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2006/7/23

Lots of nothing going on..............

Not much new happening in Massachusetts.  The weather out here has been toggling between blazing hot and torrential rain storms which has made doing anything active outdoors pretty tough to do.  Work is still keeping us busy as usual.  Nikki's workload is picking up again now that we are well clear of the 4th of July holiday season.  She took part in her first mediation last week which she would describe as interesting, yet unproductive.  Apparently the other side didn't really want the issue to be mediated and it looks like they may be going to trial.  Should add some excitement to her day if that happens. 

 

My week was pretty normal.  Lots of meetings.......wrote some reports......etc.  We had a change of command on Thursday though which broke up the monotony.  My boss' boss who is a Navy Captain (not to be confused with an Air Force Captain) retired and we got a new Navy guy to take his place.  Captain Westerbeak (the new boss) seems pretty cool and is in a similar commuting situation as Nikki and I.  His wife has an ambitious career and is working in the Boston area while he is in Hartford.  Needless to say, we'll at least have that to talk about if I'm ever in a pinch.

 

Well that's all for this week.  Hopefully next week will surpass this week’s excitement level.  Shouldn't be too hard.  Later.

2006/7/9

Summer Time

As you can tell, we have been a bit lazy with this blog lately.  Sorry about that, things got a little hectic and we never seemed to make time for the updates.  Oops!  Lots has happened in the last month but to save time (and to avoid boring you too much!) we will stick with the highlights . . .
 
On June 16th, we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary.  It is so hard to believe that 5 years have gone by so quickly.  In many ways, it feels as though we were just planning and celebrating the wedding, yet in other ways, it is hard to remember not being married.  So much has changed in the last five years but we love being together and are looking forward to at least another 60 or 70 years!  Since our Nantucket trip was our anniversary celebration, the actual day was pretty simple and relaxing - we got takeout from Vinny T's (our favorite italian restaurant) and enjoyed a romantic evening at home.
 
Since then, we have kept pretty busy with both work and play.  We spent one weekend down on the Cape for a wedding.  The weather was horrible but the wedding was beautiful and a lot of fun.  We also learned to play bocce ball (neither of us is very good - practice is definitely needed!!!)
 
For the 4th of July, we went home to Washington to visit with family and friends.  The weather was beautiful - warm, sunny and absolutely NO humidity - we were in Heaven!  We took advantage of this great weather by spending much of the time at the beach house on Treasure Island soaking up the sun and wake boarding (G not N!)  It was a very special trip because it was Garrett's first time back there since returning from Iraq and most people had not seen him in over a year.  We celebrated with a large family party at Puerto Vallart (his favorite mexican restaurant in Port Orchard)  We had such a great time that we are going back over Labor Day and are hoping we have a repeat of the great weather
 
This weekend we have been trying to relax and clean the house and yard since we have been gone so much lately.  It has been a beautiful weekend and we are sad to see it coming to an end.  We have so many small children in our neighborhood and we cannot help but be envious of them being on summer break, we miss those days!!!
 
Not much else to report now but we promise the next update will be more timely :)  Hope you are all enjoying a sunny, happy summer . . .