Well I'm back, and married (I guess it's time for a new name for the blog).
As you can probably imagine, quite a bit has happened since July! Wedding planning and work took over my life. However, I can't complain, because I love my job and the wedding was absolutely wonderful. Let's see, I feel like I need to back track to my (semi) single, summer days to catch up on what's been going on.
Like I said, work has been crazy busy, in a very good way. Perceptive/Lexmark have been acquiring companies left and right. By default (and via our co-worker's pregnancy leave) Janna and I ended up being responsible for much of the training for the new companies. That started in D.C., continued virtually to the Australian team, then to Denver and ended in Europe!
Our trip to D.C. was supposed to be July 1st - 3rd, but being that I was there with one of my best friends, over the 4th of July, we decided to pay to stay a few extra days. As always, we had a great time and have some extremely funny stories (to us at least.) Here are some highlights from our trip:
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| Janna and I were able to tour the Capitol which was such a neat experience! |
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| Arlington Cemetery on July 4th |
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| JFK's gravesite |
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| The White House |
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| Reflection pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial |
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| Hangin' with Lincoln |
Following the D.C. trip, I traveled to Nashville for one of my best friend's bachelorette party. I had been down there once before to visit her, and absolutely loved it! The first time I went with two of my friends to visit Katie (who was attending Vanderbilt at the time.) However, in August I was with 11 other girls, so we had an absolute blast. Beautiful weather, cocktails, and country music. It was so much fun celebrating the bride to be!!
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| Chi O's! Such a fun weekend |
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| "Gettin' Hitched!" |
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| The bride-to-be! |
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| Love these three |
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| Katie got married in October! It was the perfect day. She looked beautiful!! |
I'll save the other trips, happenings, and wedding goodness for future blogs (I'm determined to get back in the habit...).
Progress on our house is coming along slowly but surely. The wedding gifts DEFINITELY helped a lot, and it's starting to feel like OUR home and not a bachelor pad (much to Tyler's dismay :) ). I haven't made much progress in my closet, besides this solution for my necklace collection. I went to hobby lobby and found the cork board and some sturdy, multi-colored pushpins and voila. We have a few other projects in the works, and I can't wait to see it all come together!
Until Next Time...
Megan Shepherd :)
