Happy Easter!

What a beautiful day in Charleston! Chad was sweet and made me breakfast in bed. He's so good to me. After a quick breakfast it was off to early church. I really enjoyed the sermon today. The music was great as was the message. In fact I got the chills a few times. It was that good. At one point, my deceased grandmother ,Genevieve, popped into my head and then I kid you not, a second after that happened, the Pastor said, "We want to congratulate such and such on the birth of their new baby girl, Genevieve." That's not really a common name, paired with the idea I was just thinking of her, hence chill moment number 1.

After church we ran back home, grabbed the puppies, changed our clothes and headed over to the Hammond's for lunch. It was delish! And we ate like it was our last supper. :) After lunch we all played Wii. It is so fun watching Chad's dad giggle playing Mario Cart. With the exception of Mario Cart Pro Chad, we all stink at it! We fall off the board, get run over by other players and basically come in dead last each time. Oh well!

So what's a Sunday Funday without a NAP? That's exactly what I did after we got home. Cuz you know, just ate a big lunch, now let's go sleep and really burn those calories! Finishing off the day watching the Masters. What happened to you Phil?

Enjoy the pictures of some of my spring flowers. We are quite proud of them. Planted over 30 dafodils and only one has bloomed so far...Oh well. Happy Easter to all.

Zumba

Jacquie and I did Zumba at the gym today. Let me just say that this white girl was not made to Zumba in any way shape or form. I think I spent most of the class laughing at myself. Zumba is a latin dance inspired work out. I got enough to shake-just can't figure out how you shake it!! I will never again make fun of anyone on Dancing with the Stars. :)

Decorating

I finally got to decorate the upstatirs hallway the way I have been wanting too! Thanks to Mama & Daddy-I have 8 beautiful pictures frames to put 8X10 pics in. Now I just have to narrow down my selections! We got a great centerpiece from Michael's and put up some drapes. It looks better than I could have hoped! :) Enjoy!

Christmas in VA

We celebrated Christmas in VA this year. Our drive up was quite uneventful which is unusual for Chad & I. Usually there is some weird weather pattern that makes the drive memorable. Grandma and Mama cooked so much food this year-you would have thought a small army was joining us. There were so many cookies and plates of candy-it really was paradise. (I just cringe to think how many calories we consumed) BUT WHATEVER!! It is the HOLIDAYS!!

It was so nice to wake up in my childhood home and see what "Santa" brought us. It still is my "home." Lots and lots of pictures were taken (thanks to my new camera) Love my new picture frames-they are up on my wall and just waiting for my pics to put inside. That's going to be hard for me-to pick out 8 of my fav pics out of all of the ones we have taken. I have a feeling I am going to be changing them out a lot. And I can't wait to use my Barnes & Noble gift card-Thanks gram & papa!

Christmas in Charleston

We celebrated Christmas with The Hammonds on Sunday. Pappy, Ann, Scott, Charleen & Don came over around 12:30 and we all anxiously awaited Chad's Christmas dinner. He did a great job! Our appetizer was brie in pastry dough with pecans, our main course consisted of pork tenderloin, wild mushroom rice and stuffed acorn squash. Chad really out did himself this time. It was delicious! Afterwards we exchanged gifts. Chad was SHOCKED & SURPRISED with a fishing rod and reel-he doesn't have too many of those! :) I got an awesome new camera. The picture quality is really nice and you can do some really cool stuff with it!

Holiday Misc

I really cannot belive that we are ten days from Christmas. Seriously? Where did the year go to? One moment it was September and I was turning 29 and the next moment December is basically over. Wow.

We decided to celebrate on our own for Christmas so we went downtown to our fav restaurant, Cypress, and had a nice holiday dinner. I of course got my fav-Wasabi Tuna and boy oh boy is that yummy. Afterwards, Chad said, "Let's walk to King Street and see the holiday decorations." So I agree basically to walk 4 plus blocks in 3 inch heels to King Street. Well wouldn't you know it, they don't decorate King Street anymore. What a bummer. We laughed so hard. As we were driving home we realized that now the place to decorate is Marion Square. We really need to get more involved in the cool city we live in. Only the Hammonds wouldn't know where to go to see decorations in Charleston. But hey-we know where to EAT! :) Ha ha.....

Holiday Decorations part 2

I love decorating the inside of my home for the holidays. Wait, hold on a moment. I love having my house decorated for the holidays. I absolutely despise decorating though. Luckily for me my loving husband happily agrees to decorate. Ok, I am totally full of b/s here. He hates it as much as I do, but knows that I'll never do it, so he agrees to "help" decorate. Which really means he does all the work while I stand back and say, "Oh move that a skosh to the left." In the end he always makes our home look great. Got to love that Chad!