Happy 4th of July

Hello once again,

It seems lately I have more pieces of news than actual news, but I've decided if I keep waiting for actual news it may be a long time coming.

After surgery and lots of time, my knee is doing much better. After being lazy in the name of rehab for some time now I had my first semi-official workout at 100% on Friday. Being sore has never felt so nice! Looks like my legs are good going to do well but my lungs have forgotten how to work, so that will take awhile.
Last I wrote my wallet had been stolen. The good news is they seemingly stopped using it after writing just one check, the bad news is they were never caught...and some more people have lost wallets/cash/etc at work in the coming weeks. Fingers are starting to point to a few creepy cleaning people...the only ones with access to some of the behind desk areas. I hope they catch whomever it is.
My job as a trainer is going well, I enjoy the kids and find it to be a very stress free situation. Come fall this may all change, as there has been some discussion of changing me over to a full-time research position...which is great for the experience, but slightly more stressful than training 12 year olds ;). I hope more stress=more money, but we'll see. Summer has been hectic, so at least for the time being it looks like I'll continue training athletes and goofing around with Mike and Chris.
Jason and I are well and went to Arches National Park last weekend for two days of hiking and camping. We slept out on cots under the stars in the middle of nowhere (when i say middle of nowhere I'm not joking!) It was about 98 degrees at Arches, but thanks to tons of drinking water, and SPF 50, the weekend was a lot of fun. In the upcoming weeks we are trying to plan a trip to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.
After being green for at least a month, the mountains and most of the landscape is starting to brown as we hit the dry season. It's been unusually warm (even for Utah) although right now the low 90's we're having for daytime highs are about average. At least it's dry heat and none of the forest fires are in my neighborhood!
I'm planning on being home from September 22nd through October 1st. With any luck Jason will be coming along for a few days as well. I'm really looking forward to visiting home, as I've found that almost 9 months is a long time to go without seeing the family.
No huge 4th of July plans. Jason spent the weekend hiking up around his grandparents' house, but I had to work Saturday so I stayed home and got some cleaning done. Tomorrow night we're having dinner...hopefully there will be some fireworks to see on Tuesday.

I hope everyone is doing very well! Happy 4th of July and do be in touch!

Steph~

P.S. I'm going to send some pictures very soon!