Monday, April 30, 2012

Picture of the Day (Day 346 - 8th September 2011)

Some Aussie representation in the backyard....

Picture of the Day (Day 345 - 7th September 2011)

Pretty Raleigh sunset

Picture of the Day (Day 344 - 6th September 2011)

Celebrating Hadden's 30th birthday at Carolina Ale House with dinner and complimentary dessert nachos

Picture of the Day (Day 343 - 5th September 2011)

A walk around Lake Lynn and dinner at Foggy Bottom

Picture of the Day (Day 342 - 4th September 2011)

A hike at Pilot Mountain followed by dinner at the Hillbilly Hideaway

Picture of the Day (Day 341 - 3rd September 2011)

Mum, Dad, and Hadden's first day.
We did a little bit of touring around downtown Durham, and then explored the Duke Tobacco Homestead.

Picture of the Day (Day 340 - 2nd September 2011)

Mum and Dad arrive!

Picture of the Day (Day 339 - 1st September 2011)

Finally got our 'COOK' sign up. It was a wedding gift from my best friend, Jaclyn.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Picture of the Day (Day 338 - 31st August 2011)

I guess we bought 'something' at Target...

Picture of the Day (Day 337 - 30th August 2011)

New storage ottoman

Picture of the Day (Day 336 - 29th August 2011)

The finished product of my glass art class!

Picture of the Day (Day 335 - 28th August 2011)

Hurricane damage :D

Picture of the Day (Day 334 - 27th August 2011)

The edge of Hurricane Irene swirling right near our house

Picture of the Day (Day 333 - 26th August 2011)

How does your garden grow? :)

Picture of the Day (Day 332 - 25th August 2011)

Sneak peek at our new bathroom. (Extended blog post to come)

Picture of the Day (Day 331 - 24th August 2011)

Took more than two months to be returned to me after I got the address wrong.

(So if you are planning on stalking Mr & Mrs Hayes, don't use this address 'cos they ain't there!)

Picture of the Day (Day 330 - 23rd August 2011)

After the earthquake (that I didn't notice) the clouds were weird but pretty.

Picture of the Day (Day 329 - 22nd August 2011)

More sweet Indi love

Picture of the Day (Day 328 - 21st August 2011)

Glass Art Class with Kim and Heidi.

SO much fun - would definitely do it again!

Picture of the Day (Day 327 - 20th August 2011)

Thanksgiving style dinner at Kim's house!

Picture of the Day (Day 326 - 19th August 2011)

Hey, Harry. I found the last Horcrux for you. (I think the car belonged to Hufflepuff or something)

Picture of the Day (Day 325 - 18th August 2011)

Too many farewells :(

Dinner at City Beverage to say goodbye to Alana

Picture of the Day (Day 324 - 17th August 2011)

Dinner at Hayes Barton Cafe to farewell Kacy and Andrew.

Miss you guys!

Picture of the Day (Day 323 - 16th August 2011)

Looking after sweet Indi

Picture of the Day (Day 322 - 15th August 2011)

New lolly bowl to hold our excess!

Picture of the Day (Day 321 - 14th August 2011)

Houseboating: Day Three :(

Our last day. Although sad, it went pretty much the same way as the past two days. Spent as much time in the water as possible, and jumped a lot.

Picture of the Day (Day 320 - 13th August 2011)

Houseboating: Day Two


Family Portrait


Our day was made up of: jumping photos, water sliding goodness, sandwiches, Klaus rides, sunbaking, wedding crashing, dam avoiding, more jumping photos, beer, vodka, swimming, reading, pasta bake, exploring, making friends with kayakers, singing happy birthday to Paul and Stella, more beer and vodka, poker & jumping photos.


Picture of the Day (Day 319 - 12th August 2011)

Houseboating: Day One

Stella, Paul and I headed up to Virginia to Smith Mountain Lake early (ish).

After checking in and getting a tutorial in how everything worked, we set off in no particular direction. We stopped in one cove where Paul and Stella trialed the water slide, while I took pictures. We swam and fished until it was time to pick up the boys back at the dock.

Clayton, Brendan and Kevin joined us around 7pm. We motored back into the lake until we found a good spot to stop for the night.

We enjoyed the sunset, dinner, Charades and a few alcoholic beverages before calling it a (late) night.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Picture of the Day (Day 318 - 11th August 2011)

STELLA'S HERE!

Ready for houseboating goodness!

Picture of the Day (Day 317 - 10th August 2011)

Bulls game with Alesha and Clifton. Alesha scored a free hat :)

Picture of the Day (Day 316 - 9th August 2011)

Brad and Brooke's pictures up in our study

Picture of the Day (Day 315 - 8th August 2011)

The bathroom redecorating begins....

Picture of the Day (Day 314 - 7th August 2011)

Happy Birthday Ma!

Picture of the Day (Day 313 - 6th August 2011)

My first attempt at making cake pops - frogs and tennis balls for Ma's birthday

Picture of the Day (Day 312 - 5th August 2011)

Attack of the hornworms, 2011!

Picture of the Day (Day 311 - 4th August 2011)

Paul's tomatoes are coming along nicely...

Picture of the Day (Day 310 - 3rd August 2011)

Discovered who has been eating all of my herbs!

Picture of the Day (Day 309 - 2nd August 2011)

New lamp for our end table :)

Picture of the Day (Day 308 - 1st August 2011)

I searched for so long to find crackle nail polish. This is the result!

Picture of the Day (Day 307 - 31st July 2011)

A rainy Sunday