It's been a while

Hi there...I know it has been a while since I last posted. Quick update and some pics...

For Thanksgiving we went to Pam & Keith's house with my parents and the entire Ferencz family. And then on the following Saturday we went to my cousin Jayna's place for dinner with my parents & my aunt and uncle.







Also, I started a new job doing graphic design at a store near our place that has a printing department...mostly invitations and stationary. fun :)

North Carolina Fun!

Last Thursday we drove to Asheville for our anniversary and stayed at a GREAT bed & breakfast.



Asheville was such an awesome city...beautiful mountain surroundings along with so many great shops and restaurants. I don't think we saw one chain. The first night we ate at a place called Tupelo Honey Cafe. All the food (meat & produce) are local from the owners farm.



The next day we walked to downtown and spent the entire day walking around the shops and on Saturday we went to the Western North Carolina farmers market. We bought an obsurd amount of green beans and a bunch of other yummies. I already made homemade apple sauce, mashed sweet potatoes, and of course sauteed & boiled green beans.



Anyways, then we drove to Greensboro to spend the night with Kevin's sister Amy and her hubby Matt. They took us to a their favorite sushi place Sushi Republic for our anniversary. Then we stopped by this new hotel for a drink, Proximity, that is an all green hotel. It was very cool.



Sunday afternoon we drove over to Chapel Hill to visit Amy & Peyton and kids. We also got to see a bunch of college friends (Kevin's groomsmen) and also meet Jason's fiance Gray & Chris's girlfriend Katie. Peyton was my campus minister in college but he and Amy moved up to NoVa so we used to see a lot of them. Thankfully they are up here all week visiting so we are dogsitting for them b/c their friends they are staying with don't allow any pets.



Overall we had a really fantastic vacation. It was so nice just to get away, and have no plans (except to relax).

Happy 2nd Anniversary to us!!!

Today is our 2 year anniversary! On Thursday we are taking a long weekend to a B&B in Asheville called The Chestnut Street Inn We are staying in the Zen Retreat room. We are staying there 2 nights and then driving to Greensboro, via Winston Salem to visit my old roomie Kathryn, and staying over night with Kevin's sister Amy and her hubby Matt. Sunday we are driving over to Raliegh to visit the guys & Amy and Peyton and kids :) Then home on Monday. We are Super excited for this mini road trip! I'll post pics when we get back.

Marine Corp Marathon

Kevin's dad ran the marathon for the 2nd year in the row...and his time was almost an hour faster than last year...Go Sid!

Updates

Ugh...I have been SO lazy when comes to updating the blog...so here are some updates.

Brunch with family (Kevin & baby Gianna)


Guy time (Nate, JOey & Kevin)...while I helped Alison work on this, shall we say interesting, wedding cake



Babysitting Gianna :)


Reston Zoo with Morgan & Corbin (I don't know that we can say this is really a zoo...although their were a few very cute zebras)


Pumpkin Carving Party! (Alison, Allison & Kevin w/our awesome pumpkins)

Iron & Wine concert

We had a really great time at the Iron & Wine concert! I got Kevin these tix for his birthday, 9:30 club was a great venue for it. Right after was the Roots concert which I WISH I had tix for! Afterwards we went out to eat at Jaleo, yum! The have the best Sangria!!

The Great Bunny Chicken

Francesca is going to be a chicken for halloween...

North Carolina Weekend!

This past weekend we had fun in NC visiting with friends and family!


Saturday we had lunch a SUPER cute place in Jamestown (near Greensboro) with Kevin's Grandma, Aunt Janet and Cousin Jennifer with her new baby!

I found this super cute chair that I really love...I'm always drawn back to orange!
We celebrated Kevin's birthday again with his family and with a bunch of friends that came from Raleigh and Winston Salem. It was SO great to see everyone, especially Kathryn, my college roommate who I hadn't seen in 2 years!

Family Reunion Time!

Over Labor day Kevin and I went to PA with my parents for my family reunion. It was a great time (as always). We ate lots of food, watched videos from past reunions back from when my grandparents were young, played some bocce & mora, and had an all around wonderful time. We also had dinner with my Grandpap (my mom's dad) & splurged on the famous Hank's frozen Custard. Yum!

What's new?

Hi there! so I haven't posted anything in while. We have been keeping busy. We celebrated Kevin's 26th birthday on Saturday August 25th (his bday is the 27th). Also, by bff Morgan's birthday was the 28th, so after Kevin's party we went to dinner to celebrate.

Fun with tomatoes!

This Saturday we had breakfast with 4 of our favorite people, the Crump family, Amy, Peyton, Asher & Ainsley.

We then went to the farmers market to buy some tomatoes for the cookout we were having later that day at my parents...

Happy Birthday Anita & Jeremy

This weekend we celebrated my aunt's and my cousin's husband's birthdays with a cookout and some yummy cake from Cakelove.

Oh Baby!

How cute is this baby?!!

Fabulous Stationary Contest

I just entered the Fabulous Stationary Contest offered through decor8. Here is my submission, there are a lot of great entries!

Summer Garden

Here are some pictures of my parent's garden. The brightly colored dahlia's and others on the front porch chair are to replace the ones that they neglected, and in turn killed while I was in the DR - plant murder. I'm desperate for my own garden...a 4th floor balcony does not count, no matter how large it is :)

We're back!

Hi everyone, we are back from the DR! It is great to be home in our own bed, but we have to admit that we miss those kids already, SO MUCH! Here are a few pics from our trip. There are SO many more so let me know if I haven't sent them to you yet :)