Friday Already?!?

I can't believe it's FRIDAY! What a crazy week it's been. I went on a business trip to Santa Barbara, CA in the beginning of the week. The weather was a little to beautiful and I came back sporting a pretty red sunburn. My co-worker Te and I manned a booth at a convention that was outside, so the left side of my face, my part line, and my left arm are a pretty shade of red.

Between meetings the next day I decided to go swimming (we were literally across the street from the beach, who wouldn't spend their hour break swimming?). I ran right into the water but found it to be FREEZING, so I decided reading on the beach was a better option. So I pulled out Dracula and settled in for an hour of quality time with my book. The book was great, the temperature was perfect because there was a constant breeze from the ocean, and I was one of the only people on the beach. It was great until later that night when I couldn't figure out why my back was so itchy... turns out I'm so white that I ended up with a red back too.

The conference was great! We were able to hook up with several potential partners that will do extremely well in our program. We also met a few crazies... I'll leave company names out of it, because it's not the company's fault their employees are insane. First was the man from South Africa. I've never had someone so angry at me because I market for the top credit repair law firm in the nation. Even when I met our competition they weren't as hostile! His beef was he "couldn't get credit because he wasn't born in the USA". Unfortunately he has been seriously misinformed, but he was to angry to discuss it with me.

Second was the man from Boston that followed me around wanting to talk to me about music, partying and beer. I remember meeting this guy last year and after he found out I was LDS following me around asking me weird questions about polygamy and the temple. So this year I steered clear of that subject and ended up hearing several times about how he's been to Provo once, and there was no "WOOOH" when he was on BYU campus. By WOOOH he meant crazy college kids doing something stupid and cheering each other on in their stupidity... So we talked about BYU, beer and music every time he "happened" to run into me.

Wednesday my brother Mike got married to Allison Poulson!!! We all grew up together: our families were best friends in Michigan. So we're glad to finally be able to call the Poulson's family (even though we've been calling them family for years). They looked so stinking happy, and her dress was beautiful! They didn't do a reception, just a little luncheon for the family that came out for the wedding. It was nice how mellow everything was, more focus on the covenants than the party. Here are a few pics:

Right outside of the entry way of the Mt. Timp temple in American Fork.

We had to teach Mike how to dip Allison... They certainly had fun trying!

 

Dang Gina, look at those BLUE eyes! What a beautiful bride

 

Mt Timp and the happy couple!

 

   Bride & Groom

Here's the Brown side! Love the matchie matchie?

Mike and Allison headed off to France and Germany for their honey moon last night. How cool that they have the opportunity to go out and explore the world together? I asked mike to bring me back a kids lederhosen if he can find one for less than $30. Can you really deny that this would be the cutest halloween costume?

Dave took a paid day off today so he can finish his homework today, so tomorrow we can focus on the tile in the basement!!! We've finished the mudding, sanding, and painting so we're ready for the tile. I'm pretty excited to get that taken care of