Last weekend David and I took a whirlwind trip to Iowa. The main occasion was the wedding of Deb and Judy (Deb is David’s aunt). The wedding was in Kalona on some family property in a beautiful clearing in the woods. It was lovely to celebrate with friends and family.
On Sunday we got to see some of my high school friends in Des Moines as well as my mom. Click here for some pictures.
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School has started which means work has gotten a lot busier and life has gotten a lot busier (we’re both taking a class).
Here is a picture of Chloe helping me study:
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My cousin Conrad turned 9 last week! We couldn’t go to his party, but hung out with him and his family a bit earlier in the day. Conrad wants to be a chemist, so we performed an experiment with a bouncy ball.
I had ComedySportz in the evening and had lots of great audience members: my co-worker, Maryeileen, and her husband Chris; and Dean, Nancy, Lynn, Debbie and David! It was fun to see so many familiar faces in the crowd.
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I’ve been a bit lax about posting pictures lately. Here are a bunch from misc. summer events:
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We’ve been married for four years! It’s been fantastic. Can’t wait for many more…
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This year for my birthday David planned three days of surprises. They turned out to be filled with trips and visits with friends and family. We also ate a lot of good food. It was a wonderful birthday present! Here was the itinerary:
-Monica (didn’t take the camera along – doh!)
-Becca & Ben
-Michelle
-PA Nyce family
-both of our immediate families
I’m grateful for such a thoughtful husband as well as great friends and family. What will happen when my birthday is actually a milestone? Click here for pictures.
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Last weekend, David’s cousin Alex got married to Michelle in New Cumberland, PA. It was fun to dress up and celebrate with them. They live in Lancaster, so we should have lots of chances to get to know Michelle.
Also, David’s grandma Kathleen Benner visited and we spent some time with her. It was lovely to take an extra day off from work and we got to see David’s aunt Linda too!
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We have collected some pictures from the last two weekends in May:
-visiting my cousin Kate’s new baby Caleb
-sorting things in Lancaster
-my friend Becca’s MFA graduation party at her parents’ house
-Chloe
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I stumbled across a website called wordle.net in which you can enter some text or a whole website and it makes a composite of the content. The frequency of words are represented by size. Here is davidandolivia.com:
I’m not sure if these words are taken from the front page of this website or from all of the archived content as well. But as I look at it, I feel grateful that these are the happy things that generally make up our days. When so many people around the world suffer every day, it would be easy to get paralyzed by guilt. I hope instead that we will take action: that we will fight for justice and serve as a force of good in the world so that peace and joy may spread far and wide.
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