Nicole’s baby shower and our awesome lake trip.

Okay, well that kind of brings us into August. We made a trip home this past weekend to see our folks and for me to go to my friend Nicole’s baby shower. If you follow the blog, you may remember her beautiful wedding from last June. She’s expecting a baby in the end of September, so I go to visit her and see her all pregnant and nesting. Here is her nursery. It has a cutie monkey/jungle theme:

They even made the cake at the shower fit the theme. It was so cute and amazingly delicious.

That’s the momma, enjoying her cake!

After the shower, we went down to Smith Mountain Lake on Sunday to visit our friends the Olivers. You may remember them from our wedding. Nat and Will were the twin groomsmen.

Their folks had rented an awesome 5 bedroom lake house and were generous enough to let us tag along on their family vacation. One of the best parts was going out on their boat. Smith Mountain Lake is gorgeous and neither Aaron or I had been there before. It was enough to make me think I could become a lake person.

This is the view from their house. You can see the boat dock behind the trees.

Nat and Erin in the kitchen. You can see that Erin is hard at work on a yummy diner of pork chili concoction. If we were smart we would have taken food blog pictures.

Here’s Erin’s face-side from the boat.

We spent much of our boat time tubing. I had never been tubing off a boat, and let me just say, it ROCKED!

Although I am a bit sore today…

And some fancy people went wake boarding…

This is Will looking very extreme…

After watching Will, Aaron and I decided we were too lazy for wake boarding. Although Aaron actually had one of the best tube-wipe-outs of the day, but unfortunately no one was around to record it.

Erin was great on both tube and wake board. This is moments before her plunge into the lake.

Needless to say a fun time was had by all. That’s it for now…

Although, since these last posts have been a bit Virginia-centric, if you are wondering what Aaron’s been up to check out www.svpics.com to see all his fancy new motorcycle pictures.

Virginia goes to the beach.

While Aaron was hard at work in Boone, I got to go to the beach with my family. Now, don’t feel too bad for Aaron. He was invited to come, but he doesn’t really enjoy the beach, especially the way the Pages do it which is without central air.

I don’t have too many pictures from the trip because I was only there for four days, and while we did have a great time there, my memories are a bit tarnished by the fact that I totaled our Honda CRV on the way back. I’m fine and thankfully no other cars were involved. The Honda was a valiant car and protected me from all harm, but it was still quite traumatic.

Luckily Aaron was around to come pick me up in Greensboro (it happened on I40 west). And also our insurance kicked in, but I still feel really bad. I just took my attention off the road for one second to try to block the sun and a swerved into the median. No fun.

So enough about that! Here are some pictures from the beach.

Martha and dad. I’m not sure why he looks so confused in this pic.

Silly one of me running out to rescue the car from the rain.

Me and mom, and of course me and M (who had to fly down from Minneapolis).

Long Over-due post for July… and maybe some August too.

Aaron and I have been pretty busy or at least all over the place this past month. We started July by heading home to Lexington for our birthdays and got to spend some quality time with our families and see fireworks.

I had an eye-infection which is why I look especially squinty in these pictures. But Aaron did take some beautiful fireworks photos…

But first we went to the hometown bike parade, a local tradition involving youngsters on bicycles, not the usual photos of motobikers Aaron takes.

That’s Uncle Sam leading the pack on a super-tall unicycle.

In the evening we gathered at the parade ground to watch fireworks and hot air balloons.

Here you see me modeling my lovely birthday gift, a Jennifer Wells original, www.jennwells.com.

The balloons are quite lovely, no? Also there was a light-saber battle royal.

And fireworks.