Summer Recap

Summer in Texas is hot.

It also means GREAT Thunderstorms.

I realize I haven’t written in two months so I thought I would recap our summer, or at least the last two months of it.

Some highlights of July:

- We spent the 4th of July at our company get together at Dan & Lisa Saur’s lake house about an hour south of Dallas. It was a great way for David to get to know them a little bit & meet most of our staff. We swam in the lake, went out on the boat & ate dinner on the front porch. We didn’t stay for fireworks, but we had a great time.

- My friend Melissa came to visit for about a week. She stayed with her sister who lives here too, but I got to see her a bunch and it was great! July is a tough month to visit Dallas though, so we spent a lot of time inside watching movies, playing games & shopping. We also celebrated her 20 birthday at a tea house; good fun!

- Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince – awesome. And bonus: after seeing the movie, David read thru all of the books in about a month =)

The highlight of August was getting to see our friend Matt from SLO. He & his dad stayed with us for a night on their way out to St. Louis, Missouri, where Matt is starting his first year of seminary at Covenant. We had enough time to catch a Rangers-Twins game in Arlington & get dollar hot dogs. It was really good to see him and catch up.

Like I said, summer in Texas is hot, so with the exception of swimming, we spent a lot of time inside – we spent a couple weeks putting together a giant puzzle, watched a lot of movies, took up playing Scrabble (& got an official Scrabble dictionary), and discovered the dollar theater of Mesquite (seriously, $1.25 to see new movies just out of theatres). Every time the temperature dropped below 100, we tried to take advantage of it & get outside to the park, the lake, or to play tennis.