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.