Everywhere you go in town there are statues. The capitol building has a whole mural of statues on the lawn adjacent to the building. The banks have metal statues, and then there is the gem known as the statue gardens. Once a week, on my bank run, I drive past them and on Sunday we decided to take an impromptu visit to show the other guys.

We only took photos of a few of the statues. Some of them inspire me. I mean, anyone can be a sculptor. Several look like excrement, some look like leftover steel from a  construction site and some are just downright interesting.

This one is a giant statue of a person sitting holding their knees made entirely out of letters. I love this statue.

(note: the boys were great sports and let me do pretty much whatever I wanted. I don’t think they’d be happy to know that I posted this gem.)

Caleb likes to pretend like he isn’t having a good time. He mostly just gets tired of being in pictures. Also, this statue is weird.

This one just makes me laugh. Everyone came up with a different name for it. “Gravity” “Old lady ages”, etc…

A few weeks back I found this giant spider in my garage. I was terrified and made the delivery guy kill it. It was the size of a dollar bill and sooo hairy. This statue looks very similar to the spider, and it still makes me shudder and gag to think about it.

In other news, we are heading to Nashville this coming Thursday for Caleb’s competition. He is competing at the Future Business Professionals of America’s national competition. I’m very proud of him and all the hardwork that he does. He is such an amazing person and will be a great teacher or anything else that he decides to do, for that matter.

It’s the 4th of July weekend, and we are so far away from our families. We are excited to enjoy the festivities out here… Growing up in Idaho Falls, where the firework show is ranked 2nd in the nation, I have grown to love the 4th. Sometimes in various cities the shows are kind of a let down (Kanab, Ut) but I have a great feeling about Urbandale, Iowa. Cross your fingers.

Also, I could do without any firework incidents this year. There are  a few of you who know what I’m talking about. New year, new memories, new things to be embarrassed about, I’m sure.

Thought I’d leave you with this gem. Kevin and Ben were insistent that I take a picture in front of these statues. They posed for them all on their own. Nice work boys, nice work.