The Starring Roles

Welcome to our new blog! We’ve created this as a way to document our journey as a married couple, and a virtual scrapbook of memories and pictures. Here are those that play the “starring roles” in our lives 🙂

Okay, so this is Casey & I. Casey is a 32 year old, handsome man who likes long walks on the beach, comic books, heroclix, and holding my hand 🙂 He does engineering work (plumbing & fire protection) for a company called Harriman.

As for me, I’m a 28 year old social worker. To be specific I am a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and I do therapy with kids and families right now for two agencies in Maine. Be prepared to hear kid stories and endless “kid quotes of the day,” because without laughing I might go insane. Nobody likes an insane therapist.

This is where we got married on September 19, 2009. It is a beautiful and magical place that features the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. We knew from the moment we were engaged that we wanted to get married here – primarily because this is where Casey fell madly in love with me. Or at least this is where we were when he first realized it 😉

So this is that day that Casey will talk about when he realized that he was in love with me. I am sitting on the rocks with a starring member of our family, SKEETER! I received Skeeter as a gift from my Mom & Dad when I graduated from my undergraduate program back in 2006. My Mom furthered the gift of Skeeter by keeping him and house training him, so that when he came to live with me and my best friend Stacey in Maine, he was fully house trained! I know, best gift ever. She has since done this with Stacey’s dog, Chandler as well

This is my brother Patrick, and his wife Katie. Currently, I don’t have communication with them – for reasons best left untalked about (I hate it when I go into a Hulk-like-rage, so it’s best I don’t talk about them). That said, that are part of my family, and here they are. To the best of my knowledge they are currently in Texas.

To the left of this writing is Casey and his Mom dancing at my parent’s anniversary party. To the right of this writing is Casey’s Dad who pretty much will never pose for a picture. I searched and searched and I do not have a picture of them together that isn’t 20 years old! Can you tell they don’t like to have their pictures taken? Well, here are my in-laws!! They live right near to us, and have often been helpful when we need things fixed around the house, and surprised us with plowing our driveway while we were in VT for Christmas and got a huge snowstorm!!! They enjoy cooking, ice fishing, and have the most amazing garden you’ll ever have the pleasure of seeing. I look forward to some fresh summer produce!!

This lovely couple is my sister-in-law Katie, and her husband Jim. They also live right near us, and have a very cute puppy named Baxter. Okay, he’s not a puppy – but neither are mine and I still call them my puppies! Katie and Jim’s wedding was the first that Casey and I attended as a couple; they were married in July of 2008. They were also one of the few folks that were brave enough to sing karaoke at our wedding! They did a great rendition of “A Whole New World.”

Here I am with my best friend Stacey on my wedding day. Stacey and I have been friends since our sophmore year in high school – yup that’s nearly 14 years ago. There isn’t a lot I can say about Stacey except that I don’t know what I’d do without her. She even saved my mother’s life- by donating a kidney to her back in September of 2007. WHO DOES THAT? Stacey does that. She currently lives about 20 minutes from me, but we did spend about 8 years living together (and moving together – we remember years by which apartment we lived in).

Okay… here are some of the greatest social workers I know. These are the social workers who I went to graduate school with, and still remain in touch with. It’s nice to have people who GET IT. . .because social work is a hard gig. I’m thankful for them, and I’m so happy to be attending the upcoming weddings of two of them! Although I’ll admit, attending all these weddings makes me feel OLD. I love it, anyway! By the way, we are bad at posing for pictures. Sorry ’bout that!

Here is Jules and Justin. Having reconnected with Jules (from knowing her briefly back in high school in VTand then figuring out she lives maybe 10 minutes from me here in Maine!) and her husband Justin has been awesome! Justin and Casey have become fast friends (by reveling in the fact that they are both HUGE NERDS) and it’s been great to add to our small group of close friends. Plus it doesn’t hurt that they are great cooks, love karaoke (well, Jules does!), play crazy board games, and willingly dress up for our Halloween parties!

Now, here I am with Amy. I met Amy back when I began working in the mental health field in roughly 2002? I think? She was easy. I was trash. (Better not to ask). Anyway, it’s been a long while. Amy’s one of those friends who is just there when you need her and she gets things DONE. Like, if you want to get a bunch of aimless wedding guests in line – Amy can do it. Or if you need to organize an office – Amy can do it. She’s good like that and has a huge heart. She’s also been a “gateway” friend to other friends that we’ve enjoyed adventures of snow tubing, eating cheesecake, and ringing in the new year with!