Pages

Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

A little Weekend Recap.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

On Friday Taylor's mother and step father came to town for a visit. I love showing off our new home, and will post pictures soon (I just always seem to find something else I want to add!!). It was really nice out when they arrived, so we had happy hour out on the deck. My in-laws brought their chocolate lab, Shadow, and him and Stella chased each other around for quite some time. We decided we missed the seafood readily available when we lived in NC, so we went to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner (certainly not as good, but well enough to curb the craving!).




Saturday we headed downtown to check out Sun Studio, and since we were already downtown we had to take them to Rendezvous for some BBQ. After lunch we walked 42 blocks (yes, I am exaggerating) to Sun Studio. If you are not familiar with this place, it is a famous recording studio that has produced some pretty famous singers (Elvis and Johnny Cash to name a few, heard of them?).  It was really an interesting tour, and our guide was so excited and enthusiastic that it really made the experience that much better. The really cool thing about this place, is that they give tours during the day, but artist still come in to record at night. All that music history made us thirsty, so we wandered over to Beal Street for a drink. The drinks from Beal Street had us feeling lucky so we headed over to the Casino for an hour or so (see how that escalated so quickly there?), we weren't lucky and decided to come home to grill out.





Sunday was our last day all together so we decided to go out for brunch. We went to a place called Owen Brennons. It was the fanciest buffet brunch I have ever seen. If you wanted it, they had it! From oysters on the half shell to a made to order waffle and omelet bar. I ordered their house made Cajun bloody mary, it was a little too salty for my liking, so if you go, I suggest getting the mimosas. After brunch  Taylor took us for a tour of his new boat (I've been so busy with my job, it was my first time seeing the boat as well!). After that it started to rain so we retreated back to the house to lounge around and watch movies. The weekend was quite relaxing and it is always nice to catch up with family. 

 

...More of Brandon's Graduation.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Not only was visiting with Brandon great, it was nice to get a little vacay out of the trip too! The hotel we stayed in had a mutual kitchen and living room area, and then we had separate sleeping rooms. It was basically a tiny apartment, which came in handy for visiting. Because besides going out to eat, there isn't much else to do in on base or within driving distance (there is a casino somewhat near by, but Brandon was only allowed so far).


My husband can hardly ever be taken seriously...



After all of our goodbyes, it was time to head back home. But of course we had to make a few impromptu wine stops along the way!!
No, pictures of the wine, because quite frankly, it was not good...

I don't think Stella missed us one iota. She was having the time of her life at Doggy Daycare.

And of course anytime someone new comes to visit, it is an excuse for us to go explore our new home town.
Taylor and I have already been here, but it is so good, and right downtown!

Thank goodness it is Friday and I have taken the whole weekend off to spend with more visitors heading this way, not to mention, I have kiiiiinda missed seeing my husbands face this week!

In the Army Now..

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

A few weekends ago, my in-laws came down from Indiana so we could car pool on over to Oklahoma. I have never had a dying desire to trek on over to Oklahoma, and I can't say that I saw all the glorious things OK has to offer, but I DID get to see my little bro-in-law, Brandon, graduate army boot camp, and that was pretty cool! Sadly, I didn't get to see Taylor graduate boot camp, so I really enjoyed my first military graduation. There is something so, so patriotic when someone announces "please give a round of applause for your countries newest soldiers". My brother in law's fiancĂ© and her family met us there and we spent two days visiting with Brandon. It was really nice to hear how excited he was and learn about all the things he had been doing for the last few weeks. We even got to see pictures and a video.


Momma was happy to see her baby!

Brandon's fiancé and her family.




Husband wore his fancy clothes too!! :-)


Love*



Love Him!


We're so proud of you Brandon!

Free Blogger Design Made By The Dutch Lady Designs