stumbling through the good parts

So this is a post that I have been meaning to get to, but have been super busy and haven't gotten a chance to completely do it justice.  So, I've been putting it off. However, this was quite the epic weekend and it all came together so nicely.  However, it NEVER would have been possible without the tremendous help and generosity of so many of our friends in Albany.  To you, we thank you so much. Months back, our friend Casey had mentioned that him and some friends were having an end of the summer pig roast in Denver.  We were around the weekend before in transit from Portland to New York, so we weren't able see how the shindig turned out, but we heard great stories.  Fortunately, Jon got his very own chance to roast his very own pig on the day of his graduation from Rockafeller College with a Masters in Public Policy (congrats!). The weekend was pretty awesome.  We had friends come in from Boston that took on the brunt of the stuffing and greasing and inj