The fun continues!

     Well we have entered the month of July and Kelli and I continue to enjoy every free moment we have!  Our 4th of July holiday weekend was the first fun thing we've done this month as we joined some good friends of ours, the Vullertsons, on Noxon reservoir in northwestern Montana for a few days of camping!  Luke and Kristy live in Kalispell with their two kids, and Matt and Julie live in Helena and have two kids of their own, all ten of us, including 3 four legged children, met up on Thursday and set up our camp.

     Kelli and I had bought a tent nearly 7 years ago with some wedding money and up to this point we had never taken it out of its original package!  For some reason every time we had gone out on a recreational outing in the past it was in a cabin, on a boat, or some other form of sleeping arangement!  When we moved to Spokane I told Kelli we were breaking the seal on that thing come hell or high water, nearly even setting it up in the back yard one weekend, and here was my chance.  Now I'm sure many of you have either struggled with one yourself or watched another person nearly collapse emotionally trying to set up a tent so I was a little nervous heading in to our first attempt at this.  Much to my surprise though, we had our tent set up and ready for use in less than 20 minutes!  

     Now that we had our lodging set up we were ready to relax and enjoy our time on the lake!  Luke and Kristy have a camper and they arrived the night before us so they were all set up, once the rest of our gang showed up and got their tent set up we headed out on the water for some fun.  We brought our canoe, Luke brought his raft with a small motor on it, and Matt brought his fishing boat which was big enough to pull a tube.  So between the three of us we had just about every facet of water recreation covered!  We spent a lot of time with both big boats on the water, one carrying a viewing party, and the other pulling my triceps off of my arms!  After a couple different trips on the tube behind Matts boat I quickly remembered that I am a 35 year old(at least for another 2 days) who sometimes thinks he is 25!  My arms felt great all weekend but when we got home and I went to take the canoe off the top of our car I immediately felt like that 35 year old, a very sore one at that!  All in all we had a great time, hanging out around the campfire, fishing, boating, and just relaxing.  Kelli mentioned on the way home that it was the first year she could remember not seeing one single firework on the fourth!  We had so much fun spending quality time with each other and our friends that I didn't even really notice:)

     Overall we had a fantastic weekend of fun with some great people!  We didn't get too much of a break in the action either as this weekend Curtis and I are playing in the Anaconda Country Club mens invitational.  Kelli and I came over to Stevensville Friday afternoon and made it to the Dobsons house just in time to watch my little sister be immortalized through the world on television!  In case you missed it the murder trial she had a couple months ago was covered by Dateline and they aired the two hour show on Friday night.  I followed the trial extensively, even sat in court one day with Ryan hearing testimony, and as you've read on this blog when the verdict came out I still believe the wrong man went to jail for this crime.  But thats a topic for a different day:)  We watched the Dateline with Dan and Donna then early yesterday morning I came over to Butte for the golf tourney while Kelli stayed behind to hang out with her parents.  The girls had a busy day of shopping yesterday and today Kelli's going to get caught up with a couple of her friends who still live in Missoula.  Curtis and I played pretty well yesterday in the best ball portion of the tourney, shooting -11, now today is the accumulate portion of the tourney which means we both have to post a score on every hole.  Last year when we played in this tourney todays format we found out fits our games pretty well as we made up a bunch of ground on the leaders.  Today we should be sitting in a much better position though than last year and wont have to make up nearly as much ground.  If we play well enough we might just even win it!:)  

     So as I get ready for another fun day of golf with my little brother I look forward to the rest of the month of July.  It's a busy time of year in our family as we have like 2 anniversaries and 4 birthdays to celebrate, i kind of loose track theres so many!:)  I hope you all continue to enjoy your summer as we have and don't forget to take a moment as we near the midway point to reflect on all the fun you've had so far!:)

Remember, whoever said to feel young you have to think young must have been a young person!!