July 2008

This summer has flown by! I wanted to get caught up on this thing this week so I won't feel so far behind. So heres just a glimpse. We've actually been to California for a total of 5 weekends this summer, and all for very good things. In June we went down for Matts graduation, July for my moms wedding, Dustin and Theresas bridal shower (my new sister!), and Dave's wedding. We stayed down the last week in July and went o Disneyland with Jons family. You'll see my brothers wedding in our August post which was that following weekend. So before we left our friend had a super fun cocktail party and we got all dressed up. It was fun to see our friends that way, since we live in Bend Oregon and you don't get dressed up for much here. Jon was gone for a week sometime in there, and the night he came back was the Bend Centurion. The Pro's ride around a few blocks downtown- its super fast and dangerous actually. I saw one guy fall, but left before the big crashes. But the whole town comes out to see all the various bike races that week. I think there's a 100 miler and some other ones as well.




Theres a few pictures of our drive down to CA with Aspen. Shes pretty entertaining!



We took a day and went up to Elk Lake on one our weekends that we were actually in Bend in July. It was a beautiful day and Apsen loves the water. We even took her floatin on the river for the first time- she has a little camo life jacket to help her stay in the water longer. I think shes part whale. She is 55 pounds now, but looks like shes 70 because of her fluff.



































Dave and Chelseas wedding was a blast! We left the pooper with friends here and headed down to SLO. It was such a fun reunion with all the "Ark" mates and many friends we hadn't seen in 6 months to 3 years! It made us have those reminiscent moments about being back with old friends and have the hopes that sometime down the road you might end up in the same place. We're gonna try and plan some Portland weekends. Dave will be in Seattle, a few others are in the northwest, and many can fly in for pretty cheap, especially from Sac or Denver! We'll just have to make sure that happens.









We had a great time with the Cummings family, as the Fitches always do. The bond between those two families is something to seek after. Lives so close and intertwined, I think its one of my dreams to have that. I'll keep praying. We spent a day at Pismo beach and Jon got some fun surf in, even though the waves were crappy. Some is better than none!

































We also got to see some whales, dolphins, and seals. IF any of you have ever seen the Blue Planet series- we got to witness a neat phenomenon that I learned from that. In the show it shows how dolphins and birds work together to hunt for fish. The dolphins surround a huge school of fish from below and force them to the surface. The birds attack from above and you see them dive bombing. You can kinda see a pictures of what it looked like, but it doesnt do it justice. I thought it was the coolest thing to see it all happen in the wild!