Dear Cecily and Seth's Wedding

The weekend before last Jeff and I went to SC to Cecily and Seth's wedding in good ole Seneca! It was so wonderful seeing old friends and hanging out with my parents. So I wanted to post some good shots from the weekend. Cecily was too gorgeous for words. It took me a while to get update on this topic b/c Ashlee had my camera and I had hers....long story, but I got it back today! I hadn't seen Ashlee since my wedding and hadn't seen Cecily in over a year, so it was full of great memories and me not doing a good job holding back joyous tears. I'm such a wimp when it comes to old friends these days. Congratulations The Hudsons!

Memories and Scary Moments

Yeah...I haven't been updating lately, so I figured we will be gone this weekend, so I should probably do that. Last weekend the The German and his fiance, Polina, were in town, so we rented a boat on Saturday...it was super fun. Of course we had to go out on Boca Lake again and do some chillin'. The other great thing was that our other good friend from grad school, Danny, and his girlfriend Diane, was also in town so we met up at the beach on Sunday (group shot above). Patrick and Danny probably hadn't seen each other since Danny left Houghton for Peace Corps Panama so the weekend was full of good memories! Notice how Jeff is also representing the Tigers well with his hat!

So...the craziest thing ever happened on Monday when I came home. I went to look out one of the family room windows and turned my head to look at our dead bonsai tree, and there was a snake sitting there in the pot! How does a SNAKE GET IN A POT ON TOP OF A PLANT STAND INSIDE THE HOUSE!!! I was so freaked out. Jeff morphed into the Crocodile Hunter, got a pair of kitchen tongs and a pillow case, and captured the intruder for release in the yard. So of course we got pictures! Florida is getting a little too weird even for me!

And We Hoist Our Zen for Fun

A cute pic of Zen and her Daddy-O. She so rarely looks right at the camera. Notice Jeff's HDR pride.

I also want to give a shoutout to our friend, Kerri, who defended her Master's thesis today! Hooray!

A New Side Garden and a Plug Update

We did some yardwork this past weekend (it's the most exciting thing we've been doing lately), so I thought I would update everyone on the recent gardening...we're especially excited about the new banana tree and the grass plugs almost completely grown in! Also notice the HUGE bare spot in the grass by the new side garden...yeah, that's the ugly spot where there used to be a HUGE pile of rocks, soon to be covered by sod. I am hoping that these flowers on the side like lots of sun (does anyone know? roses, salvida, and hibiscus?) since that's what they get. We have recently learned that cucumbers don't do so good here--too dry, so that plant got replaced with two new pepper plants. Ah, it's a work in progress.