When your blog ... (Family & Friends)

... no longer shows up in your history ... you need to post. In an attempt to NOT have just one really long "month+ recap" post, I am going to do individual posts for various topics and whats been going on in my life. That way, no post seems too big to do and I will actually post them. Pictures to follow.

Family & Friends

It seems like a ton of family and friends related stuff has been going on ever since we moved back to St. Louis. Granted, much of it is probably just b/c we are closer to our family and therefore are involved more .... but it has still been a lot.

Em and I have gone to a total of 3 weddings. We both attended my cousin's wedding here in town which was a great smaller wedding in a cool little church. The groom's mother is a semi-professional singer which meant some amazing singing during the ceremony. More recently, I flew to Cleveland for my college roomate's wedding which was a blast. Its always great to get back together with the guys, sing some old songs, have a few drinks, reminisce about old times and end up covering the groom's car in 900+ feet of streamers and ~40 balloons. The only thing that could have made it better would have been if Em could have gone with me. She had a wedding of her own here in town for a sorority sister of hers. From all accounts it was also a great time and she was very happy to be able to see all of her college friends.

Along with the weddings, there have been several family birthdays including the 0-th birthdays of my latest two second cousins. They were born a while back and although still very tiny, are doing well.

Other than that, lots of misc family functions and get togethers. Em's grandparents are moving so a lot of time has been spent helping to plan the move and make sure there new place is setup correctly (note: running a new water line for a 'fridge's ice maker is pretty easy assuming you have the right size drill bits, the drill bit extender fits through the hole, and you can accurately measure distances on multiple levels of a house).

Finally, a fair amount of time has been spent with my family playing our brand new ....