New One

I just got a text from my cousin BreAnn letting me know some wonderful news. She gave birth to their baby boy at 1:35 this afternoon.

Steadman is
6 lbs. 9 oz.
19 inches long

My heart is overjoyed for them!

Fun with Sydney

We love our dog! We're all way excited to have a fence put in our backyard this week so Sydney can run his little heart out without us wondering if he's being eaten by one of the "big dogs" in the neighborhood. It's sad and cute at the same time when he sits at the sliding door and just dreams of being outside. He's become our baby in place of a real one and he's just tons of fun. He's gone from out of control to calm to out of control tonight and gets excited over the littlest things. We took this video tonight because he was just making us laugh so hard.

Where are you going?

This is sad on a few levels. First of all our all time favorite band, the band that aided us in starting our friendship, is dealing with the grief of losing a loved one. LeRoi Moore the bands saxophonist (the guy on the far left) died unexpectedly mid August. We are hoping the band continues through this. The second sad part, they have officially canceled their Utah show, and we wont get to see them. :( Aaron had bought me tickets for my Birthday and we were both so excited to get to see them again. I'll have to come up with some other fun and exciting thing to do with that birthday money, but nothing seems quite as good as DAVE tickets.

Giggle

We saw this new "Get a Mac" commercial while watching the U.S. Open yesterday. It made us laugh, Aaron particularly liked it.

Finally A Hair Cut

The last time I had a hair cut was a few weeks before we left for Europe so I was thrilled when I finally got a recommendation for Omar at Studio 9. He asked the usual questions, "Okay what are we doing today?" Me, "Um...basically you can do whatever you want." He continued to ask me questions like, "If you could get anything out of your hair what would it be?" I did have many answers and he started to believe me when I said "really you can do whatever you want." It's the best hair cut I've had since I left the Salt Lake area the first time.

Aaron's a little traumatized, but I warned him that I was going to forfeit all creativity to Omar. He likes it, he just likes my long hair more.

Before:

After:

Speak Up, I'm Listening

I heard today that it's go time for the Presidential race. Most people don't start really caring until this point in the race. I fall into this category. I think of life as a process of finding truth through knowledge and the help of God. I'll be the first to admit I haven't sought it out concerning these candidates. If coworkers were talking about it I'd listen, if there was a story on the news I'd watch, or if there was a link to CNN on my homepage I'd go read it. That's about it. Now I can't get it off my mind. I believe that our Country is Grand and I love the United States of America, but we find ourselves at a turning point. So, Mr. McCain, Mr. Obama here are my questions?

The war:

• Where is it going? What's the purpose in your mind? Are we still fighting to make life better? When should it end?
• I believe has made some Americans act poorly towards the honorable men fighting for the rights of others and our freedom. They have the courage to go and they have sacrificed so much, but why do we lack the courage to voice our praise? War is an unhappy thing, but I'm so grateful for our soldiers. What's going to happen to them when/if you become president?
  

The Economy:

• It's in a bad way. They keep printing the dollar to stimulate the economy and all it's doing is making the dollar weaker and driving prices up. I want to hear a game plan, please?
  
• We're scared to do much with our money right now because we feel we'll need to save everything we can to simply keep up with the cost of living. That's not a great attitude for stimulating the economy. How are people like me going to feel safe enough to invest?

Lastly, what are the values and principles with in you that qualify you to be my president? And please, don't say CHANGE or EXPERIENCE! I want to hear something a little less vague.

Gelter Family Fun

This weekend we got to go down to St. George with Aaron's family for a little vacation. We had a great time. We got to ride down with Tim and Megan. We chatted and played name that tune. Well, they all played I admired. We went to Fiesta Fun where the kids use to have their birthday parties. We rode go carts and the water bumper boats, it was a lot of fun. How awesome is this? Pizza Factory two weekends in a row!!! Ahh...yummy food!

After Dinner we went to Tuacahn Theater to see

Before the show one of the actors was performing and he let his little costar sing a song that she had written. We all thought she was adorable. Aaron couldn't believe she could play that big guitar. The play was awesome and I enjoyed the theater. I kept getting distracted by that stars but I thought that appropriate considering Inspector Javert's song.

It was so nice to just get to be with family and take it easy. I'm pretty sure Aaron and I won the sleepy head award.