50 years and two fresh starts

We celebrated my grandparents' Golden Anniversary last weekend. Some champagne, a jimmy-rigged wedding cake, little black dresses, and dancing to the oldies. Though I don't entirely believe it's been 50 years of wedded bliss, it's at least been 50 years of steadiness. Sure some bickering, definitely some family drama, but still, a lifetime worthy of looking up to. Josh and I will be the next in the family to reach that milestone and it's a challenge I welcome - my heart still beats true love for Josh and I can't wait to dance a whirl to David Gray in 2052. I obviously won't be a great grandma by then, or at least I certainly hope not, but hopefully there'll be some well-raised, content children to look up to our marriage as I look up to my grandparents'.

With 50 years behind them, my grandparents also get to celebrate two new engagements, two new additions to our fun family. Adria and Rob got engaged this summer and Jake just proposed to Lorressa yesterday. Congratulations to our family on it's summer of love!

Congratulations

Congrats Eli and Rina! A little bit ago an old friend of mine, Eli came back to home and got engaged at the top of Mt. Bachelor nonetheless. Eli have stayed in touch since sixth grade, which is pretty impressive since we haven't actually been in school together since after Jackson Middle School days of Barbershop with Mrs. Cash. It's a pretty great thing to look back on and see a genuine friendship going for that much time and across the different time zones we have been living in.

We're hitting my favorite part of fall and things seem pretty sweet with warm days, the Ducks rocking their first two opponents and my fantasy football league off the ground. Now if I could just figure out how to get the grass green again...

Powerpoint

My recent life in PowerPoint

• I'm a slacker and haven't blogged
  
• Last Saturday equaled 29. (sigh).
• I got mocked for not blogging
  
• Confession, I bought a Mac (and got the free iTouch and printer) it doesn't suck!
• A couple of buddies and I went camping for a weekend at Mt. Raineir and drank obscene amounts of beer and out did a football team in the campground for most obnoxious-up-late beer drinking tards.
  
• I returned to GoldyDale for a grand 10 year reunion celebration which was far too much fun
• I got mocked for not blogging.
  
• I drafted Rud Johnson as a RB on my fantasy football team
• Three weeks later he got dropped by the team
• I put together a module furniture desk and cussed at it for like an hour and dreamed of torturing the idiot engineer by forcing him to put it together.
• I was mocked for not blogging again
• Next Steps
• Questions?