Two wonderful years behind us, many more to go

This past week was Kevin and my two year wedding anniversary. It is really funny to think about all of the things we have accomplished since August 2006. The places we have traveled, the jobs we've had, the school we've finished...we have both changed some over the past two years and yet we are still very much in love.

On Tuesday night (our actual anniversary) we went to dinner at Grub Steak, a favorite in Dayton. We enjoyed a very nice, delicious dinner and just enjoyed sitting together and talking for a while. Then Kevin and I went to the mall so that I could pick out new sheets for my anniversary gift. While this may seem a bit racy, the two year anniversary is cotton, so there could have been racier choices....

We ended up buying the softest sheets we could find, that strangely had bamboo in them. Bamboo?! I'd never heard of such a thing. But they feel great, so we bought them. Kevin also got me some beautiful flowers and a few other small gifts. I ended up getting him two tickets to tonight's Bengals pre-season game versus the Saints. Even though the Bengals didn't score....at all...the tickets were 12 rows from the field on the 30-yard line, which was much closer then we'd ever been for a game - so it was still a lot of fun. Overall, it was a very nice anniversary week.

Here are some pics from the game:
At the game, happy from our peanuts and pretzel with cheese :)




We were SO close to the action. Too bad T.J. wasn't playing.



Kevin was REALLY into the game, and mesmerized by the big screens.



Of course, there were a couple of "interesting" people there. Exhibit A: Let's just say I'm glad that I didn't wear MY all yellow outfit.




Exhibit B: Every time the cameras were making crowd shots, this guy stood up and started dancing around with no shirt on. Three hours into the game, he began waving his shirt around his head and dancing more and more like the Ben-gals. Sadly, he never made it on the screen. If only they had put him on at the beginning of the game, maybe we wouldn't have had to witness this very sad display of attention-seeking.

The Update

Up until today I had been posting on Kevin's blog, www.almostdrkevin.blogspot.com. So, if you are new to reading my posts, click on over there to catch up on what has happened up until April 2008.

For those of you already caught up, here is what has happened since April. Kevin finished classes and his dissertation, swore into the Air Force and went to commissioned officers training (COT). He was in Montgomery, Alabama the entire month of July where he was running 5ks, taking classes on "the air force way," eating really bad instant mashed potatoes and missing me. I spent the month visiting with friends and family and trying to keep our house in order...not the easiest thing to do without Kevin's help.

At the end of July, I traveled with my family and Kevin's family down to Alabama for Kevin's graduation from COT. There was a parade and the opportunity for us to meet the 15 other Airmen he had been training closely with (his flight). Below are some pictures from the graduation and Kevin in his uniform. Needless to say, I am happy that Kevin is home and that we have returned to life as normal...ok, maybe things are different. Kevin is working a 40-hour a week job, getting home at a decent time and not working on schoolwork or notes. Having just completed two weeks of orientation (or in-processing, as they call it in the Air Force), on Monday he is starting his rotation at the base hospital. So after that we will really know what his residency will be like for the next 13 months.

Here are some pictures from graduation and. More to come later...

Life as a Hurley

Friends. Family. Oscar. Kate. Queen Avenue. Wright State. Playhouse in the Park. Cooking. Running. Reading. Fox News. Coffee in the morning. Working on the basement. NYC. Westminster choir. Lost on Thursdays. The Soup on Fridays. Taking walks. Silly names.

These are just some of the things that define my life with Kevin. After two years of marriage, our life together has become comfortable and yet ever evolving. School, jobs, family, losing friends - whether it be death or distance, everything around us continues to change. We continue to change.

This blog is to update friends and family around the world about our lives here in Ohio, and wherever we go next.