A Hump Day Post

Nothing exciting to report. Work is good, school is the same. My husband is perfect and my family and friends are happy and healthy.

I find myself being  more and more ready for cooler weather, which is unusual for me. Maybe it's the upcoming holiday season. With Halloween being on Friday, the general question of late is, "What are your plans for Halloween?" My answer? NOTHING!! Well, not really nothing. Matt and I are actually planning to join our fabulous neighbors (James and Tiffany) while they take their two wonderful daughters (Skylar and Emerson) trick or treating. Then, we will order pizza and drink and talk and hang (it's what we do best together, no matter where we are). I'm really looking forward to Halloween for a few reasons:

1. I DO NOT have to figure out what kind of costume I am going to sport to a party. Now, I do like parties. I enjoy seeing people and being out and basking in the company of those that are our friends. However, I have HATED dressing up for Halloween since I was about 12. Give me a theme party and I'm game, but Halloween costumes just suck in my opinion. So, not dressing up this year is one of the best things for me.

2. We are going to be spending the evening with some of our most favorite people. And, we get to see two of our favorite kids dressed in their costumes and join in on taking them around the blocks surrounding our house to fill up their pumpkin buckets with treats.

3. We are going to be spending the evening with some of our most favorite people. At their house. Away from our house. Which means we don't have to get up to answer the door every 5 minutes and we don't have to buy candy that ends up being left over and getting gobbled down by me. 

4. It seems that this year, beyond Halloween, Thanksgiving is literally right around the corner. And I LOVE Thanksgiving (another post with a list to reveal why will be in the works).

So, that's what we're doing for Halloween. And that concludes my super exciting blog for this week!

It's been a long, long time!

So. Married for over 4 months and here I am. Originally, this blog started out as being a way to record events surronding our wedding (mine and Matt's that is) because  I was sure some day I would enjoy reading back. Now, I wonder why I wouldn't want to read back on other things as well. Being too lazy to keep an actual hand written journal and feeling too silly posting my ramblings on MySpace, this seems to be the best option. So, here I am!

To catch up on the basics, married life is great. Of course every day isn't 100% perfect, but overall I have a great husband and a great life that I try to enjoy to the fullest. Not a lot has changed since the wedding(other than the fact that we are married of course!). We live in the same house, have the same jobs, I still go to school. We did get another dog on July 11. She is a black lab and her name is Macy. When she came home with us, she was 7 1/2 weeks old. I guess that would make her about 5 months old now. Cash loves her and she REALLY loves Cash. It's nice that they have each other during the day, though taking Cash places without Macy (such as the vet, we're not favoring one over the other) has proved to be challenging. Apparently, with Cash gone for a little less than an hour, Macy proceeded to bark for him in the back yard the entire time. Our new goal is to seperate them more often. 

Another big event of the summer was Matt's sister's wedding. It was beautiful, emotional and perfect. I had the pleasure of being one of her three matron's of honor. The wedding took place up in Truckee on August 9th. The weather was great, the food was tasty and the music was worth dancing to. I created a slideshow of pictures of both the bride and groom from childhood until now (Carrie did the same for my wedding) and it turned out really well. I have included some pictures from the wedding below. It truly was a special day!

                                                       First dance............

                                                           Sister and brother.........

                                                           The bride and I.......

To bring this post to an end, our summer (aside from the above) was pretty uneventful. We had a lot of boating time, a few baseball games, some great times with friends and family, and basically a nice summer in general. Lucky us!!