Happy Independence Day!!

Two down, Two to go.

The cloggers performed at Lovettsville on Thursday evening at 7:30. Joyce organized a potluck picnic with hamburgers and hot dogs. We ate while watching the fireworks.

Just before 1:00 on Friday morning, we were waken up by my cell phone ringing repeatedly. It was D. All she said was it was urgent for me to call home immediately. When I called, SR answered and announced that she was wearing a new pretty ring. She had just gotten engaged to her boyfriend, AK.

Friday morning (after the usual time to wake-up), JM and I headed over to Round Hill where we barely in time to catch the parade and ride the truck with WLCC. After the parade, the church was part of the fun in the town park by organizing sack races, water balloon tosses, and hoola-hoop contests.

Friday afternoon, we watched Unbreakable. It was a Netflix movie that JM had already seen and I was only somewhat interested in seeing. It was nice to watch it and know what people are talking about, but not on my favorite list.

Friday evening, in a light run, but under a tent, the cloggers performed at Franklin Park at 7:15. Joyce had organized a potluck picnic with pulled BBQ. It was very good! As we finished
eating, the fireworks started going off.

Today, we've run two loads of laundry to get our clogging performance clothes clean and will be leaving in just a few minutes to head to another clogging performance in Ashburn followed by a clogging performance in Hillsboro at 7:00.

I'm off to do my hair and get dressed!

Appreciate your freedom!

6 Months After the Wedding

Wow! We've been married for 6-months! I'm not sure if I'm more surprised that it was only 6-months ago or already 6-months ago. Either way, we are still very happily married. And after serious consideration we have decided to stay married for another 6 months.

So, how have we remembered our 6-month mark? Somewhat belatedly.

Saturday, June 30th, was BRTC's 10-year birthday party! Jer was visiting us for the weekend, so we all got to spend the entire day with all our clogging friends. (There are a couple of great pictures of Jer from the Party at the link above!) BRTC Lightning (Team) spent the morning learning a new performance song. BRTC spent the afternoon learning a new performance song. Then 5-9PM was spent learning 3-4 more fun songs and having friends from other clogging groups join us for the cake and dancing! At the end of the day, we were all very tired.

It was on the way home that Jesse reminded me that the day was also our 6-month anniversary! We shared the honor of being "newlyweds" with Josh and Carrie Harrison--the instructors for the day--who have been married for just 9 months.

For our 6-month anniversary and to get some things done, we both took today (Tuesday, July 3) off of work. We didn't make it out of the house until 3:45 but we still accomplished:
- oil changed in Jesse's car
- the LAST of our wedding thank you notes mailed (with two exceptions where we don't have addresses yet). The notes been written for more than a month!
- the last of the gifts for our wedding party mailed. (Our apologies to Andy, Margaret, and Katie for being so late!)
- a gift for Jesse's dad for father's day was mailed. (Again, our apologies for being late!)
- a return completed for an item Jesse's parents had bought in the area and decided they didn't need.
- moving our cell phones to a family plan. (We are now both on Cingular/AT&T. Jesse has a new number.)

After all that, we sat in the car pushing all the buttons on our new phones trying to figure out all we wanted them to do and all they could do. (Instructions? Why bother?)

For the evening, we headed over to Lovettsville for a clogging performance at their Independence Day celebration. It drizzled and almost rained for the fireworks, but not enough to keep them from going ahead with their display.