A Hokie's first trip to "Saturday in Athens"

Jarod's Dad worked his booty off to get six tickets to UGA's homecoming game against Vanderbuilt for all of us.  I have grown up a Virginia Tech Hokie and graduated from there in 2007, so this was my first picnic watching the Dawgs play football (at their home stadium- VT and UGA played in a bowl game a few years ago which my Hokies lost so we won't talk about that).  I absolutely loved the atmosphere and had a wonderful weekend with the family!!  Jarod and I drove down Friday night and met his parents and we all went to dinner at PF Changs at the Mall of Georgia.  This is one of our FAVORITE restaurants and it never disappoints!  If you've never eaten at one, you MUST try it!  Everything is amazing and the portions are big enough to split, which is a plus! 
Mandy & Travis drove down later on Friday night and we all went to the game on Saturday. It was pretty special because we got to see Uga VIII inducted!!  Enjoy the pics!

Go Dawgs!!  (Still and ALWAYS a Hokie though!) :)

Lilly's 2nd Birthday Bash

Our first born pup, Lilly, whom we love more than any human should love an animal, turned a big 2 years old on October 20th!!!!  Being the good Mommy that I am, I stopped by Petsmart and picked up some goodies for our little girl. 

As you can tell, she was pretty excited about the events that were happening!  She absolutely LOVED her supper that Chef Michaels created just for her- filet mignon, and throughly enjoyed her cookie treats.  Unfortunately, Ms. Piggy only was with us for a few days.  Lilly chewed off her legs and Ms. Piggy took a trip to the dump. 

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY LILLYBUG!!!! We love you more than words can say! :)

Promised Wedding Pictures!

As promised, here are some pictures from our wedding!

Those are just a handful of pictures! Our photographer, Sam Stroud, was absolutely amazing! It was hard to pick ones to put on here!  Hope you are having a wonderful Thursday! I sure am ready for this week to be over!  Jarod is actually off this weekend (with the exception of working Saturday morning a few hours) so we are planning on spending lots of time together! :)

Happy Thursday!

First year anniversary

Jarod and I just celebrated our first Wedding Anniversary!!  We were married on August 1, 2009 at 5pm.  Since Jarod was/and still is on a four straight months of medicine (a 6 day a week rotation), we decided to take an early anniversary trip to Charleston, SC!  This was the first time for the both of us to visit this beautiful city.  Here are some pics from our trip!

This is the King Charles Hotel we stayed at!  It's super duper nice and VERY convenient to everything!  You can pretty much walk every from the hotel. 

We ate here our first night there!  It's "Hanks Seafood" and it is wonderful! 

My handsome husband waiting in the shade for our first carriage ride! We took two our trip :)

Drove down to the Battery and walked around.  It felt like it was 15 degrees warmer down there than up near our hotel so we didn't stay too long...

On our "real" anniversary, We got all dressed up and went to dinner at "Frankie Rowlands" in downtown Roanoke.  It was the first picnic for both of us and we were not disappointed!  The food there is AMAZING and the service is just as good!  After getting oysters rockefeller for an appetizer, steaks and three sides (we split them) for dinner, they brought us out a "free" dessert!  It was decorated really cute so we had to take a pic!

Me with the beautiful flowers Jarod sent me at work and the anniversary cake we ordered from the same lady that made our wedding cake- same flavors too!  It was delicious!

We had a wonderful weekend and I cannot wait to spend the next 60+ years with my Husband!  He is the best thing that's ever happened to me!  The first year of marriage was better than anything that I could have ever hoped for!  I am one lucky girl!

I'll post again (maybe today) with some wedding pics :)

Have a fabulous Friday!!

Playing catch up

I've been a bad blogger! I started this thing and havent' kept up with it!  I wasn't sure if Hubby would like the blog but he LOVES it! He asked me last night to update it so here we are!  The past two weekends have been great!!  Last weekend we met my parents at the Salem Red Sox game and then went and ate a late supper at Macados with them! We had a blast and SWEATED alot!!! 

