These past five months.

Here's those pictures from our holiday last year.

Megan's centerpiece creation!

Christmas morning.

too close?

awkward angle. my bad

cousins.

Authentic Charleston row house. Complete with Caribbean blue ceilings to ward of unwanted spirits.

yes, that would be a beach.

my dad says I could be a model?


My sister gave birth to twin fraternal boys, Beckett and Aiden in March. They are officially a family of five now. No pressure for us, Devin :)

they're so different already!

Parker joined in on the fun.

Beckett's sporting the blue bow which leaves Adien with the green.

Devin was accepted to not one, but BOTH podiatry schools he applied to. Des Moines University which is located in, that's right, Des Moines, Iowa...and Temple University, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Not only was he accepted, BOTH schools offered him a partial scholarship! (partial being like 1/8 tuition coverage, but hey it's something). Thanks guys!

Drum roll, please.

dumn



dah




dah dumnnnn




daaaaaaaaaahhhhhh


Des Moines University is the winner!!!!

So we'll be packing our cars once again and heading out West (sometime late July is the plan). Henry is especially excited.

Speaking of Henry, the cats are doing fine. We recently switched their food from Nutro Salmon flavor to Blue Buffalo Chicken flavor. They seem to really like it. So much in fact that we recently had to purchase a "slow-down" feeder bowl, which will hopefully slow down (Henry in particular) their consumption.

And, not to brag or anything, but Devin scored four free Oriole's ticket's for tonight's game against the Nats. Not only were they free, the SEATS are supposed to be amazing- 1st row. The best part- this all came with a parking pass. Sweet.

Now hopefully mother nature will reconsider and decide to shine instead of thunder. Fingers crossed.

How will you be celebrating Doom's day?

Pictures of our Holiday will be posted following this one.

Christmas in the south was:

Loud
Crazy
Loud
an assortment of the best foods I've ever eaten (pistachio cake, um yum. key lime pie, barbecue...which in the south means pulled pork (right?). So I am a HUGE fan of barbecue, which should not be mistaken for a cook out.. which means grilling hot dogs and hamburgers...yuck). Oh and I can't forget about the rice and hash. And my new favorite, collared greens.

I made sure to eat lots of collared greens, as they are a representation of $$$$ bills.

And we could use all the money we could get.

Now back to the description of Christmas:

So, Loud.
Fireworks and Roman Candle fights. (well I just watched).
Football, football, and more football. I've had a lot of people ask me whether or not I like football (maybe because Devin likes it so much?)...so here's my answer. It depends on the day and who's playing/team rank. So, if Morgan State was playing Duke on a Saturday night, chances are I won't be interested.

Dancing- Devin and I went to this New Years Eve dance at the Stake Center. And we were probably two of like twenty in attendance. It was sorta lame, but the music was good and I got to slow dance with Devin which always makes me SMILE :)

And lastly, our Holiday was pretty loud.

But I loved almost every minute of my time spent down South.
(P.S. I told Devin last night that I miss his house and having so many people around at once). It's true.

Now it's back to the slow and painful adjustment to reality.

At least I have the day off tomorrow- and still getting paid for it. score!

Oh yea, and Devin and I spent one day in Charleston. Fun fact (As Ted Mosby would say) Did you know Charleston is nick-named the Holy City. Why? Well because there are about 100 churches in the peninsula alone.

Pretty cool.

Hillary out.

If you never received a holiday card from us

it's probably because we never sent one out this year.

But if we did, it would probably say something like Happy Holidays and New Year's from yours truly.

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(our first professional picture taken- and probably our last)- I mean why pay for professional pictures that are over priced anyways when you own a DSLR?

we're ringing in the new year with family, friends, Carolina football, southern cooking, and dancing!

Happy New Years!

Babies.

Babies (and children) have been on my mind lately. Maybe it has to do something with nannying- I'm always around children and I absolutely love it.

And they love me- I just love when they smile back!

I've come up with a fantastic list of baby names- I love all eight.

Devin, it looks like we're having eight kids!


Happiness for today (is) Christmas deals.

Not so cool (is) temper tantrums in the library.


Man, I wish I could sing like this girl can sing.

I think I've found a new interest for the time being.

cooking yummy (somewhat healthy) food.

So far, I've compiled all of my parent's cookbooks, locating potential "to try" as N.F. Simpson would call them, recipes.(I've also found a lot via internet).

The list is oh so long.

And I'm kinda excited.

So excited in fact, that I'll probably post every recipe that makes it into mine (and Devin's) "favorite" pile.

And then I'm going to take those favorite recipes we enjoy so much and compile them into my own moleskin recipe book and call it something cheesy like "Cooking with Hillary", or "A taste of Hillary".


But mostly likely it will be called "Favs" or "Recipes".

TGIF, seriously.

Halloween (flashback five days ago) consisted of homemade white chicken chili (yum), yellow cupcakes with orange frosting, the cutest little monkey EVER, and the oh so, infamous banana dog.

(The monkey in action)

today,


happiness (is) giant yellow leaf piles.


not so cool (is) Devin yet again working on a Friday night. (and this Saturday and Sunday night).

well for today...

happiness (is). good by, dear gas guzzler. Hello you. (or something along those lines).

not cool (is). wiping dirty butt cracks.