tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91190246797204961142023-11-16T11:06:57.831-08:00Dee's AdventuresA way for friends and family to track my many adventures!Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.comBlogger1144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-40391323149381128852015-04-19T17:17:00.000-07:002015-04-19T17:17:23.798-07:00Lilly for Target<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
What a crazy Sunday here!</div>
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In case you haven't noticed, I'm a fan of Lilly Pulitzer so when I heard they were collaborating with Target I knew I had to get a few pieces.</div>
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Well, everyone else across the country had the same idea and the crowds were INSANE!!</div>
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My friend LuLu, got there around 5am and was number 4 in line. I got there at 645am or so and joined her.</div>
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The line grew the closer to 8am it got.</div>
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Not going to lie, I was seriously anxious but it all ended well.</div>
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We teamed up with 2 other girls in line with us and we split up.</div>
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Two of us hit the kids section and the other 2 hit women's.</div>
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People were STARING at us and all that we got.</div>
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Over time, we weeded through it all and bartered for things we didn't want and things we did want.</div>
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When it was all said and done I spent WAY too much money but I got a TON for what I spent.</div>
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Not going to lie, I've been online tonight selling several of Shelby's dresses and stuff to help pay for it all!</div>
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LOL!!</div>
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And get this!</div>
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Lu and I are going to be on the news tonight about the sale.</div>
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An anchor at my old station saw the pictures I posted on social media and asked if she could use!</div>
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A one time deal and I had a lot of fun shopping and am super pleased with what I got.</div>
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How many of you hit up Target today??</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-45037450349128047902015-04-13T18:00:00.005-07:002015-04-13T18:00:57.779-07:00Jam Packed Fun Spring Weekend!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We had a really fun weekend right here in the Queen City.</div>
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It started out with a Friday fun food meal.</div>
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I try and do different, fun meals on Fridays for Shelby.</div>
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She wasn't as taken with this one, but she still ate most of it.</div>
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This is called, meatball sub on a stick. </div>
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I made the meatballs and wrapped crescent rolls around them on skewers. </div>
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Baked for 20-minutes, then sprinkled with cheese at the last minute.</div>
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Saturday morning Brad had an early tee time to play golf so it was just 'girl time' for me and Shelbs.</div>
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We walked up to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast then for a big power walk afterwards.</div>
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She enjoyed a sprinkle donut but I had an egg white flat bread.</div>
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Something fun and different rather than just eating at home.</div>
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The weather was pretty epic here this weekend.</div>
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Sunny and in the mid to high 70's.</div>
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We decided it was time to spruce up our deck with some Spring flowers so we made our way to Lowe's.</div>
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Shelby loved being able to help pick out the flowers and colors she wanted.</div>
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After a nap and lunch Brad made his way home and we met up with some friends at local Birdsong Brewery.</div>
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They just moved to a new location so we wanted to check it out.</div>
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I would say that the new space is much bigger and nicer, but the parking lot is a disaster.</div>
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I'm going to be honest too.</div>
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I'm just not a huge fan of beer and especially not theirs.</div>
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It was fun to get out and see friends for a while though!</div>
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Shelby really enjoyed seeing Mr. Josh and Ms. Katie and Baby Jack.</div>
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Is he not the prettiest baby ever?</div>
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My word, his eyes are gorgeous.</div>
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Shelby is taken with him too!</div>
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Birdsong isn't overly family friendly unlike Old Mecklenburg Brewery here in town, so we didn't hang out as long as we usually would have.</div>
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Instead, I talked Brad into hitting up the theme park by our house, Carowinds, for a few hours.</div>
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You might recall we bought season passes in the Fall for 2015, and the park just opened a few weeks ago for the Spring and Summer.</div>
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It was pretty crowded but we stayed for just over an hour and Shelby was able to ride 3 rides.</div>
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She loved it!</div>
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Unlike back in October when we visited the park, she liked the coaster much more this time.</div>
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She was actually laughing.</div>
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I can't wait for more days at the park!</div>
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Sunday we knew we had a jam packed afternoon, so we spent the morning doing errands such as grocery shopping.</div>
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Then we met up with my BIL and SIL and the cousins for brunch.</div>
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Shelby loves her cousins!</div>
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Can't wait for them to do a sleepover at my MIL's this Summer.</div>
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Check this whopper out!</div>
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Giving that the weather as as perfect as it was on Saturday we hit the lake with friends LuLu and Keith and Bryan and Shannan.</div>
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Keith and Lu are so awesome to invite us out all the time with Shelby.</div>
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It was a great day and Shelby made a new friend, Braxton.</div>
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His parents are neighbors to Keith and Lu and bought a new boat that is pretty darn nice!</div>
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Mr. Brad thinks so too! </div>
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HA!</div>
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Good times with old and new friends.</div>
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Shelby finally, even warmed up to Mr. Bryan!</div>
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This HAD to be captured on camera for sure!</div>
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The day ended with Captain Shelby helping drive us home.</div>
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Then, while everyone went home to enjoy dinner, Lu and I decided to sneak over to Carowinds right before closing time to ride the park's newest roller coaster, The Fury.</div>
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This new addition is touted the highest and fastest coaster on the East Coast.</div>
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I believe it!!!!</div>
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It was pretty darn cool!!</div>
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We only waited in line for 35 minutes or so which allowed us time to get in one more ride while out there.</div>
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Such an AWESOME way to end the weekend!!</div>
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<span id="goog_1277157476"></span><span id="goog_1277157477"></span>Yes, I guess I'm a kid at heart too!!</div>
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Do you blame me???</div>
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I ate and drank way too much in the last week or so, and now it's time to get serious and get back into my Summer shorts.</div>
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No carbs, no wine(at least not until the weekend), and lots of water and apple cider vinegar are in my future.</div>
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How as your weekend??</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-25363951332282239262015-04-10T10:00:00.000-07:002015-04-10T10:00:01.103-07:00Shelby's First Pedicure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Shelby was home sick yesterday after she woke up in the middle of the night throwing up.</div>
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She was feeling 'so-so', but I really needed to get out of the house giving that it was 85 and sunny outside.</div>
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The entire weekend is going to be Summer-like, so I decided Shelbs and I needed a pedicure.</div>
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I wasn't sure how Shelby would do, but decided to go for it, and it was a success!</div>
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Excuse my no-makeup look.</div>
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I had showered and washed my hair but didn't feel like getting dressed for no reason today.</div>
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She took to the idea of the whole thing pretty quick and was excited.</div>
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She even let the technician file her toenails!</div>
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Then paint them.</div>
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She was so still and good, I think everyone was amazed!</div>
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Impressive!!!</div>
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Then she sat through me getting my pedicure done!</div>
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Afterwards a lunch at McAlister's.</div>
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Fun girl day indeed, even if it started out as a sick day.</div>
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And, we have matching piggies now too!</div>
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One of the many things I have looked forward to, with having a daughter.</div>
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Here's to more pedicures and lunches in our future!!</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-71648520677009817172015-04-09T14:00:00.000-07:002015-04-09T14:06:23.875-07:00First Long Biz Trip and Bush Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
As I mentioned a few posts ago, I traveled to Dallas last week for work.</div>
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It's by far, the longest trip for work that I've taken since having Shelby.</div>
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I wasn't nervous at all about leaving her, because Brad is great with her. and she loves her Daddy.</div>
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I did want to make it easy on him though.</div>
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Giving it was Easter week, and different scheduled events at her school, I made sure to lay out all her outfits for each day, complete with a label which shoes, which day, etc.</div>
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I also cooked one meal in advance and had one in the crockpot the day I left.</div>
