Wow, what a nice trip!  We went to the mountains in Utah, as we do every fourth of July week, and as always the scenery, the company, and the weather were wonderful!  I was incredibly lazy, but I did take one hike.  Not very far.  Mostly we just visited with relatives we hadn't seen in a while, and enjoyed ourselves.  Oh, and we got to look through a whole bunch of photos that my grandparents had saved, some of them from the 1920's.  I brought a few home so I can try and reproduce them.

I came home to over 100 e-mails in my in-box.  After weeding through the junk, I did actually have some useful stuff in there.  It got me thinking about Christmas in July.  I know, I know, it's too early.  But how nice would it be if I could actually be prepared for Christmas this year?   So I am going to try. 

I received a link to a cool website that I am checking out now, it's called OrganizedChristmas.com.   Looks like there are some good planning tips so far, I'm still surfing.  I got the website tip from a newsletter put out by Debt Proof Living and the author, Mary Hunt, also has a drawing you can enter even if you're not a subscriber.  The prize is a copy of her book, Debt Proof Your Holidays.  Simply go to the contest site, and enter as many times as you wish.  It's a random drawing.

Ha ha, now I got you thinking about Christmas in July, too!