What a Sweetie

I married a wonderful man... who loves me, and shows it often through sweet words, notes, and things.

Like roses at work...

And a surprise dinner out...


For some of my favorite things...


With a sweet sweet guy ;)


Plus, some gorgeous jewelry too!!!! Win!

Happy Fourth of July!

Cul-de-sac party with the neighbors. I really love this place :)

We're Cruising!

Its Official! Matt and I will take our first cruise very soon! We are so excited! 7 days in the Bahamas! Woo Hoo!

NC Art Museum

Matt and I visited the Art Museum yesterday. It was good, cool, free entertainment. I was hoping for some more modern art but I found a way to have a good time ;)

What a Great Day!

So what I thought would be a very long day, turned out to be a very great day!

These came at lunch time... such a surprise!

And for no reason at all. I love my sweet sweet husband!

Then I went to a Teacher Appreciation Banquet put on by a local girl scout troop. So cute. I was able to eat with the student that invited me and it was super sweet.

The only thing that would have made today better was if I would have gotten home before dark to run, but there is always tomorrow and YES I will be hitting the pavement tomorrow for sure!

Valentine's Day 2010

Matt and I were invited by our friends Dixie and Chris to go to the Celebrity Dairy in Silk Hope, NC.

Let the adventure begin!

We had a delicious meal: It started with Goat Cheese and appetizers (so yummy), then moved into a salad with mushroom crepes. The main course was herb lamb roast with wild rice pilaf and green beans. We also had spelt rolls with homemade honey butter (1/2 goat milk, 1/2 cow milk butter). It was finished off with a whole pear poached in wine with sweetened goat cheese. We also received truffles to take home with us :)


We were able to go into the goat barn and see all the "celebrities".

Dixie and Xena the Warrior Princess's baby...


This is what Dutch would look like if she was a goat! Hahaha, Matt and I thought that this was SO funny!

I also took 2 hilarious videos...

We waited like 10 minutes to see this happen... It was worth it!


Dixie really wanted the jumping goat!

Thanks for the great time guys! We loved it, I am sure we will go back to The Celebrity Dairy soon!

Surprise!

Matt called yesterday and told me that I needed to be in a dress and heels by 7:30pm. I had no idea what we were doing so I was driving back from Sanford and came home and got ready.

Matt came home and had a beautiful bouquet of daisies (my favorite). We got in the car and I still had no idea where we were going. So we are driving towards downtown and I start guessing, guessed right... Sullivans!

We had a great dinner and drove home in the beautiful snow. What a wonderful night! Thanks to all the "cupids" who helped Matt pull it off :)

Dinner Bell

Had a fun, easy, yummy dinner tonight! I took my own pictures with my phone but haven't uploaded them yet... but here is what I made. They are Matt's fav.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/beefy-biscuit-cups/Detail.aspx

http://www.pillsbury.com/Recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=45217

I did the top one, except I used a can of Manwich not spaghetti sauce. I also used my mega muffin tin for the first time and made BIG Bar-B-Cups.

Yum Yum Yum, comfort food :)

Snowed In Sunday

Matt and I have been snowed in today! What a great thing it was...

We had a yummy lunch, sledded a little, played in the snow with Dutch...

We played Monopoly, and I have to brag a little...

I won!

What a great day! Right now we are having a Mario Kart Wii Tournament... guess who's winning ;)

Snow 2010

Fun Times on Holly Branch Drive


Our lovely home covered with a blanket of snow...


Dutch in the snow!


This is a hilarious video...


Dutch is such a great dog, she walks herself...



This is Matt's Attempt To Sled....


My Epic Sledding...

Happy Birthday!

Today is Matt's 27th Birthday! Happy Birthday Babe!

Just think of all the things that have happened since your last birthday! We bought a house, you graduated Law School, you passed the bar, you got a job, you got a new car... whew!

I hope that year 27 is as awesome as 26!

Love you!

Merry Christmas 2009

May all your Christmas dreams come true!

So Bad...

I am sorry I have been away... I was reprimanded by a blog reader today (you're right Sarah, I am slack). So here's a quick recap of the past few days, I think you will understand why there has not been a lot of time to blog...

