking, and it wasn't too much of a walk.
We didn't really know what else to do, so we went in watch a baseball game that was being held. It was a minor league game--the Idaho Falls Chukars (the mascot was some kind of bird) v. the Orem Owls. The game was pretty good. There were a few balls that left the stands and probably hit someone's car. There were stolen bases. Wild pitches. It was a really good game. And I didn't get hit by a baseball!

Us at the ball game getting cancer, especially me. (The sun was no joke!)

The field, where most people gathered to watch the fireworks, was pretty packed, too. It was a really great night, even though getting out of town was horrible. At least, we had each other. :)

In the pictures below, we were trying to keep our eyes open. It was dark outside, and the flash was so blinding! Andrew looks the silliest, though! I just look a little sleepy in the first pic.

The Loveseat

First, a little bit of background. We've got a tiny apartment. We don't even have enough space for a dining room table. (There's not even a dining room.) And since we're newlyweds, we don't have much furniture. So, our living room had been a storage room. All of our suitcases and boxes were up there for everyone to see. But, I didn't care too much.

Anywho...yesterday, someone posted a bulletin on the school bulletin board about selling a couch, so we went to look at it. The couch cost $50, and it didn't look too bad, so we decided we'd get it. The girl said that her husband might be able to deliver it to us. (We couldn't get it to our apartment ourselves. I don't know if any of you have seen our car, but it's pretty small--a Honda Civic.) Unfortunately for me, I had already given the girl the $50 cause I thought that they'd be able to get it to us sooner. So we left the place with no couch and $50 less in our pockets. I was a little bit afraid that we'd get jipped. But, they got the loveseat to us, and our living room looks GREAT. Now we don't have to sit on the floor everytime the visiting/home teachers come over.

*Note: This is our first post. They're sure to get better. :)