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2010 In Review {part 2}

Finishing up the 2010 review…

JULY
We had our dishwashed installed right before we left for OIB for the 4th weekend.  As a result of left out Jacks & a puppy, I purchased a new pair of my favorite Jack Rogers sandals.  The Sophie & True Blood netflixs also arrived in July. 

I went up to VA for a family friend’s couples shower & met my future sister-in-law’s brother & his family & got the recipe for her pasta salad.  I proudly showed off Moe in the pet blog hop.  I received two blog awards (people liked me huh?!).  I joined in on Momma’s Munchies & we went to see the Bare Naked Ladies.

AUGUST

I went to visit my Ma & Papa & while I was there I enjoyed a wine night with Sara.  I went to see Eat, Pray Love for a girls night.  I cooked a lot in August: I made Sunny Morning muffins, participated in 2 Momma’s Munchies, discovered Kim’s banana pudding {if you like banana pudding you NEED this easy recipe!}, & I made a chilly POM pie when my parent’s came in town for a wedding.

 

I posted my cycle 6 chart.  I ended my Aug posts with a wish list Wednesday {lucky me now has all 3 items on my list!}.

SEPTEMBER

I began my Thankful Thursdays.  The Wolfpack football season began! I received litter from World’s best {still love them!}& some blog giveaway prizes. I spend a fun Saturday in Charlotte celebrating Jenny & her triplets!  I got a lil crazy & started painting my nails {I actually used this polish tonight}.  I vented some TTC frustrations & Jason & I had our 3 year anniversary.

OCTOBER

We started October in Ocean Isle & Wilmington for a wedding {which I never posted photos of, so here’s a few}.

I also participated in the Soft Bums launting of their new cloth diaper.  I went on a work trip to the NC mountains; while there I toured Lake Lure & got a bunch of apples.  I made apple cake & apple bread.  Football season continued including my parents coming down for the BC game & our awesome Thurs night win vs FSU.  We went up to Richmond for my 10 year HS reunion and I ended Oct in Charlotte visiting with Ma & helping Papa right after his surgery {also had lunch with B}.

NOVEMBER
My work did a CSA day, so I bought raspberries then made raspberry scones.  I had a cooking fail with pepper jack chicken but thanks to Alethea & her extra potatoes, I made awesome sweet potato fries.  I enjoyed girls nights & fell in love with these pumpkin cookies.

There was the last 1 home NCSU game. I went to Charlotte & had fun with Ma & Papa & uptown with B. 

Then we went to Ocean Isle for Thanksgiving & I did a lot of shopping {also received a few more giveways}.

DECEMBER

We started {& snowy Christmas trees} & ended December with snow.  I had a bit of a TTC break down but good friends helped to lift my spirits. I got caught up a reading or at least tried.  We stepped out for Cinderella & dinner with friends for my 29th b-day.

We decorated for Christmas including my owl love.  I baked oatmeal craisin cookies & did a Christmas quiz. 

The rest of December was in Charlotte: I held Ma’s hands & said goodbye then went back with Jason & the rest of the family after she slipped into a coma then passed Christmas morning.

If you got to the end of this post, THANK YOU!  Here’s to the beginning of a new year & all it ups & downs {hopefully more ups than downs} it will entail!

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2010 In Review {part 1}

Yes, I’m still on 2010! I’m done looking back after this post though, I promise.  After seeing a few “year in review” posts on my some of my favorite blogs, I thought I’d try to do a short one of my own.

JANUARY
January posts began with the web announcement of 2010 as the year we began TTC.  I also posted a huge list of my TBR pile & a yummy banana bread muffin recipe.

FEBRUARY
February was a slower posting month.  We had a low key Valentine’s Day.  I won 2 blogging awards & was really excited about it.  I ordered a Lilly scarf & this post shows up 1st if you google “Lilly Murfee Scarf” :-P.  I also left for my friend Kelly’s bachelorette trip.

MARCH

I posted about our girls weekend in FL, my work conference & our trip to visit my parents for my dad’s 55th birthday.

APRIL

April was busy!  We took our first OIB trip, Moe started using World’s Best Cat Litter, I introduced my family to Jenny’s now famous sundried tomato bagels, I planted flowers {which lasted all summer!}, & we discovered a new favorite beer.  My first twitter hop was April’s Twitter Home Tour {Jason swore this post would lead to someone breaking in-if anyone wants my 6 year old Dell laptop come on!}.

Kelly & Brett’s wedding on the 24th wedding meant bridesmaid’s lunch, rehearsal dinner & wedding posts!

MAY

May was fun!  I wished my mom & grandmothers happy mother’s day. In case you missed it, I met the Pioneer Woman & saw/met a bunch of other fun girls at the book signing.  
I did my first couple TTC charting posts.  I decided to go to the Lilly Warehouse Sale. I had a super long but super fun lunch with Jenny, Katherine & BA.
JUNE

We tried some PW recipes & I made Pineapple Crockpot Chicken for the first time.  B & I went to the Lilly Warehouse sale & loved every second!
I joined in on two blog hops: I showed off my china & our wedding.  I made Kim’s creamy enchiladas for the 1st of many times.  I received another award & won my first blog giveaway.  I went to my first ever Pamper Chef party & loved the food & product I bought.  I also found yummy strawberry banan muffin recipe & we bought a dishwasher {you know you’re old when that’s exciting}!
…last half to be posted later tonight or tomorrow…
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Christmas Quiz

I read this over at Dropped Stitches & thought it was fun but a little long! Feel free to join in if you like!

Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Really neither. I’m much prefer Hot Apple Cider.

Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa placed them on unwrapped on separate couches growing up. Within the last couple of years, Santa has decided to wrap them and we open Santa gifts along with gifts from the rest of the family.

