Boating, tubing and sunburning oh my...

Friday Night Tim and I were invited via text message to join our neighbors out on their new boat. Saturday morning I rose early from bed, took a shower and finally setting in on the sofa to read the last few chapters of a book that I had renewed once from the library. Around 8:30 a.m. we receive a call from BJ & Laura to meet them at 9:30 in the front yard. We hurried and packed a bag, applied sunblock and headed to Wawa's to pick up subs and ice for the trip. We arrived at the marina at 10:30 and began our journey out in the water. It was nice, not a ton of boats in the water. We headed over to an area that was less crowded so we could go tubing. We tubed for several hours and then had lunch. Tubed for another few hours, before calling it at day. We were heading back into the marina and noticed how red everyone was. Yup, Tim and I were burnt and so was BJ, but Laura succeed to get a nice fab tan. (She stinks!) I was cursing myself for not bringing the camera so I could take some pictures of Tim and I tubing. Maybe next time. (I am glad to report that I relaxing a tad bit in the water. It does help that I was wearing a life vest while in the water. Which I believe is the law. Not positive, but I believe it is.

Our North Carolina weekender

Tim and I left Severn, MD on Thursday, June 5Th around 8:30 a.m. after dropping Josie and Roscoe off at my parents house. We are really grateful to have parents who will watch our dogs whenever need be. We had decided before heading to NC that we would take our time and make a few stops. Most of the time we are in such a rush to get to our final destination that we never stop and enjoy the area. So we decided take the "BROWN SIGN TOUR". If you have ever been in a car for more then 2 hours you have probably seen the brown historical signs.

Our first stop of the morning wasn't to a historical site, but to a Dunkin Donuts for breakfast. It was a bad idea to stop for coffee, we ended up having stopped about 6 times during our trip for me to use the bathroom.

Our second stop was in Petersburg, VA at one of the several National Battlefield sites. It was a small walk-around site into the woods, at the end of the "15 minute" walk we found a memorial for the falling soldiers of this battle.

Our third stop of the trip was to the National Battlefield in Petersburg. We decided to walk around the battlefield and took some awesome pictures of some of the cannon's that were used during this battle. Here are some pictures of our stop at the National Battlefield.

After visit to the National battlefield we headed to Salisbury, NC to visit the Epling family. Melinda and Carlin moved to Salisbury, NC from Maryland just over two years ago and we had never gone down to visit. It was a short visit with the family, but it was a good one. Here is a picture of their baby girls. (Carly standing up and Madeline being held.)

Our final stop in NC was to Shelly and Chris' new place in Durham, NC. We spent two nights with Chris and Shelly. We had hoped to visit the Duke Gardens on Saturday, but with the weather not cooperating we decided to check out the National History Museum in Raleigh. This place also had A/C. Here is a shot of Chris inside a tree! At the National History Museum we saw some dinosaur's Chris' favorite exhibit. My favorite was the gems and rocks. (Who would of guessed!).

The rest of the weekend was spent at Shelly and Chris' eating and playing board games. It was a very low key weekend, but something that Tim and I enjoy very much. We were so happy that both DeAdder and Epling family allowed us to come down and visit.

One party down several more to go!

Every year Tim and I have several summer time parties and we invite friends over. Well this year I started our summer time parties off on the early side. I invited over 15 of my closest girlfriends and we ate and drink like it was a Saturday night. Yup, I decided to have a Tastefully Simple party on a Thursday night. Yes, I think afterwards I may been a bad idea to pick a Thursday night, but we still had a good time. For about two hours we stuffed our faces with yummy breads, dips, veggies until it was time to go. My friends were very generous and purchased tons of dips, breads, beverages from Tastefully Simple. We are all still patiently wait our orders in the mail. I may have another party soon to invite everyone back over so we can taste some of the freebies. If you want to purchase some yummy food, check out April's Tastefully Simple website. Once you look, you'll be hooked. www.tastefullysimple.com/web/ahughes1


The next big party we plan on hosting is just two weeks away. We have invited over 40 people and have about 15 confirmations. This time the guys are invited as well.