So How's Married Life?

It's probably more a polite question than a real interest--but I'm always stumped by this question.  I usually say, "It's great!" which, well, it is, but in a quiet way, not in a way that I run around the town telling people about. After I say "It's great" I don't have much else to say, so I usually just say it again in different ways, "we're doing really well," "it's going really well, it really is..." and other fluff and nonsense.

I haven't updated my blog in about a year, which coincides with my getting a job (that's my excuse: gainful employment that makes the world a better place). My phone, however, which I use to take pictures for my blog, is full of photos taken for that purpose--and in going through them I realize just how great married life has been. Here's the run-down, with pictures. :)

We went on a honeymoon to New Orleans

We ate Beignets.

We cooked Cajun food.

And enjoyed Carnival season...

We settled down to the business of being married.

And we cooked... a lot. This is one of the best creations: chicken and dumplings to die for. 

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I picked out a surprise 25th birthday present. This is his butt.

 He was totally adorable and really destructive. 

We gave him a name that no one could pronounce or remember. (It's Thaxted) 

Winter FINALLY thawed and the hope of Spring and a garden (with abnormally large earthworms) beckoned.

and learned the importance of peanut butter.

I ran a half marathon...

We cooked out a lot 

because we were remodeling the kitchen. 

 I dyed my hair really blond and made a baby quilt. 

 We had several mishaps, including locking ourselves out of the house and buying a fridge too big to fit through the door.

 The garden thrived. 

Thaxted had that surgery that forever deprived the world of his offspring. 

 He looked really cute in a cone...

 Summer flowers are now in bloom...

And peaches have arrived from Georgia. All is well.