family in town!

my family is in town this week and weekend!  marty actually flew in for business on monday and we had dinner with him before he headed to tampa for work.  he'll be back tomorrow night and then mom, cassie, and cadiem will all arrive friday.  if only jeff and grandma were here, we'd be all set :)  plans are to do the flower & garden festival at epcot (mom's favorite) and a little beach, and maybe even a little shopping! (shhh.. don't tell nate!)

think that's it for now, work has been busy busy busy lately!  we've also been trying our best to get current with 'lost' -- we're finally in the current season and should be totally caught up in time to watch the finale with the conroys :)

oh and we're also dog sitting for our friends :)  both colt and nittany, although another friend of ours took nittany for a bit so it's just frenchies at the house!  i'll have to post a pic nate took of them when he finally got them to nap near each other on the couch.  cleo likes him better than she likes most dogs, but that's still not very much ;)

a smattering of saturday

i want to start taking more pictures of randomness like i used to.  so expect to see a lot more of me and my camera, and a lot more pictures :)

there are several things i've been meaning to take pictures of and post lately, namely some of the really cool stuff anita has sent us, and a lamp that nina & john gave me :)

here are some of the things anita sent us for easter - really cool citrusy/fruit place mats (the grapefruit matched our candy dish perfectly!)  the flipside has a different fabric in the same color family for each of those little strips (you can see it better on the carrot below):

ps:  those cadbury eggs in that candy dish are the best easter candy EVER.

isn't she talented?  shouldn't she sell this stuff??

next, when john and frank drove down from PA they brought a few things that are harder to take by plane.  one of those things was a lamp that was previously at the river house in the room that nate and i stay in.  i love it!  it was previously nate's nana's lamp.

annnd finally, just a few random pics from our saturday.  cleo was particularly patient with my photos today. 

saturday is also a great time for a nap:

but once i left her alone, she headed straight back to her daddy!

and another random sidenote, april is my favorite month in the cleo calendar :)

my life lately.. in pictures!

i know, i know.  i've been totally neglecting my blog.  normally, i don't try to catch up on all that i've missed, but SURPRISE!  i bring you... an update in pictures!  sorted oldest, to newest :)

first off, mom and i traveled to detroit for courtney's bridal shower (my cousin!).  it was movie star themed.  we had a WONDERFUL time seeing where she lived and meeting her husband-to-be (no husband!) jimmy, and her friends :)  here we are in all our glamour:

next, john and frank arrived for the bottlenecks first paid gig!  but first... a lot of practicing, drinking, and sing-a-longs ensued.  it was like a pennsylvania music weekend with 1/20 of the people and food :)

here's the aforementioned sing-a-long in full swing:

then, sarah's family was in town and they graciously invited us to join them for an evening at bay lake tower (a new resort that overlooks magic kingdom) - check out the view!

that was followed by a wonderful girls' weekend in siesta key with my VA tech girls, best described by this photo:

and a sunset photo from our trip:

after that, it was easter time!  we celebrated with the conroys, and had two signature drinks- a watermelon & cucumber tonic (pictured below) and white sangria :)  we also had mini beef wellingtons, mashed potatoes, rolls, and green bean casserole.  we had salad... but ended up eating that for dinner instead :)

we had all kinds of egg-related events, including: posing with them, dyeing them, hunting them, and egg fights! 

my new favorite photo- i think this is so us:

we hid them for the conroys and they hid them for us.  guess who lost?

and most recently, we traveled to mexico for our friends' wedding, chris & kerri.  a few pics from our adventure :)

ay!  tequila!

and whew!  i think that's it for now :)  sorry it took so long!