Tiger Tiger Woods Ya'll!!!

I'm in Miami this week/weekend at a conference for work and yesterday I had a first time encounter with the game of golf at a golf clinic! Check out my fancy golf gear from one of the conference sponsors, Mercedes Benz!

What's the verdict on golf? I'll stick to putt putt! While I loved the feeling when I actually hit the ball far and high, that only happened about 10% of the time so...

            

More from me later. Sending this post from my iPhone in the hotel. I wish blogger would make an app for the iPad.

Four!!!!,

SG



Upgrade

Our new camera arrived last week! With the London/Paris trip slowly approaching, we decided that we needed a new camera to capture all the loveliness that we are expecting to see!  With that in mind, we went with the Canon EOS Rebel T2i for our new family camera.  We have a lot to learn, but we tested it out this weekend on a trip down to Atlanta to visit the family and celebrate my mom's upcoming birthday.  

Troy and I hope to catch a class before London so that we can get the most out of the fancy new camera.  I will say, even with my simple "no-flash, point & click" pictures (like the one above!) this weekend, the quality is one million times better than my usual iPhone and small digital camera pictures! 

See...

 

Miyah loves her some Uncle Troy...but hey, I can't blame her! He's so lovable!

Also, Miyah is crawling ya'll!!! I could not believe it! She is crawling (fast!!) and puling up.  That means, most likely, the next time that I see her, she will be walking.  Oh goodness, what's next, college?! Too fast!  But anywho, as you can see from the last picture, I took mom to Ici Paris, the same spa we visited last year for her birthday, for mother-daughter massages! It was great!! 

We ended the day with dinner at Flip where I had the one-of-a-kind Krispy Kreme milkshake! 

Oh, and speaking of delicious sweet things, mom also requested my famous lemon cupcakes with lemon cream cheese icing.  My friends request that I bake this more than anything else so I actually hadn't baked them in over a year to give them a rest.  This camera (we've named the camera Lea after the fabulous photographer who did our wedding pictures) took the best cupcake pictures I've ever taken! And again, this is just on a basic "no flash" setting.  I have not even come to understand all of the personalized settings.

 making the icing...

So, I realized, mid-baking, that I was out of piping bags and cutting a hole in a ziploc bag to use my piping tools failed, so my bootleg attempt to ice the cupcakes was just cut a hole in a Ziploc bag and squeeze the icing through the hole...

After chilling in the fridge over night. Packed and ready to go to Georgia...

Also, let me just say this--this was my first time making cupcakes with Gretel, my stand mixer.  WOW!! So much easier!!!!!!  I almost didn't know what to do with myself when I wasn't personally mixing things with a hand mixer! So great!!  Stand mixer = yet another major upgrade!

Yay for the upgrade (and double yay for an excellent Saturday),

SG

So I Think I Can Dance...

Remember the last time I stopped by Johnny Rockets when my family visited?  Well, I happened to go back again a few weeks ago and the staff let me dance with them yet again!! And yes, this time I knew ALL the choreography!!

Did you catch the TV show reference in the title?,

SG

Bridal Shower Highlights

Few highlights from Allison's bridal shower--The Four F's were present & accounted for:

Food (and flowers!)....

the bride approves of yummy food!!

Friends...

FEUD--Bridal Shower Feud that is!!

AND of course FUN...

oh, and let's not forget--FASHION SHOW! That's a lot of F's for one weekend! I think I counted 6 F's total.

Still recovering,
SG

Weekend & More To Come...

Why oh why do the days that begin with F and S go by so quickly?!  The weekend has come and gone but I thought I'd share a few highlights from my fun weekend...

 1. Costco & Target Trip!!  

which means TONS of Dove (for me), Irish Spring (for Troy), tissue, paper towels, and washing detergent to last us for at least 3 months!

2. Parents Visit!! 

Trip to Frankie's Fun Park!

My mom of course had to pose for at least one photo!

Hole In One Victories 

(note I had a hole in one but Troy's picture of me was SO blurry I couldn't use it. We had to use my iPhone for pics.  I left my camera at home!)

Dance Machine

Basketball

And A Little Motorcycle Riding 

(the ONLY way you'll ever see me on a motorcyle--one that's nailed to the ground!)

3. SMOOTHIE!!

So, I admit, I am just now breaking out a few of our kitchen wedding gifts now that we have a kitchen that can house fancy gadgets (i.e. since we've moved we've unboxed our electric skillet, electric rice cooker, and now our blender!)  While at Costco I tasted a yummy smoothie and bought a bag of Yoplait smoothie packs!  And Saturday night, after putt putt, we came home and I made some for everyone!  DELICIOUS & nutritious!  I'm going to try to make them for breakfast in the weeks to come. Pretty excited!

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Stay tuned for the dining room reveal.  It's taking so long because we keep ordering or buying curtains that do not work with the vision I have for that room.  We just received our latest curtains on Thursday so hopefully they'll be up sometime this week and I can get a picture of the dining room with the new paint, table, curtains, and table decor!  ALSO, our vacation pictures have been put on a disk and we plan to pick those up from the store this week so stay tuned for some fun posts at some point within the next seven days!

Hope you had an excellent weekend,

SG