For the past several months, I've been getting ready for my wedding...and the first eight months of 2008 flew by!! After seeming like it was a lifetime away, August 9th rolled around and my fiancee and I became Mr. and Mrs.!

Our wedding was fantastic - the weather gave us a three day window of perfect skies and temperature (not an easy feat in southern Virginia in the summer!). We had a blast, and our honeymoon in New York was terrific. Among the highlights of our trip...

Museum of Modern Art

FAO Schwarz (I have some great pictures of my wife dancing on the Big Piano!)

Wicked and Mary Poppins on Broadway

Empire State Building (it's amazing that they filmed King Kong there!)

Ellis Island (if you have immigrant ancestry, this is a place you've got to visit sometime in your life. It was the longest wait we had for anything, but it was WELL worth it.)

We got back home on Saturday for a few days of R&R before we both went back to work. It still hasn't quite sunk in (we both do a double-take when we introduce the other as "husband" or "wife.") Now we're putting our apartment together and starting on the mountain of "Thank You" notes to write.

Thanks to the people who sent words of encouragement and congratulations! It was an amazing day, though my wife and I agree it seemed to go by in a heartbeat.