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We have a sunflower!

anniversary: one year!

Keeping it simple, we decided a long bike ride and a nice dinner were the way to go for year one. That way, we would have something to build to in future years. Well, we set quite a baseline for ourselves.

Here we are at about mile 37 of our bike ride:


In true Vasich fashion, we realized we might have bitten off more than we could chew, a little too late:


After biking for 5 hours, we decided to call and request that our reservation be pushed back an hour. Good thing or we would've had to eat in our sweaty biking clothes. Total mileage: 51.6643

Our meal was fabulous. Mike and I both opted for Muffuletta's Sunday night fixed menu option with the steak entree. It was delicious.

painting on a deadline

My family arrives tonight for a little McCarthy reunion. In anticipation, Mike and I have been feverishly getting our home prepared, a task that included painting our two first floor bedrooms.

Mike is the more experienced painter of the two of us, but, as it turns out, I am a painting maniac. Mike focused on the details, and I hit up those walls like a graffiti artist on the run. Needless to say, we made the perfect team.



The blue room didn't turn out to be the color that we were in expecting, but we adjusted to it quickly. It reminds me of the Mediterranean or, as Mike put it, a Tiffany box. The yellow room is the Monet or Giverny room, named after the poster of his water lilies and green bridge in the corner of the room.