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Slacking:

Oh dear. I meant to do individual posts about my brother's wedding, Bo's birthday,

his birthday party, our new kitchen colors, etc... but I'm just a slacker!

Blogging isn't much of a priority in my life these days. 

I realized that I've had a blog for 10 years now.

TEN YEARS, people. Granted, not this particular blog. My first "blog" was a Livejournal...

and my moniker was "Packt_Sardine" ... 

because I was eighteen years old and a Radiohead reference was like, the coolest thing, 

and finding obscure music was clearly the most important thing in life.

Oy.

Anyway, then I started a blog for my experience at Oxford, 

and then I started this ole blog to update western NY fam & friends on our life in Michigan,

and now I'm supposed to be doing the same for fam & friends in Michigan.

Public self-absorption for a decade. Woo-hoo!

ANYWAY.

THAT was a tangent.

Celebrating:

LOTS of big celebrations this season!

[1]

Robert & Bailey's wedding was beautiful. BEAUTIFUL.

Such a sweet couple, and the wedding reflected them in the most perfect way.

All of these pictures are stolen from various people on Facebook - thanks, friends & fam!

My brother branded the bottom of his cowboy boots, which showed when they kneeled at the altar!

I mean... just perfect, right?!

[2] 

Bo's 2nd birthday!

I started a birthday post to him and never finished it. Horrible!

The day of his birthday was beautiful & I tried to do a photoshoot with him,

but he wasn't really feeling it.

Much to my delight, Bo showed no hesitation with his birthday cake this year.

Then we had a tractor birthday party for him over the weekend.

Even though it was rainy and cold, we had a great time!

Enjoying:

Our new kitchen colors! (Here you go, Sara!)

Before:

After!

Reading:

The Meaning of Marriage, by Tim Keller. Awesome, awesome.

Loving:

Autumn in western New York.