Nope, I didn't die, but it seems like this blog might have...

Hi all. What do you know but it's been months and months again since a post from yours truly! I'm sure you've all been hanging on the edges of your seats waiting for more, so here's another summed up recap of our Spring/Summer:

JORDAN ran his marathon in TWO hours and THIRTY-SIX minutes. For those of you who aren't hip on marathon times (like me, for example), those are sub-six minute miles for the ENTIRE 26 miles. Wowza, did I marry a rockstar or what?!?! He placed first in his age group, what a stud, and qualified for the Boston Marathon again. Amazing.

I took two art classes during Spring which I both thoroughly enjoyed and sort of detested in the same breath. I love to learn and I kind of need to be forced to paint if I'm ever going to actually finish anything, but I also really hate to have my work critiqued, mainly because I feel like art critique is so totally bogus/objective. Like, I'd get an 8 out of 10 points, but without any kind of explanation for why. Now if that happened on an essay, wouldn't everyone be frustrated? I for one, would not be satisfied with the response "I just didn't like it" or "It was missing that thing" (???). NO idea. Art.... I love and I hate it, what can a girl do.

Then, my sister Katie arrived for Summer term and we (Jordan, me, and her) had a blast hanging out at least one night a week partying. And it was a riot having my parents and Elise in town to drop her off. We always love having company,

especially such good-looking, fun, entertaining and hilarious company! ;)

Katie and I also took a bookbinding class together during Summer term, which was too much fun. We loved hanging out, not to mention I can't say enough about the art of bookbinding. Our teacher was a complete doll, and given the fact that we're both obsessed with

books, we were pretty much in heaven. Here's some of the fruits of my labor:

Thanks-Helping-Me-Graduate-Book for my Dad :)

Thanks-Helping-Me-Graduate-Book for my Mom :)

And a Baby Notebook for my friend and old roommate Jill who just had a beautiful baby girl!

Too much fun. Oh and as you may have deduced from the books for my mom and dad, I GRADUATED!!! Pretty awesome. And my awesome hubby decided to get me the entire Adobe Suite for graduation! It was a huge surprise to me.... he's much better at pulling those off than I am :). So here's my first attempt at monkeying around with photoshop:

Well, that's plenty for now I think... but stay tuned for a post about our trip to DC, Jord's birthday, and bunches of more fun. Or something like it :).