Where Have I Been??

Yeah…I disappeared.  But really, it was only for 6 months or so.  How much could have happened in that time, right??

Well….

We moved into a new house! We have surprisingly few pictures of it…but it’s wonderful!  We have three bedrooms, a gorgeous and light-filled living area, a fully fenced backyard and a 10 minute drive to work for me!

We bought a shiny new car! Matt’s lease on our Honda was up, and I wasn’t particularly fond of it.  The Mazda 3 is lovely, sporty, and took us on a super fun road trip to Portland for Matt’s birthday…

And to a Seattle Sounders game!

We have cooked…and eaten…a LOT!  The following pictures only make up a couple months (if that) of the last half a year.  It has been delicious.

Need to know what any of those are?  Ask me and I’ll try to figure it out…I have been pretty lazy about keeping track of things we cook lately.  Included above…a vegetable chickpea curry with paneer, pumpkin lasagne rolls, seared scallops, bean and corn tortilla “pizza”, roasted corn tilapia, homemade Cincinnati-style chili (!!!!) on top of Cook’s Illustrated-style hash browns with eggs and cheese for breakfast, ham dinner for Easter, coconut crusted something….it was all really spectacular. 

I went on an amazingly relaxing celebratory cruise

with this lovely new Doctor of Veterinary Medicine:

We cruised in the Bahamas for 5 days, maybe?  In honor of Veronica’s graduation from vet school and my newly-engaged status, we escaped from everything for a few days and got caught up on each other from the last four years.  We need this more often. 

Oh…there was also the small matter of this:

Complete, spectacular happiness.  It turns out planning a small wedding for family and a tiny handful of close friends is a shit ton of work.  Who knew?  Also, we were in NC, so there was sweet tea, chik-fil-a and actual summer weather (we have seen very little of that in Seattle this year)! It all turned out to be really fabulous…with the help of an unbelievably adorable and excited mom, a maid of honor/best girlfriend who kicked butt on the actual wedding day, a lovely lawyer/online-ordained minister friend who helped us create the perfect ceremony, very excited Seattle friends who were more than happy to help me plan all of the details in the middle of the work day, and of course a partner who was really eager to help and smart enough to stay out of the way when necessary. 

Any wedding-planning friends out there, it is so so worth it. Even though there were several points during the weekend when I turned to Matt and said “the next time we get married, we are not doing it this way at all!”  Mr. Wonderful Ross kept me sane through the whole process by saying things like “This is your day! You can’t do it wrong! Your job is to be beautiful and everything else will be perfect! You need to learn to delegate!” My one piece of wedding advice…find someone to tell you these things constantly!

I’m back on the road for work again soon and without wedding planning looming over me, I promise I will try to be more bloggy. 

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