Photo Dump, or Summer Adventures!

As far as months go, July was a pretty good one. But enough of these words! On to the pictures!

We tossed a football around before watching the fireworks on the 4th of July.

On the three-year anniversary of the day we met, we went to Lagoon (an amusement park in Utah) because tickets were relatively cheap and Jacob had the day off work.

Jacob is a very intense driver. And he took his road rage out on unsuspecting victims while cackling diabolically*.

I insisted we ride the merry-go-round because it was "quaint."

We repeated a "Christmas in July" date we did two years ago, this time with my sister and brother-in-law. We put Dustin to work on making Christmas cookies. 

But let's be real, Heather and I did most of the work.

Jacob pretended to read a Christmas story for the photo, and then promptly handed the book of to me. And then we watched A Muppet Christmas Carol, much to the delight of all.

My parents and little sister Emily came up to Utah for a family reunion! As part of it, we visited some relatives' grave sites. (This bench is not one of them. We just thought it was somewhat cool/creepy to have a bench as a grave marker.)

Jacob's dreams came true when he became the owner of an official Sudweeks Family Reunion t-shirt.

The Sudweeks clan. And this isn't even all of them. Photo credit goes to Josh Sudweeks.

My mom organized a series of "Minute to Win It" games for one of the evening activities. Heather and I participated in a game that required two people to unwind an entire roll of toilet paper around one of the contestants. She ended up holding the roll and I ended up spinning in place until the roll ended and I promptly fell over. Photo credit to Kim Aldrich

We went boating with the family. I tried my hand at a little wake boarding, and  we rode the tube together. And then I was sore for a week.

Most of my immediate family came to our apartment to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony  and celebrate with food. Namely, fish and chips, Olympic onion rings, and Olympic ice cream cone torches. With some healthy stuff provided by my parents.

And here they are! They're pretty much the best.

 They say a picture is worth a thousand words. And I just gave you over a dozen, not to mention the captions. So basically I just wrote the essay of a lifetime. You're welcome.

*He may or may not have actually cackled. I could possibly just be taking artistic liberty.