Dog Days of Summer

With Reggie being around, this summer has been a little different from previous summers. Tennis, skateboarding, and biking have taken a seat on the bench for now in exchange for more mellow activities. And with the Dodgers running the other direction from post-season baseball, and football not starting for another month, I've needed a distraction.

Adelaide has introduced me to all of her games she finds and plays on Miniclip on the computer. My biggest accomplishment is passing the 60th Phase on Level 3 of Zoikz.

I even get a lot of support from our occasional late-night Halo tourneys at our house. Even better than winning is watching the looks on all our friends' faces when Megan turns out to be one of the best players. Nothing tops a husband/wife team in a futuristic setting of violence and mayhem.But the weirdest trend so far is my summer reading. My brother Rick got me started with "Lone Survivor" and Randy followed that with "The Electric Church" (not pictured). And Megan has finally got me to read the first two Hunger Games books in the last two weeks. And now I find myself waiting for the third. I'll say they are good (definitely more mellow than my brothers' books - believe it or not), but even better than that, I have found new motivation to read, being so discouraged by all the Harry Potter and Twilight hype (sorry).

Happy Dog Days of Summer.
Sorry to those who thought this was going to be a post about Captain America.

Can You Handle the Heat?

There has been a little debate going on between Davey and Steve on whether or not St. George is really that hot. Davey says that he doesn't like St. George because it's too hot. The funny thing is that Davey hasn't been to St. George in the summer. So Steve made Davey promise that he would come and visit this summer to see if he could handle the heat. Last weekend we went down so he could fulfill his promise.

Anna and I decided we should do some canning while we were there. I'm going to say it was the ultimate canning marathon. We started at around noon on Saturday afternoon and didn't finish until 1:30 Sunday morning (we did take a 3 hour break in the evening for dinner and swimming). We had a lot of fun, though. We ended up with 7 quarts of marinara sauce, 18 quarts of peaches, and 12 pints of pickles. We vowed that next time we would only tackle one thing at a time, not three. I think that the peaches about killed us (peaches take forever!). So far, the consensus is that the pickles are delicious.

Adelaide and Sophie are becoming such good friends! They had such a great time playing together and get along really well. Cousins are awesome.

We finally got to eat at the Bear Paw which was delicious and the weather really was lovely. I even heard Davey mention that even though it was 106 degrees outside, it is a dry heat so it only felt like 85. Ha, ha! It's what we've been saying all along babe, it's what we've been saying all along.

Thanks for letting us come down guys, it was fun! (Apple pie filling in September Anna?)

Snip Snip

Reggie has a trademark hairdo. It's one that's pretty hilarious but not very attractive. His hair is finally growing in where he has rubbed it all off and his little Alfalfa-tuft just keeps getting longer. So on Tuesday I decided it had to go.

Before and happy...

After and pretty ticked off...

This was the best picture we could get because he wouldn't hold still. He was very upset about his very first haircut, indeed.

He seems to be doing all right with it now. And he's as handsome as ever.

Price Family Reunion

We spent the July 24th holiday in Heber at Jan and Lucia's cabin for the 1st official Price family reunion. This is only the half of us. I believe there was a count of around 70 people in the cabin at one given time.

We had an awesome time and it was absolutely gorgeous up there.

We went on walks around the pond.

Met 1st cousins once removed for the very first time and had fun jumping on the bed.

Cousin Eric took the young ones on a trek to build fairy houses (it was a huge hit).

We watched movies.

Ate lunch at the bowling alley.

Received pedicures from Becca.

And in true Price fashion, played games until we couldn't play games any more.

It was so great to see everyone, especially those who live so far away. We look forward to three years down the road when we get to do it again.

Love!