Sorry About the Hiatus

Well, its been awhile and we apologize. Our jobs keep us quite busy (Mary and I have both been promoted since we last spoke. Mary is now a Senior Account Executive and I am a Senior Financial Analyst).

A lot has happened between our last post in March 2009 to now. Here's a quick breakdown of the last 26 months:

March 2009: Our roommate Lance decided to move back to Michigan and then eventually Wyoming. We still miss him :(

Lance and Me Overlooking Cannon Beach

May 2009: Mary's Mom and Brother Chris visited us in Portland. They had a great time and were amazed by Oregon's beauty!

Anne, Mary and Chris at Vista House

July 2009: My 24th birthday was one that I will always remember. Portland Bar Golf with Brett, John and Mary.

Mary, Me, John and Brett

August 2009: We moved south of Portland to a suburb called Wilsonville. It's a nice and peacefully little town.

Our New Neighborhood in Wilsonville

September 2009: My Parents pay us a visit in Oregon. We make the trip out to Newport on the coast and stayed on Yaquina Bay. We also got our cat, Izzy. She's named in honor of Tom Izzo and she is half Siamese.

December 2009: We make the trip back to Michigan for Christmas. This was the first time I had been back since we left for Oregon.

Christmas in Michigan

May 2010: My sister, Erin, gets married to Jonah Barnes. Mary and I made the trip back and enjoyed some great Michigan weather.

Erin and Jonah's Wedding Party

August 2010: I joined a group from work and completed Hood to Coast, a 197 mile relay race from Mt. Hood to the Oregon coast (Seaside, Ore.)

Hood to Coast Finish Line in Seaside

September 2010: My parents drove the RV across the country and stayed for two weeks. While they were here we made our first trip up to Seattle.

Bainbridge Island / Seattle

2010-2011: Mary begins her business travels both domestically and internationally. San Francisco (September 2010), Munich (December 2010), Las Vegas (January 2011), Hannover, Germany (March 2011), Amsterdam (March 2011), Beijing (April 2011), Boston (May 2011) and Taipei, Taiwan (June 2011).

Hannover, Germany

January 2011: Mary had a business trip in Vegas, and I met up with her. It was our first time in Vegas and it was pretty cool.

The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas

April 2011: Our first non-Michigan vacation since we moved to Oregon. We spent a week in Maui and got engaged! We are planning on having the wedding September 8th, 2012.We are planning a Michigan wedding from Oregon, so we tried to give ourselves plenty of time (hopefully).

Halaekala National Park, just before the Proposal

We are going to try and be better about updating this thing from now on. We have started putting together a Wedding website and we will be sure to fill you all in when we have it up and running.

If you want to see more photos from the last 26 months of our lives, click this link.