Toila!

Hello, friends. We have been really busy this summer traveling to Europe, Chicago and California, and I'm ready to be home for a bit. First, however, we go to California again for 10 days - this time for a vacation. My parents are joining us for 5 of those days. We're staying in a friend's house while they are in China for the Olympics. They live just a few blocks from the beach and you can see the whole ocean from their rooftop patio. I'm looking forward to sunning and reading and cooking.

The wedding was really wonderful - so simple and heartfelt. We really don't like the idea of spending scads of money for one day, so we set a price and let the girls keep whatever they don't spend. You can see pictures from the wedding online. The site is www.audreyhannahphoto.com Once at the site, choose 'view site' and then click on 'clients'. You'll see their wedding listed on 7/16/08 as Kayla and Iain's wedding, the password is 'Andersonwed' and on down a bit at 06/02/08, you can see their engagement pictures. The password there is 'KaylaandIain' The photographer is a friend of theirs and she is really remarkable, I think. Her blog is pretty cool, too.

Iain just got a job as the manager of a coffee shop that some friends of ours are starting up. In fact, they have bought the franchise rights for the state of Colorado and plan to open numerous stores. Iain will be their first manager and they would like for him to one day be regional manager or own his own store (all if he does well for them). He will work in Denver for now, although they probably won't move there because of Kayla's job. They are going to get an apartment just north of the Springs, so they'll both commute a bit. The possibilities for him are worth the commute and the cost!

Kinsey started a new job at the Denver Library. She'll be part of a small group of people that will scan and catalog thousands of documents that relate to Denver. They will be archived by sections of the city. The library is well-known for its geneology records and I suppose this is more of the same. She likes it so much already.

I just finished a large deadline and have nothing else on my plate right now. I'm wanting to practice calligraphy and finally use it to produce some art. It's scarier to do that than it is to work on the stuff I usually do, but I really want to try. We're going to finish off our basement so that we both have a place to work - Don for his instrument building and me for art.

Would love to hear from you all!
Cecelia