COLDPLAY

Josh and I got to go to Coldplay last weekend! It was so much fun. It was at a beautiful outdoor venue called The Gorge, in George, Washington. Thanks to dad who helped us fulfill Josh's dream of seeing them live, we had a great time and loved it.

It was the Viva La Vida concert

Here is the sun setting before it started, on the left of the stage there is water from the gorge. There was a boat out there shooting fireworks later in the night.

It was an awesome place to see a concert and fun to be outside. This is a good picture of the gorge. This amphitheater is in the middle of nowhere with just farms and nothing all around it.

I wanted to show how many people were there, this is everyone in front of us.

This is part of everyone behind and to the side of us. There were still a ton on the other side of me too. I'm guessing there was around 30,000 people there, comparing it to to some of the Rockies games i've been to with similar amounts of people.

Here we are waiting for the concert. It was a mere 96 degrees and we were there at 4:30pm to get a good seat. Coldplay didn't actually come out onto the stage until 9pm. Good thing I had my umbrella, it was very hot, but worth the wait and hot weather, it was awesome!

A little taste of Coldplay for you. They had huge yellow balls filled with confetti for the Yellow song, and tons of butterfly confetti was shot out all during the Lovers in Japan song. He also sang Billy Jean for a little tribute to Michael Jackson. During this song he was on a platform out in the crowd about 100 feet from us! Josh also got a coldplay shirt which he has wore about 3 times already this week.

Happy Birthday to Me

Last wednesday I turned the big 24. After work Josh let me pick any restaurant and I have been craving the breadsticks and salad from Olive Garden so we went there for dinner.

Afterwards he needed to "pick up a book from the Harris" and it just so happened to also be a little party there. We talked, ate cake, and played Rock Band, which was tons of fun, I had never played before.

Daren and Heather even made me a "ball" cake, my favorite kind since I was little.

Here is the group with a few of the decos that Heather put together. Thanks guys for a great birthday!

Colorado for the 4th

Our third year in a row Josh and I went to CO for the 4th of July. We had a blast as usual. And Derek got to visit this time too since he was in UT and decided to drive down to see Josh and his amazing sister in law.

Here we are waiting for the Highlands Ranch fireworks show to start. About 5 minutes later the sprinklers came on and we quickly moved to a new spot across the street.

Since my birthday is the next week my mom always makes a cake for me. She made me put the confetti on my head from the firework poppers she gave me.

We also went golfing at Evergreen golf course. I was the official cart driver, and had lots of fun making mom bounce all over as we went on every bump possible.

The golfers. It is a beautiful mountain course

Dad giving Josh his golfing advice. He was loved teaching Josh how to be a better golfer.

Josh and Derek waiting to tee off

Hoopfest and Strawberries

So I have been slow to update, but two weekends ago we went to pick strawberries at Green Bluff, which is a place that has several u-pick farms about 15 minutes away. I had never picked them before, so it was fun, but also delicious. They are very sweet and way better than store bought ones, of course.

Here we are picking them, we picked way too many, but it was fun

The group, except Josh

Afterwards we made strawberry crepes at the Harris' and caught up on life since the Barneys just got back from their month visit to Brazil.

On Saturday we went to Hoopfest in downtown Spokane. I guess its the biggest 3 on 3 tournament in the country. They block off all the roads downtown for blocks and just have back to back basketball hoops lining the streets. We mostly stayed on the street with the elite teams to see some good games.

This was by far the most entertaining game. These guys were hilarious and would do crazy dances and flips after a basket. They also would do the "soccer-tunnel" and have the guy run under who made the basket. My favorite part is that they all had fake mustaches and what looked like Keds tennis shoes. Ha.