CDG airport

I had a long layover in the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in January. I took some pictures because they have some strange things in the terminal.

I had a nap on one of these for an hour.

This is what the terminal looks like inside.

I watched this squaty truck thing with the huge wheels tow planes around. Too goofy not to take a picture of.

this thing I've been doing for a while

After I graduated from high school I became a track and field official. I don't always get to do it every year, but I realized I have never taken pictures at a track meet I was officiating at. They pay pretty good and it's easy work. Sometimes you get to meet famous athletes too. While I was home I covered two meets at the BYU indoor track.

This is a picture of the finish line.

If you look closely you can see the starting line for the 50M dash and that is my Dad crossing the track.

Starting line for the 200M dash.

Valentine's Day

It's Valentine's Day! And 2 months until the wedding! This is the first Valentine's Day I've had someone to celebrate with. Yeah I know weird, but I was either already broken up with someone, hadn't started a relationship with someone or not serious with a guy yet. So I always did like Valentine's but never had anyone to share with. In high school I would take a bag of those candy hearts to school and pass those out to everyone, it was always fun.

I bought Dave his present a while ago and couldn't hold it in any longer, so on Saturday I made him open it. It was a journal, he doesn't have one and one thing my Mother always said is that you should keep a journal because in a hundred years your family will know what happened in your life and why you did what you did, etc.

These are the flowers Dave gave me when I got off the plane in January.

A few years ago I watched my neighbor bring a bouquet of flowers and a big wrapped present into his home for his wife for Valentine's Day. At the time I thought, that would be something I would want in the future. Dave came home from working overtime with flowers in one hand and a big present in the other! Goal achieved! :)

quote

I saw this in an article I was reading this week:

"Individuals are known to process attitude-guiding information selectively, seeking information that agrees with their attitudes and avoiding information that does not.

— L. Festinger, 1957, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Stanford University Press.

secrets

I am REALLY bad at keeping secrets. So when my brother and sister-in-law told me back in December that she is pregnant again, but couldn't tell anyone, UGH! But since Sara announced on facebook that she is pregnant, thank heavens I can now tell people! Yippee!!! And I get to be an Aunt again!