So first things first; the wedding! I mean to start the blog RIGHT after we got married but we were a little too caught up in the post-nuptials to focus on this. It's been three weeks since the wedding and boy has it gone by fast. The wedding was amazing. We were so overwhelmed by the amount of love and support that we received from our friends and families both on the wedding and leading up to it. The night was just magical. I wish I could have it all over again... any excuse to wear my dress once more!
Here's one of our favorite photos from the big day (fixed):
Right now Michael is out of town on a business trip. He is a senior financial consultant and I work for a health insurance company. He's definitely traveled less since we got engaged/married but he's good at what he does so he had to fly out last Tuesday to Chicago, then he went to Omaha and is now in Minneapolis. He gets back this Tuesday, can't wait!
Since I'm not going to recap every little thing that has happened since we got married, I'll just give a general overview and talk about yesterday. Each post will be about the day before, just a heads up! Since getting married we've officially moved in together into our new apartment. We love it!It's in the Garden Home neighborhood of Portland/Beaverton. It's super close to our work, has granite countertops, nice and new appliances, decent closets, great fireplace with mantle, etc. We can walk out onto our deck and Fanno Creek is close enough to throw a stick into (our stale bread, the ducks out there love it!).
Other events and happenings:
- lost my phone on my wedding night and got a new one the following week
- coworker of mine left the company, had a goodbye dinner/drinks with her
- been to a couple Blazers games (Go Rip City!!!)
- open/sort through the plethora of wedding gifts
- going to my yoga classes at 24 Hour Fitness
- working overtime
- dinner/drinks with friends
- we saw Gravity in 3D with Mike's former roommates
- attend church (we are both Christians :)
- post-wedding meetings with vendors/acquaintances
- hang out with my brother/go to the library
- work meetings
- having friends come over and check out or new place
- dinner with the in-laws
- warehouse party/fundraiser with friends
OKAY! So! Exactly 3 weeks after our wedding date was Saturday, November 23, 2013. Mike was in Omaha, Nebraska on business staying with our friends, The Katzers. I hung out with Dalila, Ricky and some other friends the previous night and stayed out pretty late. Which was not smart because the next day my family and my in-laws came over to help set up our new apartment, put appliances in the kitchen and exchange duplicates that we received at Target. This was simultaneously while watching the Ducks vs. Arizona game which was just TRAGIC. Mike and I both went to U of O so we're diehard Ducks fans and this was a hard loss to take... we already lost to Stanford but then after losing to Arizona there is no way of making it even to the Rose Bowl this year. So disappointing. We still love our Ducks though.
Opening packages and putting the place together took 5 hours altogether and I was just BEAT by the end of the day. It feels good to have the apartment more squared away though! Our kitchen actually looks complete with our toaster oven, toaster, blender, coffee maker, etc. on the countertops. That's another thing-- we might do reviews on this blog as well... of kitchen appliances, products, etc.
After they all left I took a nice, long nap. I had planned on waking up and getting ready to go to Jake's birthday celebration at the Jake, Justin & Patty's house and then cruise over to Jared's housewarming party at his new apartment by the Rose Quarter. However after waking up I had a huge headache and was just exhausted so I decided to watch a little TV and clean up the apartment a bit. Mike called me and we talked on the phone before bed. Then I was out like a light!
I realize this is quite a long-winded blog entry. I swear they won't be this long and boring in future entries... hopefully? haha. At any rate, thanks for reading! <3
Cheers!
The McCaffreys
Maybe you could just wear your wedding dress for halloween that way you have an excuse to wear it again lol.
ReplyDeleteMan oh man the ducks... sad! I am never going to hear the end of it from my arizona friend who flew to the game QQ.
You are long winded. More pictures!
Lol yes, so it can get trashed again... gotta keep the tradition alive ;)
DeleteArizona may have won the battle but not the war. Tell your friend that he does not have the last laugh!
Picture ETA :)
Visiting from The Style Storm comments section! Congrats on your marriage! I am recently married too, just over a year, but we got pregnant not long after so our first year of marriage was also first pregnancy, which has been pretty crazy!
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