Plaid Cats

Saturday, May 31, 2008

More garden pics

Above is the "scroll garden" and below is a picture of one of the garden paths.

Chad and I went to the Orton Plantation gardens. Orton used to be a rice plantation in the 1800's and the house is still a private residence. If you look closely at the bottom picture you can kindof see a butterfly on the flowers.

Seagull pictures

This seagull came up and to finish off Chad's snack (an apple).

Here are some more seagull pics.

Lounging on the beach

We got new beach chairs this year complete with attached pillows and they can recline in stages all the way to completely horizontal. Here's Chad enjoying the new chairs.

Here's another picture of Chad lying on our oversize towel.

The beautiful Wrightsville Beach

Here are some pictures of the beautiful Wrightsville Beach. The weather was so nice while we were there that towards the end of the week we stayed out too long and got a little sun-burned.

Ft. Fisher area

Here is a view of the beach at Ft. Fisher.

Here is a picture of the Maritime Forest at Ft. Fisher.

Aquarium statues

Here I am with an otter statue.

Here's Chad with a giant frog statue.

Turtles at the aquarium

These two box turtles were in one of the aquarium exhibits and instead of hiding in their shells when they saw us they stayed out and followed us while we were near their exhibit.

Here are some turtles that live outside of the aquarium in a pond area.

More aquarium creatures

Here's a picture of a spiny lobster.

And here's a picture of a sting ray.

More fish pics

Here are some more pictues of fish in their aquariums. Above you can see Chad's silhouette in front of the aquarium and below is a close-up of one of the fish.

More aquarium pictures

I was really surprised at the pictures we were able to take with our digital camera of the fish in their tanks. Above is a sea horse and below is a close-up of moray eel.

Some of the aqarium's non-living exhibits

Here's a picture of me with an alligator model. They have a live alligator exhibit too and it was really creepy because the alligators seemed really agitated when we were in front of them and they kept trying to get at us. Chad said it was because of my faux alligator purse...

Here's what Chad would look like if he were a fiddler crab!

Chad & Jessica at the Aquarium

Here are some pictures of me & Chad at the North Carolina Aquarium at Ft. Fisher.

Me in front of the entrance and Chad at the bird watching area outside.

Wrightsville Beach Vacation

Here's a picture of one of the views from where we stay in Wrightsville Beach. If only the powerlines weren't in the way!

Thursday, May 01, 2008

8 Year Anniversary

Here are some pictures of the beautiful roses that Chad got me for our 8th wedding anniversary. It's hard to believe that we've been married for 8 years, but each year just gets better and better!

Sandy's new spot on the bed

Recently Sandy has decided that sleeping at the foot of the bed is not where she wants to be. Whenever I get up she immediately takes my nice warm spot under the covers. What can I say, she's a pretty smart cat!

Roxy pics

Here are some shots of Roxy. I particularly like the top one where it looks like she's posing!

Sandy's favorite spot

Sandy loves to lounge in the sun. Here's another picture of her soaking up some rays.

Monday, April 21, 2008

A New Low for Society...

Apparently plastic surgeons aren't making enough money augmenting anyone with an A-cup or a few wrinkles, so now they're getting into publishing children's books. Dr. Michael Salzhauer has written the children's book "My Beautiful Mommy" (pictured above) to help children understand what happens when their mother has plastic surgery. My favorite line is when the mom says to her child that she "won't look different, just prettier." Seriously - I absolutely cannot believe this book exists or that apparently so many people need it to help their children through all their cosmetic procedures! What a bunch of messed up kids they'll be - maybe that generation will be so emotionally scarred from seeing mom all bandaged up from plastic surgery that they'll decide to go back to being 100% natural. We can only hope right?!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Yard sale success

Here are some pictures of how we had our yard sale laid out. Since they were calling for rain that day my biggest concern was that we'd be rained out. It stormed the night before, but it did not rain at all until about 11:45 or so right when we started to pack up. So everything worked out pretty well. We didn't make a ton of money, but we did get rid of a lot of stuff we didn't need anymore and the rest will be taken to Goodwill. Other than the signs getting taken because of the ordinance, I was really happy with how smoothly everything went with this yard sale!

More yard sale pics

Here are me and Chad at the yard sale. Since Chad was taking most of the pictures the only one I have of him is one my niece Kathryn took of him being silly - but that's most of the time anyway!

Yard sale co-hosts

Chad's sister Amy and her family (pictured above) and our friend Dave (pictured below) also helped out with the yard sale.

Yard Sale time

We decided to have a yard sale this year. Because of our neighborhood's HOA we can't have a yard sale whenever we want, so Chad's parents let us have it at their house. Here are some of the signs we made and me working on them. Unfortunately because of an ordinance about signs in Harrisburg two of the three signs we made were taken before the yard sale and we had to quickly make new ones Friday night.