Modern Miracle.

Seriously. No kidding. For the first time since we moved our stuff into our house (about 2 years ago), the entire house is clean. Wow. This is seriously a modern miracle. The entire house! You may think "Oh my Gawd! How can you never have a clean house in TWO YEARS?!" Well, to be fair the only reason the entire house was never clean at one time was the "junk room" aka our spare room. Since the day we moved in the spare room is where we've collected junk, deposited things we didn't have place for and just generally shoved things when guests were coming. So the rest of the house has been clean before, but never at the same time as that room. Well, when Cody went to Detroit a few weekends ago I decided we had to do something about that room so I literally spent an entire weekend - and then most of the next week - cleaning out and organizing that room. So then that room was done but the rest of the house was a wreck from all the stuff I emptied from that room. So this week I have seriously come home from work every day and worked non-stop cleaning the rest of the house. The living room, boy room, boy bathroom, dining room, kitchen (twice - I cleaned it once but then in the intervening days of cleaning other rooms it got messy again so I had to clean it again) and then I moved upstairs to the spare room, bathroom and our bedroom! And POOF, it's done! I did a little bit on the basement, but that's an entire week's project in itself. :) It's nice to finally have a place for everything - for the first time. Everything now officially has a "home" - now let's see how long we can keep it that way - my guess is about 8 hours (so about 30 minutes after we wake up).

Forgot the link.

So suppose you were one of the people whom my camera was recently lodged in your face, here's the link to find your mug: http://picasaweb.google.com/melissa.flynn

Have you seen my camera?

Has my camera been in your face lately? If so, there are likely pictures of you now on the internet - my internet, but still the internet. Yeah, I'm copping out for the moment and uploading pictures to my super cool picasaweb page instead of taking the time to upload them to my acutal website (which I still swear I will update when I get a few seconds of free time). Call it convenience (which without the help of spellcheck I would NEVER be able to spell) or laziness, but it's the state of my world right now. Speaking of my world, people wonder why I'm busy - here's how:
6 am: Wake up because Cody wanted to go to work early
6 am - 7 am: Clean house because I found I was too weak to work out in the morning - I am NOT a morning person
7 -7.30 am: Get ready for work
8 am: Arrive at work.
6 pm: Leave work.
6:30-7:30 pm: Work out - run 5.65 miles.
7:30 - 10:30 pm: Run errands - Sports Authority (returns), Container Store (returns), Bed Bath and Beyond (exchange broken lotion dispenser, buy canvas box thing and clothes hanger storage thing), Target (returns and look at shoes - need some flats for work), Wal-Mart (I know I swear I would never go back again but I had too much cheap stuff to buy - laundry soap, fabric softner, cat litter, cat food, tissues, granola bars, condolence cards (my Aunt Dorothy died), etc.), Grocery Store (apples, salad dressing, sandwich meat, produce (we were out), bread, yogurt).
10:30 - 11:15 pm: Put together package for really really good friend's wedding that I am going to have to miss very regretably
11:15- now: check email, no time to respond to it; write email confirming friend's parents' address to mail above mentioned package
now - whenever: finish putting up groceries and Wal-Mart stuff, bathe (since I haven't since I worked out HOURS ago - smelly Missy), possibly read a few pages of Harry Potter before nodding off

p.s. I do take time to smell the roses. I've been told by at least 3 people recently that I need to smell the roses. First, I'm not the hugest fan of roses - they're not THAT pretty and they're overpriced. But were we to assume there are these metaphorical roses that for some reason I "needed" to smell, my response would be:
Not only do I smell the roses in life, but I go to the store, find the prettiest roses I can find, buy it, bring it home, dig it a nice big hole, plant the damn roses, fertilize and water the roses, prune them as they grow, pick off their annoying thorns, take hundreds of pictures of said roses, pick them when they bloom, bring them inside, find a nice vase for them, put them in water (changing it daily of course to make them last), and smell them until they die and I go get more off the bush, then when they're all gone, I prune again for the winter so they will grow back pretty next year too. In summary, I'm not built to just sit and stare at some damn plant and smell it (plus I'm likely allergic to it as I am everything else in STL right now) - I not only take time to smell the roses but am intricately involved in all the details of those roses that others who may just sit and smell them might never even know about - I bet they never even knew how those thorns magically disappeared (because I cut them off) or why there are so many blooms (because I watered and fertilized weekly).
So there's my tirade on people telling me to stop and smell some stupid roses. :) Take care everyone! :)

Weekend.

