Trip Tease Two: More Adventures in FL

The Oldest House in St. Augustine

Larger view.

House next door.

We also went to the Fountain of Youth.

They use these to collect the water.

Discovered in the 1500s

Tim tried it.

Me too. It tasted like a hose...

Oh yeah!

Yeeeeeah, I took it front the car.

They will fire a cannon every hour on the hour. :)

All By Ourselves: The first 24+ hours...

Parent withdraw? Not yet...

Mom & dad are off in, wait for it...HAWAII! Long story short, they are going to attend the US Sailor of the Year event in which my brother is involved. He is the Sea Sailor of the Year for the US Pacific Fleet and now he's competing for the overall big schbang. (I think...I honestly get confused about it). Anywho, they are gone for the next couple of weeks and that leaves us ALL ALONE!!!

Well, not all alone because we have three wonderful and crazy cats, but you get the picture.

Speaking of picture...check out this from dad posted on his facebook:

Hawaii!

I thought I'd try and chronicle how Tim and I manage it living as a married couple on our own over the next couple of weeks.

I can already tell you that things are pretty interesting. Take this morning for example. Dad is usually the first person up and thus he feeds the cats. They usually paw at his door and whine and moan until he feeds them. And on a normal day, if he doesn't, they'll come annoy me. Especially the fat one, Elliot. She'll come bite me in bed...I figured they would come annoy me this morning.

But, they didn't. When I woke up all three were sitting patiently by dad's door. Confused little cats. When I came into the hall they did break their patience and went into full psycho hungry cat mode.

I think my favorite thing so far is walking around with no pants. You may think "ew, that's a little TMI," but, if you actually know me you know that doesn't even scratch the surface of Kelly's TMI haha. Back in college, my dear sweet roommate Jenn knew me as a pant-less-wonder and I think I'd be making her proud.

We'll see how the next few days go.

Eleven in 11: Evaluating March

I don't want to jinx it this early in the game, but 2011 is GREAT! As usual, I want to be accountable to my Eleven in 11 goals.

The breakdown:
1. Volunteer opportunity- This month I attended a YP meeting for servant leadership and I think there are a few opportunities for me to do some volunteer work. Also, at work this week I put my name in to be part of Relay for Life. 
2. The weight loss one- I have lost 14 pounds since January, which means I'm right on track with my goal. Overall, I've lost 31 since October. I've never been so proud of myself. I feel great, my knees are so thankful.
3. Plan and take honeymoon- New plan: Amelia Island in May. I'm so excited!
4. Trying four new recipes- We did four new ones, but I think I left one off the blog because it was only so-so:

• Tortilla Pie/Fiesta Lasagna
• Creamy Basil Chicken
• Baked Onion Rings
• and the one I didn't post, but you can find online- Blondies with Chocolate Chips 

5. Blog three times a week- We've picked right back up and I'm always trying to think of new and somewhat useful or entertaining content. Feel free to make suggestions!

6. Student loan- Check :)

7. Savings!- Check check :)

8. Read 52 books- I'm failing. I did buy the new J.R. Ward book two nights ago. I will finished that one over the weekend!

9. Facebook birthdays- Doing well :)

10. Visit 12 new restaurants- LOVED Old Siam!!! I think we're going to try Woodstone in April- anyone been?

11. Etsy- Def. falling behind, but now that its getting pretty out, and soon I'll have Fridays off, I think I'll get back into this.

Hope your March was eventful and fun! Here's to April!

And we're back...from vacation that is.

Well to be honest we've been back since Sunday, and to be even more honest it wasn't a full blown vacation. Tim's parents were kind and invited us to go to the beach for the weekend. I get off work on Fridays at 3:45 and my office is actually on the way to the beach so Tim met me at work and we left from there. We made great time because we arrived in time for dinner with his family. We ate at the Boatyard. It was good, though I only had a salad because I was still full from lunch.

This is Tim's sister Katie. She is tiny and sprightly. Extremely fit. And here she is eating a giant plate of ribs...

Here is a better view of how large these ribs are.

The next day, Tim asked me what I wanted to do. Of course with it being Fall, there is only one Saturday priority I have- whether I am at the beach or not-- FOOTBALL. Specially, Auburn football. The game was coming on at 2:30 so we spent the morning shopping and then met some old friends for lunch at the beach who live there. They have an adorable baby girl:

Baby Mikayla. Note: She can't help her parents are Georgia fans...;)

After watching the first half of the game with them we returned to the condo to watch the rest of the game. Auburn won so all we well in paradise. Speaking of paradise, these are a few shots from the balcony:

I love the colors.

That's the Pier at Pier Park- SHOPPING!

Pretty nice, right? After being lazy and what not we got ready for dinner and then a walk on the beach. This is what resulted:

Those were from the beach. The next ones are from our grand finale of the evening-- Putt-Putt!