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I think that was appreciated.</div>
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This was me the morning I left.</div>
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As you can tell, Shelby doesn't seem bothered at all.</div>
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One thing we did do, was have my in-laws take Buddy for the week.</div>
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Just one less task for Brad.</div>
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Overall, he did AMAZING!</div>
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The first few days in Dallas were more set up for the meeting we were there to tape so we were able to get out a little bit.</div>
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One of my oldest friends lives in Dallas and she just recently announced she was pregnant, so I set up something to see her.</div>
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She and her boyfriend own a bar in Uptown Dallas so me and my co-worker met them there and boy did they really treat us like royalty!</div>
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The place is called Parliment and they are known for their mixed cocktails.</div>
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So great to see Kara.</div>
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She's expecting a little boy in September.</div>
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One of the other main things I wanted to do while in Dallas was see the Bush Library.</div>
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WOW!</div>
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So awesome and didn't disappoint.</div>
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It's located on the campus of SMU.</div>
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Takes you through George W's life.</div>
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Love how he and Laura are so open about their struggle to have children.</div>
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Those twins were truly wanted.</div>
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One of the first exhibits is about the Recount of 2000.</div>
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If you don't remember that, you might have been living under a rock.</div>
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They also had the only remaining 'hanging chad' in existence, and all sorts of stuff from the Florida recount.</div>
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The museum was well done and they thought of everything.</div>
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And, of course, there was a huge exhibit on 9/11 and even a piece of the World Trade Center.</div>
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It was fascinating to look back but also very emotional.</div>
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What a challenging time in our country.</div>
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There was a replica of the Oval Office where visitors could actually have their picture taken.</div>
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One of the highlights was an interactive exhibit that lets visitors be the decision maker on big events that took place during his presidency.</div>
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You then compare your decision next to the one George W. made.</div>
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From there the fun really stopped and it was all about work.</div>
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But I actually love my work, so it wasn't so bad.</div>
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We were there to basically tape 2 days of meetings.</div>
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Good stuff!</div>
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As you know, after that, I came home and the whirlwind that was Easter started!</div>
<br />Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-20229886300742865002015-04-07T17:33:00.002-07:002015-04-07T18:38:21.974-07:00Easter 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Happy Belated Easter!</div>
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I was gone for basically a week, so I feel very behind.</div>
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I have a lot more to tell, but that is for future posts... today, I'm going to recap out Easter weekend 2015.</div>
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We went to my parents as usual and my Mom went over and beyond as usual to make it more than a memorable occasion.</div>
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Easter tree...</div>
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Easter mantle...</div>
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Easter flowers and bunnies everywhere...</div>
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The new addition to the crew this year was my cousin Alayna and her husband who moved to North Carolina back in November.</div>
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So fun!</div>
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She's really more like a sister, and I know Brad really enjoyed having her and Sean both there too since my brother lives so far away and isn't in the best health for traveling.</div>
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She brought Shelby the sweetest little gift, a fairy costume!</div>
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Perfect for next year's visit to the fairy festival!</div>
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The next day we had big plans to head over to nearby Pinehurst, NC(known for golfing), for their annual egg hunt and Easter fest.</div>
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I couldn't resist getting Shelby's picture with the beauty queens there greeting visitors.</div>
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It was super windy and chilly, but everyone survived, even in their Spring dresses!</div>
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The egg hunt was broken up by age groups and for the 0-3 age group, you can see, they just tossed them on ground.</div>
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LOL!</div>
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Shelby was a little overwhelmed when they yelled go because of the amount of kids and parents.</div>
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I had to keep urging her to pick eggs up and not just sit there and unscrew them looking for candy.</div>
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Cutie or what??</div>
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Of course, the Easter bunny was there, but she wasn't having it.</div>
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Hence this photo.</div>
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After our visit to the festival we headed over to #2 Clubhouse there at Pinehurst and saw all the memorabilia.</div>
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Brad and all the guys really enjoyed it.</div>
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KNUCKLES!</div>
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After lunch(which I won't go into, but wasn't the best experience), we headed home just in time to dye eggs and make our bunny cake.</div>
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Right after finishing the cake, I put it on the dining room table in the other room and Buddy was eating it.</div>
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UGH!!</div>
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I should have taken a photo, but it was mainly the bowtie and I just cut that part off.</div>
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Egg dyeing was much more successful than last year, but we still gave Shelby an apron aka bib.</div>
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She really enjoyed it, even though she's still learning her colors.</div>
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She's great with her ABC's and numbers, colors?</div>
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Not so much... :(</div>
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LOVE this picture!</div>
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Then she decided she wanted to eat one of the boiled eggs.</div>
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My Mom made sure to put salt on it so she would eat it.</div>
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She liked it after a little bit.</div>
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Then, let's be honest..</div>
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After the fun, we peeled and turned them all into deviled eggs with Aunt Alayna's help!</div>
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While prepping for Easter morning.</div>
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Here's what Mommy and Daddy put together.</div>
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I just adore the beagle/hound dog book and outfit.</div>
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Then everything on the right is from Gigi and Poppi.</div>
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My Mom even dressed Shelby's Bitty Baby in one of my old baby doll's dresses and it looked like the perfect Easter dress for the baby!</div>
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Shelby was really more into the candy this year than anything else, but she was excited about her big gift from her GiGi and Poppi.</div>
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That was her Mini Cooper!!</div>
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Girlfriend still needs some driving lessons for sure!</div>
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She's staying with my parents for a week at the end of the month, so she'll be a pro!</div>
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It was a great Easter with family and great weather despite extreme pollen.</div>
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But it was lower key than most holidays because it was just family and we did a simple brunch versus a huge lunch meal.<br />
I really enjoyed that.</div>
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I didn't feel stuffed and it was far much better than a typical menu.</div>
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Fresh fruit, deviled eggs, two types of quiches, ham biscuits, macaroni and cheese.</div>
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Of course, bunny cake and two types of cheese cakes.</div>
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Thanks so much for my parents for hosting us yet again!</div>
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The only person missing from this photo is Alayna's husband Sean.</div>
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Loved having everyone together!!</div>
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Hope your Easter was good!!</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-12936954208191077472015-03-29T17:58:00.001-07:002015-03-29T17:59:03.780-07:00Easter Egg Hunt and Easter Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It may be officially Spring, but it sure doesn't feel like it around here.</div>
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Temps dropped into the 20's overnight this weekend and we celebrated a high of 50 both Saturday and Sunday.</div>
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Even so, we tried to make the most of it as we enter Easter week.</div>
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This year, we did the hunt at Historic Rosedale again.</div>
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It's small, simple, and short.</div>
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Not to mention the grounds make for decent photos.</div>
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I'm all into having my friend here in town make Shelby monogrammed shirts for the different holiday occasions.</div>
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This shirt wasn't meant for a turtleneck, but we made do.</div>
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There's no way she would have sat with the Easter bunny alone.</div>
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This is as good as it gets!!</div>
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Then, the hunt begins!</div>
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She was a lot more into it this year, even though the older kids snatched up most of them.</div>
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She still walked away with about 10, and they were empty.</div>
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Daddy was helping Shelby count up her loot!!</div>
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Instead of stuffing eggs this year, the plantation home decided to give each kid a goodie bag with candy and other treats.</div>
