WAY Past Due

I don't even know where to start with this post.  This summer has come before we knew it!  It has gone by so fast... A lot of decisions were made, and a lot of stuff is new.  We have been quite busy this summer that in my spare time, I have wanted to spend it all either with Scott, or studying.

First of all--to start off with, Scott and I celebrated our ONE YEAR anniversary on July 2nd!  Holy smokes this one year has gone by SO unbelievably fast!  We decided that since we had a couple vacations coming up, we would just play it low key and enjoy our anniversary in SLC!  So, we went to 7 Peaks to spend the day... and went to Wingers that night.  We both love Wingers...and it's the place we went on our first date :) Haha... We spent the night at home reminiscing over our first year of marriage, watching our wedding video, and eating a slice of the top of our wedding cake! (Which probably tasted better than it did on our actual wedding day!)  To sum it up--this year has been amazing!  I love Scott and being married to him was the best decision i've ever made.

1 YEAR!  (I know--Kinda a doofy pic, but meh...)

Aww :)

Another great thing that happened was going to my best friends wedding!  Yep, that's right, one of my best friends in the entire world got married!  Brittany got married to James on July 7th in the St. George temple.  It was a hot day, but it was a wonderful one!  Britty looked beautiful, she looked like an angel.  I am incredibly happy for her and James!

Two days after we got back from St. George, we left for Coeur d'Alene, Idaho with Scott's family.  We were able to stay there for the entire week with them.  The drive up seemed to last a long time (stuck in the car with crappy AC) but once we got there, holy incredible!  CDA was beautiful--one of the most beautiful places i've ever seen!

We stayed in this cute house near lake CDA...

We went to a fun amusement park with everyone--the rides were so much fun.  It was so incredibly hot that day so after riding rides, we went to their water park to cool off.  It was nice and refreshing.  Everyone had a good time--it was great fun!

Dakota Bronson Dallin Me Scott

We hung out at Lake CDA for a couple of days...

We drove North up to Sandpoint, ID and hung out at a beautiful lake there called Lake Pend Oreille.  Apparently it is so deep that the navy used to test submarines in it.  Crazy stuff...

We went mountain biking on the Hiawatha Trail, which is a section of an abandoned rail-road system.  We biked about 16 or 17 miles of it. It was so breathtaking!

This is the whole CDA clan at the start of the trail--about to go into a tunnel over a mile long!

Beautiful scenery, right?!

We even were able to ride through tunnels...

(We had to have head lamps because some of the tunnels were over a mile long and completely dark!)

It was such a pretty town!  We all loved it!  It was so great to spend so much time with family!  Thanks for the awesome vacation Perkes fam!  We love you :)

I will update more later--there is lots more to write about but no time...