I’ve been featured!

I’ve been featured on Laura Mandzok’s Save Vernors Blog thanks to our mutual love of that strong ginger ale! Its’ nothing big, but still exiciting that someone cited YankeeBelle on their website.

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We love you Tracy Turnblad!

 
We needed a date night since it’s been too long since the last one, so we decided to get Chinese and catch a movie. I suggested to Matthew that we see Hairspray, mentioning that it got four stars and had John Travolta dressed like a lady in a fat suit. He thought that sounded fun [...]

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It’s a slashy gift…

August is a big celebration month for us. We have my mom’s birthday, our wedding anniversary, Matthew’s birthday and, if Matthew’s sister delivers on time, we’ll be an aunt and uncle for the first time in August, too.
Being the ever diligent planner that I am, I’ve been thinking about what to get Matthew for his [...]

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Adventures in Travelling…

We set off for the Musselman/Goodloe wedding in Minneapolis last Friday, which included a flight from Raleigh-Durham to Atlanta and then Atlanta to Minneapolis/St. Paul. It was not fun, to put it mildly. Our flight took off an hour late and then we sat on the tarmac for 20 minutes before unloading, which meant that [...]

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Golly Gee, Doncha Know

We’re flying to Minnesota, properly pronounced Min-ah-soh-taah, a la Bobby’s World or Fargo (which is really in North Dakota) this weekend to watch these people get married (and no, that’s not what they normally wear):

We love the accent and play it up when our Southern friends comment on our own accents, which sound the same to [...]

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It isn’t easy being green…

 
While Matthew was at work yesterday morning, I started painting the shed. By the time he got home around 1:00, I was half way done. I finished it 6 hours later. Well, finished isn’t exactly the right word. I still have to paint all of the little pinstripes, which, after starting to do some yesterday, [...]

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Ermm…

I hastily took this photo of my mobile straight after getting home from work tonight since we had sun for the first time in two days. I improvised on the string holding it up and didn’t bother evening it out since it’s rather difficult to do with just one set of hands. I can see [...]

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Recovering…

My apologies for taking so long to post. We’re recovering from three weekends of houseguests in a row. While it was so much fun to have all of them here, it meant a lot of cleaning, reorganizing and at last resort, hiding! So, I’ve taken it easy these last few nights- which still included cleaning up [...]

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Mobile Makings…

I love Blueprint magazine! So, when I saw their idea for a mobile, I thought it would be fun to try it out, using my own bright colors of course. Once it’s all done, it should (should being the operative word) cost me less than $5 and look pretty cool hanging in our computer room. [...]

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God bless the US!

Thank you to all who have served our country proudly and bravely over the last 231 years, including my own sweet husband and dad. I couldn’t be more proud or more moved by your service.  You’re both too humble to realize just how much it has meant to me and our country. I love you both!
Happy 4th of [...]

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