Saturday, July 24, 2010

Summer highlights...

Grilling out at least twice a week, in rain or shine...

Weddings...


New babies...


A good sunset...from our back deck!


A day at the beach on the Oregon coast...

Growing things (and trying not to kill them in this heat!)

And...finally getting our drywall up and painted!


Sunday, July 18, 2010

Life as of lately

Well, I decided to join the blogging world.  I have enjoyed reading other friend's blogs and seeing their ideas, thoughts, and lives.  Plus, it's a fun way to keep a record of some of the happenings in our own lives and share it with family and friends who we don't get to see every day.  Also, Mark has to be a sounding board for probably way too many of my thoughts and opinions, so now I have a nice outlet for some of that (although I'll probably still keep telling him.  He is a good listener).  :-) 

Here's a summary of the past 6 months:  

We got engaged on Christmas Day...

Then we (somewhat crazily) decided to plan a wedding in 3 months.  So on March 13th we got married!

Went on a honeymoon to San Francisco...

Got home, unpacked, and decided to knock out a wall in the kitchen...

The kitchen is still up in the air  We don't exactly have a plan, but we have lots of ideas!  Like this:



And this...

But we're still at this:

And in the middle of all of this fun, my sister Laura got married!  It was a cozy wedding on a porch because of the rain, but I thought it was perfect.



And then my other sister Alison had a baby.  Sweet Drew.  I love him.  

He came to visit me this month, and I wish we lived 3 miles apart instead of 3 hours...

So a lot has happened lately.  I'm looking forward to a calmer year, but I know that there are seasons for everything.