See if you can do this in less than 3 minutes!

Place The State - Intermediate
Place The State - Intermediate

See if you can beat me:

96% correct, Error of 7 miles off, in 200 seconds :)

The brick patio is just about complete!!!

After some back breaking work on a steamy Saturday afternoon, we completed the brick patio! It was a lot more work than we wanted to believe and moving over 400 bricks and tamping them down, was exhausting! We've still got some asthetic details to finish up, but at least the bricks are set and we can USE it! We're still looking at patio furniture and trying to decide what else we want to do with the patio area (cover it with an arbor or something similar).

Quick shots (may be a little blurry, my camera fogged up):

July Fourth weekend trip

Paul and I hit the road for the holiday weekend to visit my family in Atlanta. Thanfully the roadtrip part was pretty easy - we took a slightly different route that kept us off I-95 and off I-85 in downtown Atlanta (i.e. 40/85 to Greensboro, 85S to Charlotte, 77S to Columbia and 20W to Conyers and then A LOT of backroads).

We spent some quality time with the 'rents and their foster/adopted kitty, "Raleigh." (can you tell they miss NC?) Raleigh is an inside cat (being that he is declawed and recent attacked by something...), but he gets a few hours of outside time every day to watch the birds and nap...



The highlight of the trip (besides all the food) was going down to Jackson Lake for the day. My uncle Russ has a very nice boat and he was kind enough to drive us around the lake on Saturday afternoon (NO STORMS! can you believe it?! I'm a storm magnet down on the lake!)

Eric and Bron on the boat (did I mention is was hot as blazes out there?)


For some reason I just didn't take many pictures until after dinner (which was at an interesting little place on the lake where you pull up the boat, tie it up and walk right on in). Random 'nightshot' pictures:

Miranda on the boat


Lights on the water


Ghost, I mean, goat island


Dad and his catfish - who thankfully was thrown back


It was a great day... and sadly the boathouse has been flooded by rains from Cindy & Dennis. Hopefully, they will be able to fix it up for use the rest of the summer.

My first bridesmaid dress

I'm going to be a bridesmaid in my maid of honor's wedding this December (the first one I've EVER been in!) SO excited about that. We (the gals, bridesmaids and whatnot) went to try-on and order our dresses last night. Because this is such an exciting event for me, I had to post a picture of "the dress".



It will be in apple red (more lipstick red than the photo). I've got to seriously work on losing "flab" in my thigh/rear area and working on the muscles in my arms. Thankfully, the wedding is about 5 months away, so I've got time, right?!