...it is coming, I promise...

Posting again veeeerrrrryyyy soon. Just have to find the time to get the pictures downloaded!

NC Wine Festival

Back in May (I know, I know... May...that was only three months ago) we went to the NC Wine Festival. We were invited along by our friends Jason and Dana.



This is Jason and Dana.

They are Virginia Tech fanatics.



It was really, really, really hot that day. Really. At one point I thought I would keel over dead from heat exhaustion but then I knew David would just leave me there and tell me to quit being a "drama queen" so I pulled through to prevent the people at the funeral home from having to do too much work to mask over all of the footprints that would have been left across my face from all of the drunkards tripping over my body as they rushed to the next tasting booth. Run on sentences.... they are good for the soul.



Since I was A) secretly unable to try any wine due to my newly discovered "condition" and B) not a huge lover of the vino to begin with (I know, I know... I think most of my family has disowned me. Maybe I should have taken that into consideration at the festival...if my family wasn't going to attend my funeral maybe they wouldn't have wanted an open casket and the shoe marks wouldn't have made one bit of difference. Next time I need to think through these things more completely).

Ummm, where was I? Oh yeah. Since I wasn't drinking, I spent a lot of my time snapping pictures.





Like this one! Of Dana! Which makes me look like a weird psycho stalker! Look at it. Doesn't it look like a picture you would see on an episode of Criminal Minds or Law and Order where they go into the suspects house, open the closet door and there is a massive collage of pictures on the wall that the suspect obviously took from afar while stalking the victim? Don't lie. It does.



All in all, we had a great time! I think they tasted every wine there! Poor David was feeling slightly guilty that I had to just stand around sweltering in the heat while he drank to his delight so he sprung for not one but two cups of Italian Ice for me. It was pretty awesome. And then, he felt all better and remembered how much he loves having a permanent Designated Driver!

Bambino Update :: 22 Weeks

For the family members out there (since I fully understand that others have no interest in this whatsoever)! Just a quick update. I went to the Dr. yesterday and everything seems to be going well! They ask a bunch of questions, test a few things to make sure I'm not diseased (obviously I have no idea what they test for so I am just making that up) and then we listen to the baby's heartbeat. My doctor is part of a fairly large practice and since they don't know who will be on call when Baby M decides to make his escape they have a rotation schedule for their patients. This week was supposed to be my first week meeting with a new doctor (and I did meet someone different). I, however, am super special and already met with a different doctor last month for the big gender reveal since my primary was out of town and the girl who made my appointment in June was convinced I couldn't wait the few extra days to find out!

We are over halfway there!

Summertime Wedding :: Part Two

As promised... more wedding photos from the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Sheley!



Who is that most handsome groomsman I see?




Fortunately, there were no wedding snags and everything went smoothly. Maybe one slip of the tongue by the groom... but it was pretty funny.



The bride gave the groom a new camcorder as his wedding present. Towards the end of the ceremony, immediately before the pastor pronounced them husband and wife, the groom grabbed the camera and turned toward the congregation. You see, he wanted to use the camera and pan across the crowd showing who was present at their wedding.



He shouted, "I WANT TO GET MY FIRST MARRIAGE ON CAMERA!"




It was quite funny and the entire congregation was in hysterics. The silver lining? I assume he will have an awesome shot of everyone happy, smiling, laughing, etc for the video!

Summertime Wedding

This past weekend we attended the Sheley nuptials.




I love going to different weddings... seeing the individual personalities of the bride (and groom?) come alive through their decoration choices. Choices like this:



Mason jars. I, myself, am a huge fan of using mason jars for different events so my bias may be getting in the way. :) But, I loved them! They were used as vases at the reception as well as glasses to serve the water and sweet tea. Plus, they were party favors in the sense that you were able to keep your drink jar!

This year has been filled with weddings for us and most of them have been "my" friends. That is sort of an inaccurate statement, I suppose, because after being together for (almost) 8 years I don't think David and I truly have friends that are 100% his or 100% mine.... but you know what I mean. I think. Do you? I hope so. Oh well. Moving on. The great thing for David is that this wedding was for "his" friend Mike and therefore he was able to see a few high school buddies. This is Mike:



This is Mike at the rehearsal dinner wearing what can only be described as the best.shirt.ever. Also? If you are wondering, he cut the sleeves off because it looks awesome.

