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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Introduce yourselves!
Since this board is picking up again with new members, we should all introduce ourselves.
When did you get married?
Where do you live?
Do you have any pets and/or kids?
What's the last vacation you took?
Anything else?
Re: Introduce yourselves!
I'll go first!
When did you get married? June 23, 2007 (hence the clever screen name
)
Where do you live? Downers Grove
Do you have any pets and/or kids? 2 dogs and 4 lizards. No human children yet!
What's the last vacation you took? We went to South Haven, MI for Labor Day weekend.
Anything else? I love to eat, especially Italian food and chocolate.
When did you get married? April 19, 2008
Where do you live? Woodstock but work in Schaumburg (it's really not as far as you think...same distance as when I lived in Lisle and worked here!)
Do you have any pets and/or kids? not yet. We want a puppy SO bad!!
What's the last vacation you took? we went to Sanibel Island, FL
Anything else? not really, I'm into photography and trying to start my own business but that's about all I got! I also knit and crochet! I'm a coaching widow like 7 months out of the year too!
When did you get married? July 19, 2008
Where do you live? Elgin...we both grew up there
Do you have any pets and/or kids? we have a little kitty named Tinsley...he is the most precious thing EVER!!!!!! no real babies yet.
What's the last vacation you took? we went to Jamaica on our honeymoon in July
When did you get married? October 14th, 2006 in Connecticut
Where do you live? Just moved out to IL a month ago from the east coast and bought a home in Elmhurst
Do you have any pets and/or kids? My darling Boston Terrier furbaby, Monty. We'd like to start working on starting a family in the next year or so.
What's the last vacation you took? What's a vacation? :oP
Anything else? I'm looking forward to meeting new people since I don't know anybody out here!
When did you get married? August 15, 2008
Where do you live? Aroma Park, IL--near Kankakee, Bourbonnais (think Bears Training camp) I grew up in Chicago, lived in Downers Grove and now here. Hubby lived in Elmhurst.
Do you have any pets and/or kids? No children just yet--we both want to wait. but we have 3 rotties (lance, gwen and lady), 8 ferrets (Sneakers, Snowy, Hell Boy, Gordy, "baby" Bosco, Fang, Nike, and Stinky), 30+ KOI fish in the pond in the backyard.
What's the last vacation you took? We went to Texas for our mini honeymoon last week--it was fun until plans changed due to the hurricane!
Anything else? I love to scrapbook, do paper crafts, and I miss planning a wedding! Looking forward to getting to know everyone here
When did you get married? September 5, 2008 ( twoe weeks ago today!)
Where do you live? South Side of Chicago
Do you have any pets and/or kids? A lovebird named Cricket
What's the last vacation you took? we just got back from our honeymoon in Aruba
Anything else? Now that I'm done with wedding planning I hope to start cooking a lot more!
When did you get married? 9/19/03
Where do you live? Lockport (SW Suburb)
Do you have any pets and/or kids? 3 cats - Buster, Bubba & Bob!
What's the last vacation you took? Vancouver/Seattle, now can't stop craving oysters!
4/12/08
I'm a city girl, and a Northsider
One cat for now, Augustus. I'm begging DH to get me a dog. : )
Last big vacation was the HM to Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
Anything else? Since DH travels for work I'm "single" during the week and married on the weekends - best of both worlds! : )
When did you get married? - June 2006
Where do you live? Chicago - Loyola Park/East Rogers Park
Do you have any pets and/or kids? - No pets or kids ( but TTC)
What's the last vacation you took? - Labor Day weekend to Florida'
Glad to see new nesties here!
When did you get married? March 2008
Where do you live? Downers Grove/Wheaton area
Do you have any pets and/or kids? Lucille the Wonderdog
What's the last vacation you took? the annual family vacation up to northern Minnesota in July
We got married 10/13/07...cant believe my 1 year anniversary is right around the corner!
We bought our first house last December, and we live on the brink of Auora/Naperville by Fox Valley Mall.
We have a 6 month old female kitten named Mika
We went to New Orleans in August-we loved it!
( Thank goodness we went 2 weeks before the hurricane passed through there)
I love to scrapbook, read, and I work in Oak Park as a Catering Coordinator.
Hi my name is Gina
we just got married on September 6, 2008
We live in Woodridge
I have 2 cats and he has 1 (his cat still lives at his parents house-long story)
Last vacation we took was our honeymoon we just got back on Sept. 16 from Aruba!
When did you get married? June 15, 2007
Where do you live? Moved to Round Lake in Feb.
Do you have any pets and/or kids? No kids for a few more years, but we have a cat named Fox and a puppy named Juno!
What's the last vacation you took? Jackson Hole, WY in August
Anything else? I only really started posting to the boards this week... just looking for some good ole fashioned community and entertainment. If anyone lives around me or other far north suburbs (or works in the loop), I'd love to get together!
J born 4/11/2011
i can usually be found on the WC/WFD board.
Got married July 2005
Live in South Loop
No pets or kids... yet.
Last vacation was up to northern MN with my family
Because we're fancy like that.
