Outpost 505

I’ll be honest with you: it is difficult to remain disciplined in your healthy eating when you encounter something like this:

That’s a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, made for us by my boss, and served with chocolate and also vanilla ice cream at a small party in our honor.  I tried to be virtuous.  I [...]

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When we were planning our wedding, we realized that no matter where we had it, more than half of our friends and family would have to travel to be there.  We were also doing all the wedding budgeting and planning ourselves, so we talked to our families, who agreed to host reception/parties in our home [...]

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So hey guys? We got married!  I’ll save the whole story for later, as I feel you need to see the photos to understand how damned cold it was, so for now, let’s focus on the food.

After we very nearly froze our married asses off on the beach makin’ it legal, we shared a really [...]

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Rehoboth Beach

Bonnaroo

Up in 3D

Season opener at the Big House

Columbus

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Year three, in honor of our impending nuptials:

Cubs v Nats

Walk for the Animals

Staycation

On the roof of the Kennedy Center

Engaged!

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In honor of our impending nuptials:

first date – Karin’s Twelfth Night party

Bonnaroo (and beard!)

Iowa vs Illinois

Drawing on the internet (feat. Basil Beers)

Top Secret Weekend Adventure

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We’ve waffled a great deal about wedding plans – in part because our living and working situations have changed dramatically since we first got engaged, in part because our families are in different cities and have very different life situations, and in part because we just couldn’t come up with a plan that worked for [...]

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Spring at Pere Marquette, originally uploaded by cabriden.

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Pere Marquette beach (I think), originally uploaded by KG123.
(coming soon)

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We’ve been here a month, and some folks are wondering what sorts of shenanigans we’ve been up to. I’ll summarize in brief, and maybe be more vigilant about posting in the future.
Work: Shane started his job on Aug. 31 and seems to like it so far.  He’s going to a lot of meetings, taking [...]

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