July is almost gone!

With the end of my birthday month, I finally have gotten around to uploading some photos. :)

Photos from working on the Fireworks shows on July 4th and 5th in Mammoth --> HERE

Photos from the rest of our trip to CA --> HERE

I have started a new venture of biking home from downtown to the park-n-ride/Cherry Creek Lake Dam...about 16 miles or so. If Denver hasn't had record breaking heat (19 days over 90 and counting), I would do it more...just 2 days so far, but I love it! I drive to the train from home, take my bike on the train with me (helmet hair isn't so appropriate at the Bank), and then ride home. This is mostly practice for riding home all week during the DNC which is here in just a few weeks.

What else? I had another concert last Saturday, and again was sight reading quite a bit. So far, no major bang, crash, or woodblock blatantly in the wrong place, so that's good! I do get lost (counting is hard apparently) on occasion, but it works out. We have a 3 concert mountain "tour" the 2nd weekend of August.

I had a great birthday last Sunday! I was awoken by breakfast in bed (awwwww!) and card that alluded to my gift...ROCK BAND! Woo hoo!! I am so very spoiled! Rock Band is a lot like Guitar Hero, but you can have 4 bandmates at once - signer, bass, guitar, and drums! A band geek's (like me) dream! We had a few people over for a birthday BBQ (and some Rock Band) and had a great time! Here we are rocking out!!

Happy August to everyone!!

More work on the house!

Chuck is waking up sore from a long day of rebuilding the front steps (I helped in the morning a bit, but he gets all the credit). We are getting the house painted a a few weeks (yeah!), so this project was on the list before the painting. We still need to stain, but it looks great!

We had a good week - it was hard going back to work after vacation of course, but we made it! One of my college roommates, Steph, was in town, so we went to the Rio for margs with her and her hubby on Thursday (they celebrate there 10th anniversary this week - how did we get so old??? Congrats Steph and Matt!).

Last night was my first concert with the Denver Concert Band! I was on bass drum for the whole set and my boom booms were in the right place most of the time! Woo hoo! The weather held out (no rain and it cooled off from the high 90s of the day). We have another concert next week at a church in Aurora.

Tonight Tarah (Chuck's mom) is coming over for dinner so I'm off to do chores! :)

Back home....

What a trip!! :) We clocked nearly 1,100 miles on the rental car (note: most expensive gas...$5.07/gal in Mammoth)!! We had a great time.

A quick recap....3.5 days in Mammoth (all but 1 working hard on fireworks stuff!), 1 day in Yosemite (with a side trip to my childhood summer vacation spot, Bass Lake), 3 days in the Bay Area visiting friends and family, and 2 days in Tahoe (we event rafted/floated down the Truckee). Needless to say we hare pretty tired and are dreading going back to work tomorrow!! Boo!!

I will post some photos and maybe more details soon! :) Why is it that vacation away means lots of chores when you get home...?