So to update the rest of the weekend -
Friday we had dinner for Mina's graduation (congrats!) with the crew. Then we headed to Dude's for the Pack My House Party - fun as always.
Saturday we had International Gator Day which was a blast but I had the worst allergy attack I've had in ages because of the dust- good thing Dianne had some medicine but then I was off in la la land. :) Then we went and picked up my new dining room set!!! It's wonderful - though much bigger then it looked. :) There's a dining room table (with an extra leaf), four regular chairs, two captain's chairs, a hutch/china cabinet and a server. It's really really really nice dark wood with a cool design. I'm in love with it - though it fills our dining room up more then I thought. Because we have a really old house with a formal dining room, we wanted a formal dining set - well now we finally have one! I'll post pictures later.
After the table we hung out with friends - went out to eat at an Afghan restaurant (which Cody thought was referring to afghan blankets like my grandma makes) on Grand, then went to Ted Drewes (a gift from God - my favorite place in STL - custard, custard and more custard), walked around the Shaw neighborhood looking around, talking, enjoying the gorgeous evening and hit up a corner cafe there, had a few beers and enjoyed the live Jazz/harmonica dude. It was an absolutely perfect evening.
Today we cleaned cleaned and cleaned. And I ran. And cleaned some more. Oh, and Dude moved in - he's going to be hanging out here until he can move into his apartment. Fun times! BAck to the grind tomorrow. :(

Another Bonus Mom.

Everyone knows that I call Cody's mom my "Bonus Mom" instead of "Mother-in-Law." One, because I think it fits better and two, because it just sounds nicer. I also call my step-family my "bonus family." So I have a lot of "bonus people" in my life. Well, this weekend I found myself a "St. Louis Bonus Mom."
We went to dinner with our friends Mike and Mina on Friday for Mina's graduation from SLU. I've known Mike for a few years now since we work together and met Mina when him and her started dating last year. They're super nice. Anyway, Mina's mom was at her graduation dinner, naturually so I finally got to meet her. She's fantastic! Most friend's parents you simply tolerate and deal with, but she's wonderful! I could have talked to her all night - but I think everyone wanted to go home because it was getting late (and we had to go to Dude's to participate in his "Pack up My House For Beer" party). :) She's got such good advice and reminds me of Cody's mom because she listens and then offers advice (very honest, well-thought out, intelligent advice) but doesn't tell you what to do - just gives you things to think about in make the decision you have to make. Anyway, it was so nice to meet her and talk to her. And she really gave me some great things to think about - more of which I'll write on later since they are still being pondered. :) So, while it was great to see Mike, Mina and the rest of the crew, it was a special treat to meet her mom!
Also exciting is we get to see my real bonus mom and dad, along with the rest of the bonus family in Wisconsin next weekend for Jessica and Matt's wedding - hope she's not going as nutty as I was a week before the wedding (she's got a much more level head so I'm sure she's doing fine)!

Speaking of Gators . . .

This Saturday was International Gator Day - a day where all the Gator clubs around the WORLD get together and volunteer in their communities. So our club volunteered at St. Francis Children's Home cleaning up their Alumni Room. We had a blast and it was for a good cause. Can't beat that.

Our Gator Friends REALLY ROCK!

We have fantastic friends. If it weren't for all of them we would have been out of St. Louis 2 years ago. But they are really great. We can count on them, they're fun and we always have something going on. They are seriously a large part of why we are still here and are planning to stay here for at least the near future.
But in particular, our Gator friends rock. First, it's just nice to have people who know what it's like not to be from here and who know where you're from. We can talk about games and sports and no one else can really understand the passion that goes into that in Florida. We can talk about living and growing up in Florida - and then moving to the Midwest. It's just a bond that is hard to replicate.
Anyway, they really went above and beyond for us for our wedding. For a wedding gift, they all went in together and bought us a tile of the floor at the Final Four in Atlanta - the one where the Gators won their 2nd NCAA tournament championship - in two years! I know some people might not be impressed by this, but to Cody and I this is the most amazing thing ever. Just to have friends that would think of something like this and know us well enough to know that we would about have a heart attack when they told us, it worth the world - but then to have those friends AND have a piece of the floor from those games is just priceless. We are seriously going to put it in glass and then put it on display - and then we're going ot have a party for all our Gator friends for a private unveiling ceremony. NOT KIDDING. We're still in shock and can't wait to see it (it takes a while for them to deliver it) - now how cool is that?

