Meet our RAV4!

We pick it up this Saturday-- we can't wait!



We're hooking up our auto insurance tomorrow; any advice?

Car shopping

We're very excited to go car shopping this weekend! We're going to check out the Subaru Forester:



and the Toyota RAV4:


Any recommendations?

Happy new year!

We had such a lovely time at Helen and Rob's new year's eve party last night! Last year, we came home from their party and got engaged, so it was really fun to revisit such a happy memory.

Bye bye, east side!

We did it! Today we closed the sale on our apartment on the east side. Selling in the midst of a global economic melt-down was a little nervous-making along the way. But now that it's over, we're pretty grateful that things went as smoothly as they did overall.

Here's a parting shot of the building that was my home for the better part of the last 6 1/2 years:


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Hopefully we'll have some car-shopping and house-hunting updates to post very soon!

We're Married!

Yup, we're married! We headed down to the New York City Clerk's Office yesterday with our siblings and parents to tie the knot. We had a wonderful time with our family and are so excited to be husband and wife!

Now that we're finally legal, we can move on to the business of apartment-selling, house-hunting, and family-building! Once we've got those plans squared away, we look forward to celebrating with all our friends and family at a wedding reception in the autumn of 2009. Stay tuned for more details, and in the meantime, here are some of the great photos from yesterday:

Here we are, hanging out at the east side apartment waiting for our family to gather:



Shelly, Kisha and Scott:



Waiting at the City Clerk's Office:



The entire ceremony lasted for one minute and eleven seconds! Here's where Steven said "I do" and gave me my ring:



Here's where I said "I do" and gave Steven his ring.



The first kiss!



Jack and Lisa, inspecting the license. They're stuck with me now!



Susan, my new sister-in-law, thought of EVERYTHING. She had the wedding march queued up on her iphone. She made sure that I had old, new, borrowed and blue. She even had rose petals hidden in her purse to throw at us after the ceremony! It was a fabulous surprise.



Our rings were crafted by jewelers who are friends of Scott. We love them.



My flowers were GORGEOUS. (They were made by Martha Stewart's florist!)



We are so happy; our day was perfect!



Look at the sigh of relief after this kiss:

Vermont Vacation

We had such a fun time on our vacation in Vermont last week! Here are some pictures from our trip:


Random pooch in Brattleboro


Emily welcoming us for supper


Les and Shelly


SVAC, Southern Vermont Arts Center


The Dorset quarry


A peaceful retreat at the Inn at Manchester


Hildene, the Lincoln family estate

Summer Shave for Sassy

Today I took Sassy in for a little trim at the groomer. Against my better judgement, I let her convince me that Sassy would enjoy a nice, cool lion cut for the hot summer weather. You'll see his new look below. Can you see from his expression that he is already plotting his revenge?