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FINALLY we got the save the date sent via email.

I had it designed last week, but we wanted to get the website  up and running before it went. Paul is amazing! He took my design for the Save the Date and made it into a website. There are several ppl we don’t have emails for that will be getting a postcard in the mail soon.

Also… heads up for Austin folk… we are having to keep the ceremony and reception somewhat small for cost purposes. So we are going to be having a separate party in Austin not long after the wedding… we are thinking Memorial Day weekend. Will post details soon!

Our honeymoon is going to be AMAZING!! A few days after the wedding we fly into London, spend three days in the city and then start driving around the country. We are going to Stratford-Upon-Avon, Oxford, Stonehenge, Bath, up through Wales to see all of the King Arthur sites, York, the Lake District and into Scotland to Edinburgh, St. Andrews and Glasgow. I CAN’T WAIT.

The month of May is going to kill us. Mary graduates on April 30 in Michigan. The following weekend is our wedding. The next two weekends we will be across the pond. The weekend after that I am bridesmaid in another wedding AND we are thinking of having our Austin party. The following weekend is Paul’s birthday!! Yikes! But I am looking forward to it all. We are having so much fun.

We are back! It was a wonderful trip… very relaxing. Lots o’ pics but here are a few of my favorites!

Even though I am making a face…

little swans all in a row…

my “making dinner” dance

Thanks to Abbie for use of some of her pics!

i will post my fav pics from each city here BUT here are the links to the entire albums…. enjoy!

Pittsburgh

Sister after the show

Mom and me on the second day

OK so that is just a mediocre picture of myself but I took a picture of myself like this with downtown Seattle behind me and I had to try to recreate it here

We walked past the cutest knitting store on Sunday and it, like everything else in downtown Pittsburgh, is closed on Sunday… booo!!!

“Coffee fries” from Six Penn… thinly sliced potatoes with lime juice, salt and pepper and coffee grinds!! They were AMAZING!

The most expensive tomato soup and grilled cheese I ever got at brunch

look at those lovely Patterson ladies!

This is how we look when we take pictures…

and this is how we look the rest of the time

Pittsburgh was great! Now on to Philly!!!!!!

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Philadelphia

I did forgo my vegetarian status for this cultural experience… it was ok. The meat was greasy and I didn’t care for the fakey cheese topping… but apparently its not authentic without that?

Outside Independence Hall

doing this…

There are many more that I got to take inside the Philly MOA so keep looking!