We have the best friends ever.

Last week (also seemingly a year ago), we had our St. Louis reception. Because so many of our friends here couldn't make the wedding because (1) it costs a zillion dollars to fly into Tally's airport, (2) it costs almost a zillion dollars to fly into JAX and then rent a car and drive to Tally, (3) it's a 13 hour drive - that's no fun, (4) it was Easter weekend, and (5) face it, Tally's just not a festive destination beach town that draws people from the midwest to visit, we decided early on that when we got back from the wedding and the honeymoon we would throw a party with all the leftover booze for our friends here. Well, we had no leftover booze but we still threw the party.
We found this fantastic old rehabed house that we rented for the occasion, hired a bartender, bought a ton of new booze, and had ourselves a party. The place was beautiful, we had a great turnout and had a ton of fun. Pictures are up on my picasaweb page - sorry I've been so bad about updating our webpage, but things have been CRAZY busy - I promise to take an evening to that shortly. Anyway, thanks everyone for coming out - we had a great time and it was great to see everyone! I'll post the rest of the pictures as I get them. :)

6 weeks.

Speaking of the wedding, we've been married 6 weeks already. Sometimes it seems like yesterday, other times it seems like years ago. But 6 weeks already.

First, A funny wedding story.

I was thinking of this story while taking a shower tonight and thought I would share. One of the funniest, best examples of how crazy things were pre-wedding -
We wanted two photographers for the pre-wedding festivities and actual wedding ceremony - one for the girls and one for the boys pre-wedding and then during the wedding one to get us from behind and one from in front so one photographer wouldn't be running back and forth and missing stuff. Seriously the best money ever spent (not that we've actually even seen the ANY pictures yet).
Anyway, so we asked our photographer to recommend someone to assist him. He emailed her information. I emailed and got additional information and was supposed to mail her a check and a contract. But never got around to it. No kidding. Anyway, due to me never mailing her a check or a contract we had never actually confirmed her presence at the wedding. So seriously ON THE WAY to the wedding, with Cody, Melanie and Marissa in the car, I had Cody bring the laptop (since that's the only place I had her information), look up her information and call her ON THE WAY to the wedding to make sure that she would be there even though we never confirmed with her nor sent her a deposit or contract. Good thing she understood and was planning to be there. In the end she was FANTASTIC - perfect photographer for us!
Anyway, I thought that was cute - that we were calling our photographer on the way to the wedding - after looking up the number on the laptop, in the car - to make sure things were okay. So much for confirming things ahead of time. Though to reduce stress, I highly recommend all vendors be confirmed well in advance. :)

Some quick catch-ups.

The following (though due to the blog way of the world, they're "upside down") are some brief updates of the state of my world. In no particular order. As always, so many stories to post when I don't need sleep (as if that ever happens).

Welcome to the world Baby Girl!

Today was a good day. The world was blessed with another little girl and I became an aunt for the FIFTH time! The forth time for a niece! I couldn't be happier!
Little Arianna Eve was born this afternoon right before 5pm and was a bit under 6 lbs. Little bitty thing and a bit early (she wasn't technically due until June but the C-Section was planned for next Wednesday but the little thing just didn't want to wait that long) but I hear she's absolutely gorgeous and has blond hair already like her two adorable sisters. I cannot wait to see her!
The one absolutely worst thing about being so far from home is missing out on things like this. I would give so much to be able to go visit them all tomorrow. I really would - it kills me to miss this. It kills me to know she'll be over 6 months old by the time I see her! That's huge in baby time! HUGE! It kills me to miss first birthdays . . . and second ones and third ones and fourth ones and fifth ones (we haven't had any 6th ones yet). It kills me to miss holidays (we're going to miss our first Thanksgiving this year). It kills me to miss Sunday dinners - or even Tuesday dinners. It kills me to miss weddings and funerals and graduations and all that fun stuff.
But I guess that's the price you pay sometimes. In the end is it all worth it? Who knows. It would take a lot for me to give up the life Cody and I have made for ourselves - we love it - we have a good time - we have each other - it's priceless - we wouldn't trade it for the world 99% of the time. It's that 1% that's killer - the birth of a niece, for instance. Is it worth it? How can you measure?
Some advice on raising girls that I found particularly touching (I wish I could take credit for but it's from a book that I really like):
Realize that one of your most important jobs it to give her a sense of self . . . to help her define who she is, so no one else will.
Girls whose parents (and other friends and relatives) have high expectations for them also have high expectations for themselves. It just works out that way.
There will be times when she says life is unfair. Explain to her it was never a given that life is fair.
And finally - Caution her before she gives up her dreams for any job. Or any man.

