some pictures of our summer situation.

summer is just my favorite time of year. temperatures hitting over 100 degrees cannot dampen my spirits! (insert some sort of damp/sweaty joke here)

these are a few things we've been up to so far.

we went to the aquarium and stared at the jellyfish for a real long time. the river otters and penguins also had to withstand a lot of our attentions. i just wanted to take them all home with me. (maybe not the jellyfish? they aren't as conducive to cuddling)

we've both been getting a lot of reading done. (oskar does his best to help by lap-sitting)

my new job has a pretty lax attitude about the exact time i need to show up. since mornings are not my shining moment, i enjoy having a little more time to get moving. and to make smoothies for breakfast! (at my last job i ate instant oatmeal basically every day. it started to get real old)

because a lot of summer things are more fun to do in groups, we've made a summer hang-club. (t-shirts pending) so far we've been to a movie in the park, had a campfire night (see below) and this past weekend we went to the taylorsville dayzz fireworks and followed it up with some specialty pancakes from ihop. a table utensil may or may not have been absconded with. 

(jamilyn and nathan came to the campfire too. i just had forgotten about my camera after they got there. sorry guys)

we went to a 9th and 9th event...thing and tried out the SubMarinos food truck. we followed it up with gelato and then later we made banana bread at 11 p.m.

 for reasons.

we shaved oskar. (don't worry, we finished the job) that cat is soooo happy to not be dying from heat. and now his head looks enormous. (also i promise we still have wallace. i weirdly haven't taken any pictures of her recently)

and finally and most importantly today marks ten months of being married to this guy. he makes being married really happy and a whole lot of fun. love his face.

happy summering!