What a summer: Family Home Evening (part 2)

We love to have family home evening. There are just two of us, so we can do whatever we want. =) This makes is pretty easy. A couple weeks ago we decided to go for frozen yogurt at one of our favorite local shops. We then took a quick drive out to the country to enjoy the warm evening. After the yogurt was all gone we took some fun pictures and almost got ran-over. I'm glad I didn't.





The next week we decided to go for a walk near the vineyards. One of Livermore's great beauties are the surrounding wine vineyards.



My sister, who lives in San Jose, says that people in 'the city' refer to Livermore as 'the sticks'. =) But we like it. Its quiet. Its cozy. Also, we love our ward. Great leaders and great people. Most of the ward actually lives within walking distance. If the time ever comes to leave this place, we will truly miss it.

What a Summer! (part 1)

We've had a great summer so far. Instead of trying to document dozens of great experiences, we'll encapsulate them into two or three GREAT posts. So Here we go...

Jennifer and I went to the her sister Jamie's wedding back in early June. She married a great canadian named Kevin Monson (no relation to any church member I know) pictured below. I take full credit for this union, being that their first kiss was the night that Jennifer and I got married. Did I mention it was a "spa kiss"? Way-to-go Kevin.



While we were there we celebrated Jennifer's Birthday with some of our friends. We then celebrated it AGAIN on her real birthday, June 28th, with some of our friends here. TWO birthday parties?! Wow! Way to go Jenn!



While we were there we saw BIG HAIR (Jenn's poof) and BIG COWS (Thats a long-horn, for all your foreigners): Two texas essentials.



We attended the local rodeo here in Livermore. Thursday night was family night, which meant free. It was a cool summer evening. Jenn said rodeos were supposed to be hot and sunny, AKA sweat and uncomfortable. I disagreed. Either way it was great night.



My parents live about an hour a way. When my family first moved out to the they house where they currently reside, one of the first things my father did was plant an orchard. It started out small and now has grown to over 75 fruit trees. It's full of peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, pluots, apriums, apples, figs, grapes and more. We love to stop in to see them...and take their fruit.