Aspen Grove.

i'm having mixed feelings...

i'm excited to:

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attend awesome seminars

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have breakfast, lunch, and dinner

provided for me for a whole week

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watch my sexy hubs play some seriously

awesome tennis

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have kort having fun in his "group" for the week

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have fun with the hubs while

kort is in his "group" during the week

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hike

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visit

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nap

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spend countless hours chatting at the craft cabin

while working for hours on end to create hideous

leather bracelets that I would never (ever) dream of wearing

and ceramic figurines that I'd never display in my home,

but that make me incredibly happy

while i'm creating them.

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visit with family

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eat. (did i already mention the eating?)

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be in nature

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watch kort play trampoline basketball

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play in wallyball tournaments

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watch with complete and utter

satisfaction as my son

enjoys the EXACT same experiences

i enjoyed as a child

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sit back and reminisce about my torrid,

12-year-old love affair with joey-something-or-other

from michigan so many years ago.

(sorry hubs, joey and i made a lot of

super-special summer camp memories that week.

memories that are not easily shrugged off and forgotten

when all is said and done.)

from holding hands and smooching down by the fish pond,

to defending joey's life (west side story style yo!)

when my thug cousins wanted to beat his face in

(this was, of course, to defend my honor

and NOT because they were pre-adolescent turds

who were looking for absolutely any reason to start trouble

in the whitebread mormon-y mountain heaven

that is BYU Aspen Grove Family Camp)

to when joey something-or-other from michigan

played "unchained melody"

at the talent show and dedicated it to me.

that's right, to lil' ole me.

(oh be still my heart)

gotta hand it to ya joey,

you were the only musician that ever

managed to make me swoon. go you.

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i'm not looking forward to:

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leaving the dogs.

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boo.

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i wish wish wish they could come along,

but i know they will be in good hands.

it didn't help that i watched

marely & me

and bawled like a son of a gun while packing all morning

what am i, a complete and total idiot?

answer: yep.

moving on...

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this week's mission?

help you see

and experience

and love

aspen grove

as much as i do

(and always have)

talk to you all very soon!