"No time for cameras / we'll use our eyes instead"

Oh hey, blog...who would have thought that spending two weeks dog/house/garden-sitting for friends and starting a new job would throw things off so much?

So this is round one of what you missed: my little brother got married last weekend (!), and we traveled south to be a part of the fun and festivities. In the midst of rehearsal dinner preparations and wedding day merriment, we also managed to take advantage of Virginia's earlier strawberry season -- and of course eked out a little beach time (it's now tradition during family wedding weekends for the rest of us to pack up the dogs and a picnic and head to the water's edge).

I'm still having a hard time believing that my little brother is all grown up, let alone married, since he has been the ideal kid brother throughout most of my life. I mean, I guess he still is, but going home won't be the same without someone rigging up zip lines in the backyard or taking us out to a cornfield to shoot off rockets or teaching us the fine art of slingball. But here's to new adventures with a new sister-in-law!

 (our best impression of lawn ornaments)