I'm coming home, I'm coming home, tell the world I'm coming home

Yes, it's true I am now home in FresYes.

But before we get to that, let's talk about Friday night!

(Also, get prepared because this is going to be a marathon post. I just have a lot to say. Luckily, Brooke has been training. Since she got 12 posts behind and then got caught up she is prepared for the longest post ever. You've been warned. But I promise there will be pictures, videos, singing, and wittiness.)

So, this summer there is a series of rooftop concerts the first Friday of every month in Provo. Last night was Megan Smith, who has a song on the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack. It was a lot of fun and it was a beautiful night.

There were so many people we couldn't even see the stage. So I have absolutely no idea what the singer's looked like.

I was obsessed with the paper lanterns they had hanging. I thought they were so pretty. I also got 2 new headbands. People had set up booths outside the concert, and one lady was selling these awesome homemade headbands for $4 each, so I bought 2. Here is Kelsie modeling one of them.

I think this rooftop concert series is such a good idea. It is one more reason why Provo is the best place to spend summers.

Now to the main event.

I am HOME!!!

Kelsie and I drove home to Fresno yesterday.

We're here for KarKar's high school graduation. Isn't she so pretty?

The drive was very uneventful except for the 28 police cars we saw along the way. We made it through ticketless, but there was a couple close calls. Boy, do those cops like to hide! At one point just outside of Bakersfield we saw 16 cops because they were in the middle of a man hunt. An armed robber was hiding out in a vineyard, but luckily they caught him.

This is what 99% of the drive through California looks like.

And this is how Kelsie and I spend most of our time driving.

Would you look at the price of gas in Barstow? $4.59!!! Luckily we've done this drive so many times we know to go a little bit further into the city to get gas, so we ended up getting gas for $3.91. Which is still ridiculous.

The weather was gorgeous until we started descending into the San Joaquin Valley. And then it got crappy fast. And it hasn't gotten any better since we've been home.

Did you know that Tatooine is actually located in Central California?

If you know anything about me, you'll know that I love McDonalds. One of the best sandwich's they have is the McChicken. In Provo, for some bizarre reason, they only have Hot 'n Spicy McChickens. Which are nasty. As soon as we could, Kelsie and I stopped and got regular McChickens.

The best part of the McChicken is the mayonnaise. Which I know is gross. But it's just so good!

After 11 and 1/2 hours of boring driving we arrived home. But we barely recognized our childhood dwelling. In the past few weeks my parents have gotten our house painted and the backyard redone. And it looks amazing.

Right now I'm laying on the couch on the porch while there is an awesome thunder and lightening storm pouring down on us. And it is freaking awesome!!!

So far home has been delightful. I've eaten steak. I've played the piano. I've practiced driving stick shift in my dad's Mustang (more on that later!). I've browsed our DVR recordings and plotted out what I'm going to watch. I've played with Ryen, Peyten, and Camden. And, I've spent time with my family, which is really the whole reason I come home.

Didn't I tell you it'd be a long post?

But wait! You can read more about it at http://kelsie-stuart.blogspot.com/

They've done it again

First, McDonald's came out with $1 double cheeseburgers.

Then it was $1 Dr. Pepper's.

But, now they have done it again.

Two words. Rolo. McFlurry.

Did you get that? McDonald's now has Rolo McFlurry's.

And they are amazing.

What is McDonald's trying to do to me!

An observation, Lost question updates, and Persuasion

First, lets do the Lost question updates.

1. I no longer care too much about whether Claire's baby is a boy or a girl (well I do, but this question eclipses it), what I really want to know is: what does Ethan wants with Claire and her baby? Ethan is freaking creepy. And weird looking.
2. WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN?!?!?!?!? Brooke said that the numbers are confusing even at the end. That just will not do. I have issues with unanswered questions.
3. Do Charlie and Claire fall in love? I don't know why I'm obsessed with coupling everyone, I guess it's just because you can't be trapped on a weird, creepy deserted island and not have a few people fall in love.
4. And that's all the questions I can think of for now. I'm sure I've asked a bazillion more, but I just can't remember them all right now. I haven't been awake long enough for that.

Second, I'm watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on the ABC Family Harry Potter Weekend Marathon and I realized that my hair looks just like Hermione's if I do nothing to it.

Like, if I just woke up and started walking around doing stuff, my hair would look exactly like Hermione's from the first 2 Harry Potter movies. Except her bangs look better. Cause mine look like crap if I don't do anything to them. (You can read about my struggle with my bangs here.)

Third, Kelsie and I saw the play Persuasion on Thursday night.

(The girl sitting down wearing the gold dress is Mary. She was hilarious. The girl sitting in front of her played Louisa Musgrove. She was really funny too.)

It was sooo good! I like the actors in the BYU play better than in the movie. The girl who plays Mary was amazing. I would go see the play again just for her. Also the guy who played young Frederick was very attractive, minus the weird clip in hair thing that was super obvious because you could see the white clip holding it in.

Probably one of my favorite parts was right after Mary met Captain Wentworth and she's talking to Anne about how nice his name is. "Weeeentworth. Went-worth. Wentworth. Captain Wentworth." And then, "wouldn't Wentworth be a wonderful name for a dog? Come here Wentworth! Oh, good boy Wentworth!" If I had a dog I would name him Wentworth. But, since I'm 100% positive I will never have a dog, I don't really need to worry about it. In fact, the only reason I would ever get a dog now is so that I could name him Wentworth.

This is the text conversation Kelsie and I had when we were discussing when I would pick her up.

Kelsie: "Why don't you pick me up at 5:45 and then we can go to McDonald's for dinner."

Katie: "Why McDonald's? We can go someplace nicer if you want."

Kelsie: "Shamrock shakes!!!"

Katie: "I may have already had a Shamrock shake today..."

Kelsie: "Well you can have another one!"

We ended up going to Olive Garden for dinner. But then I did take Kelsie to get her Shamrock shake before I took her home. It was the least I could do for her on St. Patrick's day. Everyone reserves a Shamrock shake on St. Patrick's day. On a side note, I'm glad to say that my influence has been increasing Kelsie's dependency on McDonald's. That could be one of my greatest accomplishments.