Happy 4th of July!

I woke up this morning and got a call telling me that my flight to Houston for my business trip was cancelled. Lovely way to start the day, yeah?

Happy 4th of July!

After having some delicious breakfast at Mecca (holy huge cinnamon rolls!) I headed over to the airport to catch an earlier flight to Houston. After some taxi problems and wrong directions, I finally made it to the Southwest VIP area at Freedom over Texas.

So cool. And when I say cool, it was actually really hot and humid.

 Of course we have to have our famous peanuts and pretzels..

There is just something about being at an event that you know the company you work for sponsored and it is branded with its logo like crazy. You just feel so cool! I went to town taking pictures, listening to music, and then turned around and went home! Easy trip. And as I was heading out it started to drizzle..hopefully it didn't pour down there! The clouds didn't look to promising.

 The best part? Coming home to this amazing man.

We hung out tonight with our good friend, Ahmad, and had an awesome BBQ and discovered that his roof is the BEST place to watch fireworks. We got to see three different shows very clearly, and with no traffic! After some ice cream and card games, we called it a night.

Happy 4th, everyone! I hope you all had a fun, safe one.

My internship is more than half-way over :( what does that mean?

Operation frantic job search starts. Now.

Luv, Lindsay

I'm back.

No, I never really left. But back to some more interesting posts.

I apologize for the lack of content lately..It's just been one of those weeks! 

Last night we got to have some 4th of July fun at a Southwest Deck Party and then head over to The Main Event in Plano and hang out with some other Ernst & Young interns. It seems like everything exciting we do has to do with work in some way or another. Which is fine, it's always fun!

Those of you from Utah are obviously very aware of the crazy fires going on.

This is a picture taken not too far from where my cute family lives. Praying for all of the families out there being affected by the fire and please, PLEASE no one use fireworks. It's really not worth seeing them when lives and homes are at stake. The picture is pretty cool..but it makes me really sad :(

Speaking of fireworks, on a happier note, tonight Paul and I and some friends went and saw fireworks in Addison! It was a mad house with thousands of people and the ride home was a nightmare but I had such a fun time! We got some pizza and walked around to see all of the little activities they had going on and then just sat, talked, and people watched for a few hours. Some people are so funny! Like the lady furiously picking her teeth into the side view mirrors of the snow cone truck parked on the grass. Lovely.

Oh! Today was National Chocolate Wafer Day!


When I think of chocolate wafers, I always think of Kit-Kats. So we had some to celebrate.

 SWA friends!

We also got to watch a SWEET air show going on right next to us. I can't believe the things these planes do. I could have sworn one of them was going to crash into the ground..

 Paul loved it. 

Love this boy. He takes such good care of me :)

I  totally wore this same shirt on the 4th of July last year to Stadium of Fire.

 See?

And then, of course, we finished the night with some awesome fireworks and ridiculous traffic.

So much fun. But now I am so dead.

And it wasn't even the 4th of July!

Have a fun, safe one tomorrow everybody!

Luv, Lindsay

Juneteenth

I'd never really heard of Juneteenth until today. This holiday honors the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth was first celebrated in TEXAS in 1865 and spread across the US and the world, celebrating and commemorating the freedom of African Americans in America and around the world.

It was on this day that the Union Army came into Galveston, Texas and enforced the emancipation set forth by Lincoln. Galveston has huge Juneteenth celebrations - some of the biggest in the world! I guess everything is bigger in Texas. :)

I'm so grateful that we live in a free country and for how far it has come since it started.

Happy Juneteenth!

Luv, Lindsay

you're a grand old flag.

Today's celebration is one of the more common ones.

Happy Flag Day!

Seeing / Celebrating our Nation's flag makes me think of these tapes (reminder: tapes are what came before CDs) that my sister and I used to listen to when we were little. One of them talked a lot about our country and how it works and was founded and everything. One of the songs was called "Take Your Hat Off" and is all about respecting the flag and taking your hat off when you see the flag going by. I haven't listened to it in years but occasionally we'll start talking about these tapes at family dinner and sadly, we can all still remember a lot of the words.

In 1777 the first official American flag was designated by the Second Continental Congress when they passed the Flag Resolution. There have been 27 different American flags since that time. The one we have now became official in 1960. President Woodrow Wilson declared Flag Day an official US holiday in 1916 but the flag has been celebrated since the first unofficial flag day was held in 1885.

I am very grateful to live in this country and for the flag and all that it represents. I am so thankful for those who fight to defend it everyday. 

There is more celebration news coming today so stay tuned!

Luv, Lindsay