Thursday Thanksgiving Thug

Who knew that thugs knew how to make giblet gravy? Check out those Reynold's grillz...

Friday Friend- The Always Helpful Mike Griffin

Way to carve that Turkey Mike, I can tell that Lene is impressed.

Friday also provided a full day of painting for Matt and I...

Matt's Office. Painting done, so close to complete!

Saturday was a great day, we were able to go to breakfast and the flea market with Stephanie and Chris. :) I also got another coat of paint on my $20 bed frame, it is going to be awesome when it is complete!


On Sunday I took Cindy's Quilt from this...


To Finished!

First quilt completed in my new studio ;) Check out the tacks, love those little x's.

Swearing... The Good Kind

Matt was sworn into today! So proud of you hubby! You're officially a lawyer! :)

I Fought The Table and The Table Won...

Check out what I did yesterday at work...

Yeah, I almost broke both feet... awesome.

Here's what happened. School was over and I wanted to extend the legs on my horseshoe shaped reading table. So I thought I would just flip it over real quick. Half way through flipping it over, it slipped on the tile and fell on top of my feet. Scraped off a great deal of skin on both feet and well hurt like everything.

So I went to the nurses station and was then sent to the urgent care, where I had 6 xrays because we were all worried that at least the left foot was in fact broken, if not both. But all xrays came back that nothing was broken, yes! Just very bad swelling, which is turning into very bad bruising... yuck. I also the new owner of some shiny new crutches, fun fun.

Hi Ho Hi Ho

Today was Matt's first day at work. Here is what I woke up to the morning...



Handsome! It is SO much easier to go to work when someone else is getting ready to go to work! Haha! Matt said he really enjoyed his day and thinks that he is really going to love being a lawyer.

Matt's New Office

Spent a good chunk of Saturday helping Matt set up him office, I think we moved around 300 books...

I Shouldn't Have Watched Shark Week...

This is exactly what I feel like... why did I watch Shark Week before going to the beach?

Still At It

We are still house hunting... did tour a wonderful house tonight. The people that lived there have excellent taste! Check out the Master Bedroom:

Love that color!

Here is one of the spare rooms, another great color choice:


We are planning to do some more looking tomorrow and into the weekend. Next week is the big beach trip! Looking SO forward to that!

Picture Credits: www.realtor.com

House Hunting!

What an excellent day!

Matt and I started our first trip house hunting... we checked out one Open House (more the check out Sunday) and drove by a few houses that were for sale but not open. We have learned a lot about house hunting in just a few short hours:
#1: Pictures online can be very deceiving! There was one house that we really like, great location, big backyard with a fence and a good price.... yeah we found out why, nutty neighbors with a ton of junk outside their house!
#2: A GPS is a must when looking for houses in an unknown neighborhood. Thanks Garmin, we couldn't have done it without you!
#3: Matt and I do not like ranch homes. Sorry, we love stairs and the look of a 2 story home.
#4: We need a yard. Does not have to be a big yard, but we need some sort of yard.
#5: Everyone has a dishwashers but me.... its true.

Here are a few pictures of some houses we checked out today, I pulled all the pictures off of zillow.com...

Too cute! I think this one is my favorite just by the look of the outside, couldn't get inside.


Yes, I know we said no ranches, but this one kinda stood out... mostly because of the great price!


This one was really nice from the outside, sat on a corner lot.


We walked through 3 different floor plans at Creekside Commons and decided that we just had to have some sort of yard! Cute houses, I just loved the colors all lined up together. Would be perfect at the beach...

After all the house hunting was done we got a phone call from Matt's dad inviting us out to dinner. The whole Quinn family had a lovely dinner at Chef Warrens in Southern Pines. I love this place, everything is always so inventive, Nothing plain Jane about it. I had soft shell crab atop cheddar grits with grilled tomatoes, most everyone else had a filet, which looked delicious too. And I learned that yes I do like figs, if they are cooked in brown sugar and paired with prosciutto and cream cheese... yum! What an fantastic way to end such a wonderful day!