kramer has decided he is no longer a dog but instead a little man. i mean really, he was never a dog with all his human-like personality traits and all, but lately he has taken things to a whole new level. i’ve noticed kramer watching us very closely recently … always keeping an eye on us … like he is really trying to pay attention to what and why we are doing each little thing, then, without much notice or reason he will decide it is high time that he do it too. just the other morning while still waking up he came up from the bottom of the bed, took one look at camden who, might i add, sleeps with his head tucked between two pillows to block out the morning light, and stuck his sweet head in between those pillows right along with him. if he keeps this behavior up much longer he’ll be cleaning and cooking in no time … one can hope anyway. 

have any fun/funny pet stories of your own?? would love to hear them if you do! 

i was so inspired by the indigo fabric dying that was in the latest issue of kinfolk that i got my sisters together for a bit of impromptu tie-dying. being spur of the moment and all, i didn’t have any indigo dye to make that beautiful rich denim hue that i so longed for so instead we mixed a few r.i.t. fabric dyes together to come up with something similar in color. though i’m quite happy with the way they turned out, i would love to do it again with real indigo dye because i’m convinced nothing else quite compares …

the twenty fourth day in july is celebrated here in utah somewhat like the fourth. mostly, we were just excited because it meant we both had the day off of work, which for us is reason enough for a celebration alone, holiday or not. because we were in england for the fourth of july, we decided to walk two miles each way (kramer included) down to see the fireworks at the park. however, we were a bit disappointed by their efforts this year and sort of ended up ditching out early. we did do a few of our own sparklers though, which i think are the prettiest anyway, and if it wasn’t obvious enough, we took so many pictures i had the hardest time narrowing them down … so here is to sparklers … a lot of them. 

last night, camden and i went to our first drive in together as a married couple. sure, both of us had been plenty of times growing up but never yet together. this being the case, we both had very different ideas about how to properly see a movie when one is watching the movie from ones car. growing up as a kid, we would always fold down all the seats, pile all the blankets that would fit in the back of our land-cruiser, and make the biggest and comfiest of all backseat beds. camden and his family however, would pull into the theater with the front of their car facing the movie screen and just watch the movie from their seats. i was one hundred percent convinced that my way was the only way so that is what we tried, the whole bed in the back of the car thing, all the while forgetting the fact that our car is about one-tenth the size of the car we had growing up. after much stubbornness on my side, i reluctantly gave in and we watched the movie from the front seats. we have definite plans to go again, but next time we’re borrowing a bigger car and that’s just that.