Corn Festival

I missed it this year! This is the first year that I have missed the Enterprise Corn Festival. This is a festival in my home town that started 18 years ago as a result of people coming from all over to buy my dad's yummy sweet corn. It's turned into quite the event for the whole town and for my family. Everyone goes home to help out, we sell the corn right off our yard on main street, and have turned it into a big bake sale with Navaho Tacos, hot corn on the cob and yummy treats to raise money for our family reunion in addition to selling the corn and produce. It's a very long and exhausting day, but it is so much fun to be with all the family. I think my dad picked around 4,000 dozen for just that one day.

This year it happened to fall on the 23rd of August, which was my birthday. We were in Utah for 10 days in July and I'm going back to Vegas in a couple of weeks so I decided I couldn't make the trip this year. I sure missed it though and probably won't miss another one.... I decided to take a trip down memory lane of what the corn fest is like at my parent's house. Also, you can click on this link to read the story the local paper wrote on the Corn Festival.

Brian's Bomb Scare

This has to be one of the craziest things that has happened in a while and I'm not so sure I care to see or hear of this again. So as most of you know Brian works at Transalta, a power plant in Centralia, WA. Well last night they had a bomb scare. It was not one of those fake scares where they send in machine robots and pick up the unknown bag....This was one where an employee picked up the homemade bomb and after the fact, realized that wasn't such a great idea. The bomb had been lit at some point, but difused somehow. There were no known threats so it is still a mystery about who did it and what the intentions were.

Here's a link to the story the news did on it. Propane tank bomb

If the link doesn't work, you can copy and paste this into a new browser. http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_082108WAB_lewis_county_propane_bomb_TP.1cde9430.html

I've been tagged & I am finding time to play it!!!

Four Places I go Over and Over:
1. WSECU (Work)
2. Fuller House
3. Bally's (Gym)
4. Grocery Store

Four People who email me regularly:
1. Brian
2. Aunt Colleen
3. Aunt Jan
4. Dad

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Utah
2. Utah
3. Utah
4. Utah

Four people I talk to on a regular basis:
1. Bri
2. Mom/Dad
3. Jacquelyn, Heidi, Hollie
4. Troy

Four of my favorite places to eat:
1. Any new place
2. The Roof
3. Wendy's
4. Brian's Cooking

Four People I tag:
1. Angie
2. Karen
3. Jacque
4. Emily

Logger's Jubilee

On Saturday I went with the Fullers to the Logger's Jubilee in Morton, WA. Brian couldn't go because he was earning us money instead. Thanks for sacrificing honey! It was quite the time full of logger's competition and games. I had seen something similar on TV, but never in person and had always wanted to. We saw races with guys from all over the world with them cutting and chopping wood in various competition. Guys were running with chain saws up a tree trunk to the end and cutting off part of it and running back down. They were throwing Axes at a target trying to hit a bulls eye. We also so guys climbing a 70 or 80 ft pole and going up and down in about 19 seconds. It probably took them 16 to get up and 3 to get down. It was amazing.

They also had a Jubilee clown that climbed the 80 ft pole and did crazy stuff at the top. He stood on it, juggled, danced, and then he did a headstand on it. It was so funny because Shawna couldn't watch she was so nervous for him.

Overall it was a good day, with good entertainment, and good elephant ears and corn dogs to eat.

DJ Fulldawg in the house

On Friday, Brian was asked to DJ the Portland Boat dance again. This made it his fourth year doing it. I think he was a little nervous as his brother's weren't able to go, so he had to settle with just little inexperienced me helping :) The only other dance I had been to was the New Year's Eve dance he did down in Portland.

We ended up having his cousin Leah come to help and our friend Greg just moved here from Utah that day. He barely had unpacked the U-Haul and he was on his way with us to spend a few hours out on the boat. He really made the loading and un-loading easy. Thanks Greg!

My job was to pick out the music and Brian ran the setup and players and did a little mixing. It was a lot of fun and I have to say I didn't do too bad picking out the music. We didn't have any complaints other than we didn't have the "Tootsie Roll" and someone wanted it. I was bummed because I took my camera wanted to get some good photos of Brian doing his thing, but my batteries were dead, thus no pictures.

We were done and loaded back up by 1:30 and went to Denny's to celebrate and thank Leah and Greg for their help. On the way home, we were all so tired, we had to pull into a rest area to sleep for a few hours. We finally pulled into the Fuller household around 7:00 A.M.

Back to Utah!