Loud music early Sunday morning

In full swing

I was trying to show how many people there were behind the runners...

Luckily, I was woken up by the people and music just in time to walk outside and see the first runners go by. wharf to wharf

First blueberry (or any kind really) muffins from scratch. Delicious!
We leave for Colorado at the end of this week! And I'm finally getting close to finishing all of my projects for the class I'm taking...

4th of July weekend

Doing his trick. How many hours can he sit like that...

On a very pretty hike we went on.

Celebrating America with red, white, and blue cake! Yeah, it was yummy. We had a really nice weekend in Nevada City. No parade or fireworks, but a great movie and *NSYNC videos later in the night made up for that... And, of course, all the people and delicious food.

I think we've decided on driving to Colorado in August. Hooray!

Peaches!

Yeah! Never had a fruit tree in my yard before. I tried one (despite it not being totally ripe), and it was already good. They are going to be great once they ripen up. Thinking about making a peach cobbler or something....

Summer time

One of my favorite meals. Yum!

I agreed to be full time in the infant room, but I still don't know when that will start. Hoping to spend a little time in Colorado later this summer too. Going to ask tomorrow for the time off, never my favorite thing to do...

I'm almost done with my first summer class; the next one starts right away though.

I started swimming again, which was definitely a good idea. It feels great.

Most importantly, Adam finally got the stent removed! Unfortunately, he was really really sick afterwards, and for some reason he got sick again today. :( We think he might have been allergic to one of the medicines they gave him.

We're heading back up to Nevada City this week for a long weekend. Looking forward to it! :)

Happy Father's Day Dad!!

And other dads!
We went backpacking this weekend. It was great, definitely want to go more this summer. First time camping together was fun too! Pretty tired though, and my whole body is a little sore, but it feels good. Plus, today I got to see Kendo in person for the first time, pretty intense.

I really like these flowers, keep seeing them on the trails around here.

The kitties love being brushed, which is good cause they're shedding like crazy...

Denali.
I guess I might start working full time in the infant room. Probably at the end of the summer? but not totally sure yet. But it was nice finding out they trust me and want me to stick around!

I should also mention that my mom is doing amazing, better than I could have imagined. :) And, seeing as it's Father's Day, I was glad to hear that my dad is feeling and doing pretty good too!

Waterfall

We finally made it to that waterfall. It was definitely worth getting to. We were the only ones there too, so it was super peaceful and pretty, though after stepping in the water neither of us made it under the falls... The whole 6.6 mile hike was nice too, with a bunch of stream crossings, banana slugs, wildflowers, etc.

Parks!

Been awhile since I posted last....

We bought a CA state parks pass this week, so we spent today at Sunset State Beach,




and we're planning on going back to this great state park (called the Forest of Nisene Marks SP) we found last week tomorrow. Maybe this time we'll be able to find the right trail to see the waterfall we meant to get to last time...






We also went to this great park with Adam's parents when we were in Nevada City a couple of weeks ago. (I should really post more often!)

And we're signed up for a backpacking class in June! Getting out a lot I guess...

In other news, things seem to be going as well as they can for my mom. She's finally out of the brace!