FOURTH OF JULY

The 4th of July is my favorite holiday. Not necessarily my favorite meaning behind a holiday, but I enjoy the festivities the most. I love the warm weather, being outside, the good food, the fun with friends...

This year JP and I both had to work on the 4th. However, I was able to make it out to Alabama Adventure to meet JP for their firework show.

That afternoon I got a call from JP telling me to bring a coat, hat, and jeans. Thinking this was strange he explained that he had asked the two guys Alabama Adventure had hired to put on the firework show if he could help them. They said yes as long as he was properly clothed.

The offices at Alabama Adventure are on a hill that looks over the park. The fireworks were set up here. All of the office staff and their families sat up on the hill for the fireworks. Once we went out there JP went over to help.

We were literally 30 ft. from the huge things of fireworks. The first two that went off I was a little freaked out! I had never been that close to a theme park amount of fireworks. I had been close to the little ones we did at home but these were way bigger! There were two guys walking around with fire extinguishers "just in case"

After the show JP came back with a huge smile on his face. He had gotten to help more than he thought. They let him shoot the first one off and he said it was more intense than he though but he loved it!

JP is back there somewhere behind all the smoke.

JP with the two "real" firework lighters.

MERCY ME CONCERT

Recently JP and I heard Mercy Me at Alabama Adventure.

If JP didn't work at Alabama Adventure, I probably would have never gone to this concert. Honestly if he didn't work there I probably would have never even gone to the park at all. But, because he works there, everything there is free to us so... what can get better than free entertainment?

If you know JP, you know it's pretty hard to get him to smile normal in a picture. I think this pic is pretty good.

Trust me... for every good shot like this there at least 10 of us being silly.

JP and his boss Chris.

Me and JP with EJ the GM (aka the boss of everyone) being silly in the background

Cirque Magnifico

Last Saturday I went to Alabama Adventure for the first time! I know... long over due right! I met JP there so we could go to the Cirque Magnifico show at 8:30 Saturday night. These people were SUPER flexible. We pretty much sat there the whole time saying/thinking "how do they do that!"

I am now an official Alabama Adventure season pass holder and have a cool parking decal on my windshield.

Thank You Note...

Dear Julianne Hough,

Due to my lack of pop culture knowledge, I did not know who you were until last night. Apparently you are a country music singer who was on Dancing with the Stars and is now opening for George Strait.

I just wanted to tell you thank you for getting sick last night resulting in rescheduling your concert at Alabama Adventure. Although it is unfortunate that you are having to deal with severe strep throat, I am very grateful that my husband got to come home early due to your sickness. He was able to go with me to our church coffee house. I was quite excited because I have to go to church events alone lately due to his work.

So to sum it up, thank you for getting sick so I could spend more time with my husband. Although I do have to ask... why did you have to reschedule on August 7... my birthday?

Get well soon Julianne!

Megan

What we've been up to...

I'd say 90% of our time is dominated by three things...

1. We have started looking for a house. After many months of internet searching we finally contact a realtor and start taking a look at these houses. We've spent many hours already looking and I can imagine many more. It does not surprise me that we will take a while to find a house. I think we spent more time looking for our honeymoon location than we were actually on our honeymoon. We hope to have a house by July when our lease ends so we have some time.


2. JP has been VERY busy with work. Alabama Adventure opened today and they have been spending a lot of time getting ready. This is the first time the new company that bought the park has had an opening day (they bought during the middle of last season). They have made a lot of changes from the way things were done before. In the long run it will make things easier but getting them started is taking a lot of time. Yesterday he worked about 15 hours. Today he's at 14 hours and counting.

3. I've been very busy studying accounting and working on my marketing project. The end of the semester has been very busy with tests and projects. It will be over very soon though! Accounting ends in a week and Marketing in three. I will have a month off until summer classes start.


Although we have been both very busy we have found time to do some fun things.

I got to go see Wicked! I went with my friends Laurel, Jennifer, Casey (Laurel's fiance), Kathryn, and Justin. I have been listening to the soundtrack since my senior year in college. I love singing the songs all the time... I can't say JP loves hearing the songs all the time haha. It was so great to finally see the whole story. I loved it!

The few free moments JP has he has spent reading this book. We went to my parents for Easter and JP read a whole lot because he finally had time to.


This week JP surprised me and took me to PF Chang's. We went Wednesday after my class so we ate pretty late. We enjoyed a 4 course meal. We both got Egg Drop soup, we shared lettuce wraps, JP got Mongolian Beef, I got Honey Shrimp, and we both got mini tiramsu desserts.

ZOO Lights!

At the Alabama Adventure Christmas Party many things were given away... mostly things Alabama Adventure had been given by their corporate sponsors. JP and I won a tin of popcorn. I really wanted to win the set of 4 tickets to Zoo Lights. There were 6 sets and we didn't win. But, I was able to get them from a guy who won them and didn't want them. So, JP and I had fun going to the zoo lights for free!