beach blanket

It was time to hit the beach again. We spent several nights at a friends condo in Sarasota. The drive after work on Friday wasn't too bad. The 7 hours went by fast as our excitment grew. The weather all weekend was very nice. We did very little outside hang at the beach and chill at the condo. It was a very relaxing long weekend that was long over due.

The complex was a short walk to the beach and it also had 2 pools. The grounds were very nicely taken care of. The complex was very quiet due to school starting up again. We were happy to have the place almost to ourselves.

So You Think You Can Dance

This is the first year that I have been able to watch an entire season of So You Think You Can Dance, mostly due to our new DVR. I have to say the talent on the show this season was really good. I also really like the format of the show. They narrow down to the top 20. They partner up for several dances until they get to smaller numbers. Then they flip flop partners (which I can imagine is so difficult).

If I could change one part it would be how they are selected to go home. America calls in to vote. Seriously who are these people that actually call. I've never met anyone that has called before or admitted to calling. anyway, most of the time I agree with the decision however this year Evan stayed WAY to long. They sent home some really amazing dancers before him, I don't get it. I kept saying, this is the week he's going home, this is the week, this HAS to be the week. It ended up he was in the top 4. Confirming that is show is a huge popularity contest. I really thought Kayla should have won. Here are a few of my favorite performances.

Although to be honest I didn't hear many of the judges comments b/c Adam can't stand the sound of Mary Murphy's voice. and the screaming, for the love...If you watch the videos below you'll know what Im talking about.


sorry folks the video were taken off you tube.

weekend guests

Adam and I have had a few busy weekends. The weekend after the July 4th holiday his folks drove down from Southern MD for a long weekend visit. This was my first time meetings them so I was excited.

We kept them busy all weekend. We stopped by some of our local spots...6ft under, Ria's and Thumbs up. We took them to the Aquairum, the botanical gardens and the cyclorama. I enjoyed the time they spent with us. Adam took some really nice pictures at the botanical gardens. I attached my favorite one.

The next weekend both my sisters came in for a long over due visit. We had a nice girls weekend including a ton of shopping, pedicures and facails. We also went to a Braves/Mets game on Sat. I was really excited for them to meet Adam for the first time. They got along great.

July 4th weekend

Adam and I had some vacation to burn so we both took this Thur off making it a really long weekend. We decided to go golfing for the second time at the Fox Creek course. We are both just starting out and looking to have some fun in some great weather. Last time we played this course Adam got a Par and a Birdie. This round I got my first Par on hole #7. It was a great moment.






After golf we hit the farmers market to stock up for the weekend. Adam and made pizzas on the gas grill. check out his blog for more....

Happy 4th of July everyone.

house projects

as most of you already know I've been renovating a house for a while. My focused turned to the landscaping this season. I have been planting all sorts of flowers almost every weekend since late march.

I've been also planning to add a patio section just off one of the flower beds. I positioned it where water would collect after a good rain. I wasn't able to grow grass so I figured it was a good solution.

While doing my research on how to go about this I spoke to Sean, a work buddy, about the project. Sean grew up helping his dad with all sorts of landscaping projects. Sean gave me some really good direction and offered to help on some of his days off. Of course I jumped on that.

So this Friday I got up super early and started. In addition to the patio I was spreading my mulch on my large flower beds. I started spreading at 6:30 am. Sean arrived at 8am. We worked like dogs in really hot weather. it was at least 95 all day. We finished digging out the spot for the patio and the trench for the drainage.

On Saturday Adam jumped in to help. We moved almost 5 ton of material to complete the patio. Take a look.



I huge thank you to Sean and Adam for all your help. Can't wait to seat out there and have a cold beer with you both