It's [almost] Fall!

I know people generally think about January as a month of new beginnings but for me it's always been September. The main reason, is that September is my birthday month! So, it truly is when my new year begins! 

Some other reasons why September [and Fall] are so great:

1. a new teaching year begins and a new group of kids come to me

2. new Uggs :)

3. warm clothes

AND...

4. new [& returning!] t.v. shows

:)

I'm going to talk about the last one: Fall shows.

I start getting ready for the new shows of the season in July. Literally. I'm obsessive. I make excel charts and make sure that my DVR is empty and ready to record in early September. 

This is what I'll be watching :)

Mondays:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Along with the shows that are on MTV, E!, A&E, ABC family, etc.!

I can't wait!

What shows are you planning to watch?

A blog addition.

I've decided to devote one day a week to something specific on this here blog. Here's my thought: Marriage Mondays.

Which means, each Monday I'll talk about something related to: marriage!

I thought about doing a wedding related post each week but as a newlywed, I like the idea of talking about marriage instead. I feel like I talked about weddings a lot when I was a bride-to-be and now I'd like to spread my wings.

Of course, I still have so much to share about my actual wedding -- like all those professional pictures that I keep boasting about. So, look out for those on Mondays (I mean, they're completely related to marriage, after all!) but I'll also be talking about what marriage means to me, if things change after "I do", and my new life as a wife. :)

Be sure to check back!

Summer Recap

Clearly, our wedding was a huge deal to me [& to Sean!] this summer and took up a lot of my [our] time. But surprisingly enough, it's not all that I did this season. Of course, some things indirectly were apart of the wedding festivities -- but in an effort to introduce you to some of the other things we did this summer aside from getting married -- I thought I'd show you. And what better weekend to recap the summer than Labor Day weekend. :)

1. We celebrated our 4 year anniversary and ordered wine for the first time at a restaurant.

2. We spent a lot of time outside and I worked on my "tan".

3. Sean drank a lot of Guinness and bought his new favorite hat in Ireland.

4. We watched a movie [Back the the Future!] on the common in lawn chairs and ate homemade popcorn.

5. We took a trip to Maine and stayed in a "peaceful little cabin" according to Sean [I thought it was creepy!].

6. I scrapbooked a lot and made a mess of the bedroom.

7. I spent a lot of time with that little girl: Millie.

8. We spent a night in an Irish castle.

9. We spent the 4th of July with friends in our hot tub.

10. Millie spent her summer sleeping upside down.

11. We spent a Saturday at the Bruins Stanley Cup Parade.

12. We spent a lot of time at my parents house with the little guy I'm holding: Frank.

13. Sean played a countless amount of shows.

14. I was completely distracting and made Sean take a number of pictures with me while driving.

15. I had two eye incidents that landed me in the E.R. twice and in glasses for... a while.

16. I spent time with my best friends.

17. We went to see the Redsox play at Fenway.

18. I got my first henna tattoo.

:) Happy Labor Day weekend.

PS... I think I did a pretty good job recapping my summer without mentioning the word wedding!

Professional Pictures!

While we were away on our honeymoon (!) our professional pictures arrived! I was obviously so excited about them and they're perfect and exactly what I imagined. So I really want to post some - not all - there are 1,600 of them. Here are some shots from when we arrived at the venue. :)

We arrived with our hair and makeup done so all we had to do was get dressed!

 

 

 

Our pictures were taken by Damien Gaudet.  

More tomorrow :)

Honeymoon - day seven.

On the last day of our honeymoon, we woke up pretty early and headed straight to the airport. Apparently, when they tell you "to arrive 3.5 hours before your flight" they don't mean it because we did -- and they told us it was too early to check our luggage. 

The good part about having a good amount of time sitting at the airport bar is that we had plenty of time to make a slideshow of all our pictures from our entire trip! That way we weeded out all the moving fences while trying to capture scenic views and choosing only one (okay, a few) pictures of the same sheep rather than all fifteen. Our slideshow, which was a hit upon landing, was about 400 pictures out of our THOUSANDS. So, it wasn't all a waste of time. :)

 

Our flight was uneventful, which is exactly the kind of flight I enjoy. And we landed around 4PM Boston time.

And that was our honeymoon!