Summer is here!

Yay the spring is over! We are officially starting our first summer of NO CLASSES since we've been married....so this is fabulous. I survived Physics and managed to avoid a C! That was a blessing.

We kicked off July with a wonderful vacation with my family to the Grand Canyon, Bryce, and Zion's national park. If I were at my home computer I would totally post pictures, but they are all on facebook anyways. We LOVED it, it was such a relief to see my family after so long. Phillip (he's 17) said the vacation was one of his favorites because he got to hang out with me and Richard, we're finally around the same age where we can have fun with each other. Mindy is growing up so fast, too, she'll be turning 8 this fall. Anyway, my favorite park was Bryce Canyon, but everyone else really seemed to like Zion's. I want to go back to Zion's and hike Angel's Landing and the Narrows. :-)

I am working at the BYU Library, now cataloging LP's (old-fashioned records) for 20 hours a week, and then I'm working 20 hours a week at the Missionary Training Center (MTC). Both jobs have their ups and downs, at the library I can listen to whatever I want...including TV shows, audio books, etc., while at the MTC I have to clean and can't listen to any music or else the missionaries would get jealous :-) And the MTC doesn't seem to have enough work for me to do to fill 4 hours a day, so lately I've literally brought books to read there so I can wait and read until I'm even needed. Kind of posh. I've never had such lazy, easy jobs in my life.

Richard is working in his nutrition lab on campus, which luckily he is getting paid for this summer. He is doing research on antioxidants in blueberries, and he gives a presentation on his research in Chicago on the 17th, so he's been busy preparing for that.

Also, me and Sariah have been running together and are planning on doing a 5K at the end of the month....so hopefully it will work out! My first 5K....I have run more than 3 miles before, but it's still tough to train up to that when I'm so rusty. :-)