My Dad, Mom and Jarod

Me & my Love :)

This one is a little dark! Me with my parents :)

On Saturday we enjoyed a lazy day at home with Lilly! Jarod has some work to do on the computer so we watched tv and I played with Lilly while he got that done. This past weekend, Jarod was post call on Friday so we took it easy that night. Saturday was spent at the house (Jarod was exhausted) watching tv and enjoying being together. We went out to supper to a really good sushi restaurant (Poor Billy's) in Blacksburg with Travis and had a great time! Their sushi is AMAZING! Sunday, Jarod worked and got home around Noon so we had sandwiches at home, went to the gym and ran, had Church at 6:00 then went to supper together at Ruby Tuesdays. It was a relaxing and nice weekend! Next weekend is our FIRST wedding anniversary!! Jarod is on call Friday night so we plan on going to Roanoke and having a nice dinner and hopefully spending the day together on Sunday! (Not sure if he has to work yet or not) Whatever we do together, I'm sure we'll have a blast :) Maybe I'll even get a good blog with good pics out of it?!? he he....Hope you're having a wonderful Monday!!!

Happy Thursday!!!

Words to live by...I wonder what my gift is???

I hope everyone has a beautiful Thursday!

The Bailey Bunch

I finally have a sister!!!  Travis (J's brother) and Mandy tied the knot at St. Simons Island in GA over the weekend.  It was absolutely beautiful and boy was it.....HOT!!!!  It was definitely worth sweating through the ceremony (J and I were both in the wedding) to see two of our favorite people pledge their love & commitment in front of all of their loved ones. 

The "weekend" (and I say weekend loosely because we flew down to Valdosta on Wednesday night and flew home on Sunday) went by quicker than any other weekend!  J had an interview with a hospital in Valdosta thursday morning, which went great!!  After the interview, we all ran errands to get prepared for the wedding festivities and finally arrived in St. Simons around 5:30.  We went to supper at Bennie's Red Barn with a huge crowd of family! It was great except the "barn" was literally 83492837 degrees inside. 

Here's the good ol' barn....
On Friday morning, the ladies had the bridal luncheon at the King & Prince Hotel which was AHH-MA-ZING.  It was beautiful, the food was delish, and it was nice to spend time with all the bridesmaids, Moms, aunts, cousins, etc!  We ate lunch, opened gifts from Mandy and made our way back to the Hotel to change and get ready for the Rehearsal and Rehearsal dinner.  While at the rehearsal, Brooke & Kirby, who are teachers I might add, told the two little flower girls that if they didn't get rid of all of their flowers walking down the aisle, to DUMP the rest of their flowers out at the end of the aisle.  Well guess what two little girls have WONDERFUL memories?!? It was the funniest thing I've seen in awhile, both girls came over and stood with us bridesmaids, took one look up at us- and KURPLUNK! All of the flowers were on the ground- It gave the crowd a good laugh...that's what their there for right?? We ended the night with a fabulous rehearsal dinner at Bonefish and tried to get to sleep at a decent hour...

Guess what time this girl was ready on Saturday morning??  And by ready, I mean-hair, makeup, dressed, lipstick on and ready to go- Just take a guess......Okay you're never going to guess- 7:45AM on Saturday morning.  Yes, you read that correct.  The wedding started at 11:30 so we had pictures starting at 9:30.  It was all worth it though to see Mandy's dream wedding come true!

The ceremony & reception were absolutely beautiful and couldn't have been more perfect!  I hope to steal borrow pictures from people who took pictures (sorry, I have an old-ish camara) Maybe my Hubby will buy me the new one that I've been wanting for awhile??  That would definitely help in my ever evolving blogging skills! 

Here's a picture of two of the cutest ring bearers you'll ever find!

Aren't they adorable?? They did a great job and are actually going to make some cash out of it- two ring bearers for $100/hour to anyone that needs them!  It's going towards their elementary education fund.  (I kid, I kid!)

I'll leave you with a picture of the beautiful Bride & Groom- more pictures to come!