September 12th already?? That means it's been 3 weeks since my last blog post... sorry about that. Time has been flying by and I guess since I posted the pictures from our wedding weekend down in Oregon on facebook already, I didn't really feel like I had much to report.
So, let's see, what has happened in the last 3 weeks... First of all, in case you didn't notice, I changed the look of the blog.
(What it used to look like)
Not an easy thing for me to do but I was really feeling the need for a change. I must say, I'm not too impressed with the options blogspot has for design type stuff. I don't really know what I want it to look like, I just feel like I can never find something that I'm in love with. I like this for now though and I think the colors are perfect as we're starting to transition into this new season. Actually, the weather has been so spectacular I can't even believe that we're pretty much mid-September already. The clouds rolled in this morning though so it's allowing me to feel cozy for a couple of hours.
We also purchased a new kettle. Woohoo! Ours had been leaking for a few months and aside from the fact that that is probably somewhat dangerous, I was just plain tired of having water all over the counter all the time. We had been wanting this pretty glass one but didn't like the price -- fortunately, we found a wedding gift we had purchased for someone last year but never actually gave to the intended couple so we returned it for store credit and used a 20% off coupon and voila! The pretty glass kettle is suddenly affordable.
Next on the list of very important things to update you on is the wedding weekend in Sutherlin. We had been looking forward to this wedding for many months and it was SO much fun to get to celebrate Jeremy and Ronnie with the entire Piehler/Glazner family on a beautiful weekend in southern Oregon. Chad and Whitney flew in for the weekend (crazy quick trip for them involving LOTS of time in cars and airplanes) and the four of us along with Benj and Beth all drove down together in Tara's mini-van :) It was a very long drive.
(Steven was Jeremy's best man -- he's wearing Mike's shirt in this photo because he was the only one who didn't fit into the green/blue color scheme. That color thing wasn't planned but it was funny how it worked out.)
The wedding was at a beautiful venue called Romantic River Gardens. This place was really really lovely (even if it was like 5 million degrees outside). It was fun to see the entire wedding party together for the first time and then to have a nice relaxing evening at the rehearsal dinner.
Jeremy's parents prepared an awesome taco feast and we ate and swam and enjoyed the hot tub and just had a great time in general.
We stayed in this super cute little cabin way up on a hill. It was so nice to have our own place so we didn't feel like we were in anyone's way or anything like that.
The wedding was beautiful. A bit hot at times (can't imagine what it was like in that wedding dress) but full of love and laughter. I'm pretty much obsessed with both of these families and had a great time just taking it all in.
The happy couple :) Ronnie was such a beautiful bride.
A little photo shoot...
Doesn't Steven look hot in a button up shirt and tie? Wow. Two blog posts in a row with Steven in nice clothes. LOVE IT!
Prom photo with Tim and Annika -- absolutely cannot wait for their wedding next year!!
Another fabulous Lentz/Mayer photo.
Huh, well, this one's just... special. We had a lot of fun getting to know Benj and Beth that weekend.
Love love LOVE Sam Piehler! I think we'll keep him.
After all of the wedding fun we headed back to the cabin for a game night. It was so nice to be out of our soggy wedding clothes (it was a sweaty day) and relaxing with some of our favorite board games, two huge bottles of wine and our fun new friends.
Sunday morning we were back in the van heading north. We stopped in Eugene for breakfast with Jeremy and Ronnie, made a quick Starbucks run and then we drove for a very long time. Everyone was glad to be out of the car when we finally reached home. Steven and I were exhausted and of course, he had to go to work the next day. Ugh. We had a great weekend though and are so looking forward to seeing Chad and Whit again when we visit them in Boston in just 5 and a half short weeks!
Not much has happened since them. Well, we've been busy, as always, but really not much worth telling about. We did get a new game. It's called Quarriors and it's a dice game. It's pretty fun, or at least it was when we first got it and I could win. Steven's got it too well figured out now.
Lena and I had a coffee date a couple of weeks ago. Well, it was really more of a cupcake date with chai tea. No coffee at all. That's what we do these days. We get together once a month and share the cupcake(s) of the month at Cupcake Royale and then go for a walk. This time we walked around the Bellevue park. The weather was beautiful and the huckleberry cupcake was delish!
Steven and I signed up for our free month trial of Netflix. The goal is to see all of season 5 of Psych before we cancel our subscription at the end of the month. So far so good. We watched disc one last week and disc two should be arriving tomorrow. Season 5 is REALLY funny so far but I'm not loving Juliet's character right now. She's no fun at all. We'll see how this develops. Season 6 starts in October and we want to be up to speed by that point.
We celebrated Tara's 17th birthday this past weekend. She's so old! How did that even happen? She's stoked that she can go to R-rated movies now. How silly. I've never really been in to R-rated films.
Here's a random little story --- when we were driving home from my mom's last night this car pulled over for us to get in front of it and then it got right behind us and started flashing it's lights like crazy. It was really obnoxious. Steven was intentionally going just the speed-limit or slightly under so they would hopefully just pass us, which they didn't. Then they just left their brights on and drove right behind us from Maple Valley all of the way to Enumclaw. It was making me a baby bit anxious but I wasn't too too bothered by it but then Steven got into a left turn lane and put his turn signal on (at a spot where we never turn, I don't even know where it goes) and the car behind us did the same so Steven pulled back out in the lane to go straight (the way to get home) and the car behind us did that too -- at this point I get really anxious. Steven called 911 and two squad cars pulled up behind the other car as we drove into town. It was all just really bizarre. I guess they gave the guy a ticket for following too closely but seriously, what the heck was his problem?? I didn't like it. Steven and I came home and took showers and watched an episode of Psych to chill out before going to bed.
Other than that exciting tale, things are pretty much the same as usual around here. Today I'm going to be updating resumes and maybe writing a couple of cover letters. Do a bit of laundry. Make a Costco run. Possibly print some photos and start our honeymoon scrapbook. Read my library book. Tidy up my bedroom. And finish watching Snow White.
Things I don't like: the little poky plant things my mom's cat leaves all over her house and when my neighbor sits on his front step and smokes (all my windows are open at this time of year)
Things I do like: cool September mornings and a cup of tea
Off to drink that cup of tea.
much love,
Steph
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