Nintendo Wii

You got it. We bought a Nintendo Wii.

Marie and I were out running errands and she asked if we could stop at Gamestop. I thought I was being tricked... but went along with it anyway just to see how it played out. We walked in and started checking out the section with all the Wii games. After a few questions, Marie decided she wanted to buy it that day. Her birthday is coming up in October and she wanted to get this as an early present to herself. Needless to say, I didn't stop her.

We brought it home, set it up, and played for most of the rest of the weekend.

Engagement Party

On August 15th, Marie's family put together an engagement party for us at their house in Indiana. There was a lot of planning and hard work put into this party by a lot of people. We truly appreciate all the time and effort everyone put into this party. We're pretty sure everyone had a great time too!

Here are pictures of the pool house, where the party took place.

There was a wide assortment of food and a ton of deserts. Special thanks to Amy and Dee for putting all this food together! It was all delicious.

Amy ordered flowers for the event and arranged them similar to what we are having at the wedding. The roses were submerged in water and decorative diamonds were all over the place.

A ton of people were able to make it to the party. It was mostly Marie's family, but my immediate family was able to make it up as well.

My dad and nephew Parker

All the bridesmaids with the Bride.

We also got a lot of great gifts. Thanks again to everyone!

Marie's parents sporting their new shirts they got for the event. Amy did a great job organizing the whole event and Jeff did a great job on his intricate "honey-do" list.

As a sign that the real party had arrived, the ladies had their own little dance party in the pool house. The iPod had the party playlist in full effect.

80's Concert

Marie and I had the opportunity to go to a concert a few weeks back here in Charlotte. Def Leppard, Poison and Cheap Trick were playing and we got tickets for half off. We went with another couple that recently moved to Charlotte. Justin and Kim met at Law School and Justin is from Zionsville as well. Overall, the concert was a lot of fun and we're glad we were able to make it out. There were definitely a lot of "interesting" people there as well.

Marie and I at the concert.

Jamming out during the concert with Justin and Kim

This kid was going around the parking lot selling CD's for his brothers band. He was 16 I believe, and we spent a good 10 minutes just harassing him. At the end - we bought the CD. He earned that sale.

Charles Francis Madden

Baby Charles is finally here. He arrived yesterday at 2:10pm

The whole Madden family.

Evelyn is so proud to be a big sister.


Eleanor now has three little ones to "take care of"

Another one of Charles

Teddy is not as excited as the girls

We are excited to see him in person very soon!!!