Colored lights on tree/house or white? Growing up we did colored lights on the tree, but as I mentioned in my tree post, we do white lights now. White lights on house for sure.

Do you hang mistletoe? Nope. I think my Charlotte grandparents would have some hanging in their house, but I never have.

When do you put your decorations up? The week/weekend following Thanksgiving.

What is your favorite holiday dish? broccoli casserole or Christmas cookies. Oh and pumpkin pancakes on Christmas morning!

Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Running around with my mom, aunts & grandmother in Charlotte before Christmas. Church on Christmas Eve with my family. Spread the Christmas day gifts out so it lasts all day!

When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don’t remember when exactly… wait he’s not real?! 😛

Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? We usually do after we get home from church. Usually Christmas pjs if anyone’s getting/giving those.

How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Lights first, then ornaments, topper then tree skirt. Jason & I do it together now.

Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it because we get it so infrequently here in NC.

Can you ice skate? I’d say yes….kind of… but it’s been years since I did.

Do you remember your favorite gift? My American girl doll which was probably in elementary age. My mom has actually kept both of mine in the attic at their house. {The Nikon I’m getting this year might top this list too! Yay for being a good girl this year. 🙂 }

What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Being together with family & friends. Celebrating Jesus’ birth.

What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? cookies! I love these white chocolate cranberry cookies. I’m going to make them tomorrow.

What is your favorite holiday tradition? Waking up & doing stocking Christmas morning, then breakfast, opening some gifts, eating dinner with the family & popping Christmas crackers, more gifts then maybe a movie or a little football. Since I can remember, Mom, Nana & I have shopped the day-after-Christmas sales!

What tops your tree? At my parent’s house, an angel. At our house, a star.

Which do you prefer giving or receiving? I think you become “grown up” when you get more exciting about giving than receiving! I look so forward to seeing my family & friends open the gifts I’d gotten for them!

What is your favorite Christmas Song? Hard to choose just one! I love Silent Night {it makes me cry when we sing it my candle light on Christmas eve at church}. I love Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. It reminds we of Home Alone and watching that movie on car trips growing up over the holidays.

Candy Canes: Yuck or Yum? I like them. I don’t think I’ve had any this year though. I like the fruity ones more than minty.

Favorite Christmas Show? If you mean movie, then hands down Christmas Vacation!!

Saddest Christmas Song? Not sure. Lots of them might make me tear up if I’m in the right mood.

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Eat Pray Love

I went to see that movie tonight with a group of very fun & super nice girls. The group is more my friend Beth’s friends. I’d met a couple of them while at her house while watching The Bachelorette this season, but some I met for the first time tonight. We first grabbed dinner and some of us a quick beer at Fox & Hound. The food was good & so was the conversation, but our waitress not so much. Beth & I ended up leaving to get the rest of us seats, another two bought tickets, & the remaining ones waited for our bills & forged our signatures. Needless to say, she didn’t get great tips from us (aka Nicole!).But the movie, it was good! I’d heard the locations were fabulous & they were. Italy was cool, but even stuffed as a I was from my chicken wrap, that pasta, the buy-bigger-jeans pizza, the wine! I loved this scene. Does that look yummy & cool?! {borrowed photo from here}

The pray part was the slowest for me (I remembered it being that way for me in the book also), but I loved the elephant scene & Richard from TX. I’m like her that I’d never have the patience grace whatever you call it to be silent! God would call me to be the Suzie Cream Puff greeter too! {borrowed from here}

But Bali, it was worth seeing to movie to get to the Love part. The scenery there was amazing. I doubt I’ll make it there, but I’d certainly love to! {borrowed from here gotta love google image!}
I thought Julia Roberts was great. I just love her & pretty much all the movies she makes. I’m also a sucker for a good ending!

I’m finishing my night with a little baking…which might incorporate a little of Eat (breakfast & late night snack anyone?) Pray (I don’t burn them like I did last weekend’s muffins) & Love (its almost midnight & I’m baking for my husband). I promised him that I’d make muffins for us to have for breakfast tomorrow. His breakfast being around 3 hours from now since he goes into work at 4am this weekend. He’d be fine if I didn’t make them, but he would probably stop at McDonald’s. And while not made from scratch, Duncan Hines 100% whole grain Apple Cinnamon muffins (with a coupon!) are cheap, easy & relatively healthy. The timer just buzzed so I’m off. I’ll try to post a photo of them later too.

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Show Us Your Life…

China Patterns. I saw Kelly’s Korners SUYL post today and knew I had to participate.
I might have mentioned our three patterns in the Twitter Home Tour Post, but if not here’s the scoop. We have three patterns. Our formal one is blue & silver that my Dad’s mom gave us as a wedding gift (its their wedding formal china & so pretty). I don’t know the name and we’ve only used it on our first married Valentine’s Day when we cooked at home. Here’s a photo of it in our china cabinet from the Home Tour Post.

We registered for Crate & Barrel’s Madison as our everyday pattern. I love that its white & you can do whatever tablesetting and it’ll look good. We didn’t realize until we received our first setting that it is not evenly lipped~ but now we like that about it!

Our third pattern might be my favorite. It’s our Christmas china! It’s Lenox’s Holiday Gatherings. I love that we actually have four different patterns within Holiday Gatherings ~ its so cute that they coordinate. The plaid is my favorite, but it was retired right after we registered. I was only able to find four of the below salad plates. Sometimes we’ll use all of one type and others just whatever comes out of te cabinet first. I love when November rolling around because it means we can bring it out soon!

I’m at work so these photos are all from the internet (thanks Crate & Barrel & Amazon!).