Recently my blog has been hijacked by throwback race recaps and skin cancer posts. Seriously, how have you survived without knowing my every move?
I’m not sure why it’s been so important to me to chronicle every marathon; but it has, and it’s been a blast digging through my old race pictures, talking to Bill, Miles, and the Cruisers and begging them to help me remember detailed accounts of our race shenanigans. Perhaps I just answered my own question!
This past weekend started out with a tornado warning at 3:34 AM on Friday that I peacefully slept through thinking the awful alert sound on our phones was just Bill’s alarm going off. I got up at 5 AM only to realize that the tornado warning had been lifted and that we hadn’t blown away. As soon as it got light enough, I rushed outside to take a picture of the creek beside our house. Here’s the picture I took at 6:30 AM on Friday…
Friday morning flood
And here’s another picture that I took this afternoon for reference. Check out the bridge railing for comparison!
Today from same spot
By 7 AM on Friday, the torrential downpours moved east just in time for us to hit the road for Blacksburg! The Virginia Tech graduate commencement was at noon and we didn’t want to miss seeing our future daughter-in-law Julie receive her master’s degree. Julie has a job lined up to teach math at a middle school near our home this fall!
Joseph and Julie
Bright and early Saturday morning at 5:30 found Bill, our son Joseph, and Julie shivering in the mid-30° temps back on the gorgeous Virginia Tech campus while I stayed snuggled toasty warm in bed. Any VT student or alum will tell you that Blacksburg has crazy weather, and they totally lucked out that it was such a beautiful morning. Cold, but beautiful.
My husband is quite the photographer and we’re so happy with how Joseph’s and Julie’s engagement pictures turned out! My two favorites include an artistic picture and a close-up.
War Memorial / Torgersen Bridge at sunrise
I know I’m extremely biased, but aren’t they just the cutest couple!
West Eggleston Arch
While in the area, we visited my mom and I ate way too much! When I go visit Mom, we eat really healthy; but when Bill and our sons are with me, she cooks all of their favorites. On Saturday night we had fried chicken and gravy… and for dessert we had brownies topped with ice cream, strawberries, and homemade hot fudge sauce. Don’t get me wrong, it was delicious and I indulged! I wouldn’t want my mom to think I didn’t like her cooking, would I?
- Questions:
- Married readers: Did you have engagement pictures taken?
- What dishes does your mom or grandmother make that you can’t resist?
- Random question: What did yo have for dinner tonight? ~ roasted asparagus, mushrooms, and red peppers with shrimp
congratulations on your daughter’s graduation and engagement. What an amazing and exciting time!
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Thank you! Actually, it’s our son, but Julie is already like a daughter to us! I guess I should edit my post to make it clear.
Congrats to Julie and isn’t it great she will be close to you? We did not do engagement photos, but we splurged on good wedding photos, which really highlighted the day for us, since it was such a small, informal ceremony.
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Your wedding pictures were beautiful! Bill usually prefers taking landscape pictures, but was happy to give it a shot; and it didn’t cost them a thing!
I’ve enjoyed the old race recaps and the health posts are very helpful. Wow that flood is crazy. Congrats to the future DIL and those pics by the husband are great. We had engagement pictures with what seemed like 30 poses lol. Dinner last night was delicious three cheese ziti.
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I’m glad you enjoyed the throwback race recaps!
Thanks, Cori!
They are a cute couple! I don’t have engagement photos and to my recollection neither does my daughter. Although she does have a picture of her and her husband when she was five and he was seven. I think that’s just as good.
I sleep through tornado stuff all the time. If I got up and went to the basement every time the alarm went off …well, I’d probably have really good glutes.
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Yes, that counts, and how cute is that! My father remembered peering into a bassinet at his little newborn neighbor when he was four years old. That newborn later became his wife and my mom! Unfortunately, the earliest picture they have together was when he was about 14 and she was about 10.
We are more likely to have a hurricane pass through here than a tornado, and hurricanes give you a week’s warning. I like the longer warning!
Congrats to Julie!! And your husband’s photos of them are beautiful – the one at sunrise is spectacular! We accidentally had engagement photos taken – we got engaged on a tour while on vacation and there happened to be a photographer there.
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How cool!
That picture of the flood is crazy – I hope that there wasn’t a lot of damage to homes and buildings!!
Congrats to your future daughter in law on her graduation.
Love the engagement pictures!!
We did some basic ones – it wasn’t such a big deal way back when we got engaged – no Pinterest to give ideas!!!
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No damage to any houses that I know of personally, although I did hear on the news that some basements got flooded. Fortunately our house is well about the floodplain.
We’ve been married 32 years and they just didn’t do couples engagement pictures back then. I had a head shot taken for the local newspaper and that was it! Congrats on your anniversary! Just saw your picture on Instagram! 🙂
Wow that creek got so high! Without the bridge there, it wouldn’t be as easy to see just how high that water got. Do y’all technically live in a floodplain?
Joseph and Julie’s engagement pictures turned out great! Bill is such an amazing photographer, and the Tech campus is a great backdrop. Input from an unbiased person- they are a very cute couple 🙂 And they look so happy!
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Our house is elevated well above the 100-year floodplain. Bill is a civil engineer by education with an emphasis on ground water, do you think he’d buy a house in the floodplain? HaHa!
I’ll pass your kind words on to Bill!