Our blog is BACK!!!

To bring everyone up to date with us.....first 2006...

In October we had a wonderful visit with Christina and Matt. While they were here we attended Rees & Katie's wedding and had a wonderful time with all our old pals from Arlington here in SF! We also took a trip to Sonoma - ending a day of wine drinking with a few beers at a local brewery in Healdsburg - time for Ted to catch up and me to sober up to drive us home! Mackenzie and Matt were reunited happily for a few days and then sad while nita and matt tromped off to Hawaii and then happy again to have them back for a few days before they went back east. The end of October brought a trip home to DC for me and Ted. Much needed visit to the east coast to visit with friends and family and see the fall folliage!! Ted did some interviewing, I worked but mostly we caught up with our DC folks. Stayed at Hotel Bartlett in Dupont and then at the Stately Goodhart Manor in Leesburg for a few days.

November brought cold to SF and the Dalys in for Thanksgiving! We enjoyed our first fried turkey in SF with Ted's parents. They came out for a week and we had a fantastic time showing them the sites and celebrating new Thanksgiving traditions.

December...the start of true wedding crunch time! RSVPs to count, details to hammer out, shoes to dye, and rings to arrive. And lets not forget Christmas - who said planning a wedding around the holidays would be easy!! Christina came out to help me with the final wedding prep push and Christmas shopping - many thanks to her because I am not sure it would have gotten done without her!! We enjoyed Noche Buena with Kristy and Hector and Hector's family. Wonderful food and great company! Christmas morning we awoke to the scampering of many not so little feet - Mackenzie, Lucy and Hubert (our guest for Christmas). After Joan, Christina, Ted and I finished going through our stockings opening our gifts it was time to get to a real Christmas activity - WEDDING PROGRAMS!! We had a delicious Christmas dinner of stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, pecan pie, pumpkin pie and hard sauce!! Where was the Turkey you ask? In the fridge : ( Our peanut oil congealed so we couldn't fry and by the time we realized it it was too late to roast it in our mini me oven!

Post Christmas brought LOTS of friends and family from the East Coast to join us in Sausalito for our wedding! We had a wonderful time and thank everyone who came out! If you want to see more pictures check out http://www.pictage.com/ and just search for Bartlett or Daly (adding the month - December and year - 2006 makes the search easier!) We were able to spend New Year's Eve with all the folks that were left in town and brought the New Year in with margaritas and fireworks over the Bay Bridge.

For 2007....
We had our honeymoon weekend in Carmel in January - many thanks to Christina and Matt for our first night and a lovely dinner! We drove back through Pepple Beach and Monterrey - had a wonderful time!

Valentine's Day took on new meaning for us this year since Joan gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Ruby Ann!! Aunt Judy's planned SF visit lined up perfectly so that she could meet our new little niece!! Joan, Ruby and Lucy stayed with us for a few weeks post leaving the hospital which was wonderful!

In March, Jen came out for a long weekend!! We finally made it to China Town on her visit where Ted found the Fortune Cookie factory - when I say factory I really mean tiny little hole in the wall in an alley in China Town! We had a wonderful time with Jen showing her all the sites including my last trip to Alcatraz at least for a few years...LOL!!

In April Karen, Tom, Kelsey & Brian came down for a spring break getaway! They had a wonderful time getting to know Ruby and we enjoyed some beach time, a little shopping and lots of hanging out!! We also finally made it to Yosemite which was amazing!!! If you ever have the opportunity it is a must see place!

May we headed back east for me to work in the office for a week and see all my east coast pals. As usual I split my time between the Hotel Bartlett and the Stately Goodhart Manor!! It was wonderful to see everyone and we made sure to hit our favorite spots - Cactus Cantina & the yummy bbq place in Leesburg! We left DC and headed up to New England where within an hour of arriving we were in the North End enjoying a great dinner with Erin, Dave, Elisa & Sean - and Kachi even stopped in to say hello! We spent the weekend and 500 miles on the rental car looking for a place to live in NH - for those of you who may not know Ted took a job at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Nashua. We signed a lease on a great house in Amherst, NH - so come visit this fall!!! We spent memorial day weekend testing out our new "home" the RV!! We took it down the coast as far as Santa Barbara and then back up through Big Sur! It was a great prep trip for our 6 week cross country summer adventure!

And now it's June - I can hardly believe our year in California is coming to a close! We have had such an amazing year that it will be hard to say goodbye! But we will be back lots!!

So that is our update for the last 9 months...ooops can't believe I went 9 months!! We hope this update finds you well!! I am back on the blog now so check back often!! We leave San Francisco June 30th in our RV to begin our 6 week cross country adventure - so expect daily (or every other day) entries and photographs!!! We will have a link to our google map detailing our stops soon!

Love Maria & Ted