Summer Part 2

We left off at July 4th in the last post...so what happened next?

Ed and I were planning to attend the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, UT in mid-July, so this year, we decided to go a few days early and enjoy a little bit of the area. A few thoughts about Salt Lake City: beautiful, breathtaking, outdoorsy, adventurous and MORMON! The Mormon religion is a definite way of life in this area. Here in Houston, we have drug stores on every corner...there they have CHURCHES on every corner - no lie. I think we heard the average was 1 church every 0.25 square miles. Insane! Regardless, they have so many trails and outdoor activities - we did a hike up an 11,000 ft mountain - although the altitude hit us harder than we imagined and we didn't have enough time or water to make it to the top. Here are a couple UT photos:

This was not snow - but rather fuzz from a plant that was all over!

You can see Salt Lake in the background

The summit still had snow! In July!

The Outdoor Retailer show was a ton of fun! We got to see so many new products that will be coming out in January 2009! We even got a TON of samples - some were totally free and some were at a severe discount:

Sadly, while we were in SLC, Harmony headed back to VA. I (Kristin) did get one last picture with her before she left:

After getting back from SLC, I was busy busy getting ready for Christy's babyshower! The baby is due any moment now! Christy's mom is trying to open her own cake business, so she made the cake - how awesome!! It's all sugar!

After the shower, which was quite exhausting for both the Mom-to-be AND me!

The next weekend, we headed to New Orleans for some great food and Jazz music with Brett and Lisa! The Jazz festival - Satchmo - was happening downtown along with tons of other things! We got to visit Missy while we were there (no pics though) and really have some fun. Ed and I even got to visit the insectarium!

So New Orleans was fun...and very hot! But the next weekend (I told you we were busy!) we headed to Dallas for Terri's wedding reception (a joint reception with her new Sister-In-Law). The reception was a blast! It was great to see Terri and Josh and Terri's family - it had been at least 10 years since I had seen them!

So pretty!

Throwing the boquet!

Jeff had "a little Captain in him!"

First Dance!

Ok - Whew! It's exhausting just typing about our busy summer! Next came our 10K trail run at Pedernales Falls State Park - but I'm doing a new post for that one!