We have a new home!!!

No, it's not "technically" my home but a girl can dream can't she? This house is new home and headquarters of the Junior League of Greensboro. Last night was our first meeting of the new year and the ribbon cutting for this fabulous house.

The house is also known as The Albright House. The house was donated to JLG and restored over the course over the last year. The house has a lot of history and JLG hopes to continue to be part of that history over the coming years.

It is so beautiful both inside and out. I'm so glad we finally have a place to call "home".

Also, as I said above last night was our first meeting of the new year since we take the summer off. It was so great to see all of the wonderful ladies in the league again. We enjoyed the meeting and then headed out for drinks to catch up. It was a much needed girl's night out with some of my favorite people.

We have lots of exciting things coming up this year but as always we will have tons of fun along the way!

P.S. This is a really bad picture of the house because there are like 1oo too many people outside so hopefully I can update later with a better one. Thanks!

#14 in the nation...now that is what i'm talking about!!!!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words but I'm fairly certain there have been quite a few more said about this one. Last night we had the privilege of watching our ECU football team knock off the #8 team in the nation, WVU which boosted us to #14 according to this morning's AP Poll.

Watching this game just brings up so many what if scenarios for me. You see, I did not go to ECU straight out of high school but instead began my college career at another school which happens to not have a football team. All of my friends were at ECU going to parties, football games, and classes on the beautiful campus so at the end of the year I made the decision to transfer. In hindsight, this could have turned out to be a very bad idea but over the course of my life and all the decisions I have made this one has turned out to be one of the best. S

As I sat in the stadium last night watching the students rush the field and waiting for my turn to descend the stairs I pondered what if I had never transferred from my prior school where would I be today?

Both schools had made a mark on my life in their own way. When we got married last year my two best friends from my first college as well as my current best friend from ECU stood beside me as bridesmaids. These three women are still a very important part of my life even though we do not see each other as frequently as I wish. Had I not attended my first college I would never have met those two fabulous ladies I am still proud to call friends.

Are you confused yet because you thought this post was about football and now I'm talking about my life story? It's still about football but I can't talk about football without getting into how proud I am to be a PIRATE and how I ended up as a PIRATE!!!

There have been many good times and bad in Pirate history but overall it has been and will continue to be a fun ride. Keep up the hard work Pirates. There is a lot of football left but at the end of the season I hope we are hoisting the conference championship trophy that has eluded us so many times.

Go Pirates!!!!!

Those are some big fish, oh wait, those are pups in the water

As you can see the dogs had a great time at the lake too :) Cooper wasn't so keen on all the love and kisses he was getting from Tonka but it was fun to watch.

Tonka has been in the water maybe three times before this and all of that was pretty shallow and for short periods of time so I was a little nervous but he was a natural. One day I hope he swims as well as Cooper who sorts of glides through the water with little to no effort while poor Tonka still seems sort of frantic when swimming although he does quite well.

Yesterday when we got home he was just as exhausted as the two of us. Last night when we went to bed I opened the door to his crate and he walked straight in and plopped down. I'm not even sure he was awake when he hit the floor. We will have to get him to the water more often because he really seemed to enjoy it.

Walk the Plank Hokies!!!!!

Gooo Pirates!!! What a way to start off the 2008 season just like we ended the 2007 season with our bowl win in Hawaii over Boise State.

It was HOT on Saturday but other than that a beautiful day to spend watching the opening weekend of college football. Just in case you haven't figured it out yet by reading my prior posts I'm somewhat obsessed with college football especially when it involves my Pirates.

We hiked the 27 miles up to our nosebleed seats as demonstrated by the picture above and there I remained until after the victory celebration. As usual with our football team it was a rollercoaster. In the end though we were victorious and I even got a hug from the nice ECU fan sitting next to me.

Now it's on to the is weekend to see if we can pull off another win against WVU. Wish us luck!!

Me thinks I need a vacation from our vacation.....

We had such a wonderful time at the lake over Labor Day weekend. It was great to spend time with family eating, drinking, going to the game, and spending time on the lake.


Traffic going down on Friday wasn't bad which is partially due to the fact that my very generous boss let us leave at 2:30 to get a head start on our weekend. We arrived at the lake a little after 6 and everyone else was already there relaxing. The house was beautiful and literally had everything we need except for food so we were all set.

Overall it was a really great weekend. The Pirates came out on top in our football game against VT, I got to take lots of good pictures of my nephews, the dogs enjoyed lots of swimming, and we enjoyed tubing which is one of my all time favorite things to do (another one for the list).

After all of that it almost seemed like I needed another day to relax and lay around the house. This morning as my feet hit the floor to get ready for work my muscles sure were letting me know that they did not appreciate all the hard work. Hopefully we can do it all over again soon!