What I did with my summer vacation: Part 2

July was a pretty busy month. We started off with my favorite holiday: July 4.

Dave was on call that week and hadn't slept much.

 I really love this man. 

The day after the 4th, Dave got really sick. I had never seen him with a fever before...It was pretty sad and a little bit funny. Thankfully his fever broke right before his performance with his a capella group scheduled for that evening so he was able to perform but poor guy was down for most of the week.

In which I realized that I don't want to run the marathon. Like, at all.

We spent a few days at the ranch for the Grygla family reunion. Mike, as always, took the best picture Dave and I have of ourselves. We had a great time with the family. My favorite part, as always, is that Dave's pager and phone don't have reception out there. 

Right after the week at the ranch, I headed down to San Diego to help my dad pack up part of the house in preparation for his move to St. George. We found some real treasures in the shed.

I found my mom's old Book of Mormon in the clean out. The number of times this book was dropped in the bathtub...

Dad treated me and Scott to dinner at Anthony's Fish Grotto

Where we saw a naked lady (I joke).

We spent Friday morning packing up the moving truck

I was so tired...

Moved the van into the garage for the first time maybe ever

And drove to St. George. Dad will be here permanently tomorrow. We are so excited!

I almost got rid of Chloe in a shallow grave. This pillow was the fourth offense of five this summer. She likes to chew things recently. This summer's offenses have been two swimsuits, a pair of little girl's underwear, Dave's pillow, and a pair of my underwear. My patience is wearing thin...

My dear friend Naomi came through St. George, and we spent a lovely (but HOT) Sunday afternoon at the temple. The colors were gorgeous that day.

Dave and I played storm chaser one day.

I thought it was going to turn into a tornado, the sky looked so green.

Our beloved wedding reception location closed unexpectedly.

Just because I hate cats.

We saw this sunset on one of our many trips up north.

And this was the view on the other side of the valley. It was incredible.

We went to the Journey concert!! SO FUN!

Dave thought it would be funny to highlight the word "Journey" on my shirt with his hand, but of course it looked like he was trying to do something else. Mmmmhmmm.

I really do love this man.

Even when he puts things like this in Maia's pants and tells her to "Go show Aunt Julie."

Is that what my butt looks like from behind? You know what? I don't want to know.

And that takes us to the end of July.

Catching Up

Well, it's that time. You know, the time when you dump your iPhone pictures on your computer and realize you haven't blogged in, oh, three months. Scratch that--four months.

Turns out summer is pretty busy around here. Who knew?

Here's a snapshot of a few things we did:

We got rid of Leo. He was just too much of a puppy for us to handle for all of our summer travel. Plus, Chloe was tired of being molested.

We went to Lake Powell for a week...

where Dave accidentally broke this kid's arm tubing. :(

He had to ride into Page on the waverunner because we couldn't get the boat running again. I felt so bad for him. Thank goodness we had doctors with serious pain killing supplies on board.

I learned how to jump on this trip, though I may or may not have ended up with a week-long case of whiplash from one very painful spill...

I had major post-Powell blues. The house felt like it was rocking under my feet for at least three days and I missed living in a swimsuit.

I recovered from the blues and finally got around to getting my name changed. Then I was able to make the Dixie State hire official...

We saw my old pal James Royce star in Hairspray at Tuacahn. What a great production!

I ran a great half marathon with Rachel -- my first as a married woman!

And we spent a lot of time with family (Dave pictured with my nephew Sifer).

And that only brings us up to the end of June!!!!!