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Works for me!</div>
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They also had a lady there making bunny crowns for all the kids.</div>
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This would be such a fun thing to have at a birthday party!</div>
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Fun times!</div>
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Just like last year, we went up to Brad's parents house after the hunt where Shelby got all her fun Easter goodies from Grammy and we were able to spend the rest of the weekend with them.</div>
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We spent the afternoon at Morgan Ridge Vineyards near my in-laws house where they were having a big birthday celebration for one of the owners.</div>
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They had live music, the entire placed decked out and it was packed!</div>
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Shelby danced he heart out to the band, we entertained her with a little Play Doh fun, and more.</div>
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It was such a great afternoon!</div>
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Today we got up early and headed home because I wasn't feeling great.</div>
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Allergy + sinuses = No good for me.</div>
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I went to the Urgent Care and got some med, then took Shelby out for some afternoon fun.</div>
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FroYo!</div>
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And, a 'touch a truck' event.</div>
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It was nearly over by the time we go there, but something to do nonetheless.</div>
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Brad went out on the boat with a friend so it was just the two of us.</div>
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Now, I'm ready for bed.</div>
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Big week for me, as I travel to Dallas until Thursday evening. </div>
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Then, it's onward to my parents.</div>
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So, that likely means, this might be my only post this week.</div>
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If so, HAPPY EASTER!!</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-26536824056343474442015-03-26T17:41:00.000-07:002015-03-26T17:41:10.342-07:00Working Mom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I wrote this post<a href="http://deewallaceadventures.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-you-going-back-to-work.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>(click here)</b></i></span> </a>a couple of years ago before I had Shelby and I still stand by it.</div>
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I truly enjoy being a working Mom and I'm proud to say that.</div>
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I know, there are many of you stay at home moms, that feel the same way.</div>
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As most of you know, I'm a TV/Video Producer and have been in broadcasting my entire career.</div>
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What you might not know is that I originally wanted to be in front of the camera!</div>
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That's right, having been a pageant girl and with my love of writing, I knew I was destined to be a TV news reporter.</div>
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That was, until I did an internship in college at the local ABC affiliate(who I later worked full-time for).</div>
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I was assigned to go out with a photojournalist to cover a car accident that we had heard about over the scanner.</div>
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All I can say is...</div>
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UGH.</div>
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It was towards the end of the work day and it was a mom who had left the grocery store with her 3 children.</div>
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I sat there and watched them all be cut out of the SUV while the photojournalist shot video of it.</div>
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We went back to the station and I couldn't get those images out of my mind.</div>
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As the day and days ahead passed by, you would have thought I knew the family.</div>
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I dreamed about them, thought about them non-stop, even tried to find out their status at the hospital.</div>
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That's when I knew I wasn't cut out to be in front of the camera.</div>
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To make a long story short, I decided to become a producer, who basically, tells those reporters to go and cover stories like that and even worse.</div>
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But, it's different not having to see it first hand.</div>
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You know it's really happened but being back in the newsroom writing about it is very different.</div>
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The whole point of this post, is that now that I'm out of news, and in 'bank' TV, I do get the chance to be in front of the camera more than I ever thought.</div>
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Including this week, where I got to play the 'customer' role for a training video.</div>
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Generally, they hire actors, but I was asked to do it for this video.</div>
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Different but fun!</div>
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I've actually done this several time and it makes for a long day, but it's fun.</div>
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I feel so lucky to have such a great job that is something I truly love to do.</div>
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It also makes it even better that I am able to work in a place that is flexible and great for working parents.</div>
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I pray daily that I'm setting a good example for Shelby by keeping my career and doing what I love.</div>
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How about you?</div>
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Thoughts on working outside the home?</div>
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We laid low this weekend here in town.</div>
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Friday nights are pretty boring around here. </div>
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We cook dinner, watch a movie, have a cocktail... but this week Shelby got a big surprise from her Daddy!</div>
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He hand crafted a stool for her! Monogram and all!!!</div>
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He was so proud of himself for burning her name into the wood.</div>
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So am I!!</div>
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She loves her stools, that's for sure.....</div>
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Saturday morning Shelby went to her first 'real deal' birthday party with kids her age.</div>
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It was held at a bounce house place near our house, which was also, a first for her.</div>
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To say she loved it, was an understatement!!</div>
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I know it sounds so dumb to those of you who have multiple kids, but seeing her at this little party was about the cutest thing ever.</div>
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She does this at school all the time, but this is the first time I've seen her outside of that doing it.</div>
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Seriously, melted my heart seeing how big she is getting!!</div>
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Fraser turned 3 and his Mom and Dad, Jamie and Allison, did a fabulous job!</div>
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Shelby had a blast!!</div>
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After the party we went home and freshened up, from sweating at the bounce houses, and met friends at Old Mecklenburg Brewery since it was such a nice day outside.</div>
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Check out how cute these two are together.</div>
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It's our neighbor's little boy, Ayden.</div>
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Shelby adores him!</div>
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Breweries at the new thing here in Charlotte and they've made them so family friendly.</div>
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It's fun for us, because it gives us a place to meet up with friends and their kids and still have food and a beer or two!</div>
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We even ran into one of Shelby's classmates and her family!!</div>
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Our weekend ended with dinner at home with my cousin Alayna and her husband then Sunday we ran errands, then went to the Charlotte airport overlook for the first time.</div>
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Shelby enjoyed seeing the planes take off and land.</div>
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Now I'm getting in full-out Easter mood, if the weather would just cooperate this weekend!</div>
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They're talking about a high of 55 on Saturday! </div>
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YUCK!!</div>
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Happy Thursday!</div>
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The weather is dreary, overcast, cold and rainy here in Charlotte today.</div>
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I worked from home today because Shelby stayed home sick from school.</div>
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Runny nose, fever, cough... it's going around.</div>
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I'm hoping she's feeling better and back at school tomorrow.</div>
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So, since I have a little extra time, I've decided to put a hodge podge post together with pictures from the past week.</div>
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Believe it or not, this past weekend was our first road trip since right after Thanksgiving.</div>
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Since then Shelby received a pair of Minnie Mouse headphones, and we finally busted them out.</div>
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She loved them!</div>
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We have a DVD player in our car, but our rules are, that it is only turned on for long road trips.</div>
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There's no need for her to watch TV just cruising around town.</div>
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Shelby is still all about the baby dolls.</div>
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My Mom found a bunch of my old doll clothes and got them out for Shelby.</div>
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I was shocked that they fit the Bitty Baby perfect!</div>
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The weather was super nice earlier this week.</div>
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I'm talking 80's Sunday through Tuesday.</div>
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Today, the high was 48.</div>
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With that we took full advantage of the sunshine and warmth.</div>
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We went for walks and even enjoyed an impromptu picnic.</div>
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On our way home from my parents I bought Shelby her first milkshake ever.</div>
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The shamrock shake was always a favorite of mine growing up.</div>
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Shelby kept saying, 'it's good in my tummy!'</div>
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She only drank 1/2 of it, then gave up.</div>
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The sign said this sucker had 660 calories in it!</div>
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WOWZERS!</div>
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With Shelby being sick today, she spent a majority of the day watching movies, while I went through email, sat on calls, etc.</div>
