Every year around summer time I start my annoying habit of telling Eric, "Fall is coming" Its something in the air and I just can't wait for this "summer" to be over. If there was a town called Fallville, and it was fall all year, I would live there.
But there's not so I live in Vegas, for now.
We havent been MIA, but we have been busy/lazy.
There have been a ton of things happening so here is a quick run down.
- In April, the Egbert kids got together to throw my parents a 40th anniversary party. Mom had been planning this party over a year ago. Due to their huge hearts and helping others, they put their party aside.
Being awesome kids, we threw this party together in a matter of a month or two.
Colors-Red Gold Black and of hint of purple (of course)
A Splash of oriental (Mom has always loved oriental things)
Food-Amazing! We were smart and didnt want to spend the party in the kitchen so we got a caterer. We had sushi rolls, chow mein, lettuce wraps, fruit, chocolate dipped strawberries and a few other items.
We pulled together photos for a slide show, guest book, and family book.
For a whole week I went around town and did most of my siblings family portraits.
it sure was good for the experience.
My sister Patti was VERY patient with us and was amazing to help us make 8x8 canvas prints of all the family pictures.
13 in all. The saying "we may not have it all together, but together we have it all" applies. We may not be able to get together for a family portrait, but we can sure get individual portraits and hang them together!
Mom and Dad were both very happy about those!
May was filled with Finals for me and more work for Eric.
Eric's company does Audits every 6 months. The Pahrump center has never passed. The first time Eric missed it by 3-4 points, which were out of his control AND he was 3 months into the job I believe. That was all by himself! This time, he CLEARED the audit single handed! The other two centers in Vegas have more than one person running them and they didnt pass. Just goes to show what a work horse my husband is.
Towards the end of May I was offered a Nanny job that had $$$ written all over it. I accepted and the next day was offered a "Photography" job. and I use the " " marks for a reason. I figured since I was paying money to learn photography and thats what I ultimately wanted to do, it would be best for me to take that job instead. so I turned down the fast road to being debt free.
I started training on May 31st, and anyone that knows me knows Im not a sales person and I wont sell you something that just isnt great, or of good value.
Welcome to Picture Me Studios. BARF! I was hired by Kiddie Kandids and since they are now owned by the same company as walmart picture me, we trained for a week and a half at a walmart. I don't know where to start and I am trying to not make this a "Bash" session, but really... $300 for crap pictures? People... you can find a great photographer for about $100 an hour that will give you 30x the amount of pictures and better variety!! Needless to say after being told that my cropping wasnt good (you can always zoom in, but you cant always zoom out once the picture is taken, im just saying) and that I wasnt LOUD enough, oh and after my 3rd set of trainers, I quit. I wasnt going to have some walmart trained lady tell me I wasnt good at photography! Maybe Ive got a big head, but I KNOW I can shoot circles around them when it comes to pictures.
the first week of June was FILLED with Graduations!
Congrats to Crystal Miller, Evan Egbert, Taylor Butta, Jared Gifford, and my mom for graduating.
Taylor, Jared and I mom all graduated from Las Vegas highschool. although my mom was 50 years ago, they walked with the graduates. It was neat to cheer for my two cousins and mom. How awesome for her to share that day with two of her nephews?
The next two weeks have been a blur, a blur of camping.
I was recently called as Assistant Camp Director in my ward.
Each year our church has a Girls Camp that is a week long, and the girls certify in different areas of survival. They also get to rappel, ride on a zip-line, canoe, and do the flying squirrel. After the tiring week, I came home for a day and a half then turned around and went to another Girls Camp with my sister as a cook. We were cooking for about 300 girls each day. Man am I tired! Im a bit tapped out on Camping for now. July will be the next trip, but it will be relaxing.
Eric had his 25th birthday and I came home late late that night. He did get a day off, and he bought a Zune. Apple Ipods can eat it! Our good friends Ben, Nicole, Kellee, and Nicole2 took great care of him, feeding him and taking him swimming.
On a side note, I came home to sad news, those 4 friends got a hair up their butt to move to PA. Im happy for them but I wont let them know. They arent allowed to leave us!!! Im surely not moving to the East coast either. We will miss them for sure.
Well, there you go! I will post pictures tomorrow from all of these events.
Just remember, Fall is in the air!
HA!
