It's finally summer. It has been hot in the afternoons! But it's still pretty. I can do hot here better than hot in Chicago.

I forgot to mention the most important event of the summer -- David and Ellen came to visit. I think I mentioned that they inspired me to restart the blog. We had so much fun and I wish they lived here!

This is a consumer confession. I am very sad that we don't have AT&T service here and that I can't have an IPhone until it becomes mainstream. I should be happy since I can't afford it and since prices will invariably come down in the next few years before it's available in Montana. But all this iPhone hype is a reminder that no matter how hard I try (ok I don't try very hard) to break my love of gadgets, I am a gadget girl and I want all the new cool toys.

This weekend Ted and I volunteered on the Dive team at Ironman Coeur d'Alene. We had an awesome campsite on the lake -- only the group site was available when I went to reserve a site online so we had this huge campground to ourselves basically. It was beautiful!

We had a blast volunteering. I had the opportunity to watch the swim portion of the race from below the water -- it was incredible. Thankfully no one sank thus requiring my assistance. It was really neat and made me want to do another one. I'm thinking that perhaps I will consider Ironman Wisconsin 2008. I want to volunteer again next year at CDA so I won't be signing up.

I finally went to HuHot. No, not HuHa but HuHot. ;)

It's my birthday today!!! Ted gave me flowers and a beer stein this morning. He said it was too early for me to have beer though. This morning Leanne, Hunter and Sonja and I did about 5 trail miles at the "Pig Farm" -- then she bought me a sticky bun and coffee. This day has been great! Here's a blurry picture from my cellphone.

OK, so since the entire Woodbury clan blogs like rock stars I'm inspired to revive this. So what have we been up to? Well, I ran Boston and Coeur d'Alene marathons. We've been hanging out with friends and I will post picture from David and Ellen's visit as soon as I can pirate them from David. This weekend we're volunteering at the CDA Ironman and will camp and celebrate my 32nd in style :)