Beautiful Saturday in February.

 We have had a great weekend.  Friday night I watched the movie The Vow with some of my girlfriends and we grabbed some yogurt after the movie. Dane visited his friend Zach at the coffee shop where Zach works in Raleigh.

Yesterday we enjoyed a beautiful sunny day with highs in upper 60s. We ate breakfast with some wonderful friends at 10:30 at our favorite Durham restaurant. Foster's Market. The owner, Sara, writes cookbooks. We bought Angie a cookbook for Christmas because we love the food so much and we thought the Womacks would enjoy trying out the recipes.

 One of the great things about Foster's is that they have an entire front yard area with picnic tables and adirondack chairs. The weather was so warm that I took my jacket off.

 More of the front porch area.

Our friends Mike and Vail brought their sweet dog Topper out for the morning. He got lots of attention and even got to mingle with the other dogs. 

After brunch we headed to Target to get the groceries. We made it home around 3 pm and we decided that the weather was so nice that we should head out to the tennis court. I haven't played tennis in a very long time. It was hard to get back into the swing, but it was fun. We discovered that we needed new tennis balls so we ended up buying some last night after dinner. After playing tennis, we took a walk around West campus. There are great old houses that have been restored surrounding west campus. I had never walked the path and it turned out to be very interesting.

For dinner we went to Red Lobster to spend our gift cards that my parents got us for Christmas and my sister got us for our anniversary. Yum. We even had the stuffed mushrooms for appetizers. Nice. ;) After dinner we watched THREE episodes of our favorite show - Friday Night Lights. We are now on the 5th and final season. I am going to be so sad when the show is over. I'm glad that our friends Merritt and Adam got us hooked.

This morning we went to New Creation UMC for church. It really does feel like our new church home now. I am thankful for that. Part of the service is in Spanish so we are learning a little Spanish too. One of the songs that we always sing is really beautiful and it ends with Danos La Paz which means "Grant us Thy peace." We have spent the rest of the day taking a nap, cleaning the bathroom (Dane!), and working on gathering up our tax information while watching the Duke vs. Boston College game.

We are very excited that we are headed home to Arkansas in TWO WEEKS. We are driving from NC and stopping in Nashville to pick up my sister who has Spring Break the same week!! :) We also found out this weekend that Corey is coming home too!!! I cannot wait to spend some much needed time with our family and friends.

Here's to a much needed weekend of fun!

2012 Updates

I'm getting behind on updating this blog. January's weather was very mild here in NC. We had several days in the 60s. It has recently turned cold, but no snow yet.

Beth came to visit us the last weekend in January. Unfortunately I did not get any good pictures. We did get some good food and we were able to spend some time together. I love time with my dear sister.

Dane and I watched the Super Bowl at Zac and Karen's house with some of our other friends from Div School. 

Dan, Raygan, Allan, Christina, and Tim

Jason and Jenny (sitting on the floor) and Zac and Karen

I think that the biggest thing that has happened in the last month is that Dane and I started going to the gym after work every day. Tomorrow it will be 5 weeks. Dane read somewhere that if you can do something for 5 weeks it becomes a life change. I think that means we made it! We talked about making this important life change when we were in the Outer Banks. I am so glad we stuck with it!

We think we have finally found a church home while we are here in Durham -New Creation UMC. The church is a racially and culturally inclusive faith community and is located in the heart of Durham.

I asked Dane if there was anything that he wanted to remember from the last month. He said that we need a picture of the Duke win against UNC. Austin Rivers made a 3 at the buzzer and Duke won at UNC.

Here it is, the game winning shot. :)

 

Dane picked these before a freeze a couple of nights ago. I think they look beautiful in our kitchen next to my favorite picture of my Gran. I keep the picture of her sitting next to my grandfather and aunt in her kitchen above my kitchen sink. I treasure the days I spent in her home and in her kitchen. I also have the apron she is wearing in this picture hanging in my kitchen.