Valle Crucis (The Vale of the Cross)

Valle Crucis is where Daniel and I will spend our Anniversary weekend coming up... Just wanted to share a little history and some pics. We will be staying in the valley in an old historic farm house called The Mast Farm Inn! Read the history of Valle Crucis here http://www.vallecrucis.com/history/index.html it is really interesting (well most of it) :).

Mast Farm Inn

I hope I can take some photos as good as these! Can't wait!

The Ward House in October

It is a gorgeous Sunday afternoon and I decided to share with you all some pictures of our home. :) We just recently painted the kitchen, dinning room and living room. I am really excited about it. It adds so much to the rooms!This is the view as we drive up to our house.
Pretty Mum!
Right outside of our front door we have some daylilies from Daniel's Mamaw's house.

Our front door with Pumpkin and wreath. YOU HAVE to have a pumpkin in the Fall!!

Dinning room picture.

Dinning room.

Living room.

Living room.

Daniel watching football!! :)

Wedding pics...

More wedding pics...

Kitchen (new green color!)

Living room again.

Heading up stairs.

Guest bedroom.

Guest Bath.

Our bedroom (kinda hard to see cause it's so bright.)

My girls...

To Megan (who will probably never see this), Jenni, Marie and Katie... & Megan McWag (who isn't present in this pic... )

I LOVE YOU... I really do. I can't express how thankful I am to have you in my life. I am so appreciative that the Lord has blessed me with friends that love the Lord and ARE SO MUCH FUN to be around!

Just a warning... I found a bunch of photo CDs from back in the day that I will be going through soon and posting some OLD pics on here (hopefully not too embarrassing). :)

Family Time...

and all that comes with that!

HAHAHA... I just looked at this picture for the first time in detail. Please look at Zoe's face... this is her saying "Cheese". I just laughed hysterically when I saw this.

Triangle Heart Ball

Daniel and I have joined as volunteers with the American Heart Association for the Triangle Heart Ball in February of 2009. It is a black tie event where they have a silent auction and live auction of items people around the triangle have donated. The evening is called Venetian Carnival Unmask Your Heart's Desires. (explains the photo)

Examples: ACC tickets, Dance lessons, Cooking lessons from the chef at Red Room, Getaways to the beach or New York, wine, Designer handbags, Memberships to the museums, spa services....

All of the proceeds go to the American Heart Association. :)

If you know of anyone who would be willing to donate an item or their priceless time PLEASE let me know!!!!

Daniel's Birthday

We celebrated Daniel's first birthday as a married man on Saturday! :) He is now 25. We had a lot of fun. Last wednesday night we got to hang out with our Bible study group (Megan, Nate, Katie, Paul, Jenni, Andy, Marie & Chris) for D's bday. We ate at PeiWei and then played a little Pictionary and Catchphrase. I don't think I have laughed that hard in a LONG time. The night ended with watching Youtube videos. This explains the photo of us sitting around the laptop.

I wish I had taken more picture. I don't think I took even one picture on Daniel's actually birthday:( so not like me. But we had a great time and I can't believe we have almost been married for one year.

Here are a couple of pictures...sorry they aren't very good quality. My camera was sick that night.

Summer is ending...

as sad as that is to say, we are now into September which means Fall will be here soon (YAY!). Anywhooo this summer has been so busy and so much fun. Here are a few pictures from our last beach trip and some other fun times with the fam.

Zoe is a very smart girl...although did not already learn how to draw her name in the sand. (that was Kel.:))

She is just a little sassy.

Daniel ("D") and Zoe in Beaufort.

Kellie and Micah. We were celebrating Kel's bday!

Daniel and I went to Raleigh Wide Open one night. It was really fun!

Raleigh is really stepping it up.

I got to hang out with Zoe Jane the other night at our house. She is getting so big and so beautiful! The night ended with her taking a bath and i loved this picture of her little toezies....