Three-month Catchup

Well, I've outdone myself this time with my blog procrastination skills!  Sooo I'm going to attempt to summarize the past three months in just one blog post.  Here we go.

Montana

My last post left off right before our Montana trip in March, which was just marvelous!  It was so good to see Munga and Pagene, and Uncle Mike and Aunt Anne, and I had a fun time showing Brad all the beauty Whitefish has to offer.  We went up into Glacier National Park and took in the scenery (couldn't go too far in as most of the roads were not cleared of snow yet), and on one of the days we went up to the ranch house and went snow-shoeing!  Whee!  Now, some gorgeous pictures.

Just on a walk around the neighborhood and WHOA so picturesque.

Maggie!

Attack of the Westies

 Sled dogs out on the town

 One the way out to Glacier we stopped for huckleberry milkshakes, yummmm

 Brad's first huckleberry shake.  I documented it extensively.  

 Approval!

 Making good use of the panorama setting on my iPhone.  I spy Pagene in the corner!

 Sister love

 On the back porch

 Whitefish Lake

 Snapped by Pagene

 Snowshoeing at the ranch!

 We tried to make a heart...

Talented husband!

Brad had a great time in Montana, just as I knew he would :)  It's a magical place.

Easter

Easter Sunday was the weekend after we got home...we put on our Easter best and went to church in the morning, then I made traditional Easter feast...plus tacos (Brad's request).

Ham, asparagus, scalloped potatoes...and oven-baked tacos for the husband.

I was feeling a little blue being far away from family on Easter Sunday, but Brad cheered me up by setting up an egg hunt just for me around the apartment!  (Yes I still get excited for egg hunts and yes I am 26.)  I took a nap while he hid the eggs...I didn't know he was also writing cute little notes to put in each egg, which was a nice surprise.  Then the big "Easter basket" was the leftover Easter candy placed in his cowboy hat.  Apparently it's a Doherty family tradition :)

The bottom right egg just has a piece of trash in it, and the note says "Happy April Fool's Eve".

Sweet guy :)  All in all a lovely Easter day.

Baptism

The next Sunday (or two after that?  I dunno, we're going pretty far back in time here) we got baptized!  We had gone to a new membership class at Trinity and our pastor told us we could get baptized during a service and have the church vote on our membership right after that.  Brad had never been baptized, and I had been baptized as a baby - in this church, baptism by immersion is a "symbol of obedience", not to "negate" my earlier baptism or anything like that!

It was a wonderful experience (and cold!) and we were officially voted in to membership right after!

I tried to upload the video (Pastor Shep was really funny about the water being cold - someone didn't turn the heater on) but there was an error, so here's a picture!  Very blessed day.

Friends

We've been spending a lot of time this spring hanging out with the new friends we've made in New York.  Always miss our Texas peeps, but it's really nice to feel connected and have "our people" up here :)  We're very blessed to have met some great people.  Brad even found a fishing buddy!  (now if only they can find a weekend to actually go do it!)

Cheering on our friend Julie in the Albany All Stars roller derby!  Nuclear engineer by day, roller derby girl on the weekends :)

My first time doing a shrimp boil!  (Memorial Day weekend)

 Dumped out on the table, as it should be.

Jenna, Sean, and Anna

 Bubble time!

 Side note: Brad found a local beer (Saratoga Lager) that reminds him of Shiner!  Woohoo!

 Jenna has gotten me hooked on the Troy Farmers Market

 Gettin fancy at the Schenectady Strawberry Festival

 Picking our own strawberries!

 I'm probably missing some other important happenings in my three-month recap, but it's 11:00 and I gotta go to work tomorrow and VACATION is in two days so I'm giving up :)  We're going to Cozumel with Teri and Jared for Jared's 21st birthday!  Work has been a bit ridiculous lately (I had a 12 hour workday and those are not fun) so this trip is very well timed.  Speaking of work, July 2 (the day we fly back from Mexico) is my one-year work anniversary!  Where did this year go?  The job has been great (despite a few long days), I love seeing new and interesting projects all the time and learning about engineering work from all around the lab.  It's always bringing new challenges, and that's a good thing.  On that note...peace out, work, I'mma head to the beach.

Bunny

Yup.