(If you don't catch that reference then you obviously don't have a husband that forces you to spend three-quarters of your life watching football or football related material and therefore you are not bombarded with football related commercials. P.S. If you can't tell, I'm super excited that the season of molding our lives around what games are going to be on TV is here. Please send help.)



Back to the non-complainy story!

As I was saying, it's great for David to spend time with friends. I know he has a great time. It is so great to see him having such a great time. Great!




The blonde one? I have quite a few pictures of him from the weekend. And would he smile for me? No. Would he typically give me weird, creepy stares just to ruin the picture? Yes. So, I only have a very select few that are somewhat decent. He must be getting me back for that time I took pictures of him throwing up in the surrounding water after a particularly rambunctious tubing session one afternoon out on Lake Norman.

HA! (It's a good thing he doesn't know this blog exists...)



More wedding photos to come!!

Miss Bailey

We have had an extraordinarily busy summer thus far. In addition to the daily chores of life, work, tending to the critters, etc etc etc, we have found ourselves out-of-town for several reasons (unfortunately no vacations...). We have had a summer of weddings (I believe the count is at six) which have taken us all over. I love weddings because it is so great to see old friends!! We have also had a few other reasons to spend time away from home. Recently we went to Whiteville, NC (the home of many of David's family members) for him to conduct some bidness.



While there, I tried my best to stay out of the way :)
Miss Bailey is a cousin of our pups. She and I played quite a bit and then I decided to whip out my camera.



It seemed appropriate for me to do so since I had not taken it to any weddings.... and therefore I have NO pictures of said weddings... but that is for another time. Anyway, Bailey was Miss Happy-Go-Lucky until.... I took out my camera. Something about a giant conglomeration of black plastic that had her spooked. She wanted nothing to do with it.



So, I was only able to snap a few photos... and they aren't very fabulous! But oh well! She is super cute, isn't she?



Just like me to have more pictures of dogs than people. :)

Big (and Old) News

Okay, okay... In my last post I joked about hoping to post again before the 4th of July. Well, it is...August. The 10th of August, in fact. And I'm just now posting again.

The truth of the matter is that I really did seriously intend on posting with more frequency but my computer did not agree. My former laptop met an untimely death and I have been without a functioning computer for a seriously long time. Tragic.

If I hadn't been living in the dark ages I would have shared this news on here much earlier but, as everyone now knows, David and I are having a baby boy at the end of December. Since everyone knows that, I will share the oh-so-clever (or not) way that I told the father-to-be! If you can search back through your memory bank to a land far, far, away and a time long, long ago (well, it will be 3 years in a couple of weeks) you will remember our wedding. On our Save the Date cards, napkins, drinkware, etc we had a monogram of a B and a D overlapping (like the one in the above photo). I took the monogram and had it printed on an itsy bitsy onesie with the word "Creations" below (because I am super creative and all).

Aaaaand...



Voila! I wrapped it and waited for David to return home from work. We were leaving that day for a wedding in Washington, DC and I knew David would be very anxious to get on the road but I didn't want the anxiety of holding on to that secret! So, when he returned home I was waiting for him on our front porch. Earlier in the day I had purchased a few new polo shirts for him so I gave him those and put the box at the bottom. I was so unbelievably nervous... But, he was very cute and very excited!! Then I told him we couldn't tell anyone for a couple of months. Have you met David? Do you know how hard it is for him to be quiet about something?? It is pretty easy for me but I assume it is the worst kind of torture for him...



I actually made onesies in order to break the news to several of our family members. We wrapped them and had the expecting grandparents and great grandparents open the gifts under the guise of Mother's and Father's Day presents. Each time I thought I would have to be hospitalized due to my heart beating so fervently that I was sure it was going to explode.



But, I made it... barely. We found out in June that Baby M is going to be a boy. David is definitely excited about that! If nothing else, it means his world won't be inundated with pink, glitter, and princesses for the next decade or so!
Instead my life will probably have more football, dirt, and bugs!



Ready or not, December, here we come!!