Hiatus

Ok we're back from our hiatus. I'm not even going to bother saying that we are sorry or that we are going to get better at this whole blogging bit. Once a month is all you're going to get out of us. If you are really jonesing for an update, give us a call.

Over the last month we have done quite a bit, I will try and give you all a good run down. First, we sold the Scion and bought a 4Runner. We have been very happy with it thus far. We have also had the pleasure of continuing the painting of our house. This month we did two of the three bathrooms, let me tell ya, I am glad we are done with those. Bathrooms are the biggest pain in the tookas!

On the weekend of the 27th we went down to Tucson and paid a quick visit to Grams & Gramps and as a bonus we got to visit with Aunt Marty & Uncle Ralph. We wish we could have spent more time with them. On this day trip we experienced a very nice monsoon storm and I was reminded of one of the reasons I love Tucson so much. We also took some time to visit Kristen's parents and some friends.

The beautiful Catalina Mountains in Tucson we love so much!

On the following weekend we went out to San Diego with some friends in our ward (The Jacksons). We left Phoenix on Thursday afternoon and drove out to San Diego. On our way we stopped at In-n-Out in Yuma and ate dinner. We arrived in SD about 10pm and walked around our hotel a bit. We stayed at the Manchester Grand Hyatt downtown (thanks to priceline.com) and had a great view of the Coronado Bridge from our room. We got up early Friday and ate at Hash House A Go Go, an interesting little breakfast place with massive portions of food. Then we were off to Sea World. We spent a lot of the day there enjoying the shows and then headed back to our hotel, enjoyed laying by the pool in the wonderful 75 degree weather. We spent the evening over in Coronado Island. We walked on the beach near Hotel Del Coronado and ate at the Rhinoceros Cafe. Saturday we ate at Busters in near by Seaport Village and then took a trolley tour of the area stopping at Horton Plaza, Midway the Aircraft Carrier and more...then we went to La Jolla to the beach and back to Sea World to go on some rides and see the "Shamu Rocks" night show. Sunday was short - we slept in a bit, went to church and walked around Balboa Park. It was a great weekend, we enjoyed the weather the most and just had a great time. It was a much needed break from the every day routine, including the 110 degree weather that Sam has been putting up with at work lately. Thanks to the Jacksons for coming with us - we had a great time!

That brings us to this last weekend - we had friends from our ward in Tucson come to town (they now live in San Diego) so it was fun to see them. We went out to dinner with them (the Nielsen's) and the Lowes on Thursday night. Friday we went to the Diamondbacks game with a group of people that Kristen works with. Not usually Sam's favorite event, but we got to sit up in a suite and had some free food and drinks. Saturday we met back up with friends at Canyon Lake to wake board and knee board. We had a great time out in the sun and both attempted the wake boarding thing (pretty unsucessfully). Hopefully we will get to try again soon!