Hello I'm Bianca
When did you get married? June 14 2008
Where do you live? Northbrook
Do you have any pets and/or kids? Nope
What's the last vacation you took? Punta Cana (our honeymoon)
Hi Girls~
My name is Amber
Married 10/20/07 in New Lenox.
DH and I bought a townhouse on the IN border two years ago after living in the West Loop for two years.
We have two LOVING pitbulls...Chi and Indy...I am from New Lenox and my hubby is from Indianapolis...hence the names
Last trip was to Put-in-Bay, OH...island off the coast of Port Clinton, OH. (One of your annuals with friends...also the same place we got engaged)
Hi, I'm Kari! Our wedding was August 23, 2008. We live in Aurora with no pets or kids yet. Our last vacation you took was our honeymoon to Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
My name is Lauren, but you can call me Ren...
I got married on August 23rd in Naperville
My husband and I live in Aurora
We have no pets yet, but I miss my dogs at my parents house
The last vacation we took was our honeymoon to Disney World!!!!!
Ta ta!!
Ren
Since this board is picking up again with new members, we should all introduce ourselves.
When did you get married? sept 22 monday is our one year!
Where do you live? Schaumburg
Do you have any pets and/or kids? our little guy in the pic Lenny
What's the last vacation you took? Our honeymoon, but we are going no a cruise in 3 weeks!
Anything else?
I am Elizabeth
Married- We were married on March 29, 2008, almost 6 months- woohoo!
We live in Schaumburg and I work in Schaumburg.
No Kids yet... but we do have a dog Wrigley and a cat Macy.
The last major vacation we went on was to Riviera Maya Mexico for our Honeymoon but we have gone on little weekend getaway all summer for Weddings and just time alone (we love being newly weds)- we have gone to Lake Geneva, Peoria, New Buffalo, MI, this upcoming weekend we are going to be downtown Chicago and next weekend we are going to Peoria again for a weekend Wedding and get away.
Other Info- I am no addicted to the boards and excited to meet others... I am from downstate and I graduated from Illinois State Univ in 2005 and moved up here to be with Ron (husband now, boyfriend at the time) and I have friends up here but I don't really know a whole lot of people other than work and Ron's friends... it would be nice to have my own thing. I love to scrapbook (which i saw many of you do too, we should all have a scrapbooking thing sometime) and I love wine, my pets, shopping, movies... I am pretty laid back... good to have others to chat with!
Elizabeth
Hi ladies! My name is Katie.
When did you get married? June 14, 2008
Where do you live? Lakeview Area
Do you have any pets and/or kids? We have a viszla puppy named Grace. She's 4 months and is a handful, but so cute! No kids yet - early stages of TTC.
What's the last vacation you took? Our honeymoon to Greece and Italy.
Anything else? I heart the boards - and am also on WC board a lot. I'm excited to see the Chicago board picking up!
When did you get married? August 4, 2007
Where do you live? Buffalo Grove
Do you have any pets and/or kids? 1 kitty, 1 fish at work
What's the last vacation you took? um, we don't take many so it was our honeymoon last year in Maui
Christen
Married 5.14.05
Currently live on Grand Cayman Island, but moving in December to Elmhurst
No pets or kids... yet. ?Buying a puppy next year and starting our adoption.
?Since we live on a tropical island, our last vacation was to go back and visit family in Michigan, where we're both originally from.
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Anyone who knows about Elmhurst or moving to the area, please email me ChristenEllis@gmail.com! ?We know NO ONE in the area and have a million and one questions.?
May 2004 - almost 5 yrs!
we are in the western burbs!
2 dogs and a cat for now! We just got a puppy in July.
Technically we went on a vacation over labor day to chicago since we got a hotel down there for 2 nights! If not the last time we flew somewhere was april to mexico
it is cool to see this board get some action again!
When did you get married? July 28, 2007 Galena, IL
Where do you live? Hickory Hills (south suburb)...but still a CUBS fan!
Do you have any pets and/or kids? Just our Lab mix, Roxie
What's the last vacation you took? Mini trip to see DH family in Omaha, NE. Quite an adventure getting home due to the crazy weather
Anything else? I grew up in NW suburbs (Near Elmhurst, OakBrook) My DH is from Nebraska and works in Indiana, hence the need for the South Suburb location. I miss the city and Du Page county and I am looking to meet other fun people out here.
When did you get married? I'm an old-timer we got married August 6, 2004
Where do you live? Aurora, also right by Fox Valley Mall area
Do you have any pets and/or kids? 1 dog and 1 baby boy due in November
What's the last vacation you took? We've been doing a bunch of little ones, but the last one would be Saugatuck, MI
When did you get married? May 15, 2004 (yeah, old married lady here)
Where do you live? Chicago (Norwood Park)
Do you have any pets and/or kids? 1 cat (Chloe)
What's the last vacation you took? London, about a year ago
Anything else? Go Cubs!
My blog: The Lizard Chronicles
Check out What's on Liz's Head
Hi, this is Catherine
When did you get married?12/28/07
Where do you live? Mount Prospect, work in Vernon Hills
Do you have any pets and/or kids? a Beagle, named Gus
What's the last vacation you took? We went to New York in August
Anything else? I LOVE reality TV! I just caught up on Project Runway.