On July 3rd, Matt and I bought some fireworks to do out on our street. I discovered a new talent to add to my many others including face painting, playing "Persian Princess" upsidedown on the piano, and various double-jointed stupid human tricks. I will call it
sparkler skill. Everyone writes their name when they play with sparklers, but can they do it fast enough to catch on film? You're already impressed, I can tell, but prepare to be amazed because it gets harder. You have to do it backwards because the camera is on the reverse side. Not just the name spelled backwards, but the letters backwards. Tricky. Here is some documentation of the process.
First attempt. This is when we discovered the backwards problem.
Not quite fast enough for the camera. Also I switched from cursive to print. Because I can't really do cursive forwards muchless backwards. Notice that I started with the z and not the L.
And here we have success.
This one is Matt trying to spell his name...
So he tried something a little easier. It's suppose to be a star.
That's better.
If you look close, you can see me on the trail.
My husband likes photography, so we frequently have pictures like this. I think they're pretty good myself, but I'm biased (how do you spell that?)
We thought it was pretty green for Utah.
This is a gnarly tree that we found. I think it looks like a snake or something.
The end of our hike! Can you believe all the snow?
This is my new and beautiful bag that I made. Michelle made one, and I wanted it, so she helped me this last Monday. Michelle is an excellent sewing teacher.
Showing off. Isn't it cute?
We went camping in the Spruces last night. It was so fun!
We had very excellent tin-foil dinner which Matt made.
And we hung out with the squirrels. This one posed for the picture. We also saw some chipmunks, or as my nephew Kanon used to call them, "meatchunks". Really he just got the sounds mixed up, but I find it an oddly appropriate name.
