Obama!!!

We were there and witnessed Obama become the 44th President. We were thrilled to be a part of the Hallelujah crowd! While Barack spoke there was lots of "Praise Jesus" and "That's right!" YES WE CAN!

YES WE CAN!

We are so thrilled that Barack Obama will be our next president!

Daphnelicious

Could she be ANY cuter? Unlikely.

Meet Daphne!

We get our girl on June 29th and we're thrilled!

Our first birthday as a married couple!

Yesterday Jonathan celebrated his plenty-9th birthday! No work for him--instead he baked brownies and came over to visit Amanda and her class. While there he was asked by a thoughtful child, "how come you don't have kids yet?" Jonathan replied, "she has 19 of you."

Later we went out to dinner to Patois, a favorite restaurant of ours. We love their mussels--and they did not disappoint! Much to Jonathan's (slight) discomfort the waitress and Amanda sang "Happy Birthday" to him. Otherwise a very low key birthday, just what Jonathan wanted.

We came home to see Lars and the Real Girl. We both loved it immensely. It's sweet and heartbreaking and just simply lovely. The acting in it was sometimes breathtaking, we just love Ryan Gosling and adore Patricia Clarkson.

Today we're busy planning for tomorrow's picnic!

Celebrate good times, come on!

We inch ever closer to our 1/2 year anniversary this Sunday! But before that Jonathan turns Plenty Nine tomorrow! Happy Birthday sweetness head!

Can't wait to see you under our tree with a red ribbon tied around it!

We have unedited footage from the wedding. It looks like we all had a good time. Thank goodness. We need to cut some things out but it's hard to decide what that will be. How do you cut a dancing good time? It needs to be done though.

Our tree

We're deciding right now on what kind of tree we are going adopt. Some friends decided to give us a tree for a wedding gift and today we went around Prospect Park in search of White Oaks, which are just gorgeously tall and strong, but we may possibly get a catalpa tree instead. The location of the catalpa tree is just as you're entering from Grand Army Plaza and it has interesting pods hanging from it (Indian beans) and heart shaped leaves. It's a medium sized tree as compared to an Oak and this particular catalpa has an old wound that the tree itself is healing and growing over. The idea that it's gone through a rough patch and continues to thrive is appealing. But the beauty of the White Oak still makes it a strong contender.

Whichever tree we do choose though, we're going to have a tree celebration and a jubilee to recognize half a year as Mr. and Mrs. E on June 1st. So, mark your calendars for a picnic in the park!