1,250 miles later...

We had so much fun spending time with our families, playing games, finding starfish and sand dollars, laying the sun, throwing football, reading, relaxing, and driving around together!! But all of that fun left me absolutely exhausted! We left on Sunday the 19th for Hilton Head to spend the week with my family, then Brad and I took our time the next Saturday and drove up to Topsail to stay with my aunt and uncle, then left there Sunday and drove through Carolina Beach to eat the best doughnut you'll ever eat at Britt's doughtnuts, then rode the ferry from Fort Fisher to Southport and finally drove down to Oak Island to spend 4 days with his family, and now we're back home. Here are just a few of my favorite pictures...




Look at that Sass...where do they get that from??


















Now if you'll excuse me there is a cute little doggy that I have missed very much that requires my attention :)

This time last year...

Really wishing I was there right now...Who's with me?? :)

As our anniversary approaches...

Mine and Brad's first wedding anniversary is this Sunday, and as I've been doing my devotions this week I have just had this prayer on my heart, and I wanted to share it with all of you.

Gracious God...Thank you so much for an amazing year. You have given me the greatest gift you could ever give anyone. You have blessed me with my soul mate, best friend, and husband. You took everything you knew that I would need and you created those things in Brad. God, I don't deserve this kind of grace, but yet you give it freely. Lord thank you. Thank you that Brad will just sit and listen, thank you that he's attentive to me, thank you that he uses the gifts you've given him, thank you that he is EVERYTHING that I need. Most importantly God, thank you that he loves you more than he loves me, and that he's teaching me everyday through the way that he loves me, how to fall deeper in love with you. Continue to protect us individual, and to protect our marriage. Help us to remain in your will, and show us what your plans are for us, God shows us how you would have us serve you.

4th of July

This year Brad and I celebrated the fourth of July from Thursday until Saturday!! It was loads of fun, and we spent it with two of my most FAVORITE people :)

Thursday night Brad, Lincoln, Lindsey and I ventured down to the lake (my favorite place on the face of the earth) to stay the night and play all day Friday. Let's just say after a rough start involving a stop sign, a friendly game of Risk, and some bodily functions from Lucy the stay turned out to be a BLAST!! Linz learned how to ski, we relaxed on the dock in the sun, tubed and did a lot of Jetski riding!! Here are some of the pictures from the fun...






Then Saturday after spending a fun day at the pool with Mom, Haley and Riley...we had a cookout with Linz, Linc, Chris and Ben. And from now on you can feel free to just call me Martha :) We then watched fireworks from the roof of Parkway...It was kind of a VIP experience!

D.C. Trip Pictures

We love our Ghanaian :)


And then we began to feel like nerdy tourists haha...




This is the part of the trip where Brad got embarrassed...I know its cliche but come on you've gotta take this picture when you go to D.C. right??

Monday Night T.V.

Okay, I know I still haven't posted the pictures from our trip to D.C. but hopefully I can post them this weekend on a NEW laptop. Which, I must add, that I have been VERY patiently waiting for...sort of. During the fall I am engulfed by the drama of Grey's Anatomy, and I was really worried that this summer I wouldn't have any good shows to watch, but boy was I wrong. I have been religiously watching Jon and Kate and The Bachelorette. But the point of this post was not to inform you that I am horribly addicted to T.V, but rather to complain about this past Monday night's shows.

I'll start with The Bachelorette... First of all Jillian just gets on my nerves. This is an AMERICAN show, so why is the stinkin Bachelorette Canadian??? And her accent gets on my absolute last nerve, this hatred could possibly stem from the fact that I'm more than slightly jealous of her killer body and her wardrobe...but still she gets on my nerves. I mean seriously what does she see in Wes??? He's obviously there just to get some publicity for his band, which I personally think is less than mediocre in the first place!! But what really ticked me off is that she let my favorite Bachelor, Jake go...I was SO sad. He stated as he left that "the good guy always finishes last", and boy was he right! She's an idiot, and until I saw that Jake was coming back to inform her of Wes's intentions I was going to quit watching, but I guess I'm sucked in for at least one more week...

And then there's the trainwreck that is Jon and Kate's marriage. I am so so sad about this!! At the beginning of their show they had friends and family, but now there is no mention of any of their previous friends or even of the family they were once so close to. But what upsets me most is the fact that it appears they have abandoned their faith. There was no mention whatsoever during any episodes so far this season. I am DEFINITELY not watching this anymore, because at this point I feel like watching it would be advocating their situation. They need to stop the show and work on their marriage and their family! I guess I'll just have to go over to Linz's and watch her DVD's of the "good days". SO SAD!!

Okay, enough complaining from this end...what shows are you guys watching this summer?? Looks like I need some replacements...

Only in D.C.....

Would it be normal to see approximately thirty NAKED guys and girls biking down the road. To protest what you might ask? Apparently dependence on foreign oil???? Wow...and needless to say I do not have any pictures of this to post, and yea you can thank me for that...