Category Archives: Family

My trapeze experience

I’m trying to live an interesting life. I have limited resources, but I use what I have to do the things I don’t want to regret not doing. Like flying on a trapeze. Or is trapeze a verb? Either way, … Continue reading

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Our honeymoon, Monday-Tuesday

Ahh the honeymoon. Let me just say this: take a honeymoon. Do it. No don’t argue with me, just do it. Mike and I didn’t do anything super special – we just rented a cabin and chilled. We made a … Continue reading

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Wedding recap: photo session

Asking my friend Erica to photograph our wedding was one of the best decisions we made. She did a spectacular job and we love all the photos she captured. As I’ve said before, we bought her a ticket to Michigan … Continue reading

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Wedding recap: the reception v.3

By about 8ish, about a third of our guests had left already. The only survivor from Mike’s family was his mom, all of my grandparents and all but one of my aunts/uncles had left, as well as a few friends. … Continue reading

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Wedding recap: the reception, v.2

One thing I will always remember about our wedding was how EFFING HOT it was! I couldn’t be more grateful though because there was a threat of rain, and hot thick sticky air is better than rain any wedding day. … Continue reading

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Wedding recap: the reception, v.1

Immediately after the ceremony, we went into reception mode. The wedding was at 4, and the “reception-only” guests were invited to arrive at 5, so we had to hustle. Luckily we had a team of amazing people on our side. … Continue reading

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Wedding recap: the ceremony

While everyone got seated, Mike and I stayed inside the house. Through the windows we could see some chaos happening with the chairs – people were scrambling to find more and we weren’t sure why. A couple people came into … Continue reading

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Wedding recap: getting dressed

I’ve told the story of how I found and purchased my dress already. And I even mentioned that I was worried I wouldn’t actually fit into it the day of the wedding—I hadn’t tried it on in months, and I … Continue reading

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Wedding recap: the morning of

The morning of our wedding, we woke up knowing we were getting married, but I can’t say it felt much different than any other day. Just a saturday, hanging out with the fam at dad’s, and oh yeah, we’re getting … Continue reading

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Miss Scarlet. In the hospital. With the diaper.

My sweet Scarlet is here! She was born on Tuesday as planned. Scarlet Alyda [LastName] Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 12:27 p.m. 7 pounds 9 ounces 21 inches Everything went really well, and both mom and baby are in good … Continue reading

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Miss Scarlet

My baby sister (I swear last year she was still a toddler) is having a baby! She’s due a month and a day after my wedding. July 13. She knows she’s having a girl, and she and her husband picked … Continue reading

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I’m busy and I can’t think of what else to call this post

So here’s what’s been going on for anyone still paying attention. My days and my nights are pretty much completely occupied with non-blog-related things, which is frustrating to me because I love my blog community and I miss it. But … Continue reading

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Riverbank Run 2010

Ran my first 5K today (Saturday, May 15)! Feels pretty damn good to have accomplished that goal. I stuck with my training for nine weeks and went from someone who NEVER ran (like, ever) (and never even really exercised) to … Continue reading

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Couch to 5K = Complete!

Today I finished the Couch to 5K running program. That’s right, I so did it! When I introduced the fact that I was going to try this, I fully expected that I might not actually get through it. But today, … Continue reading

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Images from the past couple weeks

My Giraffe. My nephew a) eating a steak, and b) sittin’ in a Bumbo. He’s losing his hair and gaining plenty of chub. I can’t get enough of him! My (our) cake from the Family Meet & Greet Slash Shower. … Continue reading

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