Now that I think back, a lot actually happened this month.
On 8/7 Joe and I celebrated our 8th anniversary since our first date. I guess I can't really say we celebrated. Neither of us even mentioned it. I only know because it's written on my calendar each year, but each year as that number gains a digit I can't help but think how time flies. Seems like we were just in college when we met, but I've already been out of college for almost six years. Doesn't seem possible!
Two days later our first nephew was born! Aaron Dean Scherf was born on a very cool date - 8/9/10. He weighed 7 lbs, 13 oz and was 19.5 inches long, born at 5:49 pm. For those of you that don't know, this is the son of Joe's sister and her husband, Christy and Eric. This is child numero 2 for them and I know they're thrilled! Hoping we can meet him sooner than later, however they're way off in Arizona. I wish everyone I knew lived within 30 miles of us. That would be awesome!
Meet Aaron!
And here is baby Aaron with big sister Maura and mommy!
So the big 2-9 came around this year for me. Not too thrilled that I'm only a year away from 30, but can't do anything about it. My birthday fell on Friday the 13th this year and although I planned on working, Joe told me to take the day off. I had no idea what he had planned, but my work allows one paid day off the month of your birthday, so why not use it on my actual birthday if it's going to give me a 3-day weekend. So I granted Joe's request. First of all Joe had been spending the previous weekend and that Thursday before my bday making the house squeaky clean. That right there is like one of the best gifts a girl can get. Then at about 10pm that Thursday night the doorbell rings and I'm thinking who the heck is that?! None other than my parents! I hadn't seen them in about 3 1/2 months and Joe talked them in to driving down for the weekend! And then the next morning he sent me off to get a 1 hour massage. So basically my husband is awesome and got me the 3 best gifts I could have asked for. Joe still had to work on Friday so after my massage I spent the day shopping around with my parents and then Joe met up with us for dinner at Firebirds. We finished the night off with gifts, games, a movie and strawberry/funfetti cake covered in homemade strawberry frosting that Joe made. It was delicious!
Moving on to work-related news, my company's traditional media department has previously done a 3-day media presentation where they bring in lunch and for about an hour each of those 3 days they gave a presentation about what new shows are coming out in the Fall on the main networks. It's always entertaining and a great way to see what new shows you might like. Well this year they decided to up it a level, combine it into a full morning and hold it in a lecture hall at Samford University allowing clients and vendors to come and watch as well. They had a red carpet with cutouts of TV stars and "papparazzi" taking our pictures. They then had breakfast food to eat while mingling until the presentation started. Our group of presenters did a great job! It was extremely informative and entertaining. Intermission sent us back to the lobby where little bags of popcorn were available and we all entered for the second half of more new show trailers and information! I really thought having that take up our whole morning would make the day go by fast but for some reason the second half of that day felt like 2 full days.
Here we are with Kyra Sedgwick from The Closer watching us walk the red carpet. As you can see I got Joe to come along and enjoy the festivities.
So moving on to this past weekend...a good friend of mine from work got married! They had the wedding in Atlanta and it was beautiful! The ceremony was outside the Hilton in the extreme southern heat of August, however their programs were also fans! What a brilliant idea! Darien looked stunning and Josh looked happy, although you couldn't tell their sweat from their tears. Luckily the ceremony was short and sweet because those blue skies started dropping tons of rain about 10 minutes after we went inside for the reception. The food was really good, the decorations looked awesome and the bridal cake was beautiful. They did a really good job. And apparently they got the hookup with our Krispy Kreme client cause the grooms cake was a pile of donuts. haha
One good thing about things happening in Atlanta is we always have our good friends Nick and Kate to stay with. Nick was a good friend of mine in college. And what made this visit even more special was we got to meet their 2 month old twins, Jack and Harrison! They were such good babies and the two nights we were there were the two nights they had slept the longest ever...like 8 hours or something crazy like that. Both of them!
They loved their boppies. They were so calm sitting in those things. I believe that's Harrison in the front and Jack in the back.
And here I am holding Harrison. Sweet babies!
