Wow. I am a slacker.

So. We haven't dropped off the face of the Earth. We have been having too much fun this summer to blog about it I guess! Actually, I am just not going to school anymore so I am not at the computer hardly ever and have no reason to use blogging as a means of procrastinating. And since I got a job, when I'm not working we are playing. Anyway, we have done a lot of fun things this summer and there are a lot of pictures to prove it. It took me forever to upload the pictures I did and they don't even do our summer justice. But here are a crapload of pictures from the last three months! Oh, and they are in reverse chronological order... most recent to uh... most not recent... :)

This is a picture of my fat ankle/foot/leg from a vicious bee sting I sustained while camping this last weekend. That little bugger must have been really angry with me or I am developing an allergy to bee stings because my foot swelled up like a had sprained it! I promise my cankles aren't normally THAT bad! :)

Dave and I went to Denver this past weekend to go see a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater and it was AMAZING! That venue is incredible!! AND we went to see one of my all time favorite musicians, Ray Lamontagne. I love him. And he was with David Gray who is also great.

Yeah, that is the Denver skyline in the background. And I saw an incredible shooting star. this place is like a natural amphitheater that they just enhanced. Oh man, it is awesome.

It is quite a hike up to the stage but SO worth it.
On the drive up to the amphitheater...
Just before we went to Denver we went camping with the fam! We camped by Pineview Reservoir. It was super fun! This is where I sustained the traumatizing bee sting.
In "Nana" and "Papa's" camper... (aka my madre and padre)
My precious Pa and little Lincoln...
Earlier in the summer we went to northern Idaho with Dave's fam and rode the Hiawatha Trail on our bikes. It was SO gorgeous and perfect weather! Me and Dave's family are so similar. It is awesome to have in-laws that I love so much!
Dave's ma and pa...
Me being mad that I don't have a swimming suit on so I couldn't get into the crystal-clear, perfect-temperature water. I am a sucker for a mountain lake. I don't think there is a better body of water than a clear, clean lake. If I hadn't had a white t-shirt on I would have totally gotten in fully clothed.
On the trail, looking off one of the many bridges...
One of the tunnels we went through...
Part of the Bates fam (Dave's sister's familia) on a bridge...
The beginning of the trail... this tunnel was about 2 miles long and it was FREEZING inside it!
Martin!
Hanging out at the campsite...

We took our pups to play in some water somewhere between our house and Dave's parents house. It is some random reservoir that I cannot remember the name of at the moment.



WAY back in June we went to San Francisco and ran in a half marathon. It was put on by the San Francisco Giants. We got to go to a couple baseball games, toured Alcatraz, went on a trolley ride. It was a blast!

This is me at Alcatraz, it was windy and cold out there!
Dave on top of the Macy's building where we were eating lunch at The Cheesecake Factory.
A cell on Alcatraz...
Alcatraz...

Trolley ride..
B-ball game! In the background you can see the fair that they had going on for all these weekend festivities...



Some sweet dreadlock-wearing sheep at the fair...
So, that has pretty much been our summer presented in a random array of reverse chronological pictures!