It's Official

Matt and I are now officially Mr. and Mrs.! 

We are so happy and excited to be starting this new chapter in our lives together.

We are also so grateful for the love

of family and friends who surrounded us on that day.

Married life, is AWESOME!

"Standing beside you,

I took an oath to make your life simpler

by complicating mine and what I

always thought would happen did:

I was lifted up in JOY."

-David Ignatow

The Reading Continues

I have been too busy with life and apparently too busy reading to do much posting so here is a recap of the last few weeks...in books!

Book # 30 of 2010 is...

Three Weeks with my Brother
by Nicholas and Micah Sparks

This was such a great book!  I was surprised by the difference in this book from other Nicholas Sparks books, it was so real and honest and insightful!  This book was also suprisingly informative.  As I read I traveled to all of the coolest and holiest places in the world...it was a really good read.




Book # 31 of 2010 is...

The Glass Lake
by Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy is absolutely one of my favorite authors...and this book is one of the best she has written!  The story was so engaging that two nights in a row I stayed up until all hours just to finish it.  The story, like most of Binchy's books, takes place in Ireland and it is such a twisting and heartrenching tale.  If you haven't read Maeve Binchy...read this book, it is one of her best!





Book # 32 of 2010 is... For Time and All Eternity
by Paul Bailey

This was a very different book that explored plural marriage in its hay day.  It was a book of historical fiction which I always like reading, and it was about something I know very little about so it was a really interesting read.


Book # 33 of 2010 is...
Heart and Soul
by Maeve Binchy

This is another great book by Maeve Binchy.  It is a typical Irish Binchy story...a good read.






Book # 34 and # 35 of 2010 is... The Quilter's Legacy and The Master Quilter

by Jennifer Chiaverini

These are both great books.  These Chiaverini books have really lived up to my expectations.  They are all in a series, but they are completely self-contained.  In other words, you can read them in any order and still get all of the characters and all of the "stuff" in them.  They were both fast reads.