wedding reflections...

we're married! overall, i think the wedding went pretty well. i hope people weren't too bored or anything. i suppose there are some things i would change like: perhaps the music should have been louder (no one danced :( ); i felt we were kinda disorganized about some things, but i think that's okay. we got way too much food, but on the plus side i got to use my new food sealer to vacuum seal tons of meat. not very many people signed our picture mat, b/c it was hidden under a football. :( oh, hee hee, also, our kiss was really short b/c i pulled away since i felt so weird about everyone staring at us...

i am glad that we hadn't been planning our wedding for a really long time, b/c it goes by so fast and it would be more disppointing to have things not turn out as expected. but i think it was a good wedding. i think the kids had a lot of fun at it. adrian's nephews were busy trying to catch fish for most of it. :) i did feel like adrian and i for some reason weren't together for a lot of it. and i hope i talked to most of the people that were there...but i think that i am glad that it is over, i was kind of sad at first b/c there was a small feeling like that was the last time in my life to be lovely. but it is good to not have to worry about silly detail things and to just get on with our new life together. :)

less than a week...

so we get married in less than a week...is everything ready? no, of course not. there is slight freaking out going on...i feel like we have the major things figured out, but it is all those little details that are not really in place...ugh...i suppose a part of me wants everything to be perfect because it'll be my only wedding, but then again, i just don't have time due to ITS (which is really cool this session by the way - we are creating a proposal to do educational research based on the intervention we created last summer) and i think some of those details are silly (like wedding favors - do people really want these or care?)...also, i feel like i haven't been very bridely by undergoing beautifying treatments before the wedding, but then again i don't have time and i don't really want to spend the money...but on the plus side i've been riding my bike to and from ITS (sometimes our science team even meets on west campus for extra riding) and also home for lunch so that is about 40 minutes of riding a day in the heat, so perhaps that has helped with weight loss, although it isn't a consecutive 40 minutes...

Past four 4ths of July

Last night at the Bush Museum, Adrian and I recounted all of our 4ths together. Our first in 2003, we were in Shelter Cove, CA. We stood on the beach and watched the fireworks that people in boats shot off. In 2004, we were camping in Great Smoky Mountains NP (no fireworks there, but it was a nice 4th of July). In 2005, Adrian was in Wyoming or Boise (I can't remember which place), and Lucy and I watched the fireworks from the front porch of the old Foster house (kind of a pathetic 4th for me I suppose). This year in 2006, we rode our bikes to the Museum, listened to the symphony and watched the fireworks. It was fun. I particularly liked riding our bikes. We passed tons of cars in bumper to bumper traffic on our way back. I wonder what we'll do next year...