Chad's first residential job was building a fence at my boss's house. It was also right after he bought the trailer and it really came in handy with hauling away the old fence pieces. The picture above is Chad finishing up the fence job with a lattice section. 
This is a picture of part of the fence - the gothic picket style sections.
The shelves that are on the left side of this picture are ones that Chad built into his trailer for more storage. 
Here's Chad's business motto - posted in his trailer.
Chad's business is going really well and he had more and more stuff he needed to carry with him, so he decided to buy a trailer. You can see his truck and the trailer above and a picture of the inside of the trailer below.
Well, I was hoping that my next blog post would be celebrating the Tar Heels as National Champions, but unfortunately that won't be the case. Carolina played their worst game of the season in the Final Four against Kansas. I don't know what happened, but they just totally fell apart. Down by as much as 28 points, they did manage to come back within 4 points, but just couldn't make it happen. Tyler Hansbrough scored 17 points and Wayne Ellington (pictured above) scored 18, but it just wasn't enough to bring them back to a win. All I can say is that hopefully Hansbrough and the other juniors will stay for their senior year at Carolina and work that much harder for a National Championship next year.
So, it's been a good season for the North Carolina Tarheels. Even with both Bobby Frasor out for the season and Ty Lawson out hurt for a few games - they come back to win the ACC regular season title AND the ACC tournament for 2007-08. Plus, Tyler Hansbrough is one of the few people to ever unanimously be voted for the ACC Player of the Year. And the Tarheels are moving on as the overall #1 seed in the NCAA tournament. Hopefully, they can add a National Championship to this year's resume as well. Go Heels!!
Here's the newest member of my family...my cousin Phillip and his wife Logan just had their first child, Cash, yesterday. So, Phillip is the first of all the cousins in my family to have a child. Hopefully Chad & I can go down to Florida to see them in person sometime this summer!
This past Saturday we saw Athenaeum play at the 15th anniversary of Amos' Southend. It was one of the best Athenaeum shows I've been to. They played for over 2 hours!! I wish I had brought my camera, but I totally didn't think of it beforehand. Anyway, I was lucky enough to find this picture of Mark, the totally hot lead singer, on Flickr. It was a great show - Amos' has expanded their venue since the last time I was there, so it was much less crowded.
Here is an older picture of Athenaeum that shows almost the whole band. I put this one up for Chad since his favorite person in the band is Mike (pictured on the far right here), who sings some lead, mostly backup, and plays guitar as well.
Here are Roxy & Sandy snuggling together on the couch. 
Here I am taping off the window frames before we started painting.
Here's Chad touching up some spots.
Here are me and Roxy sleeping during some of the NFL playoff games. You can tell we're both big football fans!
Here's how I spent New Year's Eve - two cats on my lap! We actually had some friends over for New Year's, but we forgot to take any pictures. Chad took this picture when I was hanging out on the couch with the cats before our friends arrived. Happy New Year from Sandy & Roxy!
Here's a picture Chad took of me in front of the Biltmore house - I thought he did a great job with this picture and if you look closely you can see the beautiful diamond star necklace I'm wearing that Chad surprised me with for my Christmas present.
Here are me & Chad in front of one of the lions at Biltmore's entrance. 
Here are our friends Dave & Melanie who we went to Biltmore with.
We went to see the Christmas decorations at the Biltmore House the weekend after Christmas. Of course it was beautiful, but you are no longer allowed to take pictures inside (when Chad and I went about 5 years ago you could). 
Here's a view of the "backyard" of the Biltmore House.
For her Christmas gift we gave Karissa a set of Calico Critters, which are very similar to some toys I had when I was a kid called Sylvanians. I loved those things and Karissa seems to love her Calico Critters just as much.
Here are our neices, Kathyrn & Karissa, with their mom Chad's sister Amy. Both of the girls got High School Musical blankets and new pajamas and robes for Christmas. So, this is them all piled up in some of their gifts.
Here is Kathryn & Karissa with uncle Chad.
Here is Chad's grandmother Ruby holding up the gift we gave her. 
Here is Chad's mom Brenda holding up the gift we gave her - and one of our neices Kathryn is in the foreground.
Here are me & Chad on Christmas Day. 
Here is my brother Fielding and his girlfriend Sky - Tom, a family friend, was also there for Christmas Day lunch with us, but he took all of these pictures so I don't have a picture of him to post!
Here is my Dad opening up his gift from me, Chad & Fielding. 
Here is Chad, me, my Dad and my brother Fielding.
Here are our Christmas stockings. 
Here is our card tree and some other Christmas decorations.
Here is Chad, the ultimate Carolina Guy, in his new Panthers Jersey holding one of his Tarheels freezer mugs (both Christmas gifts from me).
Here are Sandy and Roxy playing with one of their new Christmas toys. 
Here is Sandy resting after playing with their new Christmas toys.
Here is a picture we took on Christmas Eve (thanks to a timer on our camera) of us and the cats in front of our Christmas tree. I was surprised at how easy it was to take this picture with both of the cats kindof looking toward the camera. This may be our Christmas card for next year - we always get the Christmas cards with pictures of our friends kids, but Sandy and Roxy are our "kids" so we want everyone to see them too! 
This picture is a little blurry for some reason, but I'm putting it up because it's the only picture I got of both the cats under the tree (Roxy is kindof behind the pole/trunk of the tree).
Here's a better picture of Roxy under the tree.
My friend Nicole gave me and Chad each a handmade bag for Christmas. Nicole has three cats and they were sitting on us and our gifts when we were at her house to exchange gifts. So, when I brought my bag home Roxy was almost inside it trying to check it out. Both of the cats have to meticulously check everything new that comes into the house, but I think Roxy was even more interested in these bags because she could smell Nicole's cats on it.
Here are our friends Becca & Jason. 
Here are the hosts Paul & Kelly.
Here is me & Chad at the Christmas party. 
Here is are our friends Melanie & Dave.
