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This past weekend was a blast! It's not all too often I get a weekend off in the summer and so when I do I try to really enjoy it! Feels like I just had a weekend off for the 4th of July, but a canceled wedding allowed me an extra weekend off! We had dinner Wednesday with Shae and Ryan, our September 20 wedding, at the Lincoln Cafe in Mt Vernon. The food was amazing and the conversation even better that the food. I'm really looking forward to their wedding as they are an AWESOME couple! Learned a lot about the two of them and we're already making plans to get together sometime after the wedding just for fun :-)

I spent Thursday at my usual favorite day off spot, my sister's place in CR. Things are finally making progress for them with losing their home in the flood. Good news for sure!
Friday we went to Peoria to spend the evening and part of Saturday with Scott and Becky. The water was too low to take out the Yacht and jet-skis but we found outer ways to have fun by playing a game and watching a movie. We love hanging out with Scott and Becky and their group and hope to go again for Labor Day! Saturday morning we had breakfast at the 50's themed Maid-Rite in Peoria, owned by Scott and Tammy Senti who won Biggest Loser restaurant edition a couple years ago. Scott and Tammy are close friends with Scott and Becky and we've gotten to know them pretty well. Scott make a great breakfast as he's the cook! We headed back to Waterloo and were planning to go to the drag races with a friend, but were super tired and had to pass.

Sunday we saw Step-Brothers with our roomie, Shane. It was a great movie but I have to admit, I was slightly disappointed. Shane first showed us the You-Tube preview about 2 months ago and we've been watching it several times a week and counting the days until it came out. The 2 ½ minute unrated preview was SO funny! I had the movie a little too hyped up in my own mind and it didn't quite live up to it. Also, we all pretty much had the entire trailer memorized and they cut parts of it out of the movie! Guess they have to leave something for the DVD, right?
This week looks to be crazy. Lots of end of the month/beginning of the month stuff to do as well as photograph Emma tomorrow, Hawkeye Community College pinning ceremony photographs and Cedar Falls tourism pictures on Wednesday. Thursday as usual is my day off and we have a wedding on both Friday and Saturday.

Today is Monday and our internet is down (AGAIN!) I'm writing this and will upload when I get the chance. I'm really getting frustrated having to wait around for Mediacom to come and fix my service (this is the second or third time we've had this problem just this year!) Agggg! Unfortunatly, we have absolutly no chioice of high speed internet providers or I'd have switched a long time ago. I've looked into Satalite and Qwest and neither provide service to this building.