The only logical post after a year away from the blog

I spent 2 straight days last week at work reading through portions of my own blog archives. This is not ideal for my work productivity, but man.. it made me wish I still wrote regularly on here. If nothing else, it's a great chronicle of my life. And apparently I'm pretty self-centered, because it turns out I sure do like reading about myself!

So... a few small things transpired in the past year since getting married. Chris and I took a trip to Vegas / the Grand Canyon / California (which I still have not downloaded pictures for.. maybe if I promise myself to put them on the blog I'll finally do that??). We played in a beach ultimate tournament in Wildwood. We had dozens of awesome weekends with friends. We hosted my family Christmas for the first time ever. I got pregnant. I had a miscarriage. We took a trip to Barcelona to celebrate our one year wedding anniversary. I went to NYC for my friend's bachelorette, then last weekend, her wedding. I went to her civil ceremony in Paris two weeks prior to that.

And with all of that, the pictures I do have readily available? Are from a croquet game we attended two weekends ago in Annapolis, for which I constructed the following superbly awesome hat:

A reasonable question at this point would be "uh... a croquet game...?" Which, yes. I don't really know why either. Except it's been happening for 33 years now, and apparently when you're in the South(ish) and do something for enough years in a row, it also becomes tradition for people to dress up and wear insane hats and drink a lot at the same time.

So we did the sensible thing, which was to dress up, drink up, and have a picnic on an absolutely gorgeous day in Annapolis.

the always lovely Goslins

our set up! please ignore the port-o-potties, they weren't actually as close as they look here

Tam, Marie, parasol, awesome light

it is possible we are terrible influences on small children.

So. We'll see if I can keep this up with any semblance of regularity. My future self would no doubt appreciate it.