REALLY quick update

Things to update on (later):
- PARTY this weekend - it rocked - our friends really rock
- Our Gator friends REALLY REALLY rock - they got us a fantastic, drop-your-jaw present - more to come
- I'm finished with my running break after the 1/2 marathon and am back into running - couldn't have come sooner! I needed this!
- Work has been a beast.
- Happy belated Mother's Day to all the moms, grandmas, and other ladies who offer support and advice and guidance to others like moms.
. . . . more to come.

What I get for not watching the weather

Yesterday when I awoke it was nice and sunny and pretty. So I put on a nice and sunny and pretty skirt, sandals and sleeve-less top. Then it proceeded to rain large barn animals from the sky - as I've mentioned earlier, we have hampster sized snow here, I'm not sure what size rain that was - much bigger then hampster. Anyway, after the barn animals finished falling from the sky it turned chilly. Not snow-cold, but definitely a chill. So after work I was not a happy camper walking back. Then after working out I had errands to run - so I thought it would still be warm enough to break out the shorts - it wasn't. I froze my behind off running errands.
Then this morning. It looked nice and sunny from my window so I put on pants and a sleeve-less top (it's sleeveless top week because I got around to shaving my armpits - yipee!) - however, upon walking outside I promptly turned right back around and went back inside to change. It's downright COLD here!
Teach me to watch the weather!

Finished #2.

For those of you who have read Harry Potter, you can understand my addiction. I read the first one in less then a day in Mexico. I was hooked. Understandably #2 took longer to read because now I can't sit on the beach all day and read, I actually have to work. But I finished #2 last night. Not as great as #1, but still really good. So tonight (as soon as I finish this blog), I start on #3!! I really hope to get caught up by this summer when #7 comes out. If she kills Harry off in #7 I'm going to be quite quite upset! So if anyone is trying to reach me and I'm hard to get a hold of, blame Harry - and Melissa who got me interested in this crack rock, I mean series.

They weren't lying.

Marriage changes you. Before I got married, a lot of married people told me "Marriage changes you." I thought they were crazy and just getting old. After all, Cody and I had been together for eons, what could possibly change anything in our lives anymore? Moving in together didn't. People said that would be difficult and would take adjusting - but it didn't - it was wonderful - it was 100% easier then we even expected - it just flowed perfectly. People said buying our first house together would change us. I guess it did, we're now in a lot more debt. :) But other then that we just had more chores and responsibilities - we were still the same. Engagement didn't change us. One day I didn't have a ring, then I did - I was certainly happy, very very happy, that we were engaged but nothing core changed.
Then we got married. We're still the same "Missy and Cody" - we still do the same things, have the same friends, want the same things out of life - so nothing like that, but something core. Maybe it's just me being emotional, but life seems more intense - not in a bad way, in a very cool different way - like you were watching life on a fuzzy TV using rabbit ears and then got cable and the picture got very bright and clear. I've never cried at movies, or songs or any mushy stuff - it's not really my thing - but lately I've felt emotional over those things that you're supposed to (no, I haven't cried over a song, but I felt at least some emotion about a few). It's odd. Suddenly there is no argument or flaw worth actually arguing over. We have to live together FOREVER and we'd best work things out peacefully. We've really become a "family." I guess that's the best way to describe it (aside from my TV analogy) - we were two people living together in our own little make-shift family - but now we're a real life "family" - just the two of us. Sure we have all of our other family that's quite dear to us, but we've also created a whole new "family" unit. That's cool. Marriage has certainly changed us - for the better - things feel settled and nice. Now we can focus on what lies ahead of us and enjoying life now and we don't have to worry about marriage or dating or anything like that - we're done. And that's cool.

Coffee.

Sometimes I'm jealous of people who drink coffee. They have this sort of secret connection that non-coffee drinkers don't get and don't get to be a part of. They have that one moment each morning when they take their first sip and are just thankful - while we're just plain running around the house getting ready. There are so many ways to bond "over coffee." And we miss out on that. Meeting someone to discuss a job or an opportunity? Meet "over coffee." Want to go out with the girls on Tuesday night? Go for coffee. Want to discuss politics, religion, your job, anything really? Go "for coffee." Want to meet a blind date? Meet "for coffee." Sunday morning relaxing? Ride your bike to the corner coffee shop, sit outside and read the newspaper. So many ways to enjoy life with coffee. It's just not the same with "let's go out for a water."

