Alive and Very Well

Several times a year I get so stinkin busy that I forget to call my parents on a weekly basis. Now this usually warrants several calls from my mom (and emails) where the only message is : "Just calling to see if you alive and well." Never fails. I got that message last week. Thanks mom. I am alive and well and here in Knoxville! Since my last post like a month ago, I have packed up (again) and moved (again!), but yea, we're here at our final destination of Knoxville, Tennessee. So far everything is going well. The drive to Knoxville from Mempis wasn't bad at all. Well except Jackson once again had a panic attack. I mean I even gave him some Benedryl at the advice of a friend who is a vet. It did not work, in fact I think it actually made him hyper and add that to him freaking out about driving in a car for 5 hours, it was no good. But I got him settled and he eventually took a nap and I could drive straight! Bobby and our friend Joe followed slow as molasses in his car with a uhaul trailer. We almost had a problem with the water being hooked up, but it was all good by the time we got there. Then on Saturday, which was valentine's day, we had some amazing friends (Donna and Mox) come in from Nashville and help us out (Thanks guys!). It made it fun to unload a uhaul and pod and it didn't take too long. I think the best part of the night was when Mox and Bobby went to get us some dinner/beer for the night and they came home with roses and giant cheesy cards (see fuzzy phone pic)! Its hilarious becuase all day Donna was saying all she wanted for Valentine's was a card from Mox. And he didn't disappoint!

Bobby and I went to our "valentines" dinner last Friday night. We went to a place downtown called Oodles. Very yummy italian food and wine. And tonight we're going to go to Barley's to have some pizza and a beer or two and to play some darts! I'm so excited to have a low key night out! So there you have it, me catching up with you and letting you know we're "alive and well" (instead of dead and ailing). When I get everything totally finished I will update with pics of the house and my office! -E

N'awlins Y'all!

So my bestest friend Emily is getting hitched (yea!) to a great guys (double yea!) AND she's getting married in New Orleans (triple yea!) which is like one of my absolute favorite places to visit and a lil unknown fact, that's where I'm from and most of my family still is.

So back to Emily and her amazing wedding on the avenue (St. Charles Avenue). She asked me to design a postcard Save the Date and here is what we came up with. Em and Jason got a couple friends to take some pics of them in front of the church they will be married in on a Trolley with the street sign of St. CHarles Avenue. Well I had a little retouching to do, a new sign here, erase all the trolley info there and add with their STD info, and voila! A nice lil Save the Date postcard. And the best part is that we're getting them printed at vistaprint.com where they are running a special, so it's going to cost more to mail out then to get printed! oh well, the price you pay for a wonderful wedding! Can't wait for June!