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But, we did get a break or two to do a few things around the house, one being converting the tree in her room from St. Patrick's Day to Easter!</div>
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This is the last conversion, then this sucker is going up until Christmas.</div>
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Someone asked if I was going to do a Halloween tree, but honestly, we just aren't Halloween people.</div>
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Not judging those who are...</div>
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Anyway, Easter tree conversion in full force!!</div>
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WAH-LAH!!</div>
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My Mom bought most of the items.</div>
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I think it turned out perfect.</div>
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What do you think??</div>
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The rest of our sick day was a little cleaning...</div>
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And, some dress up!</div>
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I'm ready for the weekend and for tonight.</div>
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My LSU Tigers are playing in the tournament!!</div>
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Happy Friday Eve!</div>
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Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!</div>
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Our celebrations started over the weekend and continued into today.</div>
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I'm so lucky to have a flexible job that I was able to make the party this afternoon and snap a few pictures.</div>
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It was the cutest thing, Shelby's best friend's Mom bought all the kids shamrock sunglasses and flags.</div>
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She took a few snapshots this morning but the whole class wasn't there so I captured a few this afternoon.</div>
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Then a picture of the kiddos with their two teachers.</div>
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Miss JoJo to the right was all decked out!</div>
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The party basically consisted of a whole bunch of snacks and junk food. </div>
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HA!</div>
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Me with Shelby and her bestie MaKayla.</div>
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These two have been together since 3-months old.</div>
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They seriously give each other hugs and kisses bye bye each day ;)</div>
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Waiting to get their hands and mouths washed.</div>
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As I mentioned though, our celebrations started over the weekend with a trip to my parents house.</div>
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Brad stayed behind to recover from his 'procedure', so it was just us two.</div>
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My Mom, as usual, had the place decked out.</div>
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Along with tons of new toys for Shelby!</div>
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On Saturday we had big plans to attend the St. Patrick's Day festival and parade in Pinehurst but it was terrible weather with rain off and on, sometimes torrential.</div>
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So, when we got there we found out that they called off the parade.<br />
So, we shopped around for a bit then went and took cover from the rain in an Irish pub for lunch and a little Irish music and fare.</div>
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Believe it or not, this place was pretty family friendly!</div>
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Shelby got into the music with her Poppi!</div>
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Then we made new friends...</div>
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It was a great afternoon, despite the nasty weather.</div>
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We ended the day at home with family and friends enjoying a piece of lemon ice box pie in celebration of Pi day too!!</div>
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Until next year friends!</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-82685253317632549772015-03-12T12:38:00.000-07:002015-03-12T12:38:00.155-07:00Shelby's First Visit to Discovery Place<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The bank Brad and I both work for do a lot of great events for families and this past weekend we were able to participate in one of them.</div>
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They had a free day for families to visit our science and education museum downtown called, Discovery Place.</div>
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It's still a little old for her, but it was something to do and exposed her to new things.</div>
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Such as...</div>
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a bed of nails!!</div>
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LOL!</div>
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She wasn't so sure.</div>
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There were other exhibits that showed how gravity works along much more.</div>
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She was intrigued.</div>
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We also visited their new exhibit, Illusion.</div>
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It was pretty dark in this portion of the museum so I didn't take as many pictures but it was super cool.</div>
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Discovery Place also has a rainforest area, aquarium and more.</div>
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Fun for Shelby to see the birds, fish and reptiles.</div>
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The very last part of the museum is a huge play area that is more for kids Shelby's age.</div>
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She had a blast!</div>
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It was a great day, but I think we'll probably wait to go back until she is much older.</div>
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Afterwards we met up with some friends from out of town for lunch and Shelby enjoyed her first Twinkie ever!</div>
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To say she loved it would be an understatement!</div>
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This weekend me and Shelby are heading to my parents house for a visit.</div>
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Brad is staying back to recover from the vasectomy he got today.</div>
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Yes, you heard that right.</div>
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We are officially done having babies!</div>
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CIAO!</div>
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WOW!</div>
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It's been 2-weeks since I have posted here.</div>
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That's probably the longest I've ever gone.</div>
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I'm going to be honest, I'm toying again with just shutting down the blog.</div>
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Yesterday, I was about 99% sure I was done, but then I started to think about how I was going to document everything for Shelby if I do.</div>
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Making physical scrapbooks are much harder, as are, online photo books, not to mention expensive.</div>
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So, giving that, I'm here and back.</div>
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Life has been busy and my job is requiring me to travel much more than I use to, which is exciting!</div>
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So, here we go.</div>
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Shelby is doing awesome.</div>
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She's fully potty trained except for nighttime, she's sleeping great, and we've recently implemented one of those clocks that talks to her and glows when it is time to come see Mom and Dad.</div>
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She's also doing great in school.</div>
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Not to brag on my child, but the teachers told me the other day how mature and smart she is.</div>
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Not sure if I've ever shared, but Brad drops Shelby off every morning and I pick her up.</div>
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It's the cutest thing ever, her best friend MaKayla's Mom does a morning picture every day, and most of the time she includes the other girls and/or kids.</div>
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Here are a few from the past couple of weeks.</div>
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I adore this one.</div>
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I actually printed it out for her bedroom.</div>
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This was Monday and Shelby wasn't feeling the picture.</div>
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We had a snow day a couple of weeks ago.</div>
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The weather forecasters predicted 8-10 inches but we got more 'slush' than anything else, because the temps were too warm.</div>
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Even so, we tried out best to have fun with it.</div>
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And, it was a day off, so that was PLUS+++</div>
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The past 2 Saturdays have included visits to one of our local breweries, Triple C.</div>
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This place is great and family and dog friendly.</div>
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During one of our visits we discovered a small thing of PlayDoh in a gift bag Shelby received from a classmate for Valentine's Day.</div>
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I think Brad enjoyed it more than her!</div>
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He's such a great Daddy!</div>
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He even made her an earring which she got a total kick out of!</div>
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This is probably my favorite picture right now.</div>
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I even printed one out for Brad to take to work for his desk.</div>
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For the first time that I can recall, we had dinner with Brad's parents and BIL and SIL, sans kids.</div>
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We dined at the local restaurant Firebirds and it was fun and delish.</div>
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The next day, Grammy and Paw Paw stopped by for a visit with Shelby before they headed home.</div>
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I traveled to Boston for work last week.</div>
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All the snow they've been talking about in the news?</div>
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UHH.. it's for reals.</div>
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REDIC!!</div>
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Working up there gave me a chance to see my good friend Emberly again.</div>
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Boy, is she ready to leave Beantown.</div>
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She's OVER the weather and the commute!</div>
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I told another one of my colleagues how the book 'Make Way for the Ducklings' is Shelby's favorite book.</div>
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He then proceeded to tell me about the Mallard family shrine they have in the Public Garden and how there is even a 'Duckling Festival' every Spring!!</div>
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So, we put our snow boots on and went to take a look!</div>
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When we first walked up we were afraid they were snowed in, but then realized someone has plowed around them.</div>
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Thank Goodness!!</div>
