Just some of the stuff that happened this summer that didn't get onto the blog yet.
Girls Camp
Arthur & John Naegle went up to Girl's Camp to represent the bishopric on the last night of Girl's Camp. As per tradition, they cooked the girls dinner, and they did NOT mess around. John brought his BBQ up so they could grill steak and chicken for those lucky girls. And we were lucky enough to find someone to stay overnight with the kids, so I got to come too and help serve dinner, enjoy the fireside, and freeze my buns off. (didn't come prepared for the weather--its colder in the mountains than it is down in ABQ.) However, I was lucky that lots of good people who WERE prepared shared hats and scarves and jackets and hand warmers with me, so I slept nice and toasty. It was nice to be up there with the girls, and help bring them home. We stopped at Wendy's on the way home, because evidently that is also tradition.
Twinners!
Daphne and I got to fly to San Diego to help my sister Natalie with her new babies! We were in heaven holding those tiny little ones and Daphne made out pretty well too, scoring lots of play time with her cousin Kyrie, including a day at Legoland, and a day at the beach! Natalie and I just stayed home with the babies and fed and changed and held and bathed them. We also did some freezer meals and some grocery shopping. The last night, our old friend Windy came to visit and meet the babies. We've been friends since 7th grade, and it's awesome when you can get together with a friend like her who you haven't seen in years, and pick up like it was just yesterday. Arthur is a good man, to take care of the rest of the Garietys at home for about 4 days, especially without Daphne who is a very good helper.
When I think of summer time, these are the types of images that come to mind.
Gotta love that huge soggy diaper!
Peaches
Peaches. We canned them. 32 jars of them.
If I can get it to work, here is a link to a video Dallin made documenting the process.
He's been making lots of movies lately, and they are pretty fun. This one was meant to be a commercial for our peaches, I think.
Death of a fridge
When we got home from the family reunion, we noticed that a breaker had tripped. It was the breaker that our outside fridge is hooked up to. And when we opened the door, it smelled like something had died inside. Gross. This is how we cleaned it out. You can't be too careful. Unfortunately, our face masks did little to lessen the stench. Since that fridge has a habit of tripping whatever breaker it is hooked up to, we decided it's time had come. And we are currently in the market for a new garage fridge.
Dallin needed some service hours for a scouting merit badge, so we got some friends together and worked for 3 hours at the APS clothing bank sorting school supplies and filling backpacks. Everything is more fun with friends, right? And afterwards, I took them to lunch at Dion's. It was a fun morning!
I was in a MOVIE!
Well, I was an extra on set for a big movie being filmed here in ABQ. I guess I won't know if I'm in the movie or not until I see it. (IF I see it. There is a bad word in the scene we shot that may result in an R rating. . . ) The scene was a funeral so we had to come all dressed up in black, at 6:30 AM for costume checks and paper work. I spent the day going back and forth from the church (where we filmed the scene a bajillion times from all different angles) and the holding room where we could eat snacks and just hang out waiting for them to call us back to the set again. 13.5 hours later, I got to go home.
It was a long day. I met a lot of interesting people, saw some pretty famous people, and was fascinated by the equipment and the process in general for the first 8 hours, and then I was pretty much over it. I just kept thinking there were SO many other things I needed to be doing with my time. So until I have more free time than I currently have in my life, I think I'll have to pass on the NM film industry. I'm glad I did it--I just won't be rushing to work background again any time soon.
And on a side note, I got my paycheck today. So now, I guess that means I'm a professional actress. I got paid for something. That makes me professional, right? I won't tell you how little much it was. I don't want anyone to be jealous.
