Charlotte

A few weeks ago I traveled to Charlotte, NC to visit my friend Kristen :)  I hate not living in the same city as her.  We would have the best Bachelor viewing parties on Monday nights and an endless wardrobe due to sharing clothes.  I still at some point want us to be pregnant at the same time so we can power walk around the neighborhood together.....haha. Yes, these are the things I think about it.


I arrived on Thursday, didn't see Emily at the airport traveling to visit Jef :( booo, there is always next time).


Every Thursday in the summer, Charlotte has a "Live after 5", it's on a rooftop and they usually have a few bands, etc.  We went to dinner at Vapianos and then headed to the Live after 5.  I had so much fun.  I love stuff like this and seeing a diverse group of people.  I feel like everyone looks the same in Bham, so its nice to have a change of scenery. 

I believe this place was started in Germany.  I like the concept.  When you enter the restaurant they give you a card, you then go to a food station and order what you would like (they cook it in front of you) and you scan your card at the food station and it adds it to your bill.  You do this at each station, so that at the end of your meal they swipe your card and you pay.  

I chose the Pasta station-

Now on to Live after 5

Large crown and stage

The band was really good and of course we were front and center

Friday

We headed to Kristen's parents- I love them!  Bonnie goes all out when she has guests.  We had sandwiches for lunch and I was impressed with the spread- sooooo tasty. 

Impressed by my plate?  Don't worry, I enjoyed a cookie or two afterwards.....

Mr. Rob is quite the Margarita Maker

By far, the best Marg I have ever had

ha!

A little volleyball action

I like how our arms are all in "ready mode"

After using my mad skills in volleyball I needed to rest with Bonnie's summer drink, "Pink Bikini"

Saturday

Love them

Toni and Whit met in Germany and he will be moving to the states soon!

Brewery Tour

I always take a picture of my food....

Corn hole- this was my second time to play EVER- I get really intense

Evening

Saturday night we celebrated Sean's birthday.  Kristen rented two party peddlers.......Check them out here.  It was quite the work out and lots of fun!  We peddled through downtown Charlotte stopping at pubs along the way.  People were taking pics of us and waving, we were quite the celebrities.  

Here we go!

One of our pub stops

We had 20 people, so 2 trolleys

The bday boy

We may have sang karaoke on the bike

We then headed out "uptown" and the only pic I have is of Kristen and me at the pizza place before heading home.  Btw- best pizza of my life (they fly in the dough from NYC).

Sunday

We slept in and then had lunch at, Bad Ass Burgers.  I got the Turkey Burger (with grilled apples), yum yum.

Miss them already :(

I get to see Kristen again in September! woo hoo

Charlotte Teaser

                                      Stay tuned to find out what this contraption is.............................................

Random

I'm in the mood to blog, although I don't really have a topic right now- So this is going to be random.

I am sooo in the mood to travel.  My friend Hayes just returned from Italy and Greece and I have a friend traveling throughout Europe right now AND my boss is headed to Vancouver and Greece this summer.  Geez Louise right?  I have the bug- So if anyone wants to take me somewhere I will go!

I would love for my next long weekend trip to be to Austin, TX- I have always wanted to go there.
I want to go to Vegas too, I wish I knew someone turning 30- I will def be going out of my 20s with a bang there.
I also really really really want to go to Greece.

One day when I have time, I plan on blogging about my Spain travels. One day...........

I'm loving island coconut coffee right now.  I add a dash of Bailey's Irish Cream Coffee Creamer and it's perfection, I promise you :)

Gabe had his 3 year check up recently.  The doctor was super impressed with him :)  He asked if he could count to 10 and was picking up on words.  I said, umm heck yeah- he can count to 30, 10 in Spanish and knows almost all of the 50 states in alphabetical order :) So, take that! ha.  People do tell me all the time how smart he is, but I honestly don't have anything to compare him to, so it's all I know.  I haven't been around other 2 and 3 year olds to know the difference.

Stats from the doctor

Weight- 30.2lbs
Height- 36 1/4 inches
Head- 19.5 inches

No shots this visit, but they did have to prick his finger and if you ask him what they were doing he will tell you, "they had to check my hemoglobin".


Aren't these so cute?  They are currently out of stock, but I'm going to buy them as soon as they come in!  If you ask him what kind of shoes he wants he will tell you "grey Toms".  ha- Love it.

My recent purchases:

Loving this-  My face feels so clean and smooth after use.  I use every night and use the scrub with it once maybe twice a week.  Only $30.00

Pictures from the week-

I was CRAVING guacamole on Tuesday so my hot date and I went to Cocina Superior.  He loved it, he waved to everyone that walked by, got to drink a Mexican Strawberry Soda out of a "bottle" and asked our waiter for a pair of latex gloves (which he got).  

mmmm, mojito

Chugging his soda

We then went across the street to Sweet Frogs.  Below is "Scoop" he came out to talk to Gabe (we were the only people in there).  

Yesterday, I was stuck in traffic for an hour and a half, 65 was shut down from 3:30 till 8:00pm due to a 2 vehicle accident in which 2 people lost their lives :( Really sad, Prayers out to their families.  Gabe has to be picked up by 6pm or I have to pay extra and I don't really have anyone to depend on when it comes to things like that except my sweet friend Brooke.  She saved me and changed her plans last minute to go get him for me :)  She took him to the mall and I met them there and Gabe got to ride Scoop's brother on the carousel. ha!  Gabe was a wild man last night.  I can not control him sometimes.  He was sprinting all over the mall and I'm sure I looked like a mad woman chasing him.  He finally slowed down for a second and starting singing jingle bells at the top of his lungs in the middle of the food court.  People were stopping to listen and had their phones out video taping him.  Oh my child............haha

We finally got home around 8 30, bath time for G, then bed, then I may have enjoyed a bubble bath and candles because I needed a break.  Looking forward to a weekend of laziness!  All I want to do is clean out closets and drawers and watch a red box movie....maybe a pedicure in there somewhere :)

It's almost Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Labor Day Weekend- Charlotte, NC

I just want to say Praise God I made it home safely from Charlotte.  I went over labor day weekend to visit my bestie Kristen.  I don't think I will be flying again for a while.  My flight was delayed about 30 minutes due to the weather.  We boarded and took off in the drizzly rain.  Once we were above the clouds it was smooth soaring for about 30 minutes.  We began to make our decent and my stomach began to knot.  Lots of turbulence!  I clinched to the armrest as I prayed over and over while taking deep breaths.  The pilot announced, "well folks, we attempted to land but hit a gust of wind and they have directed us to circle around and try again....if it doesn't work we will reasses the situation".....Who wants to hear that on a plane?  If it doesn't work??????  I felt like I was about to throw up.  I'm sure the passenger next to me would have liked that.  We did land and everyone on the plane burst into clapping and cheering- whew.  Scary stuff.

The weekend was great though!  I love Kristen and miss her so much!

Hot Hot

I was feeling Bonnie's sunglasses

Bonnie knows how to put together a great party

My friend is hot

About to go out of the town

Lake Day!

Sean and Kristen

One day we will be next door neighbors and share maternity clothes and power walk around the neighborhood together :)