Shrimp and Mount Echo

This weekend we traveled the not too far distance to Urbana for the Shrimp Festival. I had never been to Urbana and even though its out in the middle of no where, it was a really cute town. (Reminded me a lot of Logan, Utah) We found out about the Shrimp Festival through the newspaper and couldn't figure out why none of our neighbors had ever heard of it. Well we quickly realized why...it was the smallest festival I've ever been to! But it was a lot of fun and the shrimp was good. Then later dad took me to Mount Echo park, which I had discovered on the Internet and wanted to go see. Its a park on top of a hill overlooking Cincinnati. It seemed like a really nice place, however we didn't get to see half of it because it was closed for a wedding. Oh well I guess that means we'll just have to visit again.

The pretty farm field views in Urbana.



Fresh shrimp cocktails were so good!

Anyone who knows my dad knows that he has quite the sweet tooth. The family had fun discovering the Sunshine Bakery stand at the festival.

The view of Cincinnati from Mount Echo.

First Post/ Summer Recap

I decided to start my own blog mostly out of "blog envy" in seeing my family and friends' cute blog posts. I really tried to come up with a more creative title for my blog but in the end I just couldn't come up with anything and decided to resort to simplicity.

My fall quarter at Sinclair started on Thursday so it is back to school for me. Taking 17 hours this quarter makes things quite hectic but I was blessed to have an amazing and relaxing summer break.

Summer started off with a soccer game at The Columbus Crew  Stadium. We got to watch  The Crew take on ReAL Salt Lake for "Mormon Night."

On the way home from The Crew game we stopped by the Columbus temple...one of my favorite
places in the world.

I spent two weeks in the Atlanta, Georgia area with my brother, sister-in-law and nephew. I had so much fun spending time with my family and they took me to so many fun places. We went to Zoo Atlanta, The CNN Center and the Atlanta temple, just to name a few. Unfortunately I wasn't being very good at documenting things and I didn't take very many pictures. (What was I thinking???) 

When I came home from Atlanta I went with my family to see The Lion King in Dayton's Schuster Center. This was my first experience with a Broadway style play and I thought it was amazing!
It made me very grateful to be living in the wonderful city of Dayton where such shows are actually
pretty common place. I'm sure grateful to be here in Dayton. 

My new puppy Brinkley! For quite a while I had been looking at dogs. I was planning to not get my own dog until after I graduated from college but I just fell in love with this puppy. It sure has helped me a lot to have him around when I'm feeling stressed. And to my fellow You've Got Mail fans, yes, he is named after Joe Fox'sdog in the movie. That has always been one of my favorite movies and the name just seemed to fit him.

My parents were kind enough to get me Josh Groban tickets for my birthday. Josh Groban is one of
my favorite singers and I was looking forward to the concert all summer. The concert was in Cincinnati and it didn't disappoint! Definatly one of (if not the) best concerts I've ever been to.

As one final fun thing to do before the school year began we went to River Scape Metro Park in
downtown Dayton. I'd heard of the park before but never had been there myself. I loved it though!
Ohio sure knows what they're doing when it comes to beautiful parks.