Neighbors

When we came home from vacation this is what was happening next door to us.



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This is our house


Once there were woods and now they are clearing the lot. Before you couldn't even see our house until you got to the end of the street and now you can see our whole house. That lot has been for sale since before we bought our house over a year ago. And stupid us didn't think to look into it to see how much is was selling for b/c just maybe we could have bought it and prevented this from happening. Needless to say we were in shock when we came back home, we were not expecting this at all. Since there was nothing we could do about it now, the least we could hope for was to get some good neighbors.
Last week Rob was working out in the yard and this SUV pulled up and started taking pictures of the cleared lot. So Rob walked over and they began talking and come to find out they are going to be our new neighbors. I came home from work and Rob told me all about it, that they talked for a while and that he was a really nice guy. This past weekend when Rob and I were about to leave to go get some food they were next door again and this time his finace' was with him. I got to meet both of them and they are very nice. We are really happy that they will be moving next door to us.
We hate that our woods are gone but hopefully we are gaining some nice neighbors.

Vacation 2009 Part 2

Sorry everyone but on our vacation I took about 176 pictures. And we were gone for more than a week so there is a lot to post about. The last weekend we were in Destin some of our good friends came down. Amanda & Leon and also Matt. Matt came early Friday and we hung out on the dock most of the afternoon. We did have to come in at one point for a short afternoon rain. Amanda and Leon got there Friday evening and we went to eat at Louisianna Lagniappe (my FAVORITE)! I have never had a bad meal from there, if you are ever in Destin you should definitely go eat there. We had lots of fun.

Saturday morning we all got up and spent all day down at the dock fishing, swimming and of course laying out. We all got a lot of sun. Saturday night we cooked a great dinner. Rob had caught crab in the crab traps all week so we boiled some crab and shrimp and then broiled some fish. I also made some twice baked potatoes to go with everything. That was one of the best meals that we had.

Sunday we got up early and had to get the house cleaned before we left. I can't tell you just what a wonderful vacation this was. It was nice just to get away from everyday life for a bit. It was so amazing getting to spend so much time with my husband. It was like we were on our honeymoon all over again. We have such amazing friends and are so glad that we got to spend part of our vacation with them.

Here are a few more pictures to recap our wonderful time at the beach!

P.S. You can click on the collages to make the pictures bigger. I know most of you probably know that but this message is mainly for my mother...i love you mom!

Vacation 2009

** Just to warn you, this is probably going to be a long post and be prepared for lots of pictures. I might make 2 posts out of it.**

Well, we are back from vacation. We went to our beach house in Destin, FL. for 10 days. We left heading to Destin Thursday July 9th and came home Sunday July 19. It was such a nice getaway! My parents and sister were down there the first weekend we were there and then Rob, Allie and I stayed the rest of the week. The following weekend some of our friends came down. The first weekend started off with my dad wanting to put in a new hot water heater at the house b/c the one there was over 20 yrs. old and we didn't want it busting and flooding the house while we weren't there. Well of course Rob was there to help. They spent all day Friday and most of Saturday putting that thing in. It was definitely a job but at least Rob was there to help.

Friday evening we all got a drink and headed down to our dock to watch one of the many beautiful sunsets.

Saturday we went to and early dinner for my birthday. We ate at a great place called Guglielmo's, it's an Italian and seafood restaurant and it was delicious. Then we went back to the house and mom went ahead and let me open presents. My birthday really wasn't til Sunday. I got a great scrapbook that my mom had put together for me and Rob. It had some of our baby pictures up to when we started dating and she is also giving me another one filled with all of our wedding festivities. My mom is so wonderful! I got money from my grandmother and then a great Gardening book from my Aunt Ty. I can't wait to try it out.

Sunday morning I woke up to a wonderful birthday surprise. My husband surprised me with a beautiful diamond cross necklace. I had told him not to get me anything, that we would just go to a nice dinner but he surprised me anyway. He is such a wonderful husband!! Rob's cousin Blaise joined us Sunday afternoon, he and Rob spent time in the water while I soaked up some sun.

We ate at Harbor Docks Sunday night and then Rob and Blaise went out while Allie and I went to bed.

Monday morning we woke up to it storming outside. Blaise left so Rob and I just layed around most of the day. It stormed all day on Monday. The rest of the week was absolutely beautiful. On Wednesday we went and got massages at the Edge of Paradise Day Spa, they were amazing. We hadn't had a massage since our honeymoon, and our honeymoon was the first time we had ever had one so after that we knew we had to get another one and vacation was the perfect time. We spent all of our days down on the dock fishing and soaking up the sun. Allie had a blast and has turned into a beach dog.

Pictures of our Sunsets....how gorgeous are those?!




Our beach dog! She even swam for the first time!

We had so much fun. We went out to eat every night. We went to Captain Daves which was amazing, we went to Osaka which is a japanese restaurant in Destin and it was great. We ate at the Ocean Club one night and it was amazing. We also ate at The Melting Pot which was a fun experience but I doubt I will eat there again or at least not for a long time, it was way too expensive but at least we tried it. We had fun just fishing, catching some crab and laying out, what more could you ask for!

Since this post is already long enough and you are probably tired of reading it and looking at all the pictures i am going to do a vacation post part two to sum our vacation up. Happy Reading :)!

July 4th Weekend

We started off our weekend with a bang. Friday Rob and I headed to Lanett, AL., yeah I had never heard of it either. It's right above Auburn almost right at the Georgia line. The reason we headed up that way was to get Rob a new truck. We had been looking at trucks for a while and the best deal we found was in Lanett so we headed up there on Friday. We went up there with one offer and one offer only. If they didn't take our offer then we would leave without a truck and keep looking. Well guess what, yeah they took our offer...ahhh!! We were so excited and couldn't believe that we would be heading back to troy in a new truck. It is super nice and Rob couldn't be more excited.

On Saturday the 4th we just cooked out at our house. It was just me, rob, allie and my sister sara. We cooked hotdogs, homemade mac & cheese and cookie brownie bars. We also made some rotel dip. We were able to hear and see some of the fireworks from our house. My sister Sara and I went to see The Proposal, it was hilarious you should really go see it.

It was a quiet but a very good 4th, i couldn't think of a better way to spend it than with my husband, allie dog and sister. I hope that everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. I will leave you with a few pictures from our cookout.

We are headed to Destin for vacation, we will be there for 11 days and I cannot wait. I will post pictures when we get back!

The Gresham's

This past weekend I went up to Birmingham to visit my sister Anna and my brother in law Cole. They just bought a new house and I hadn't seen it yet. I got up there Friday night and took a tour of their new house, which is so nice!

We also ate at Botega Friday night which was wonderful. Saturday we shopped all afternoon and then Saturday night we got to keep this little guy. This is Anna & Cole's nephew Miles. He is absolutely adorable and we had a blast.

It was such an amazing weekend that I didn't want to leave. I always enjoy time that I get to spend with my sister. Thank you Gresham's for having me and I can't wait to come back.

This was not the best picture of us, it was taken pretty late at night.