But alas, neither Cody nor myself can stand the stuff - no amount of sugar or cream can make us stomach it. For one, I don't drink any caffeine (who trusts a word that doesn't follow the "i before e except after c" rule?) and Cody's not big on it either. We have two beverage groups consumed in our house - water and alcohol. Seriously. That's ALL we drink. All day every day we drink water. Water water and more water. We probably each drink at least 4 liters of water a day - probably more. It's simple, free, good for you and no calories. (I have a huge thing against wasting calories on liquids - I put that aside for a good glass of Reisling.) No soda, no juice, nothing - just water - sometimes tea when we're sick. And then we drink alcohol - beer, wine, etc. - socially, not as a habit - don't go turning us into AA here. :) So I was thinking of all we might be missing out by not drinking coffee - sure we get happy hours, but other then that who wants to go out "for a glass of water." Plus happy hours aren't always appropriate for all situations - taking your grandma out on a Saturday afternoon, for instance. A while ago, I started going out with the coffee people and getting hot chocolate - it's an overpriced waste of 200 calories but at least I got that socialization in. But I still couldn't join in the coffee conversation. There's just something missing.

There's really no moral to this story or this thought process. I still hate coffee. Always have, probably always will - considering I last had caffeine 10 years ago, I don't see myself going back any time soon (it's a long story involving very large amounts of Mountain Dew - lots and lots of Mountain Dew). Cody still doesn't drink it. I was just thinking of how cool it must be to be a coffee person - we'd create a "water house" or "water bar" but I don't think it would do too well. So be grateful, coffee people, for those little things in life. :)

I have a list.

I have a list of blogs to write - things I've been thinking about and mulling over, though have yet to get around to any of them - plus I don't think I ever finished up my "Wedding Updates" section. I'll try to catch up on those shortly. For now, a quick catch-up on life.
I must admit that most of the time Cody and I lead pretty charmed lives. We get to do pretty much whatever we want, whenever we want to do it - we have jobs that are stimulating and challenging but not overly stressful and demanding (normally) - now that we're done with school and really making some dents in all our debt (read: it was mine, now that we're married it's "ours" - poor Cody) we have the means to actually do fun things - we have enough going on in our lives to be fun and exciting and energizing but not so much that we're constantly beat. So we've normally got it pretty good - except this week.
This week has been a bear - you know, sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. After taking off for the honeymoon and then taking off most of Friday for Detroit, Cody had a TON of time to make up at work (he works 80 hours in 2 weeks - however he wants - but if he gets behind it gets hard to make it all up). Add to that his school schedule and his life was not fun. Making my life not fun. Add to that my work was busy and I have a zillion things around the house (now that the wedding is over my new focus/stress point is getting the house in order - more on that later) and it was a long week. Cody's pay period ends on Thursdays so now his crazy hours are done and assuming I can get a brief done (I'm appealing a case to the Court of Appeals), life will be good again. :)
In more fun news, we're having a PARTY this weekend! The last of our wedding festivites - first it was the engagement party, then the showers, then the bachelor/bachelorette parties, then the rehearsal, wedding, reception and honeymoon - we have only one left and then we are DONE with wedding (if I sound super duper thrilled about that DONE part - it's because I am). We're having a party to celebrate the wedding with all our friends from St. Louis who couldn't make the wedding - and those that did too. We rented a historical house, hired a bartender, bought a TON of booze (we expected to have a ton left over from the wedding but I guess we had some good drinkers there because we came back with hardly anything), got some grub, and are having a PARTY. I'm quite excited to get to celebrate with all our friends here - they mean a lot to us. Yipee!! I'll post pictures!
Tomorrow is FRIDAY!

Life is good.

