Lifes Little Adventures...

Lifes Little Adventures...

Friday, February 24, 2012

Mountain Weekend

The weekend of February 10th -12th we planned a couples mountain weekend getaway at my Grandparents mountain house in Highlands, NC. It was so nice to get away for the weekend. We went with 2 other couples (The Masters and soon to be Pratts ) and we all had a great time! It snowed a lot while we were there too! It didn’t stick, but I think it is safe to say it was the most snow we will see in NC this winter. On Friday night, we relaxed by the fire and played some drinking games. On Saturday the guys played golf (yes in the snow- hah!) and poker and the girls went to downtown to go shopping, it was a VERY successful trip (maybe too successful!)

Saturday night we went and had a good dinner at Cypress then went and had some drinks at the Ugly Dog.


It was an awesome weekend! I can’t wait to go back when it’s a little warmer, we are already planning our next trip there.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Mary Tyler Bolt

This past weekend I got to go and meet my new niece! Marion (Mary) Tyler Bolt was born on 2/16 at 12:06 AM, 7.13 pounds and 20 inches.
She was just so beautiful, sweet and cuddly, I could have held her all day! I got to see her Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I just could not get enough, I am so in love with her. She looks so much like Britt when she was a baby, I am so excited to see her grow up. Brittney and Matt are doing great and I know they will both be wonderful parents! Here are some pictures from the weekend…








While in Greenville, we got to spend some time with the in-laws (and Abby!). Matt’s Dad and Katie had a get together on Saturday night due to the fact that they are moving to Louisville this week. We will be very sad to not have them so close by but it is only a temporary 2 year move for his job and then they will be back. It was so great to see them and spend some time with sweet Abby, she is getting so big!
Look at her looking at the camera, what a ham! :)

So precious!


As you can see Matt and I had a very baby filled weekend! We are so blessed with beautiful, sweet and adorable baby girls in our family!

Thursday, January 26, 2012

2011 Recap

Ok so I must confess, sometimes it is really hard for me to motivate myself to keep this blog alive. Not to mention I am not even sure if anyone reads it anymore-haha! But I do love having the documentation…At the end of 2011 I was looking back at my posts from the year and it is a great way to remember all of the highlights.
However, it was a reminder that I did not do so well at keeping my resolutions for 2011. So this year I am not going to post them and we will see if that helps with my follow through!

2011 was a great year for us! As I did last year in 2010, here is a summary of all of the great things I experienced and new places I saw throughout the year:

2011 Highlights:
  • January- New Years in New Orleans!
  • February- Weekend trips to Charleston for Valentines day and ATL for Courts B-day
  • March- Matt and I went to Vegas!
  • April-I became an Aunt to my beautiful niece Grace Austen Rowland!
  • May- Turning 26 (but let’s face it, nothing too exciting about that…)
  • June- Work trip to Papagayo in Costa Rica, Kingsmore Beach Week and Loadholdt Beach Week (or weekend in our case :p) both in Charleston!
  • July- Matt and I had the best 10 day vacation ever: Amalfi Coast, Italy (Sorrento), Rome, Santorini, Greece and Athens! Totally a once in a lifetime bucket list trip that I will never forget!
  • August- OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Work Trip to Italy (Florence and Rome), Chicago for Andrew and Christine’s Wedding and Jess and Adams wedding in Charlotte
  • September- I think our whole month of September was dedicated to Clemson Football!
  • October- work trip to Vegas, small college reunion for the Clemson/UNC game and Becca and Kyles wedding in Spartanburg
  • November- Charleston for Cam and Heathers Wedding
  • December- My beautiful sister in law Abigail Katherine Kern was born! Clemson Tigers won the ACC Championship and I got a new car!

We rung in the new year at Snowshoe, WV with Maggie, Neil, Becca and Kyle. We had a great time, although I discovered my skiing has not improved but has in fact only gotten worse. Nonetheless it was a fun time with great friends! Here are some pictures from our trip of us bringing in the New Year.







2012 has already started out great so far with our New Years Ski Trip and a belated Incentive Travel Solutions “Work Christmas Party” aka weekend getaway for us and a guest in Charleston! I can’t wait to see what the rest of the year has in store for us!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Christmas Recap

Ok so as ALWAYS I have A LOT to catch you up on.

First and Foremost is Abigail Katherine Kern! Matt’s dad and his step mom are the proud parents of beautiful Abigail! She was born on 12/19/11 weighing 7 pounds and 5 ounces, just in time for Christmas! We got to spend time with her over the Holidays and she was just SO sweet!


Proud brother!



me with my new sister in law!

Speaking of Christmas…we had such a wonderful Christmas this year! Christmas is just such a great reminder of how blessed we are. We got to spend time with all of our families and of course got some great presents!

My FAVORITE present I received was from my sweet husband who TOTALLY surprised me (which I might add is very hard to do!) I had been telling Matt if he was looking for Christmas ideas for me that I really wanted a Michael Kors watch. He had asked me several questions about it so I was not totally surprised when I opened his present on Christmas morning to find this Michael Kors box:


However, I was very surprised when I opened the box and there was no watch, but a note instead...


So you can imagine how surprised I was when I walked outside to the garage and saw this:




I was in total shock!!!!

Just to preface this, Matt’s car lease was up this month so in November and December we had been doing lots of online research looking for cars for him. We were looking at some used SUV’s but we were nowhere close to deciding on anything. Matt’s stepmom had recently gotten a new model of this same Lexus and so he knew that I loved it but we had not been looking at any cars even close to this nice and we certainly were not looking at cars for ME! I had bought a new Camry after college so I was not expecting to be getting a new car to drive for a looooong time. I was so surprised that he could pull something like this off without me having any clue! He is too good to me, it was such a great and sweet surprise and not to mention I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!!

Here are some more photos from the Holidays...

9 people deep in the car on the way to see the lights and feed the animals at Hollywild



Matt playing Santa

Christmas Town USA!