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Not going to lie, I was giddy about this whole thing!</div>
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I would love to come back one year for that festival!</div>
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As I mentioned, this past weekend we spent another Saturday afternoon catching up with friends at Triple C.</div>
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I was told it's Baby Jack's 6th brewery and he's just 4 1/2 months old!</div>
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I called my old friend Alexis, who I worked with at Fox, and she came and met us.</div>
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Great to catch up with her as always.</div>
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And, last but not least, we spent another Saturday evening on the town sans Shelby.</div>
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Our friends LuLu and Keith watched S while we checked out our friend Paul's new place at The VUE.</div>
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Talk about swanky and just check out his view!!!</div>
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Such fun!</div>
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Tomorrow, a post about Shelby's first visit to our local science and education museum where she checked out the 'bed of nails!'</div>
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YIKES!</div>
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CIAO for now!</div>
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We had a very low-key weekend.</div>
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Brad was sick most of the week fighting a nasty cold so we didn't make any real plans.</div>
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Plus, Friday was our 5th wedding anniversary.</div>
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Even though we really celebrated it last weekend up in the mountains, we still mapped out a in home celebration like we have done every year since we got married.</div>
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We both love to cook and have fun doing it together so we always find a fun, fancy meal to prepare.</div>
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This year, after 5-years of talking about doing it, we made a beef wellington.</div>
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My cousin made this for our Christmas dinner back in 1999, and I have dreamed of it ever since.</div>
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BUT...</div>
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It's not an easy thing to cook so we have both been really intimidated by it.</div>
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We finally bit the bullet though and after a lot of research and looking at recipes I decided instead of doing an entire loin we would do individual fillets.</div>
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SO GLAD we did, because it was still a ton of food.</div>
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The version we made included sauteed mushrooms, onions and garlic to put on top of the fillet then instead of pate we decided to wrap them in prosciutto instead.</div>
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First off, you have to prepare everything and let it cool.</div>
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That includes pan searing the fillets and letting them cool.</div>
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While everything is cooling we rolled out our store bought puff pastry dough.</div>
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I think next time we'll roll it out even thinner that what we did, but this was our first time so we didn't have a clue.</div>
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From there we did it a little different than most because Brad wasn't sure how we were going to everything up.</div>
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He laid down the prosciutto, then the mushroom mixture on top then laid the fillet down on top, in order to have the folds be at the bottom.</div>
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You then add egg yolk wash to the sides to make sure it sticks.</div>
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Then folded it up like a package.</div>
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We then cooked them for 10-minutes at 450 then knocked the heat down to 425 for another 10 minutes.</div>
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While they were cooking I started the cheese risotto for our side.</div>
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I threw asparagus into it at the last minute.</div>
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When they were done, they were beautiful!</div>
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As was the entire meal!!</div>
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It was so downright tasty, that I hardly ate the risotto, which tends to be the first thing I go for.</div>
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And, you know what?</div>
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It wasn't as hard as we thought!!!</div>
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We are totally doing this again.</div>
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It would be a great Christmas Eve meal.</div>
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#perfection</div>
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I am seriously proud of us for finally doing it!</div>
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For dessert my niece sent us a king cake from Ambrosia in Baton Rouge.</div>
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We were so stuffed from dinner we saved it until the next day and am seriously dreaming of it right now.</div>
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Cream cheese filled, pecan praline.<br />
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Speaking of the next day we did a whole lot of nothing.</div>
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Watched movies, had lunch out, then a play date with the neighbors.</div>
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Brad stayed home because he still wasn't feeling well, but Shelby and I had a great time hanging out with Ayden and his parents.</div>
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On a whim at the last minute a friend called and asked me to grab a glass of wine, so I did just that and my cousin and her husband came and met us.</div>
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Sunday we were super desperate and we looked online to find out what there was going on in town and we found a wood carving showcase.</div>
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We seriously took Shelby to this!</div>
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LOL!</div>
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Yes, we are crazy, but it was something to do and it was pretty interesting.</div>
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This was my favorite.</div>
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Wine stoppers.</div>
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$75 a piece.</div>
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Super cool.</div>
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This is my favorite?</div>
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I asked her what they were.</div>
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A busy week at work for me.</div>
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Then my parents come back in this next weekend!</div>
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Hope you all are keeping warm and staying busy!</div>
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Last week much of the South experienced a blast of winter weather.</div>
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While we were hoping for snow, unfortunately we got ice down where we live and that's about it.</div>
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It was enough to cancel school and keep us at home.</div>
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Of course, we both have laptops so we both tried to work in between trying to entertain Shelby.</div>
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One of the ways I did that was to go ahead and convert Shelby's tree in her room for St. Patrick's day.</div>
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She helped...</div>
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I plan to convert the tree for Easter too, then after that it will go in the attic until next Christmas.</div>
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As you know, the tree was decorated for Mardi Gras and we actually converted it on Fat Tuesday.</div>
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I was given a hard time for not waiting until Ash Wednesday but it just seemed to easy to do it then because of having the day off.</div>
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Not to mention, it kept her busy for a couple of hours.</div>
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I think it turned out perfect!</div>
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Festive!</div>
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Now to brainstorm about how to decorate for Easter!</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-64284683904352540442015-02-19T17:16:00.001-08:002015-02-20T02:19:50.053-08:00Shelby's First Symphony Concert<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
While we were spending a weekend in the mountains my parents spent the weekend here in Charlotte with Shelby.</div>
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My Mom wanted to do something fun and special with Shelby on Valentine's Day so I started looking around and noticed that the Charlotte Symphony was having their first 'Lollipops' concert of the season on actual V-day.</div>
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They only have 3 a year and after talking to a few people who have been before I knew it would be something fun for them to do with her.</div>
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It was Uptown at the Knight Theater here in Charlotte so my parents bought tickets and made their way into the city.</div>
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The theater is not far from the Panthers stadium.</div>
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One of the big draws for the concert series are the activities they have beforehand for the kids, one which includes a musical 'petting zoo'.</div>
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It gives the kids a chance to see, touch and learn about the different instruments in the symphony.</div>
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My parents said Shelby was a bit shy, but that's to be expected at age 2.</div>
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I was SUPER excited for Shelby to experience such a thing, and really would have loved to have been there, but knew they would enjoy it too.</div>
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It gives her exposure at an early age to cultural events, something I hope to continue.</div>
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They also had a drum circle, which they said she was very interested in.</div>
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Of course, a few Valentine's Day treats were in order......along with an arts and crafts project they had for kids.</div>
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They had the chance to make their own 'drum'.</div>
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After an hour of activities, it was time for the concert.</div>
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The theme was Beethoven.</div>
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In my Dad's own words...</div>
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'She was into it......for a while'</div>
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My Mom said the last 10-minutes she got bored.</div>
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Not surprised.</div>
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She has a hard time getting through an entire movie.</div>
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Again, she might have been a tad bit too young but I really like she had the exposure!</div>
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They all had a great time!</div>
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But, the highlight might have been this....</div>
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Seeing how the air/heat can lift your skirt up.</div>
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Marilyn Monroe much??</div>
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So cute and so much fun!</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> After the theater, a lunch of mexican was in order.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">It's Shelby's favorite.</span></div>
