Lake Tahoe with the Fam

Around the middle of July, my step parents, Norm and Judy, came to visit. They stayed at Lake Tahoe for a week and I took 6 days off work to stay with them and sight-see. Dave had to work for a few of those days, but then he joined us for the weekend. It was great being up in the mountains while the temps in the valley reached 106 and 107!! Of course the day I had to drive back down the mountain it was 106 and then 107 the next day at work...I could have stayed up there!

My first time ever swimming in Lake Tahoe!! The water was awesome...and so clear!!

Hanging out on the beach...

For a park ranger, I have really, really white legs!

Spent some time at the Tallac Historic Site. We were surrounded by these fancy old estates and other buildings--what do we take pictures of? The cute chipmunks!

Dave joined us for a dinner cruise for their 15th anniversary on the Tahoe Queen. Good dinner, great views and live music!

Short Update

I can't write long today but I realized it's been a LONG time since I posted last! Work's going pretty well, keeping me busy...and recently it's been decided that we all need to learn Spanish so I've been having fun with that. I took Spanish in Jr. High and high school, but that's about it. I tried to learn German while working at Dead Horse Point, and that was fun, but haven't really done anything here language-wise. We have online classes and I ordered CDs from the library so that should help. So far I'm up to 3 hours online.

I've been at this job almost 2 years now (wow!) and have lost about 15 pounds!!!!! I've got 5 more to go before I can celebrate losing 20 pounds and getting back (almost) to my pre-Dave weight...but I finally can fit into a size 6 again--Dave finally made me go shopping and get some clothes that aren't baggy on me. Soon I will be able to post a picture--once I learn to use his computer to post pictures on here!

We're going to his sister's wedding this weekend at Lake Tahoe and I managed to get 4 days off work for it--so excited!