As you can imagine I took a ton of pictures in Wilmington. I was scrolling through them and deleting some when I found this picture: I zoomed in to see what Ike was doing and what I saw made me laugh so hard I cried! Look at his face! Click to enlarge.

My mom and Hale (Gigi and Papa) took over 350 pictures on their Mardi Gras trip. I sorted through them all and pulled out my favorite Mardi Gras pics for you to see. Be sure to view the pics in slideshow form to be able to read al the captions. Click here party people! Some…

I mentioned before that the traditional anniversary gift for your fifth year is wood. Well, Jon and I are skipping gifts because of the adoption, and well, neither one of us is all that good a whittler. So we figured we’d have a wood free weekend. But when we got home Sunday night we had…

Alright let me begin by recapping our Wilmington trip. As you know we stayed in the wonderful Bali House, which I would recommend to anyone. But don’t be booking it up solid cause we want to go back next year!Highlights of our trip: -the house itself. We got most of our meals to go so…

It sucks when you come home from vacation and have no time to recover. I’ve been super busy the last couple of days and I’m on my way into work to learn a new computer system right now. No time to unpack or post pics yet. But I did manage to list a few new…

Got home safe last night. Had a great time. Will post pictures soon. Just got out of doctors office where I got my first hep shots. Alfo got bloodwork back from physical. all good in tha hood. Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless

Oh man is this place amazing. I want to spend a week, a month here. We’ve already decided we’re booking this house for our next anniversary. You’ve got to check it out!The pugs are having a blast. We’re about to go to lunch, then we’re taking them to the beach. They’ve loved checking out the…

March 3rd is our 5th anniversary. Traditionally we would exchange gifts made out of wood this year. Ok…… Instead we will be celebrating by taking a relaxing mini holiday in Wilmington nc. We’re staying at the fabulios Bali house. http://www.balihousenc.com Fabulous I mean. Typing with thumbs only is hard. The pugs are with is and…

Or, let the good times roll! Man, what a day. First Jon and I had our physicals for the adoption. Yay! So glad that is out of the way. Jon was really sweating it. Literally sweating like a stuck pig while getting his blood drawn. The blood sucker lady thought he was gonna pass right…

The fabulous Jane is officially my first real customer on Etsy at my Bellatini shop! I feel like a grown up business woman! Jane bought Margarita and Lola earrings. Margarita is pictured here. I’ve been working on more jewelry to list (and knitting scarves too) but since Gigi is at Mardi Gras with my camera…