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<span id="goog_188219672"></span><span id="goog_188219673"></span>Thanks so much to my parents for not only taking care of her the entire weekend, but taking her to do such fun things!!!</div>
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Time flies, tomorrow is our 5th wedding anniversary.</div>
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People still look at us like we are nuts when we say we got married in the month of February with the weather being so unpredictable.</div>
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But, in our defense, we got engaged in July and the Fall was going to be too ambitious with the demand, I wasn't a fan of Christmas time, and then we got into waiting nearly a year.</div>
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Neither of us wanted that giving we were in our 30's.</div>
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So, winter it was and I actually happen to LOVE winter!!</div>
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We went skiing right after our wedding and have tried to make it an annual thing.</div>
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Some years have been better than others.</div>
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This was our 2nd year in a row to make it happen with a quick trip up to our local mountains.</div>
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A 2-hour drive, we have really fell in love with Beech Mountain in the last few years!</div>
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We left Friday morning at 7:30am and got up there in time to be on the lift by 11am.</div>
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A whopping 10-degrees we both had 5-layers of clothes on and were feeling fine!</div>
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I don't have a ton of fun pictures from the trip, just ones of us mainly.</div>
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As I've said before though, this space is pretty much my scrapbook, so I'm going to post them.</div>
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We hit the mountain top bar to try and warm up but it wasn't as warm as we hoped, still fun though.</div>
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Growing up in South Louisiana where we didn't experience Winter I've always loved a snow getaway.</div>
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So glad Brad has learned to like it as much as me.</div>
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I'm a lucky gal!</div>
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Lunch was much warmer in the lodge near the fireplace.</div>
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Such a great day on the mountain.</div>
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Cold, but sunny and not as crowded as it would have been on that Saturday giving the holiday weekend.</div>
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Our day of skiing, and yes, we skiied the entire day, ended at the Beech Mountain Brewery.</div>
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Our day ended with a few apps in the condo we rented near the slopes then dinner and drinks out.</div>
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Saturday was Valentine's Day and we planned a day of local wineries and lunch.</div>
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Our first stop after sleeping in and lounging around was Grandfather Vineyards.</div>
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Such a cute place.</div>
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It was about 20-minutes from our condo in Beech down in the town of Foscoe.</div>
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This was the first visit for both of us and we were impressed with how good their wine is!</div>
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While we were there the snow started to come down.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (the winery dog)</span></i></div>
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We left with a couple of bottles, drove back to Banner Elk, had lunch, then hit the Banner Elk Winery.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (the winery dog at Banner Elk)</span></i></div>
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After that the snow really started coming down, so we headed back up the mountain and back to the condo.</div>
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Our night ended at the Mile High Tavern in walking distance of our condo and by that time the mountain was pretty much shut down to traffic without chains or snow tires because of the weather.</div>
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Great weekend!</div>
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That next day, getting off Beech Mountain wasn't for the faint at heart, but we managed and stopped for the Sunday Jazz brunch at Blowing Rock's Canyons.</div>
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Great views, great food, even if they did lose power for 1/2 of the time we were there.</div>
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Getting away just the two of us, without Shelby or any another couples or family is really important to both us.</div>
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It's great for our marriage and gives us time to reconnect as a couple.</div>
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Happy Valentine's Day and 5th Anniversary to us!</div>
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Our actual anniversary is tomorrow, so more low-key celebrations are to come!!</div>
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I'm so behind on posts, not only mine but reading.</div>
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I'm officially shut out of reading blogs at work, so that makes it hard because now I have to make time to read and not just post once I get home.</div>
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So here's my attempt at a partial Valentine's Day entry.</div>
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No worries, there will be 2 separate posts for the actual day.</div>
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One for Shelby's first symphony concert then our trip to ski in the mountains.</div>
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Shelby's school celebrated in style for V-day.</div>
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I wasn't sure at first if 2-year old classes honor the holiday like others, but they do.</div>
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I'm going to be honest, I didn't really plan to do Valentine's because I figured they are too young and wouldn't know anything, but I was wrong.</div>
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After talking to another Mom I decided to buy boxed Valentine's at the store and at the last minute had a gut feeling I needed to add a treat for her to give to classmates too.</div>
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I was right...</div>
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Even so, I didn't take full control.</div>
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I allowed her to personalize every last Valentine to all 15-kiddos in her class.</div>
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She LOVED every minute of it.</div>
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I would actually address, then allow her to scribble and put stickers on them.</div>
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When I would tell her each classmate it was for she would look at me and say:</div>
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'Oh, okay!!! and look down and start scribbling as if she was writing their name'</div>
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Yes, there were even a few Valentine cards that were sealed with a kiss!</div>
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Talk about melt my heart!</div>
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That same day she received her Vday gifts from Brad's parents.</div>
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She racked up.</div>
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Candy!!</div>
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Her favorite...a card!</div>
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Buddy is still on the down and out so no real toys for him any more, but Grammy did him proud and included him!</div>
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Cute or what??</div>
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Wednesday night I got my hair cut and colored, which is always an entire night, so Brad took Shelby out for a special Valentine's day dinner.</div>
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And, on Thursday GiGi and Poppi came in for the rest of the weekend and Shelby received Valentine treats and goodies each day along with a fun outing.</div>
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SPOILED!!</div>
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It began with us starting what I want to be an annual tradition, we made a heart shaped pizza.</div>
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We made it easy with store bought crust, canned sauce, cheese and pepperonis.</div>
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We even made a few heart shaped bite sized pieces!</div>
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A little wonky, but still fun!</div>
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Shelby had no issues with it being lopsided!</div>
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Brad and I headed out that next day for our annual mountain get away for our anniversary, and my parents kept her out of school and took her back to the Discovery Place in Huntersville.</div>
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FUN DAY!</div>
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Good times, great memories, can't wait for next year!!</div>
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Thanks to both sets of grandparents for everything!</div>
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This past Sunday was beyond gorgeous weather here in the Carolinas.</div>
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70-degrees, sunny, with a slight breeze.</div>
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The weathermen predicted it was going to be this way so we planned in advance and talked to our friends Katie, Josh about doing something and bringing their 4-month old Jack along.</div>
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We chose Treehouse Vineyards in Monroe, North Carolina for our destination and it didn't disappoint.</div>
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For the record, it's aobut 30-minutes from Charlotte, in the middle of a transitional residential neighborhood and their wine is mostly muscadine, but they do have a few 'fair' bottles of dry varietals.</div>
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I opted for a tasting, but sort of regret it.</div>
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Out of the 8-wines they poured, 5 were muscadine and I don't care for those.</div>
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I literally left the tasting after 3 wines and went for a bottle of their chardonnay.</div>
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We packed a picnic, bought a bottle of wine and enjoyed the quaint grounds.</div>
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Very rustic, electic, but fun and great for kids to run around and entertain themselves.</div>
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The treehouse, is obviously, one of the big attractions here.</div>
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You can actually rent it out for the day, but this particular day it was open for guests to check out.</div>
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Up we went.</div>
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There was also a room up there, but I didn't realize you could go.</div>
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Brad took Shelby back up there to check it out but didn't take pictures.</div>
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Baby Jack was looking cute as a button his his western wear, complete with cowboy boots!</div>
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Such a fun day with friends!</div>
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We all agree, that we will go back!!</div>
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A fun, easy get away from Charlotte.</div>
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And, family friendly.</div>
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As I mentioned earlier, the wine is just okay, but not terrible.</div>
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The land the vineyards sit on, has been in the same family for many years.</div>
