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Aunty Life and 4th of July Weekend

I do stage makeup for local productions in my town. I really enjoy doing it and have done it for a couple years now. This last week it was Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat. I never get to see the plays, because I am behind the scenes and then when I'm done with makeup I have to leave and do the million other things I have to do with my life. Here is me hanging out backstage with the props.

This was the 3rd week I got to spend with my sweet nephew on my days off. He is so easy and so fun! I hope my future kids are as easy as he is. Tuesday I had a meeting at the gun range for some business and he tagged along, one day I will be on the range shooting with him! Another day I took him to the pool with Jenni and her kids. We had fun in the sun and playing in the water.




One evening Chris and I decided to have smores and let the dogs run around in the yard. It was a hot week but who can resist a smore?





For this week's episode of Life of a Trophy Receptionist I decided I needed to get out of the office and asked around if anyone needed a doughnut. Of course we all need a doughnut and I heard the doughnuts at Rita's a new place in town were to die for! So I headed on over to get the donuts and the doughnuts was so heavenly! And how convenient is it that this place is so close to my office...

Friday evening Chris and I headed to Rexburg to our new favorite burger place called The Burg. This place is seriously good, too bad its all the way in Rexburg. After that we went to a friend of his comedy show on campus. Rexburg drives us insane sometimes. Its full of a bunch of young college kids and newly weds (gross), and yes, I do go to school there but I am a different kind of student. 1. I am an online student. 2. I am a 27 year old sophomore who 10 years ago I'd rather have been spending my life smoking pot then pursing a college education so  I have grown in maturity over the years and I am much older than your average sophomore. While we were sitting in The Burg, we heard a group of students say, "yeah, shes like 25" and I thought what?! What is wrong with 25? Is that supposed to be old? Walking around in the Walmart was also a nightmare. That day I was grateful for my online education. 



The weekend was full of 4th of July festivities like a family reunion, food, fireworks and parade fun.Chris and I walked in a the parade with an outpatient addiction treatment center that he used to work for, they had a van called "The Ex-Druggy Buggy." We walked in it with other people to support addiction recovery, ( see above paragraph where I said 10 years ago Id rather be smoking than adulting with my life) So to me, seeing what I was doing with my life years ago it is important to be drug free. We chanted "proud to be drug free!" Throughout the parade and I am very proud to be drug free and to be living a different lifestyle. 











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