Gary and I went out with our friends Clay and Miranda to a Carolina Mudcats baseball game tonight which was super fun and we love hanging out with them.

We started out upstairs (for dinner and ac)

And then we moved downstairs when it got cooler out (and for some ice cream 🙂 )

we were sitting behind a guy with the radar gun that determines the speed of the pitch

Gary got his ice cream in a muddy mudcat baseball cap cup

and I got a pink mudcats t-shirt 😀

P.S.  The Mudcats won against the Tennessee Smokeys and the score was 10-3 😀

1000 miles in 4 days ‘from the mountains to the ocean’ . . .

Thursday morning drove to Hendersonville NC for a Friday wedding. Drove home Friday afternoon, and for our one year anniversary, Gary surprised me with a trip to the beach for the weekend which we left for on Saturday morning which was so much fun, even though it rained off and on Sunday.

I didn’t take many pictures since I’ve been to most of the places before but it was fun relaxing and spending time together. It honestly doesn’t feel like we have been married a year . . . we still have to defrost the top of our wedding cake . . . year old wedding cake mmmm, I wonder how that will taste.

Saturday we went into Beaufort for a little shopping and stopped into a quaint wine shop for a bit of wine and cheese. Then for dinner we went to the Channel Marker (a restaurant we go to every time we go to the Atlantic beach). I love their scallops and their clam chowder 🙂

Sunday rained a lot off and on

so we went to the NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores

there was a shark about 3 times his size but he wouldn’t hold still

Gary and I have talked about learning to scuba dive someday . . . it would be so fun to check out some real wrecks and do a little under water photography

this guy was pretty, a lion fish . . . I didn’t feel like hanging around for a picture of him facing me, but he has great patterns

afterwards we went to Fort Macon since it was sunny out, and there was going to be a musket firing demonstration at 2:00, but at exactly 2:00 it started raining again for a bit but then it stopped again. and we didn’t feel like staying to see if the rain would start up again, so we left before it did. I did like this sign though

and then we went to the Beaufort Historic Maritime Museum and of course it was pouring then . . . I absolutely LOVE the blackbeard bear that is at the museum . . . i wish they sold a replica of it, i would buy one in an instant!

Monday (today) we took a 15 minute, very wet boat trip to Shackleford Island to see the wild horses which I have always wanted to do, but unfortunately we could only stay for an hour and it took 30 minutes to walk 3 miles down the island before we saw any horses (about 9 miles total). I was about 20 feet from them, and I’m sure I could have gotten closer if I wanted to . . . though they do warn you that the horses do bite and kick -heh

and then we went to Finz where we sat outside for lunch

I had fun at Beth and Corey’s wedding last weekend, and everything worked out well aside from the cold I got. The outdoor ceremony at the RLT Rose Garden was very beautiful, though quite warm out and the reception was at the Matthews House in Cary.

Here are a few highlights though there were a lot of great details 🙂

So I think I got something from someone at last weekends wedding.  I’ve been coughing and all since Tuesday, but hopefully I am on the mend.  I had to take two days off work and have been sleeping most of the time -blah

Gary and I Were Going to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (3rd one) on Friday but instead it will have to wait 😦

I was going through an old camera and found some photos of when we were remodeling our home when we first moved in . . . kinda fun to see

I took a half day at work on Friday and left around lunch time to get ready for my friends’ Beth and Corey’s wedding rehearsal. Afterwards we went to the Rehearsal dinner at the Irregardless where there were some really great jazz players (guitarist Lou and saxophonist Bobby). Then Gary and I saw Shrek 3 which was really cute and got home around midnight.

The next morning with my alarm set for 6:30am I got up for a fashion shoot in Chapel Hill.

Sunday (today) was Beth and Corey’s wedding which was at the Raleigh Little Theatre‘s Rose Garden. It is so beautiful right now with everything in bloom.

So with my feet sore now (though the wedding and everything was a blast!)  I still have more products to shoot (this evening?)  and a looot of photos to look at, so check back soon!

So A Sweet Reminder has new products that I shot for their website. Check it out at www.asweetreminder.com
NOTE: Not all the photos on their site were taken by me

Here are a few shots of mine

Now go BUY COOKIES! 🙂