June-mid July

Well, I haven't been doing the greatest job keeping this updated. Things have been going well. Work is good. I've been picking up extra days lately while people are on vacation and there's an open desk in the office. I also have 50-60 hours of interview transcribing (paid) to do for a friend of mine from grad school in August who's working on his dissertation. He's currently in Sierra Leone for a month or 2 conducting research and interviews, so when he gets back, I can get started on that.

The past two weekends have been lots of fun. I spent 4th of July with Marshall in VA. His friend's parents just retired to this community by a lake and have a boat, so we spent most of the day Saturday and part of Sunday afternoon on the boat/in the water. They then had fireworks on the lake Saturday night and everyone was out in their boat to watch. It was beautiful. This past weekend was Melanie and Tony's wedding out in north-central PA. Melanie was my neighbor sophomore year of college and then moved into our apartment when I moved out after graduating a semester early. It was so much fun, and it was great seeing all my old friends.

Nothing too exciting coming up til mid August when we're taking a family + boyfriends vacation to Florida. Marshall and Renato have never been to Disney, so we're quite excited to take them there! We're also looking forward to spending some time with Grammie and Jim and relaxing for a few days.

And now...to the pictures :)

Girl's night back in June when I first moved back to Pittsburgh


Becky and I watching the first USA World Cup game


4th of July weekend on the boat


having fun at the lake


fireworks on the lake


Mel & Tony cutting the cake...I didn't get any ceremony pictures :(






Etown girls - all the girls who lived in our apartment at some point


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