What Mr. & Mrs V have been up to

Wow it has been so long since the last post. I guess I can start with a more recent update. Our very dear friends, Andrew and Jamie Palmer, are having a little one. This was the first time when I heard a close friend was pregnant. It is such a special thing! So, I am very happy for them;)

So much time has passed since I last blogged... so bear with the oh so long postage of many items. Nick and Chad finished the mantel. I would like to post a blog someday...haha... of a progressive take of the building. We will see. So here it is finished!

Yaay! So other things...

We went to Zach and Amanda Gerig's wedding and it was absolutely delightful. I wish I would have taken more pictures. I got the adorable one above with little ms. jones and Nicky. He will be such a wonderful father!


I was so blessed to see Emily. I miss her so darn much! It is different not being able to hang with her, Colette, or Haley as often. So I spent most of the day while her mom was doing a glass convention chatting about life and catching up. It was very wonderful!!!

A few days before the fourth we were also sooo blessed to meet up with Andy and Jamie. That was awesome to just spend time with them hanging out! I miss them so dearly and now that they have the little one on the way we definitely want to visit them sometime soon, but more than that we wished we lived closer! :( Below is a picture of us all hanging out watching fireworks at a country club. Oh and Andrew made this wonderful Manicotti I must get the recipe for;)


After that we were off to the coast for the 4th of July weekend. We went to Charleston where my mom and dad met....

At the Portside restaurant. It was such an amazing weekend and blessing to hang out with my mom where she met my dad. We sat in the lounge chatting as the live musician joked and played many songs from my mom's era. It was so touching and a very special time. I love having Nick see where I had spent many summer weekends; crabbing, visiting friends, and reminising. I was able to show Nick the Lost At Sea monument for fisherman who were lost to the sea. It is so undescribable the experience of knowing how much fisherman love their job and the ocean. My dad was one of those and it was awesome to share what I could with Nick and show him my dad's name on the monument they built when I was like four or five.

So of course on the vacation we crabbed! Okay, but we usually go during the winter and the crab was soft and well all considered it probably wasn't worth me waking up early and sitting nearly all day on the dock. I enjoy more of the tradition of crabbing we have had in my family rather than the idea of a catch. Although, I was pretty dissapointed. I would like to go again this fall:) Nick and I are on the dock at like nine after I was down there for a while:)
So we may have not caught anything, but we got some amazing prawns from the boat behind us on the dock. They were all alive and flipping around, and then the guy just pokes his finger below the body at the top of the tail and KILLS the thing and gives us the good part. It was a little weird, but please believe the cooked up little buggers were amazing. It was by far the best prawns I have ever had!



Then we went to Roseburg for the family BBQ on the 4th. It was a long weekend, but fun! My grandma and great auntie marge were there which is nice since I usually only see them once a year.



Right after that Kristen my former boss decided to quit. So we were able to go to her birthday later in the month! See the pictures below. There is a good chance now that I have been filling her position for a month that I will become the department manager of our Wet Chemistry department. It will be a challenging and fun role at the same time. I look forward to the challenge!

Kristen insisted on serving her own birthday cake. Don't ask, I have no idea why. So she is serving her nummy carrot cake to everyone.

Theresa and Nate were there. She will probably kill me if she realizes I put up this picture. So please forgive me in advance Theresa:) This pic is of her and her boyfriend Nate. They are very adorable;)

Then Kristen and Dustin together. They are always fun to golf with in the evening....hehe!

Last but not least this last weekend we went to Nick's moms birthday dinner. Her birthday "gift" was to have all her kids at the house for dinner one night. It was nice to see everyone since I have been working like crazy we have not had time to visit or see anyone! It was really weird realizing I hadn't seen any of the kids or Randy and Alisa in a long time.

And of course I needed a sister pic now that I have a sister. Ooops, Amy the other sis is missing! Well, I hope to write a blog again soon, but who knows when I will get off on time and sit down:) I hope to stay more on top of writing and such. We will see:O