Remember us??

Things have been absolutely crazy and so busy!

ABSTRACT

Brian. Work, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, work, New Jersey, Boston, work, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and Callie & Clay's wedding.

Laura. Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, NutriSystem, work, work, work, work, bills, work, work, work, work, tutor, work, work, and Callie & Clay's wedding.

Yes, indeedy.

Daily Life

Now that hockey in North Carolina is over for the season (R.I.P. Canes), Brian actually has the opportunity to be at home at nights. During the playoffs, he was pretty much gone every other night and he took two weekend trips to Newark and Boston. And, during the away games, he was liveblogging the game, leading livechats, and recording post-game reports to play on the radio the next day. He was rarely in bed before 1 a.m.

I wasn't quite so busy at night, but we've been INSANELY INSANE at work for the past month or so. This is our normal busy season, but on top of that, we also are revising most of our publications because of newly issued authoritative accounting guidance (we're talking three 1000+ page looseleaf volumes that are each published in 3 different formats [online, paperback, and looseleaf]). In addition to these, we have our regular annual publications and we're short staffed. At least it's exciting, never boring, and I love doing it! :-)

The WEDDING

Callie and Clay's wedding was Memorial Day weekend and it was SO much fun. We had the best time seeing everyone and everything was perfect. The weather was really nice and Callison was GORGEOUS. She has a lot of the pictures online: http://tinyurl.com/rb775j.

We dropped Gatsby off at Suite Paws on Saturday morning and then heading down to Wilmington. The rehearsal dinner was Saturday night at a restaurant on the Intracoastal off Wrightsville Beach. It was DELICIOUS--so, so, so much yummy food.

The wedding was Sunday afternoon in downtown Wilmington and everything went off without problems. It was very casual and relaxed and gorgeous. I think the pictures tell the story best!

On Sunday night, Brian and I went to dinner with my very-best-friend Shannon and her parents. We ate at restaurant in downtown Wilmingtn and had a really fantastic time.

Monday afternoon we went back out to Wrightsville to have lunch on the waterway and then back to Raleigh pick up Gatsby.

The little pup had a great time at his doggie hotel. We were able to watch him the whole weekend in his room on the Webcam and we also were able to watch him out in the play yard with the other dogs. The staff said that he was pretty timid and shy the first day, but really came out of his shell the rest of the time and had fun playing with the other doggies. That place is SUPER NICE and all the people are fantastic. We were so impressed. Brian called at one point to ask a question and as soon as he introduced himself, the lady on the phone said, "Oh you're Gatsby's dad--he's out in the play yard." We were so impressed that they knew exactly where he was.

We're planning to relax and enjoy the rest of the summer with a few trips to the beach!

NutriSystem is going great. I'm down 35 lbs. and I'll do an update post on all that soon.

And, I promise, I'll blog more!!