Life is really good right now - spring has finally arrived (after four solid days of raining last week - leading to flooding rivers later this week - we'll have to hold our breaths and see how bad that gets) - the wedding is done (I swear life is so much happier now that it's over) - we've been making progress with the house - we've got our lives back and we're enjoying it.
A quick update - I had my first weekend to myself last weekend. Cody and some buddies flew to Detroit to catch the Red Wings game on Saturday - they rented a plane and a friend of a friend flew them up there. I wouldn't have gotten on that tiny plane for all the money in the world - especially since it was raining, but they had a good time. I, on the other hand, stayed here and cleaned our "junk room" - everyone has a "junk drawer" - we have an entire "junk room" - so I purged and sorted, purged and sorted some more- went to The Container Store at least 3 times and hit up 5 different Target's, but got it looking pretty damn nice - I'll post before and after pictures when I finish. I got so much done - and still got to go out with friends and enjoy Cindo de Mayo! :) While I missed Cody, sometimes I really enjoy that alone time where I can just really work and get a ton done - which I did - if I had sat around and done nothing I would have been miserable but since I really kept myself busy and got a lot accomplished it was wonderful - plus I got a lot of really really good thinking in - more on that later.
A few more things to catch up on but I'm in the middle of Harry Potter #2 and it's calling my name - more later! :)

Happy Anniversary to Me!

Three years in St. Louis today! As of today, I have lived in St. Louis for three years! Three very very short years. Three incredibly long years. Three amazingly fun, exciting years. Three years of learning more then I learned in the other 20+ years.
After three years am I still allowed to call Interstate 64, "64," instead of "40" and when people correct me, can I still say "Oh, I just moved here"? Can I complain that I just don't get this city because "I'm new"? Am I still "new"? Can I still say "Oh, I didn't know that - I'm not from here"? When do you officially become a "resident" of a city? I still have Florida plates and a Florida license (mainly due to laziness and the desire to avoid personal property tax- yes, Floridians, we pay not only INCOME tax, and SALES tax, and PROPERTY tax, but also PERSONAL PROPERTY tax - sucks to be in a state not blessed by tourism - guess not as many people visit Branson as Disney - go figure) - can I even be a Missourian? I don't know a thing about corn - or the high schools here - or even why people would want to live in the burbs - can I be a "resident"?
Anyway, I still can't believe it's been three years already - it seems like just yesterday my baby brother was graduating college and I was driving up here following Cody on his motorcycle in the pouring rain. On the trip up here we stopped for the night in Cadiz, Kentucky and saw that one of my fish had had babies - lots of them - during the ride here. So we had to scoop them out into water bottles so their mommy wouldn't eat them (for some reason my fish always have babies during momumentous events - the first time the fish had babies was the first day Cody's parents saw my apartment in G'ville - so we were trying to show them around and at the same time scoop baby fish out). Boy does time fly when you're having fun. It's been a great 3 years - really it has. I've learned so much and experienced so many new things. I've learned things living away from home (not just 2 hours away at college - 13 hours away - living - no spring breaks, no summer and holiday breaks) that no other experience could have taught me. And of course it brought Cody and I together. There's something about having just each other to depend on and lean on that makes you grow stronger as a couple. There's no running to our parents, or even long-time friends, when there's a fight - just us two to work it out. When things get scary or sad or lonely or homesick or upset - we just have each other here - which has taught us a lot in terms of how to provide support and accept support from each other. For me at least, it's just as hard, if not harder, to accept support as it is to give it - and that's made us learn a lot about each other, life, independence and relationships. I think us living here has been one of the best moves of our lives - as much as we miss family sometimes, the independence we've gained here is priceless. We have a new "home" here and that's special - when we say we're going "home," we no longer mean Tally, we mean here, to our home. Tally is where our folks live and we'll always visit, but it's no longer "home" to us - I think we've created a great "home" for ourselves here that we enjoy though.
So - happy three years in STL! Not sure we'll make it another three here, but here's to enjoying every day of it!

Back to the grindstone.

Yup - back in STL and back to work. I wasn't as behind as I thought I was but I have a feeling that's because I'm actually so far behind I don't even know it yet. :) Life is good though - cleaning house, doing laundry, mailing stuff we got in Mexico - the normal chores. Cody started back to school today too so that sort of made it a little more hectic for him too - but he's good with that stuff so he should be fine.
I uploaded the honeymoon pictures to picasaweb (my new favorite Google tool) - if you want to check them out they are here. Nothing too exciting except if you're me or Cody - just a bunch of scenery (about 100 shots out the airplane window of clouds) and us chilling on the beach or by the pool - nothing terribly exciting. The only problem with vacations is you always end up with so few pictures of the two of you together - one of you is always taking the photo. It's the same with all our trips/events - sporting events, to Tally, holidays, our parties, etc. - we have so very few pictures of the two of us together. I'm starting to experiment more with the timer function so hopefully that will help things. :)