Let's start from the beginning...

1. People keep telling me I need to update my blog- if you only knew how OVERWHELMING it is....especially when I haven't posted in what- 2 months?

When I was younger I remember writing in my journal for a week straight and then a month later I would write in it again. Just like my blog. I also remember thinking that I had to start from the very beginning so many of my journal entries begin, "I'm so sorry it's been so long" "I was born in..." (I often talked to my journal as if it was a person. Dane thinks its pretty funny.)

One of the reasons I haven't posted is because it's my SUMMER BREAK and I am not as productive as I would like to be. Another reason is because the month of JULY includes my birthday, Dane's birthday and our anniversary.

Here it goes- I am going to go through the past two months the best I can:

Dane bought a recurve bow on ebay-it broke in his archery class- he was refunded and found an even better bow at a yard sale for $10. He is in heaven.


I turned 22 on July 12 and kept the Gampe family tradition of putting the age on the pancake.
Dane turned 24 on July 14 - and his pancake didn't turn out as good.

Dane requested dirt cake on his birthday- which turned out fabulous (much better than the first time I made it with the butter chunks...good times, good times)

I requested a chocolate cake shaped like a "22" - Dane did a great job

We celebrated our 2nd anniversary July 27th and went to Applebees so we could get an appetizer for 1/2 price during happy hour- the total was $7.42 ( I love good deals)

The Hoover's invited us to go whitewater rafting in Boise on July 25th- It was SO MUCH FUN.

Back to July 4th- We went to Twin Falls to help babysit for my sister-in-law's sister's wedding. I think there were 20-30 kids total. We also got to play on an enormous slip n slide made of billboards. That weekend my new nephew Peter Daniel was blessed.

Here are our nieces and nephews on my side of the family- right after the blessing.

We also went to Shoshone falls with the Higbee's over the 4th.
The first week of August I helped my mom with a 4-H project camp. She taught sewing and cooking while I was at work and then I came and taught "Making the Most of Me". The girls got their hair done, a mary kay lady came to give them little makeovers, they had a photoshoot in the gardens and they made collages.

This is right after they got their hair done.
-A picture of all of them in the gardens.
The girls doing a disco dance.
After the week was over we went to pocatello to drop the girls off. We played at the park and got Papa Murphey's pizzas for half off- because I am an employee : )
Me and my sisters (plus Susannah)
More news-

• I got placed in Davis County Utah for my student teaching in the winter- we are just hoping Dane can find his internship there.
• I am currently working at the college as a secretary/teacher's assistant and I am doing my internship at Papa Murpheys.
• Dane is still working for the school as a construction intern.
• Someone bought the house we were managing and decided he wanted to do construction on it- so we are moving in with my parents next week.

Whew- I did it.