merry birthday

I have an awesome family and set of friends!

My birthday came and we celebrated and it was so fun.  To start off a fun weekend, my new beautiful little niece joined our family on March 8 (day before me!) and she is a bundle of sweetness.  My birthday was filled with breakfast and spending the day with my favorite guy, going to eat dinner with great friends (and my little bro who was in town from sunny LA), a grizz game with a win (and getting to sit on the floor for a quarter), and lots a fun family time and memories thinking about my last year.  It was full of blessings and growth.

 

(my little snotty face Jules is a little cutie big sis!)

I'm so thankful for this life.  Our little family is so blessed and my heart is so full every day.  I can't wait to see what this next year has in store for me!

birthday month

In our house it's birthday month!  Both our bdays fall in March so it's fun to have celebrations throughout the month.  I always hang our cute bday banner in the kitchen window...

(see our million buttercups in the backyard? there are even more along the wall under that window)

And enjoy sweets a little too much and justify it because "my birthday is in a week" or "t's birthday is next week." I would rather eat sweets for a meal any way.

T and I have been busy with building the table for the green egg grill we plan on purchasing.  We can't wait to get this thing.  You can cook/grill/bake anything on it.  You have to have some sort of stand, table, nest before you buy because you literally buy just the egg.  We wanted to save some moolah, so we (t-man) decided to build it ourselves.  Well it's just a beaut, but we have to let the wood "cure" before we can stain and seal it.... Patience.

See how great of a job he did?!

The egg will sit down in that hole.  A perfectly cut hole.


I was contemplating on whether or not to do a monthly desktop background.  Are you reader out there still enjoying it?  Please tell me if you are because I'll continue doing them if so.  In honor of March birthday month, check out March desktop here.

Happy Birthday month to the Carters!  :)

this girl has a birthday today

photo Aaron Snow Photography

This is my sweet sissy, if you didn't already know. It's her birthday today. She's awesome and my bestest (girl)pal. Good job Leanne, knowing her palindrome birthday. It's pretty cool, maybe that's where she gets her 'cools' from....right sissy? :)

Love you!

it's t's birthday

Happy birthday to the sweetest man - T Dudley Carter. He's nice, I like eem [love eem], and he likes [loves] me.

He is now 25 years old, and last night as we were going to sleep he said, "I don't want to be 25." Hehe, my sister and I had this same conversation last year when she turned 25. I told eem it'd be a great year for us, and then next year I'd turn 25 for him so he wouldn't be alone.

Just wanted to share some things I found this morning looking through some old photos of this guy. What a guy he is.

His usual face when dancing...

Well isn't that sweet... 

He studied like this in college.... And made all A's.

This was fun. A sweet serenade from my new husband of a couple hours.

He really does like me.

His good buddies... and Aaron Snow. Thanks for this, Ellen.

Ladies first.

Pensive. 

Right before we got married. I never saw this until today. Were you looking for me outside?

More of the sweet serenade joined by Aaron Lott.

I couldn't leave this one out, could I?

Or this one...

T. Diddy.

A little birthday tribute to you, bub/schnookums/boo/t/tdud etc etc. I love you.

March 9

celebrating both our March birthdays at Granny's last week

It was a great birthday! Thanks for all the birthday wishes to make March 9, 2010 another awesome birthday. I will say I have such a sweet husband, but I already knew that before my birthday. He planned a little surprise gathering with friends at a local restaurant, and it was so much fun. I even ran into fellow March 9th-er, and we enjoyed a birthday toast. :)

23 was a great year for me. We bought a house and fixed it up, I passed the 1 year mark at my job, we adopted the SWEETEST pup you've ever met, celebrated our first anniversary, and spent the holidays with our family and friends.

I'm really looking forward to 24 because I know it will be another great year. Bring it, 24.

it's almost here

I feel like I can taste the spring time. The forecast for Memphis this weekend will be s'lovely. Me and the T have a nice weekend planned, we're going with the flow, doing what we please. It will be great. Maybe Gibson will get to go explore at Shelby Farms? It would be his debut in a public park. After his few escapes in the neighborhood, he can't go anywhere without the gentle leader. Period. He now has to ride in the car with it on [and in the backseat, too], it makes him calm. He hasn't gotten used to the car yet. But I will say he is still adorable when gentle leader is on. :)

Another reason I love March is because it's the end of busy season. People, it's almost over, and I can hardly wait. Here are some things I want to do in the spring time:

• Landscape our yard
• Attend many Farmer's Markets [downtown]
• Go to the zoo & see the Teton Trek
• Begin my marathon training (what? I just put this out there... big step)
• Walk to Muddy's with Gibby and T
• Garage Sale (April 17 - haha, T and Jonny)
• Go on a weekend getaway with my hubs - Anyone have any ideas for us?
• Take T to Jerry's Sno Cones (he didn't get to go last summer)
• Run the Double Decker 10K
• Run the Youth Villages 5K
• Go to the lake with the Stephens

I love the spring time almost as much as I love fall. I can taste it, it's almost here!

As promised, the birthday banner hangs.

march is [one of] my favorite months

First of all, I can't believe it's already March. I have always loved March, but probably because it's the month of my birthday, and Dudley's, too. My birthday is at the beginning, T's is at the end, so really a month of celebration, and for a few weeks we're the same age.

So in honor of March, I acquired the cutest birthday banner this weekend from Neilson's [on the square in Oxford]. I scored this purchase because I found a gift card with $$ on it from wedding times. I got this and a cute pillow and one of my favorite candles that are always too expensive to buy without a giftcard or the like. Anyway, the banner is cute and will hang in our house the month of March. [I'll post a photo of it later]

The March desktop calendar. I got some great feedback from last month's, thank you! In honor of birthday month march, I had to use a cupcake, but everyone loves cupcakes, right? For copyright purposes, the pattern came from Maddy Hague of Inspired Bride, I just used it and changed a few things around. This is for personal use only. Thanks.

Enjoy! [Let me know if it doesn't work right for you.] Happy March!

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