You Know You're Getting Old When....

...your idea of a fun (and I'm not even being sarcastic!) Friday night involves TCBY, wine and helping your friend do laundry :) 

...your "fun" Saturday night consists of a sleeping husband and doing 4 hours of report cards (seven hours total, people! Those bad boys took FOREVER!)...

{all photos taken at like, 10PM}

...your whole Facebook news feed consists of people in their Halloween costumes (or their kids in Halloween costumes) and you're not even upset that you didn't dress up OR go out this year.

..you purposely stop on your run to take a picture of the pretty fall trees...

...carving pumpkins might be the most fun thing you did all weekend...

{the drill terrifies me!}

...and you can relate to any or ALL of the following:

Well, I'd love to continue searching for more applicable ecards; however, it is time for this old lady to go to bed! 

So what we learned today is...I AM OLD.

And I promise, next time I'll be more interesting!!! 

(Those darn report cards have just taken over my life lately!)

I'm BACK!

OMG has it really been almost THREE WEEKS since I've blogged?!?! YIKES!!!!! I am sorry friends!!!

Part of it is because I really haven't been doing anything that fun....but I dug up some pics for you to recap the last three weeks....

We attended another (shocker!) UNC football game. Although this one was WAY more sunny than last time, and included Tarheel Pop tarts!

{It was a white out! Obvi!}

Oh, AND we saw Ramses on the ride home! He was going back to his home on the farm!

{Travis took the pic, I was driving...so sorry for the poor quality!)

The next weekend, I decided to run 20 miles, oh ya know, just for fun. 

Ha, I kid. (Unfortunately, not about the 20 miles, just about the part that it was for fun!)

Never, ever running a marathon again. 

Mark my words!

I really did run the full 20--promise! My phone just died the last 1/2 mile, so annoying!!

{Travis also made me a yummy dinner that night!!}

Anyway, after that stupid, almost THREE hour long run, my knee started REALLLLLLLYYY hurting!! So now, I have been diagnosed with having torn ligaments and have to cut my remaining mileage before the marathon in half! So no more 20 milers for this girl, I just hope I don't lose all of my endurance in the next 3.5 weeks!

Then, my poor dad had surgery on his foot last week! So I went to my parents' house to spend some time with them!

He is doing ok, but getting around in this sweet roller-walker-thingy! 

{I know you are jeally of Tom!}

Poor guy....he can't even drive till like January! Also, poor Mom, she has to take care of him till then!

 Fortuntately, we DID get to have a family icing party! I know, you wish you and your dad were this cool!

Between his right foot and my left knee, we are a pretty busted up family! And it's all due to running!!!  I should have stuck to swimming! (Although my rotator cuff is also torn, so that's not a much better option!)

So, see? Nothing too exciting! I promise I will be more exciting next time, though, and not wait another 3 weeks till my next post!!!!!

Weekend Happenings {A few days late}

Sooooo, I totally intended on writing this last night....but I got busy cleaning/spending time with my husband and my fav New Jersey housewives, so it didn't getting written OR posted. Sahhhry. 

But here's what we've been up to!

This past Saturday, we attended the rainiest football game I think I have ever been to! It was pretty miserable!

{trying to stay dry!}

As you may be able to tell from the above picture, our seats were underneath the upper level, so we stayed covered. Had we had seats elsewhere (i.e., in the rain,) I promise you we would have left a LOT sooner (we made it till halftime)!

Please note how many people are sitting in the rain versus under the upper level...our section was pretty packed!

So many people had on my UNC poncho that I wore for our cake cutting at our wedding, I felt like SUCH the trendsetter! HA!

On Sunday, we went out to brunch with Travis' parents, who were in town, and then came home to work of several house projects!

Our mailbox got knocked over by the garbage men, so we Travis had to put together a new mailbox stand. I think he did a great job!

Here it is:

While he was busy with that, I  decided to make this wreath for our front door...for a grand total of $12.25! Thanks to Michael's for their 40% off coupons and 15% teacher discount!

Want to make your own? Get the directions here...although you probs don't even need them, it's the easiest project EVER!!

Then, I decided to put up a few fall decorations around the house...

{love my new table runner from Target!}

Super minor things, but I love having a house to decorate to seasons, especially fall!!! I'm sure I'll be putting more decor up later, so don't you worry one bit.

And then, I made Teresa Guidice's Chicken with Bruschetta Topping from the cookbook I got her to sign when I met her last week!!! 

It was really good!!! (Even if she is cray-cray....that part 1 of the reunion, OMG!)

Have a great week!!!! :)

Wedding Wednesday!

Happy Wednesday!!

I wanted to share this wedding with you that I helped out with this past weekend!

It was at Trump National Golf Course (formerly The Point) and rumor has it Donald Trump is planning on re-doing all of the decor to make it very swanky and overly fancy. I hope that's not true because I love the nautical, somewhat rustic look of the place!!

Here is the main room:

So pretty right?! 

I love how they kept with the nautical theme (the venue is right on Lake Norman) with their table names and other decor!!

{Such a cute idea for the guest book!}

Place cards...put on ropes by your truly! 

