Wow! It's been over a month since my last post. Time sure does fly! My, where to start? We have had a very busy, fun-filled month. I guess I'll start with the Fourth of July up at the Farm...
We went to visit Luke's parents and family at their house, 'the Farm', in Hale for the long weekend. After we fought traffic to get there, it was a nice relaxing weekend. We visited, ate way too much, drank a little, played volleyball with the neighbors and really just had a nice weekend with his family. The weather couldn't have been better, lots of sunshine and warm July air. We even floated in their pond on our last day there to stay cool and work on our tans. Jess and I were proud of our beep-beeps from the passerbys :)
The next weekend we had a few birthdays to celebrate. My dad's birthday was that Friday, Luke's brother Jason's birthday and his nephew Jaxx celebrated on that Saturday. Luke worked his first OT of the summer that Saturday then we headed up to Linden for the birthday party with the family. After that we went out with a few friends from Luke's work. The ironic part is I knew more people there then he did. The majority of them all graduated from Milford with me. It was surreal seeing all of them in one place that long after high school. It was fun though, we had a good time. That Sunday Luke worked again and I continued preparation for the next weekend...
Speaking of which was last weekend. We had our first party. Luke has had plenty of parties in the past, but this was our first party together with all of our family and friends. Luke's brother Sean and his family were in town for their first visit since last year so it gave us a reason to throw a party and get everyone together. It turned out really well. We had lots of help which was nice and definitely made preparation very easy. Luke and I basically got the house ready and some of the food prepared and beyond that it was a group effort. A few people each brought a dish to pass, most everyone brought what they wanted to drink and then it was just a matter of conversation, which with that crowd comes VERY easily. I'll post some pictures on my picasa site as soon as I can of all of the events from the month...
After our party the weekend with Sean and fam' continued to be one big party. We went out to the Quake on the Lake in Pontiac on Saturday to visit an old friend of Sean and Colleen's, Renee. There are parties everywhere! Most everyone who lives on that lake (Pontiac Lake) has a party that weekend to celebrate during the boat races. People all over, bands, fireworks. It was very cool. I would have liked to see some of the boat races but we got there later in the evening. Which is probably a good thing considering how late we ended up staying. But we had a great time.
Then Sunday it was off to yet another party in Farmington. Another late night...but again, it was a good time. Lots of laughter and more visiting with family and friends.
Monday Luke and I took the day off work to visit with everyone before they left. We spent the day at Colleen's parents house in Livonia. Thankfully, that was a much more tame day. We relaxed in the pool, indulged in Chinese from Lim Star - very good! and just visited most of the day. It was nice. It was hard to say goodbye to everyone, and especially hard to watch Luke say goodbye to his brother. They are very close and now living 700 miles apart, visits are few and far between so when they come to a close, it's tough. No one wants to say goodbye. The good news is they saw how easy it was to come back to see everyone so hopefully they'll be able to do it again in a few months. If not, we should be able to get back out there to NY.
So like I said it's been a busy month. This weekend Luke is working again and we have Gavigan's Baptism. I am the Godmother :) He's getting so big already! 6 months old as of yesterday. Again, kind of the theme for this post - time sure does fly...
Then next weekend we have the Kenny Chesney concert - and we have FLOOR tickets!!!! I am SOOOO excited for that. I have gone to the last 4 concerts, I think this is number 5? And each one has just gotten better. I am excited for Luke to come with me and check it out. Katie and Lance are going too so we'll be partying together. I can't wait!
Allison's birthday is coming up too. The big 2-1. Now THAT is scary. That means that my 3-0 is right around the corner...YIKES! I am ready to embrace it but it's still weird to think of Allison being 21 and me being 30.
And after that who knows. The weekends book up fast and the weeks seem to sail by...all filled with lots of fun, lots of laughs and lots of memories. What can I say? Life if good. We are very blessed and I am very happy :) More to come...
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