Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Heading East!


Granted there isn't much further East that we need to go. However, this past weekend we headed to Wilmington, NC to hang out with the soon to be Powerses. Brandy and Will are getting married in September. We had a great time with them. Although, this will probably be the end of Brandy's short stints of living with us. Sadness overwhelms our hearts. We are very confident that Dr. Powers will take good care of our Brandy (who apparently refuses to be called "Dr. Pulley").

The soon-to-be newlyweds!

Meredith College suitemates
(Awkward positioning, but I was trying to be shorter for my counterpart's benefit.)

Brandy's muscles. If only we were all so fit.

If you look up "sexy beast" in the dictionary. This is a picture of what you will find.

We had a great time! Thanks for hosting us Brandy and Will! We can't wait for the big day!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Bootie Waiver

I (Kristin) have a friend from college, Meredith Robertson. We both survived a very long, grueling semester of Chaucer together. However, I can safely say that we can both successfully recite the Prologue to "The Canterbury Tales" in Middle English! Here we are a little over four years since our glorious graduation. We talk almost daily throughout the week.

A couple of months ago Meredith introduced me to her brother's blog. Apparently Lee is about as sarcastic as they come. For this, and this alone, I have grown to love blog-stalking him. Many of his stories are about their family (I would pay to witness a holiday with these people...hilarity at its finest).

Recently, Lee posted about the white carpet in their parents' house. Apparently Meredith's mother had white carpet when they were children. Since they didn't listen to her and take their shoes off, it was essentially Stanley Steamer-ed to death during their youth. She had everything replaced with, you guessed it, MORE WHITE CARPET. However, in an effort to prevent her rebellious children from ruining her now new, white carpet, she bought surgical booties that must be worn in the house.

I decided to ask Meredith how this would play out. Here's our conversation:

me: So you have to wear surgical booties anytime you are in your parents' house?
Meredith:
only if you want to keep your shoes on upstairs
so i usually take my shoes off
it's just easier
me: What if you don't have a chance to take your shoes off b/c you are running inside to "vom" and the downstairs bathroom is occupied. What then? Do the bootie police chase you through the house?
Meredith: hahaha we havent had that problem yet
i guess the booties would be waived at that point?
im not sure
i will have to bring that up
me: you should make them sign a bootie waiver. that way you aren't held responsible for your actions in a time of emergency.
Meredith: a bootie waiver
Meredith: mom says yes, if you can make it into the house to vom, you can make it to the booties and put them on

Sidenote here: According to Lee, "vom" is Meredith's way of making the word vomit cute. Not sure it works, but whatever.

I LOVE Meredith's family!


Wednesday, June 3, 2009

April showers bring...more May showers!

Hey, at least we're not in a drought this year! May sped by without us even realizing it. This will be an exceptionally long post, so consider yourself forewarned!

Memorial Day weekend was spent in Florence with Phillip's family. Most of the time Phillip's birthday (May 23rd) falls over Memorial Day weekend anyway, so it was a great chance to spend an extended weekend down there. Phillip was one lucky man this year. For his birthday he was allowed to attend a Tinkerbell birthday party! Granted the party was for Emma, Sarah's
daughter, who just so happens to share the same birthday as Phillip. :-)

This is Emma...apparently her toy was much more useful to her as a noose. I thought the picture was funny. Sarah, being the domestic goddess that I will forever fall short of becoming, made a personal cake for Phillip. Sadly, this meant he didn't get a piece of cake with a fairy on it (we all knew this was his secret desire). However, if one is going to miss out on Tinkerbell the next best thing is of course Clemson. We truly love Sarah on many levels for this: 1) the cake I attempted to make P was sub-par (to say the very least), 2) she is a really good baker with a knack for drawing Clemson paws, and 3) making this cake bordered on sacrilege for her as she is a die hard Gamecock fan. Way to be selfless Sarah!

The treat bags were awesome. Our sunglasses really made us look HOT! Then we had to give the bags over to party guests under the age of ten because allegedly Taylor, our niece, stole their bags. Just call us Switzerland (Taylor has yet to be convicted of this crime)!

The rest of the weekend was spent enjoying time with Phillip's family and friends. We never seem to have enough time! Oh, and we got strawberries and veggies from McLeod Farms in McBee, South Carolina. I love our summer trips to SC! Below are a few more pictures from the weekend.

Lee loves it when I take his pic! Only four more months and these kids will be married!

Phillip is making a really dumb face hugging his mom. My favorite part is Sarah in the back trying to win the Olympic gold medal for photo-bombing!

Let this be a lesson to all: never, I repeat, NEVER try to high kick Phillip. This is what results from such an audacious move. As the Trinidadians say, "tisk tisk!"

Good times had by all!