Easter Weekend Recap

Easter-oh my heart!  What a time of celebration!  I cannot believe that just this day last year we were packing up all our things from our first apartment together and moving to a townhouse on Daniel Island-ish.  Rich and I both remember so vividly how rough that move was.  I feel like Easter 2015 just didn't exist!  This year was oh so different,.  My parents came up for the weekend to visit us in Virginia and we loved having family in our four walls finally!  

Can I just share how amazing KONGS are for our dogs?  Company is REALLY tough for our high energy fur children, and thanks to peanut butter and the freezer, these KONGS become the most amazing distractions.  I caught this photo of them kong-ing away while we had breakfast one morning.  This picture is truly a photo of a FAMILY meal. I am a strong promoter of all things KONG, so if you have wild doggies like us, you will want to grab this from your local petstore of here! 

We spent part of Saturday at the oceanfront in Virginia Beach and a little place on the water called Rudees.  It was the closest we've found to a great place in Charleston called Reds. We had lots of great family laughs at this lunch time together.   

Completely guilty of pinteresting these little Easter basket cookies.  You can find the recipe here.  It is so simple and a pretty treat for kids (or....adults!)

After church we had a nice Easter brunch and a beautiful chance to use our china.  Love the chance to set our table for a real meal!

Easter evening we headed to Lifegroup and had a great potluck with about 14 great folks and lots of kids.  We played games, ate WAY too much food, and caught a few minutes of March Madness on tv.  

Speaking of tv, my bestest buddy friend Danny was on Hollywood Game Night and...umm WON!  He won 25,000 and it was so fun cheering him on Sunday night,  I can't believe I stayed up that late but I was so hyped he won I couldn't even fall asleep after.  It was an AWESOME way to wrap up a great easter weekend!

March-ing into Spring

A few weeks in March and I can already say this is my favorite month of the year! ;)   I am a sucker for warm weather and I feel like I deserve a big pat on the back for surviving winter when I get to this time of year.  The flowers and trees in our neighborhood are blooming and the feeling is spring is everywhere! I LOVE it!  Since things are going so well in March, I figured I would share a bit of what we've been up to so far and some highlights of this month so far. 

The new weather has been perfect for extra puppy walks, which not only gets me outside and enjoying the new neighborhood, but also accomplishes a January  goal I had to train these doggie messes a bit more.  Sophie has learned to shake in this last week and they are overall listening to us a bit more.  I am over the moon excited to give these two more leg stretches during the week with this weather and my lunch breaks to run home.  I think they love it already.  Happy dogs, happy mommy. 

As I've mentioned a million times, new couch means our living room is getting a bit more living time!  Also, March brought us Fuller House and we are LOVING this throwback to the 90's.  Shame on you Michelle for not returning to your tv family for this throwback. 

  Did I mention we've been training these suckers more?  Also that means they are getting more treats and we are seeing a lot more of this begging position.  The bigger news for these two is they got new (matching) collars in March.  Flowers for everyone-dogs included.

We hosted a going away party for a family (March goal check!)  in our Life Group and it was our first gathering at the new house. It was SO great to have folks in our house for change and it was especially fun to use all the party supplies I got at my bridal shower and then we got for the wedding, including these adorable bunny plates for Pottery Barn that remind me so much of my grandmother.   

Rich hung our Italian lights in the backyard and we just LOVE the ambiance of our yard now.  It's totally dreamy!  It made for a great backdrop to our Life Group coming over on Sunday.