at laura fante's wedding

i didn't want to carry my purse into the reception, so we snapped this shot in the parking lot! i promise we were at a real wedding, even though there is no proof we were there!

our curves club (before)

we closed on the club june 29, and have learned more about actually running a business in the last week than during a semester of grad school. (they never mentioned what to do with 5 filing cabinets full of member files that are inactive? canceled? didn't fit anywhere else? we have no idea...!)

so here are some before pictures. we've been going in everyday for the past 7 days, so our first week as business owners has been, well, long. but terribly exciting. and such a good fit for us. matt works in the back office where he tries to keep a low profile. however, one member (named 'cookie' by the way!) always yells at him to come out and say hi to her. it's their little ritual already, and it's only been a week!

youth group girls at cheesecake factory

this spring...

it's almost been so long that i'm embarrassed to even post. either that, or my 'readers' (i know there are SO MANY ;) have long given up on me ever posting a thing after girls weekend 2007.
i could blame this on a lot of things - finishing up Regent (we've been graduates for 4 days now!), working at Curves (more on this later), and spending a lot of time with our youth kids. but really, it's been laziness. i certainly have time to read OTHER people's blogs regularly, so maybe this is one small step towards getting back into things.

a few pictures of our spring...