05 July 2011

Happy 4th! Belated...

Had a fun 4th of July. Pretty much any gathering that involves baby Ronan is awesome. :) He was exactly 6 months old a couple weeks ago, on Father's Day actually, and I took a few pictures of him last week.



This baby has the longest tongue I've ever seen... every time he laughs, he sticks it out. It's so funny.

There are a ton more. We can't stop kissing this kid or taking pictures of him. :) He's probably sick of us.

The camping trip I mentioned before was really fun. It wasn't serious, middle-of-the-woods camping. It was camping with eight children under the age of 10. 

I think we may be going again in a couple months which is cool... I had forgotten how much I love these trips. Wake up - tent - outside - coffee - sleepy people - trees. I think the mornings are my favorite, which is funny because I am NOT a morning person normally.

Paul and I were talking about doing some more primitive camping but we'll see if we get around to that. There's so much other stuff coming up, like going down the shore and stuff. Hopefully we can squeeze it in somewhere though. We love our tent so much (two people in a six-person tent is awesome!) and we can't wait to use it again.

Speaking of the shore!

We made a drastic change in our wedding plans. Paul and I were talking about a lot of things and we came to the conclusion that an Outer Banks beach wedding is the wedding for us. Even before my grandmother passed away, I was NOT into planning anything about the wedding. The cost of everything was a constant source of anxiety and I couldn't make a firm decision about anything. Then grandmom passed away and I was even less motivated. Paul was feeling the same way, and the beach wedding thing was his favorite idea originally, so we're headed south. Mm, a few people are on board but I guess a guest list won't be finalized for a while. I'm not a big fan of last-minute plans but I have to just take a deep breath and go with the flow. We've already booked a beautiful house right on the beach that we'll get to take a look at in a few weeks. I can't wait! The only vendors I'm looking to book after that are a caterer and some wonderful person to do my insane hair. Everything else is going to be SIMPLE.

Anyway, that's the update for now. Apart from the biggest news... I FOUND A WEDDING DRESS!! It's perfect!