Golfing!

This morning we went an played 9 holes of golf.  I haven't played since my last match in high school in 2001... goodness.  But I did OK, and I ended up beating Joe!  Woo hoo!

Here are a few pics I took with my iPhone!

me winning :)

Fun day in Frederick - Joe's First Post!

I finally wanted to add to the website, since it is "JOE and MK". Anyways, we had a great day in Frederick today. Well, not exactly Frederick, more like the outskirts. We were able to find a farm where we bought fresh milk and cheese. Milk in a bottle, who knew! Earlier in the day, we spent some time at a local event "Bark in the Park". Gordon was in heaven, and he made many new friends. We also went to a shop where we were able to find fresh rhubarb stalks for a rhubarb pie, something I have been dying for. It was a great day to spend with MK. I will be posting more so stay tuned!

Best Rainy Weekend Ever

I can easily say that this weekend was one of my favorite of 2009.  I got to spend a lot of time with Joe, sleep in, do wedding stuff, eat great food and hang out with one of my besties.  It was awesome.  :)

Kate and I went downtown Frederick and enjoyed the great weather, tons of live music in the streets, dinner in a dive bar, and lots of cute shops.  Our best find of the night- a couture wedding dress maker from NYC who also has a little shop here in Frederick!  Kate and I loooooved her and every single dress she had in there- they are beautifully made, everything is hand-stitched and one of a kind, finished in 2-4 weeks (that is INSANE) and, the very best part- she is AFFORDABLE!!!  

Then we came home and starting going through wedding magazines and we ended up just making fun of 99.9% of everything in all four magazines.  The wedding industry is warped and insane, people.  Our favorite thing to make fun of are those HIDEOUS pointy-but-round-or-square white shoes.  OMG.  Barf.  Oh, and how the models stand in those stupid poofy dresses.  :)

Today it rained and rained and rained.  We were all feeling lazy and tired from the weather, but we headed out to brunch at Firestone for brunch- YUM!  So tasty.  Then we were on a mission to begin our first wedding project...

Kate and I are going to be our own florists.  The average bride in DC spends between $2,500 and $3,000 on FLOWERS.  Uhmmmm, no thanks.  I am pretty sure Kate and I will be spending about $250 on our flowers, including the containers.  

Since we both want the same type of centerpieces, and our weddings are a month apart, we decided to split the cost of the antique jars we wanted to get.  So today we hit up all the antique stores in town and bought every cute antique jar that was under $4- that was our limit.  I thought it would take a couple months of scanning the antique stores in town (we have 20+) but we got all 46 vases today!  Final cost was $127- that's $63.50 a person for all the jars for our centerpieces... which calculates to approx. $1.40 a jar!  They are beautiful.  Some of them we need to clean up, and that will be our next project!  Hooray for fun, eco-friendly, inexpensive and totally awesome centerpieces!

We'll both be buying some flowers wholesale from local vendors and hopefully using some wildflowers, too.  I found a guy in Frederick who would let me pick his wildflowers if I made a donation to his non-profit that promotes earth-friendly products- heck yeah!  Now that's being thrifty! :)

So anyway, a short story made entirely too long- we had a blast today searching through all these stores and finding great jars as vases under $4.  Joe got into it too, even if he doesn't want to admit it  :)  He was such a big help today- love that guy!  :)

Kate- we did good today!  xoxo!

Here are some photos!!!

Check out this antique store!  Joe bought a beautiful chest to hold blankets here

loved these Turkish locks... Kate was figuring out how she could use them

loved these mini terra cotta pots in the holders... 

thinking of how I could use these for the wedding...

colorful pails that could totally show up on June 19th of next year! :)

Lilly on the chest we bought :)

She's so cute!  And I love the detail of the chest.

Some of the jars we bought... had to try 'em out! :)

Loove these jars that are just a little bit blue

You can't really see the very pretty jar, but I like this photo :)

Oh Hai!  Lilly modeling with our awesome finds :)

All 46 jars/vases!

soooooo pretty!

Gordon's First Hike!

Joe and I took advantage of the amazing weather and went on a hike!  We've been meaning to go for awhile, but our schedules stink and don't match up.  Joe had the day off, so we decided to go.  We also took Gordon with us.  We thought we might regret it, but he did great!

Gordon powered on through the hike better than Joe or I did- he has so much energy and had no problem hiking up and down the mountains in Gambrill State Park... Joe and I on the otherhand... well, we were exhausted!  It was only about a three mile hiking trail (they have trails there from 1 to 26 miles) but it was pretty steep.  Gordon loved sniffing absolutely everything and it was so cute how he'd run up ahead and gallop through the leaves.

After we got back from the hike, we watched some basketball and totally passed out.  Now it's time for dinner... and Joe is making a chocolate cake as I type- yay!

  

I love this photo!  Joe took it!

Our Little Family :)

Some Favorites

I seriously couldn't be any happier with the photos Jaime took of us- they are so beautiful and so us.  Everytime I look at them (which is every single day!) I remember how awesome that day was and how special it was for Jaime to take the photos!

Here are a few of my favorites!

Restaurant Week

On Friday, Kate and Nic came up to Frederick so we could have dinner during DC Restaurant Week at Volt.  Kate is quite the foodie and she's the one who told us about this place.  I'm so glad she did!  Volt is ranked #15!  It was so good!  Here are a few photos from my iPhone...

 

An Album for Us!

I've been designing a lot of albums lately, and thought I should design one for *my* photos! :) I freehanded this in InDesign... the pages will be 10x10. They are square layouts.

I haven't decided where to order it from... I might just make a WHCC Print Press Book, or maybe if I get another wedding this week do a Couture Book :)

These are just a few of the pages... what do you think?

V-Day

What's the best way to celebrate?  Cupcakes and pizza, of course! :)

Since I have a wedding today, we celebrated last night... cupcakes and pizza!

Skip the flowers and chocolate- a heart-shaped pizza is all I wanted. :)

I hope you all have a good one and celebrate :)

We 're Moving!

Our new house as of March 19th!

Sorry that these aren't the greatest quality, but I took them while Joe was driving out my window with my iPhone.  We just found out today that we're going to be moving into Army base housing March 19th!  Ahh!  That's in a MONTH!

The good thing is that the Army comes over on the 19th, packs up everything (NO boxes, NO tape, NO nothing for us!) and then moves it all over to our new place.  I think that is awesome!  I haaaaaated packing and taping up everything when I moved out here, so I am so happy about that!

We don't know too much about the place yet other than that it's three bedrooms, has wood floors, a balcony, and french doors to the yard, and was just finished being built.  So, uhm... yay!  

While I love this condo, walking down two flights of stairs to walk Gordon multiple times a day stinks, carrying groceries and my photo equipment up the stairs stinks, and having that extra bedroom will be heavenly- when we have friends over they don't have to sleep in my office anymore! :)

So, we're excited, but it's also CRAZY that we are moving so soon!

Gettysburg

The weather today was absolutely gorgeous!  We had the windows open this morning while we made brunch (hashbrowns, eggs, and toast! Yum!) and then Joe decided it was too nice of a day to just enjoy through the windows, so we headed up to Gettysburg!

Gettysburg is only about 30 minutes away, but I had never been.  Joe, of course, was dying to go again.  We got the audio car CD, which was really nice because we could just drive around in our car and listen to all the information and get out when we wanted to.

I didn't take many photos, but here they are.