Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Birthday Celebrations!

I had so much fun celebrating my birthday this year! To start the celebrations, my entire family came to Charlotte to hangout for the weekend. We enjoyed tons of food and football! The day before my birthday several sweet friends took me out to dinner at the delicious Nolan Kitchen. On my actual birthday Jay kindly asked me where I wanted to go out to eat to celebrate. I asked if there was any way possible we could skip the dinner and go shopping instead, luckily he was fine with that idea and I got a few cute new things :)

sister secrets

Als and Brett

Momma

The head of the table

Enjoy a huge Sunday breakfast

yum

Birthday celebrations

MC, Kathryn, and Allison

Delicious dessert!

Jen and Lauren

All the girls.

A huge thank you to MC and Kathryn for putting this together. Ya'll are such sweet friends!

Reunion!

Two weeks ago most of my best girlfriends from college all came back to Raleigh to cheer on the Wolfpack! We had so much fun tailgating and catching up! We've decided to make this an annual event!



Jess, Mary Clare, and Nikki





Yummy low country boil


Zeta's for life!

Lovely meeting up with Mrs. Boehm!

A great win and a great night!

Go To Hell Carolina

So this post is VERY late but I've finally gotten my pictures off of my camera! We had so much fun cheering NC State to victory several weeks ago at the NCSU vs. Carolina football game! Jay's sister Ivey is doing her high school senior project on event planning and hosted a wonderful tailgate for Jay's family and friends. The game was awesome and we had so much fun shutting out the tarheels!

Jay and Miranda

(again in the white sweater! I told yall!)

Jay and his Dad

Yummy food!

Isn't this the cutest idea for display tailgate food?

delicious ham biscuits

Love the fun NC State straws she found!

Go State!

Everyone at the tailgate

Jenna and Jay's Mom

Me, Miranda, and Jenna

Big Jay and his kids

What a lovely day for football



Ivey and Cole


I loved this on the jumbo-tron!

Jay and John 

Meeting up with Katie!

Jay and Price

Thanks for photobombing...

Thanksgiving

We had a fun, family-filled Thanksgiving this year. We left for Asheboro on Tuesday evening and enjoyed spending Tuesday-Thursday with the Caviness/Carroll family. On Friday we got up bright and early to head down to Atlanta for Thanksgiving with the Sadow's. It was a busy long weekend but we had so much fun hanging out with family and relaxing. It was nice not to cook or clean! (On a side note, I promise I have more clothing besides this white sweater that I appear to be wearing in almost every picture I have in my camera!)

Sorry if this grosses you out!


The turkey fryers


Looking at these boxes of oil sort of makes me sick...

One hot turkey fryer!


look at the determination on that face!

Fryin'

Jay's Grandmother's very retro kitchen

All the yummy food!

Sophie is keeping an eye on the turkey

yum

Boomer is hoping Grandmother drops a piece or two!

Kisses to Jaybird

Again, our little beggar!

Jay's 97 (almost 98 year old PaPaw)

Chowing down at the adult table

Ivey (Jay's sister), Adam (Jenna's Boyfriend), Jenna (Jay's Cousin)

The whole fam


Ivey and Jay

The lady in charge of all this delicious food! Thanks so much Grandma!

I don't have any pictures of the Sadow Thanksgiving because my Mom is the photographer and they are all on her camera. I do have a few pics of our annual Thanksgiving photo shoot to share! We were a little worried we missed the fall setting but the leaves in my parent's backyard still provided a pretty background.

Everyone waiting for Mom to set up the tripod

This is how Jay feels about having his picture taken

Christmas card option #1

Christmas Card Option #2 (if only the dogs would look! and Jay would stop looking the Brawny paper towel guy)

Getting some Sophie love

Outtakes

The girls


I think this should be their Christmas Card

Pretty sister #2

Pretty sister #1

Hope you had a fun day giving Thanks with your family!