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The muscadine grapes are grown on property but the dry wine grapes are bought from a vineyard in Winston Salem.</div>
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The grandson of the landowner is the winemaker and gave us a brief tour.</div>
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The wine is only sold on site, and not in stores.</div>
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He said they've seen an increased demand though.</div>
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If you're looking for a quick day trip on a nice day from Charlotte, I would say make it Treehouse.</div>
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I know we'll be back!</div>
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One of the biggest nights for our local hockey team is what is called 'Pink in the Rink', and it's breast cancer awareness night.</div>
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All the local breast cancer non-profits participate, and it's literally, a sell-out event.</div>
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As many of you may know our SIL, Robyn is a nearly 5-year survivor, and very involved with Carolina Breast Friends.</div>
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They've gone to this game every year, but we've never had a chance with travel and so forth, but this year we were in town and hit the town for it.</div>
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A sea of pink!</div>
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A bunch of Robyn and Jeff's neighbors came out for the big game along with all the kiddos.</div>
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Our friends Keith and LuLu came out with us too.</div>
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Of course we were decked out for the occasion!</div>
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It had been a long day with running errands and the fairy festival, so we were a bit tired, but had a great time even so!</div>
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Nephew Reed had a better time than most though.</div>
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He danced the night away!</div>
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The night ended with some goofy antics, and we ended back at the house around 11pm.</div>
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Thanks to my cousin Alayna and her husband Sean for babysitting Shelby!</div>
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She loved it!!</div>
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Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-73999202776025093382015-02-09T18:43:00.000-08:002015-02-09T18:43:07.963-08:00Fairy House Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are always looking for fun events and places to take Shelby on the weekends.</div>
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Recently I discovered a site called, Charlotte on the Cheap, which features a list of free events and other things to do around the city each week/weekend.</div>
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Brad has been hollering that he's BORED, and tired of sitting home.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>(I don't think we sit home that much)</b></i></span></div>
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So, giving that, I looked for something to do over the weekend and saw that there was a Fairy House Festival at a local park/nature area.</div>
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He wasn't overly thrilled when he heard about it, but agreed to go.</div>
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Well, it didn't disappoint!</div>
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This is the 7th year for the festival and it has grown so popular you actually have to park and shuttle in!</div>
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Again, this was all free!</div>
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Shelby didn't have any wings, but I found some at a local gift shop the day before.</div>
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They are more butterfly wings than fairy wings, but they were cute and more comfortable than the other ones that they were actually selling there for only $4.</div>
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The ages varied from small to adult.</div>
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I have to admit, I wasn't surprised at this at all.</div>
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Think Renaissance festival but not as over the top.</div>
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The festival was inspired by a series of books about fairy houses by a local author.<br />
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People got a number and actually competed for the best house.</div>
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We didn't participate in this, but did spend some time walking through them and all I can say is. </div>
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WOW! </div>
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The whole goal of this festival is for children to discover and appreciate nature.<br />
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We really enjoyed looking at what people came up with.</div>
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And, interesting enough, it was entire families out there building them, not just moms!</div>
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Aside from the houses, there was much more to see and do for either free of charge, or a small fee.</div>
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For instance, pony rides were $2.</div>
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They had them dressed up like unicorns and the kids loved it.</div>
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We opted out of this because the line was huge and not sure Shelby would do it without one of us right there anyway.</div>
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Yes, there were more boys there than what I would have imagined.</div>
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Face painting was one of the free things and it was Shelby's first time to have this done.</div>
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In the end I had to sit with her for it to happen.</div>
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The biggest part of this festival were craft stations.</div>
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One to make a magic wand and another to make a fairy boat.<br />
All with stuff out of nature(sticks), and a few craft items they provided.</div>
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We hit them both up, and funny enough, Brad ended up taking over each time!!!</div>
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My friend Sarah met us out there with her 2 girls.</div>
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She was a trooper braving this event alone.</div>
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Wand complete!!</div>
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Daddy did a great job!</div>
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Next stop was the fairy boat building station.</div>
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Most of the boats didn't actually float but it was good fun.</div>
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Aside from the crafts and houses, there was free popcorn, food trucks and in the park there was also a little house that we literally had to drag Shelby out of.</div>
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(who remembers these from Jon and Kate Plus 8?)</div>
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Every kid wants a play house, right?</div>
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In the end we stayed MUCH longer at the festival than ever planned, but not without ending our visit with a real life meeting with a fairy.</div>
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What a great day, even though we had no idea what to expect.</div>
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I think we both agree we'll be back next year.</div>
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I even suggested that we build a house next year.</div>
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Brad wasn't so sure about that!</div>
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HAAA!!!!!</div>
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I was texting with a friend the other day and we were discussing how the month of January can typically be b-o-r-i-n-g.</div>
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For sure.</div>
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Because of that, it requires planning and making up reasons to get people together.</div>
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Last week we did a great job of that, one such night, that included a girl's wine tasting at a local wine shop.</div>
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My friend Katie actually suggested the Super Bowl tasting that gave customers a chance to taste up to 50 wines for a mere $10.</div>
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WHEW!</div>
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It was a Wednesday night but we went for it!!</div>
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For the record, my favorite of all the wines, was the 2nd on the list.</div>
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I bought one bottle for our upcoming anniversary and have sadly already drank it.</div>
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If you like Chardonnay, go for the Pessagno!!</div>
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There were 5 of us, and it made for a GREAT group!!</div>
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We tasted some amazing wines both red and white.</div>
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And, a few sparkling wines too!</div>
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The night ended at Treehouse for dinner, with 2 more bottles of wine and maybe a bottle of champagne.</div>
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Needless to say, I had to Uber it BACK to my car the next day after hitching a ride to work with Brad.</div>
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Let's just say, he wasn't so thrilled with me.</div>
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uh, oh :(</div>
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No worries, he got me back on Saturday night!</div>
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Saturday we reunited with a few of the same friends and hit up a couple of our local breweries.</div>
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The kids were in tow.</div>
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Shelby was excited to see baby Jack again!</div>
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He's getting so big!</div>
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4-months old now!</div>
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We visited Sugar Creek Brewing and Old Mecklenburg, which is a fan favorite around Charlotte these days since they moved into a new facility.</div>
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Such a fun day out!</div>
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My cousin Alayna was back for the weekend after spending the last few weeks in New York City working!</div>
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Can't wait to visit Old Meck again soon.</div>
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After the breweries we came home and Keith came over to go out with Brad, Shelby was enamored with him!</div>
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From what I hear, it made his weekend.</div>
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Shelby isn't great with guys, so I too, felt this as pretty epic!</div>
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On Monday Shelby was left a surprise from her best friend MaKayla.</div>
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M's grandmother actually bought the girl's matching Elsa hats.</div>
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Cute or what??</div>
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Shelby is obsessed with it, primarily because of the ponytail!!</div>
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Tomorrow is Friday and I am glad.</div>
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No major plans, but the weather is supposed to be super nice on Sunday!</div>
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Have a good one friends!</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-48318219836582916032015-02-03T12:01:00.000-08:002015-02-03T12:01:00.151-08:00Super Bowl Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Super Bowl Sunday isn't by any means one of my favorite days of the year unless my team is playing in it.</div>
