I know, I’ve been a slacker about blogging this week.  But you know what, I’m going to be even more of a slacker and promise NO blog updates while Dave and I are at the beach for the long weekend.  So, ha! 

Howdy folks.  Whoa, that was country.  Geez.

Ahem, anyways, hope you guys had a great weekend.  Dave and I sure did.  Let’s see, Friday night was a nice evening at home.  I was mentally exhausted when I got home from work, so it was nice to do absolutely nothing with Dave and Mollie doing the exact same thing.

Saturday was dedicated to some last minute shower preparations.  I also managed to get some housework done (which is always a major plus).  Saturday evening Dave and I met up with Chris, Kacy, Chris, and Brook for some Mexican food and TRANSFORMERS 2!  I really liked the movie, but let’s face it, I was the type of girl that would rather play with my cousin’s Tranformers (back when they were actually made of metal) than my Barbie dolls.  I’ve heard a lot of negative things about plot, length, and blah blah blah, but in the end, I liked it and I sat through the whole thing without getting bored.  If a movie maker can catch my attention for that long, I consider it a pretty good accomplishment.

On Sunday I met up with Kacy at Brio Tuscan Grill for Brook’s wedding shower.  It was a great turnout and I enjoyed seeing somebody else go through the wedding excitement that I was going through about two years ago (whoa, two years?).  Here are a few pictures from the shower:

A special veil just for the bride-to-be!

The table with the blue hydrangeas that grow at my mom’s house.

The beautiful room at Brio.  That place is awesome, btw.

The beautiful bride-to-be (and her super poofy veil that looks amazing).

The cupcakes!  We had a lot leftover and I can honestly say that I don’t think I’ll be craving cupcakes for quite a while.

Kacy, Brook, and myself

After the shower, we headed back to the house for some smoked ribs (and leftover cupcakes).  It was a nice end to a nice weekend!

Hope you guys had a great one and Happy Monday!

Is there anything better than one of those random moments with your spouse that makes you think, “Yep, this is why I married you.”?  Dave and I are lucky enough to have those on a fairly frequent basis (meh, we’re still technically newlyweds), but last night was my favorite.

We were at Sam’s taking care of some grocery shopping.  I always get sucked into the bakery section but when Dave came to pull me away, he got sucked into it as well…specifically the cake/icing station.  If you guys have never tried their cake, go tonight and buy one.  Yes, a whole cake.  They’re so good and they’re cheap!

Anyways, Dave and I were commenting on how awesome the icing smelled when the lady behind the counter asked us if we’d like to sample it.  Um, yes please.  She gave us two huge piles of icing on a paper towel.  Seriously, I like sweets, but I can’t just eat a big pile of icing plain.  Neither can Dave (and here comes the part that makes him perfect for me).

Dave had already snuck over to the cookie section and picked up a 24-pack of chocolate chip cookies while I wasn’t looking.  He opened the container, picked up a cookie, spread the icing over it, and topped it with another cookie.  Pure genius.  We made another one out of my icing pile and giggled all the way to the checkout counter because we were so stinking excited about eating them as soon as we got home.  I’m talking about almost-skipped-dinner-to-eat-the-cookies excited.

Can I just say that they were like little Heaven sandwiches.  Are we dorks?  Sure.  Does that make us an awesome pairing?  Sure does. 

But ridiculous in a fabulous kinda way, right?

My daisies are blooming!  I planted these last year and have been super excited to watch how well they’ve done.  They started out as one little stem that Sandy brought over in a glass of water.  Now take a look at them!

Phew, it’s been one busy weekend!

On Friday night, Dave and I met up with Chris and Kacy for some pizza, beer, and Extreme bowling!

Pizza?  Check.

Beer?  Check.

This would’ve been a good picture if my camera had not been on the aquarium setting. 

Kacy

Chris

The Ingrams

True friends share the last slice!

Coolest beer pitchers ever.  I think this was #5.

And this is a result of 5 pitchers.  LOL

Extreme Bowling!

Turns out that all the jiggy music at the bowling alley gave us the bug for some dancing.  Downtown Raleigh?  Yes, please.  We were quite possibly the bummiest people there (since it was not planned), but we still had a blast at Hi-5.

On Saturday my Dad and Sharon came over so that we could check out Hog Days in downtown Hillsborough.  I somehow managed to get zero pictures though.  :(  There was BBQ galore, crafts, rides, etc.  Pretty neat little festival they have going on.

On a random note:

This is Mollie playing “chase me” with me.  She wants me to run after her, but she has to peek around the stairs to make sure I’m behind her.  Crazy pooch.

Also on a random note:

My mom brought this back for us from the beach.

Pretty!

On Sunday J.R., Betsy, and Austin came over for a little Father’s Day celebration.  We cooked some monster burgers on the grill and did some catching up.

Mmm…cookie cake.

Unc is not exactly a good role model here.

Haha…he makes me laugh.  He likes to lick the icing off first.

With all the playing she got to do with Austin, she was one pooped puppy by the end of the night.

Well, that’s the bullet points of our crazy weekend.  Hope you guys had a great one as well!

Ok, so I want this…

…but Dave says that we’re not cardboard deer head kind of people.   To which I replied, “They have a rhino too!”

Apparently we’re not cardboard rhino head people either.  But I kinda think we are (well, at least I think I am).  Granted, Dave has not seen these yet, he’s only heard my poorly worded description of them, so he’s obviously underestimating the pure awesome-ness of them.

I’m thinking one of these deserves a home in our office right over Dave’s desk. 

Today I saw a bird taking a bath in this drainage puddle outside of my office.

He was too fast, so no picture for you!  Just take my word, it was super cute.

My problem is etsy.com.  :)  Behold, my newest purchase:

It’s a sparrow necklace.  I read somewhere that sparrows always travel in pairs and never forget their way home.  I’ve been obsessed since.

Close up of the little guy.  Hmm…just realized that technically he’s alone on this necklace.  Well, the message is still cool anyways.

Weird picture of how I’m wearing him today.  I like to layer him with other big pieces.  He needs a name.  I’ll call him Henry.

(Necklace by BlueNostalgia)

One of my coworkers has these lilies on her desk at work.  I heart them.

So pretty!

This one finally opened up on Friday.

Of course, I had to get a pic with the color function on my camera.