Last night Dan and I went to see the Carolina Rollergirls Roller Derby in Raleigh. It was the first time either of us had been to a roller derby bout, but we both really enjoyed it. The bouts moved really quickly and it was fairly easy to pick up what was going on. We got [...]
Yesterday we enjoyed a special lunch to celebrate Dan’s birthday. Dan’s aunt and uncle, Bob and Vada, took us out for lunch and dessert at Guglhupf in Durham. The lunch food was delicious and so were the bakery items we had for dessert! It was so nice to see them and they even gave us [...]
Dan’s cousin Kathy came for a visit last weekend. It was fun to catch up with her again. The last time we saw her was on our trip out west last year. She brought us so many thoughtful gifts — books and clothes she remembers her daughter wearing, a tooth fairy pillow that her daughter [...]
The last few times my parents came up my mom and I had fun going shopping to find decorations for the house. The baby’s room was probably the most fun to shop for though. We decided to go with an owl theme which has allowed us to pull in a lot of colors and we [...]
My cousin Emilie from Ohio came down with her boyfriend Joe over Memorial Day weekend to visit. It was nice to get caught up with Emilie and great to meet Joe. We made some pancakes using Grandpa Krenek’s pancake recipe and Emilie brought us some of The Goodie Shop’s cinnamon sticks (which I was really [...]
A few weeks ago we made corn dogs from scratch (or at least mostly from scratch — we didn’t make the hot dogs) and boy were they good! We had to make mini corn dogs since we only have a little fryer, but they tasted delicious. Dan and I were teasing that it made us [...]