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It seems the past few years it's the same ole' same ole.</div>
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Anyway, our neighbors hosted a party and I went until halftime.</div>
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Earlier in the day we did a whole lot of this.</div>
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Chilling.....</div>
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Then around 5pm I headed a few doors down to our friend Bryan and Shannan's house for their party.</div>
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Brad isn't big on Sunday night outings so he opted to stay home with Shelby.</div>
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FINE with me!</div>
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I brought boring chocolate chip cookies but there was some pretty amazing food on hand.</div>
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Brian made homemade periogios!!</div>
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I'm still impressed and wanting more!</div>
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They were delicious!</div>
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Must remember to make these next year!</div>
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There were also wings, ribs, sausage joe sliders, fried chicken and pickles and more!</div>
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This group really went over the top!</div>
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I love the pregame show where the show the troops overseas watching the game.</div>
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To me, football is just patriotic.</div>
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I always get teary when hearing the National Anthem and this year it was over the top!!</div>
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The halftime show was a little different with all the computer generated graphics and the mix of Katy Perry, Lenny and Missy, but I enjoyed it.</div>
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My favorite commercial?</div>
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The one with Katie Couric and Bryan Gumble talking about the internet.</div>
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So funny!</div>
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It was a fun night, but I was glad to be home and in bed by 9pm.</div>
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No, I didn't even watch the end of the game!!</div>
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I hear it was exciting though!!!</div>
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Until next year!</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-9015739667908731112015-02-02T17:22:00.001-08:002015-02-02T17:22:26.057-08:00Prayers for the Pooch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you could do me a favor tonight and say a prayer for our nearly 10-year old beagle Buddy tonight.</div>
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This past week I knew something was wrong with him and he was in pain because he was physically shaking.</div>
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I took him in and it turns out he has degenerative disc disease.</div>
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He's had an issue with his neck and back before<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(it's common with this breed)</i></span>, but after about a week he was okay.</div>
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This time, it's different.</div>
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The vet has really put the fear of God in me and I'm very worried about his condition worsening leading to paralysis.</div>
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Sooo... there are some big lifestyles changes being made.</div>
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Buddy is on strict bed and crate rest for the next 4-weeks and he's on a slew of drugs.</div>
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Everything from steroids, pain killers, antacids and more.</div>
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I literally had to make a chart to keep up with it all.</div>
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He's not allowed to walk up and down the stairs on his own.</div>
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And, no more playing fetch.</div>
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All this went down this past Friday.</div>
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One of the hardest parts is trying to make Shelby realize he can't play like he use to.</div>
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She totally got that he wasn't feeling good and it was very cute to see her try and console him.</div>
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I'm really mad at myself for not restricting him more during the day while we're at work.</div>
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I know that's when he's done the damage.</div>
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Couch surfing and bed surfing.</div>
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No more of that though.</div>
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After 8-years of freedom he's back in a crate for 9 hours a day per doctor's instructions.</div>
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From what she says, and everything I've read, that is the only way he is going to get any better.</div>
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Rest..Rest..REST..and medications.</div>
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So, that's pretty much what I've been dealing with.</div>
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Waking early to give meds, making sure he doesn't have accidents in the house due to steroids and increased thirst, carrying a 30-lb dog up and down flight after flight of stairs.</div>
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I'm just hoping our dear pooch can live several more years.</div>
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If his condition was to worsen and he is to lose use of his hind legs due to a ruptured disc we could be faced with some pretty big decisions.</div>
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Either a back/spine surgery to the tune of $5K or having to put him down.</div>
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Pretty depressing post, but it's weighing pretty heavy on me right now because Buddy has been with me through the last decade and I love him very...very much.</div>
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I might be overreacting but I'm trying to take this as serious as I can in order to prolong his time with our family.</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-54107772130149760612015-01-27T13:00:00.000-08:002015-01-27T13:00:01.577-08:00Potty Training and Big Girl Bed Update...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The first of the year brought big changes in our house and we've been somewhat hunkered down trying to make things a smooth transition.</div>
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As I mentioned in a previous post we moved Shelby into a big girl bed around the 2nd of January.</div>
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I'm not going to sugar coat things, there were some good nights, but bad ones too.</div>
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3-weeks into it, I'm hoping we are smooth sailing but just Saturday night, during our cousin sleepover she rolled and fell out of the bed.</div>
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It's pretty low so she was fine but it scared her and I went up there to console her and get her back in bed.</div>
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That's the first time that has happened, but more the issue has been her waking up after being asleep for several hours and getting out of bed and crying for us and wanting to get out of her room.</div>
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Our strategy has been to just go in there and put her back.</div>
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She cries and goes nuts, but we just close the door and hope she gets back into bed.</div>
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Again, some nights have been better than others.</div>
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Even last week, we spent 3 and 4 hours putting her back in bed.</div>
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Exhausting to say the least, but at least Brad is an awesome Dad and helps out!</div>
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We introduced Shelby to the potty months ago, but it wasn't until she got into the 2-year old class when things got serious.</div>
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She started in there right after her birthday and between them doing the routine with them daily, the potty baby my parents got her for Christmas and just encouraging her, we're almost there.</div>
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This past week the teacher kept going on and on about how great Shelby was doing with the potty so she said to go for it and send her to school in panties.</div>
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So, last Wednesday I went for it and she's done really good!!!</div>
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Her first day she had NO accidents at school or home!</div>
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Talk about proud!!!</div>
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Look how proud SHE is. </div>
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Over the weekend we had good and bad moments but still never #2, that it until last night!</div>
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I know we're not over the hump, but I'm really hoping by this weekend we'll be one step closer!</div>
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January is generally a slow month anyway with events and such so our goal was to try and get through some of these transitions before Spring and Summer travel season.</div>
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I think we're ALMOST THERE.....</div>
Dee Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331597452382575978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119024679720496114.post-63487247182284544972015-01-26T17:47:00.000-08:002015-01-26T18:16:00.780-08:00Cousin Sleepover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This past Saturday night we had our first cousin sleepover with our niece and nephew on Brad's side!</div>
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In an effort to have some sort of activity to do with all the kids we did 'make your own pizzas'.</div>
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Brad is the pizza king so this was right up his alley.</div>
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The kids got into it too even though the niece and nephew won't eat anything but cheese on their pizzas!</div>
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Brad made the famous family dough recipe and gave the kids a lesson in getting it right.</div>
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I love this picture that captures our nephew pounding his pizza dough out!!</div>
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Then onto rolling it out!</div>
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As you know we love to cook and have Shelby involved so we had enough utensils for all the kids and they loved that.</div>
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Can you imagine them trying to share?!</div>
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NO! ha!</div>
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As I mentioned, our niece and nephew only wanted cheese on theirs but Shelby loves olives and tomatoes so we added some of those to hers.</div>
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It was a lot of fun and a great chance to make memories.</div>
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I say this about everything, but maybe we'll do it again and make it an annual event.</div>
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Good times eating their masterpieces!</div>
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After dinner the boys retreated to play video games downstairs and us girls watched the original Annie.</div>
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I love that movie..even after all these years....</div>
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Everyone in the Northeast is bracing for a blizzard and I secretly wish we were getting a little bit of it just to have a few days off and hunker inside!</div>
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No such luck it seems..........</div>
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