Welcome Home Evans Family

My teammates from Scotland, Bill & Dana Evans and their kids Madison, Slaton, and Lily, have just arrived back in America after finishing their tenure in Scotland. I made a whirlwind trip down to Annapolis, MD to spend with them. The girls shopped and dined in beautiful Annapolis while the boys went fishing and caught losts of fish for dinner and a sunburn!

I love you guys - it was soooooo good to see you!

Madison & Lily

Madison, Lily, & Slaton

Dana and her friend Jenny.

Loving this Saturday

Since we returned from our honeymoon, every Saturday has been packed with events both in town and out of town. It has been exhausting considering it is my one day off and our evenings have been very busy too. Today is our first free Saturday!!!! And it's the only free Saturday for about another month. We're staying home to work on packing (we move in a few weeks) but then we'll have a date tonight to go see Mama Mia. Last night we also had free and couldn't decide what to do to relax. I as in a mood - didn't really know what I wanted and nothing really sounded good. So we played a game and then made a quick run to Rita's water ice for Italian Ice. A plus for living in this part of the country.

Back to the busyness. Can't remember the text off the top of my head but there is a verse in the Bible about a husband having a year off from war after getting married. I'm adopting that philosophy as much as possible. While the ancient rule was probably intended for producing an heir (not our intention for now), I think we should be able to say "no" to as much as possible while we are busy with merging lives and learning how to be married. These new waters were riding in have not been overwhelming to navigate, but I do want to enjoy the ride a little bit.

Hawaii Dream

John and I had a wonderful honeymoon on the big Island of Hawaii. Here are a few of my favorite pics.

View from our room!

One of the pools at the resort. We hung out on the chairs on the right side of this pic.

There were about 7 dolphins living at our resort. You could pay huge dollars to swim with them. Instead we chose to have lunch watching other people swim with them. It was fun to watch them interact with their trainers. I realized dolphins are a lot like puppies. Maybe I should ask for a dolphin instead of a spaniel.......

The resort was huge and they had these boats and a monorail to take us from one end of the resort to the other.

This was one of our beautiful sunset dinners. We ate like kings during our trip. The resort had five great restuarants and we found this great place in town from our tourbook. John totally spoiled us with these meals and we had to roll off the plane in Newark.

Rianforest Bay in Hilo (there is another name for this bay but I can't remember it.) How wonderful to go for a hike in the rainforest and then stumble upon this bay.