Off to the side of the large room is this area where they had all of the food. I loved the garage-type doors that slide up and the views of the lake!

This was the view just to the right of the ceremony site... 

And I know it's hard to see/tell (sorry for the iPhone pics!) but here is the ceremony...it was right on the lake in a covered gazebo-type thing! Which was great in case it should rain!

 Here is the altar that we left up for cocktail hour (people could hang out on the gazebo and drink which was so nice!)

The only down-side was that people were on the lake in their boats, and some RUDE people were blasting their music (and it was like, AC/DC, not wedding-appropriate!) throughout the ceremony and yelling, "Don't do it!" Ummm, hello?!?!? That is so beyond rude. Thank goodness we had a super chill bride and groom!!

This was such a fun wedding to help with! I loved the nautical theme and would love to plan my vow renewal (haha start saving Mom and Dad) here!!! :)

Please Get Here Already, Fall Weather!

Ok, I am back!! I can't believe I haven't blogged in like 2 weeks. I suck. And I am sorry. I blame the new iPad, training for this stupid marathon, and just being busy with school in general!

But, no fear, I am going to catch you up on everything I've been up to lately...which hasn't been a whole lot (another reason why I've probs not been blogging)! 

Well....I finally caved and bought the Tory Burch boots I've been wanting since....oh, forever. 

Yes, I know they are SO EXPENSIVE (*hello! I am a teacher!), but I really, really needed a new pair of boots, and they were having a Labor Day sale, so the boots were 25% off! They are my back to school/marathon training present to myself. :)

Aren't they gorg?! Now if it would just cool off a little more, I could wear them every.single.day. Please and thank you.

Moving on...Trav and I got to keep this little guy at our house last weekend while his parents were at a wedding:

Ahhhh he is so presh!!! And he LOVED Travis!

It kinda made me want a baby ...(well, and it doesn't help that literally everyone I know is prego...like, I have 3 cousins due within a month of each other!) BUT, NO WORRIES, I realize we just got married a hot second ago, and so, Baby Ferg will have to wait another year...or two.

OH! I also met Teresa Guidice today!! She was visiting Charlotte at the Southern Women's Show and I found out because I follow her on twitter!! So I quick texted Kathryn and off we went to meet Teresa!

{not sure what my eye is doing in this pic..}

So, she may not be my most favorite Housewife ever, but she was really nice, and ok FINE, I bought her cookbook as well! I needed something for her to sign and it actually has a lot of yummy-looking recipes in it! 

Speaking of cooking....look what I got with some leftover wedding gift cards.... 

AHHHHH!!!

It is SOOOO wonderful!! I am obsessed already!

I made this soup in the new Le Creuset and it. was. awesome. (Both the soup and the pot!)

I also decided to be extra fall-y and make some Pumpkin Oreo Cheesecake Cupcakes. However, once I started making them, I realized I didn't have enough cupcake liners....I thought I could just spray the cupcake tins really well with PAM, but...well, FAIL:

Some of them turned out ok though..

Note to self: always use cupcake liners!!!

How's Travis, you may ask? 

Ohhh, he is doing just fine. :)

I'll be back Wednesday for *Wedding Wednesday* (YAY!) to share this gorg nautical wedding I helped out with this past weekend!!! 

Have a wonderful week!!!

Catching Up

Happy Weekend!! It seems like this is the only time I have to catch my breath....

I just finished running 15 miles on the treadmill. I don't know if I mentioned it on here or not, but I am running my first marathon in November!!!! Remind me never to do this again.....it is way more intense than training for the half-marathon I did last year. And, it's STILL too hot/humid outside, so I have been running on the treadmill for 2+ hours every weekend for my long runs. NOT. FUN.

ANYWAYS....last weekend was a bit more fun (minus the 14 miles I had to run on the treadmill last Sunday) because we went to Chapel Hill for the first football game of the season (and our married lives)! VERYYYY exciting.

{It was hot as balls...thank God our seats are in the shade!}

{I'm so lucky my husband likes a team with pretty colors!}

Sunday night, Trav had a fantasy football party...so I had a nice relaxing evening to myself: 

Monday, Kathryn took me to Whole Foods. It just opened here in Charlotte, and I gotta say, I am very impressed!!! I was so intrigued by everything in the store!!! Hahah.

Every ingredient you could ever want!

Olive bar! YUM!!

Sugar free drink mixers! I do love Skinnygirl drinks, but this gives me a low-cal mojito!

Soooo many yummy cookies!

They even had a wine bar!

Kathryn and I grabbed dinner from the WAY extensive salad bar, and I even got some BLK water (if you watch RHONJ, you can understand my excitement!)!!!

Also worth noting, this week I had a house husband...Trav had to work from home all week because the DNC was occupying his place of employment uptown! Here is a list of everything he did this week:

*Made stir fry for dinner Tuesday night

*Cut the grass

*Cleaned out the garage and organized everything

*Trimmed the hedges

*Bought me flowers (!!!!)

*Made crab cakes for dinner Thursday night

I loved having him home!!! I could get used to that!!!

Have a great weekend and week!!! :)