my golden birthday boy.

happy birthday to this guy!  here are a few details from his 26th birthday... 26 golden balloons...

 thayne loves batman. so a few days ago i decided i would try to make him a batman cake for his birthday.  and then two seconds later i decided i would call my sister in law to see if she was available and able to make the cake.  she was, and it was clearly a good call. he loved it! 

we feel so blessed to have our grandparents close by.   unfortunately this is the only picture i got of family, but we love and appreciate everyone who came.  what would we do without our families?

happy 26th thayne!  let the birthday week begin...

his pillow.

This is our bed.  These are our pillows.  The one we love the most is the one that looks like it doesn't belong.  TT has had this pillow for years, and the very first time we made our bed he added it as the finishing touch.  I must admit, I have a love/hate relationship with this pillow.   When it started falling apart I secretly was excited,   the seam was tattered and I was finding the batting scattered around our bedroom. That meant it was finally time to get rid of it right?  So, I told TT it was time to throw it away.  He looked at me and laughed...  The pillow clearly wasn't going anywhere.  

So, for Christmas I planned to "repair" it.  Definition of repair:  Take it to my mom, and have her work her magic.  She is after all the most talented quilter/sewer/seamstress I know.  She happily repaired this pillow, filling it with fresh batting, stitching up the original seam, and kindly returning it to me good as new.  On Christmas day, the pillow showed up in his stocking.  He was pleasantly surprised.

Afterall, he always says, if I get to put ten pillows on the bed, then he gets to at least put one on.   So there you have it... this is our bed.

Roadtrip via Instagram

Last weekend, we took a little roadtrip to Vegas.  We arrived just in time for all the Black Friday madness and I did my best to encourage TT we needed to get it on all the shopping.  We went down to watch UNC play in the Orleans Invitational, and loved every minute of it.  We were so generously gifted tickets to Donny and Marie (truly a very good show!), we ate lots of great food including Maggianos, Holsteins, and some incredible pizza (can't remember the name of the restaurant).  It was so nice to just relax and hangout with each other for a whole weekend! 

My favorite part of the UNC game was standing next to Roy Williams!  He didn't know I was standing next to him, because his back was turned to me...but I have a picture to prove it.  Go Heels!