Married life

After a long time of silence on my part, I thought it appropriate to write a post. First and foremost our wedding a few weeks ago was fantastic! We had such a wonderful time and it meant so much to us that so many friends and family came from afar to celebrate.

To check out a sneak preview of wedding photos go to Cameron Ingalls blog, if you look soon it should be the first posting. The whole selection of photos won’t be available for a few more weeks.

http://www.cameroningalls.com/blog/

Here is a taste from the blog:

Life since the wedding has been an exciting whirlwind. We stayed in Carmel for two days to decompress a bit and get things in order. We then headed off to St Lucia for our honeymoon and we had a great time laying on the beach, reading books and doing nothing for a change. It was so uncharacteristic for Adam and I to sit around and do nothing for a week, but it was a needed vacation. Here are some photos of St Lucia.

Our room

The view outside our front door.

Our reaction to the view from the patio.

We did lots of reading.

The balcony view.

Our beach.

It was a bit overcast the first couple days, but usually it was great weather.

The view across the beach’s bay.

The Pitons!

We ate a lot of good food.

And occasionally indulged with tropical drinks too.

We then flew straight back to New Haven where a very messy house full of boxes and boxes awaited us. The last 5 days have been full of unpacking, cleaning and shopping. We are exhausted. We were also excited to get back and find our plants thriving. Our garden plot and back yard are both starting to resemble a jungle. I love this east coast summer rain thing- translation: very little watering needed. I start work on Monday and I am so excited to get paid for a change and not have to study for the next few months.

Our kitchen looked like this several times as we brought rounds of boxes up from the basement.

Post-honeymoon surprise…

Well, we didn’t think it would happen this quickly. We knew we wanted this to happen eventually, but this admittedly is a little sooner than expected. Our new family has grown – a little bundle of joy and poop.

We got a dog.

Her name is Maple, or if you prefer, as does Rosie, our two-year-old upstairs neighbor, Poopy.

We were planning on getting a dog sometime in a couple months once we were settled down a little, but when the neighbors offered us the stray they found tied to a tree in a nearby park and we got to know her we had to take her. She’s a little bigger than we were expecting, and will grow a little more, but she’ll work in our tiny little place since the backyard is accessible. Probably 35-40 pounds. She’s a mutt, probably with some German Shepherd, but what else we’re not sure. She’s about 7 months old says the shelter, and energetic. As soon as we get inside though, she mellows out, lays down and sleeps, or relaxes. She’s great with the neighbor’s kids (2 and 5), but she doesn’t care much for being alone, which is difficult since we’re going to crate train her. She’s taken to our training very well, she’s really smart.

I don’t know how it’s comfortable but she lays down with both hind legs sprawled out one way, while she twists around on her stomach so that both front legs and head are facing the opposite direction.

Back to the harsh bathroom reality.

From this…

to this…

We’re lost under a pile of boxes right. I moved all my stuff into the kitchen the day before I left and our weddings gifts are everywhere, so our place looks like somewhere I lived in college.

All in all we had a great time. More complete updates will be coming.