Pyrching

so for our anniversary, we took a little trip to washington for our fall break.  it was great fun!  we enjoyed touring around the national mall.  we visited lincoln’s summer home and ford’s theater.  we also visited robert e. lee’s home at arlington, ate at some really good places and went to capitol hill baptist church.  we stayed at the westin, right around the corner from the russian embassy.  i worked on my parallel parking  skills.  we also escaped near death when the fire alarm went off at 6:30 am in our hotel- well to be honest it was a false alarm, but it scared me half to death.  it also happened to be national equality march-protest “don’t ask, don’t tell”-GLBTQ fun week, it made for some interesting scenery. and i saw a black squirrel.

well today is our two year anniversary and i just want to say happy anniversary to the best husband ever! (: we went out to dinner to maggiano’s tonight and are now back at home writing papers (at least that’s what i’m supposed to be doing but as you can see i’m updating our blog). andy surprised me tonight and told me that this weekend we will be heading to washington dc for a 3 day 2 night stay at the westin hotel in downtown dc! it is our fall break all next week so we will be able to get away from the hustle and bustle of charlotte and school life and hopefully relax some! we have been wanting to go to dc for a while now and i am so excited to be able to get away and celebrate a wonderful two years of marriage together. don’t worry, i’ll post pictures from our trip in, oh i don’t know, about 5 months (: kiiiidding

Jefferson Memorial and Andy

Long Beach Island, NJ

Funny

Lauren's baby shower!

One of our going away dinners- Mexican Themed (:

Andy and Sacajawea

Not seen: a super fun going away cookout with courtney, mel, jamie and significant others! (: Lake trips to gaston, hyco, and wylie, a trip to emerald point with katie and paul, celebrating katie’s birthday out at mura, annnnd last but not least our new house in charlotte! More pictures to come of our new life in charlotte!

so Ashley Cakes is who made our wedding cake (which we loved and would suggest to anyone!) however, i don’t even remember what our cake tasted like because i’m pretty sure all that andy shoved in my mouth was icing. well, thank goodness ashley cakes is so amazing and actually makes you a cake for your anniversary, which is included in the price of your wedding cake, so you don’t have to eat that frozen junk that is a year old (although my mom did try and serve our frozen wedding cake to numerous guests throughout the year.) anyways, we weren’t on the ball for our year anniversary cake so we decided we’d celebrate our year and a half anniversary for the sake of the cake! here are some pics (: (not shown: our yummy dinner at kanki! can you believe andy hadn’t been there since his one and only visit for his 6th grade field trip?!)

cake, strawberry cream cheese, buttercream icing, raspberry, cake!

cake!

(: andy and me

so, in case you didn’t know, there is a skee ball league of raleigh. well brandy, a girl that i work with, plays in the league and organized a company outing tonight at the basement in raleigh for the first annual greene resources skee ball tournament. my team, the skee amigos, didn’t make it to the finals but we did make it to the semi finals AND if there was a trophy for the most spirited we definitely would have won. here are some pics from the night! yay for skee patrol who won the tournament!

mikio, tara, and me in our outfits

greene resources group!

J- Pulveriza

i am so cool.

so im starting to write on this bad boy too and i will be making some format changes as well.