Rae's Bachelorette Night in Columbia!

This weekend I went to Columbia for Rae's bachelorette party. I had such a good time and it was so awesome being back in Columbia! We started the night off at Monterrey's and then headed down to 5 points for a bit of a pub crawl! Here are some pics and videos to give you a better idea of exactly how the evening went!

At Monterrey's
First stop... Village!
One of many...
Rae and the Dano's guys
Playing in the fountain

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Taking One for the Team...

Craig and I have begun our softball season again. We are playing for the same team as we did in the fall... Ellis Bonding. Tonight our game was against a team from Hertz. Tonight's game was hard core! So hard core that several players were injured... We had to sacrifice ourselves for the good of the whole team. No one exhibited this more than Craig. While catching, a batter tipped the ball... right into Craig's nose!!! I was so scared that his nose had broken... THANK GOD it didn't!!! I couldn't believe it... this happened while playing slow pitch, co-ed, recreational softball!?! We ended up winning and our record now stands at 4 and 3... Now that's taking one for the team!

That's definitely going to hurt in the morning!

Working Weekend...

Craig's Mom came to visit for Mother's Day this weekend. Instead of just sitting around we decided to take advantage of the extra hands and put her to work. We were ambitious... We completed a few finishing touches to the closets in the first guest bedroom and we decided to paint the living room and second guest bedroom. Needless to say it was a busy weekend. Here are a few pictures to keep you all caught up! We hope you enjoy our house of many colors!

Project # 1--Closets

Project # 2--Living Room

Project # 3--Second Guest Bedroom

Tee Time!

This past Sunday was my sister Erin's 26th birthday! Erin has recently taken up the sport of golf... much to my father's satisfaction! So, Erin decided that she wanted to spend her birthday hitting the links with my dad, Craig, and myself. Let's just say that the word of the day was "mulligan"! I don't know what happened, but not a single one of us played well... at least Erin had an excuse though! I wonder if it had to do with the margaritas and beer from the previous night?!? Anyway, I think we all still had a really fun time and it's definitely something we'll have to do again soon!

I think it's time for a new glove

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta!

Bueno... This past weekend Craig and I traveled to Clover for a Cinco de Mayo inspired wedding shower! It was muy divertido! We received many wonderful gifts that are sure to come in handy with all of the work that we are putting into the house and yard! The neighbors are going to think we're a couple of migrant workers with the amount of time we'll be putting into the yard! I wonder what they'll have to say about that?!? Again, to everyone who came and joined us I just want to say gracias!

For those of you who can't tell... Craig's work apron says "fix it" and mine says "manager"... how appropriate!

Again... The Talk of the Neighborhood

Looking at the outside of the house, Craig and I felt something was needed... something other than landscaping to repair the shrubbery fiasco from a few weeks ago. Ever since Craig bought the house we have both felt that the white shutters were too much. So, last week Craig took down the old shutters! As with many other parts of the house that were repaired and maintained in a half-assed way by the previous owners, so were the shutters. There was almost as much paint on the bricks as there was on the shutters themselves. So Craig has been using a combination of grafiti remover and a "brilo pad"-like attachment on his drill to clean the paint from the house. With all of his hard work he has still only made a slight difference. I can't wait until we get our new shutters to put up and disguise the mess!

As usual, the neighbors have been commenting about Craig's hard work. One neighbor again told Craig that he was "ruining the neighborhood"! Another neighbor commented that Craig must have finally gotten his letter from the neighborhood association telling him to fix up his house. Well, here are my thoughts on that... they should be happy! Afterall, our house is making the rest of the homes in the neighborhood look pretty good right now!

Again, Craig's house before... with the monster shrubs and awful white shutters.

Craig's house after

Married Alive!

Last night Craig and I went back to beautiful Abingdon, Virginia for another night out on the town! We went to dinner, walked around town, and then went to see another play at the Barter Theatre. Yet again we chose a musical comedy... Married Alive! The play just seemed appropriate considering what we're about to get ourselves in to. The play talked about everything--having the "perfect" wedding, surviving holidays with the in-laws, sex (after 1, 5, 10, and 20 years), babies, raising teenagers, viagra, etc. Anyway, it was hilarious and we both very much enjoyed ourselves!

The historic Martha Washington Inn

Barter Theatre