I honestly do NOT grill! I mean sure  David might go up to the grill and grill some steaks or something like that- we actually had a grill when we lived at the old place but here we aren't allowed to have our own. I used to like to make kabobs with onions and peppers (red, orange and yellow) No green! and either have steak or chicken on them,... We marinated them in soy sauce and some seasonings but even that isn't really a recipe lol. We kind of do our steaks and burgers the same way, My mom and dad are the same way! I know that I would probably have a recipe for something like a side dish but some of them are family ones and I don't know that I want to share them :) we have an awesome slaw recipe, pasta salad recipe and potato salad recipe :)Plus ya'll know I am not really a recipe blogging type of gal either :) … [Read more...]

Even though Summer is not my favorite season, I think that summer might hold more of a place in my heart than any other!  First of all I spent EVERY summer vacation from the time I was in Kindergarten until 10th grade or so in the middle of nowhere- mountains of virginia :) I am talking 45 minutes to get to the grocery store,etc. We did have a small store at the end of her "Ridge" to pick up snacks and sodas and small things like that. I know that back in that time frame to get to walmart would have been more like a 2 hr adventure because they have just in recent years got one in the two main areas where we would go to shop! I guess this is not going to be a specific memory post, but more like a reflection because I can't really isolate one particular memory because they are all great :) I loved spending time there it was always cooler than it was here in N.C and the mountains were so pretty. I got to spend time with not only my grandparents but my great grandma, plenty of cousins … [Read more...]

Hey Everyone! Well.. I am up bright and early because I have NO CLUE when they are coming to do this stinkin' apartment inspection that I find absolutely ridiculous to start with! I have rented for 8 years- well honestly longer than that- even at nit picky off campus housing in college- and they never even did anything like this!  The things on the list that they are checking for are things that if I honestly had a problem with I would have already reported so.. I don't get it. I figure that they are bored and don't have anything better to do honestly lol. Before anyone says something sarcastic, I do realize that this is more common than what I am used to I just find it totally ..I don't even know what the right word is!  They have already been in here twice recently to mess around in the water heater closet so ?? I guess we will see. I am trying to do a picture a day challenge on instagram for this month, as well as a writing challenge here on the blog. I want to do one for … [Read more...]

If you want to write along with us you should check out: 31 Summer Fun Writing Prompts by VerfiedMom.Com Right now I am REALLY not sure what we are going to be doing for the 4th here are some of the options that we have bouncing around right now- and first of all let me just note we don't know if David has to work half a day on the actual 4th or not just yet... so that kind of makes things even more questionable lol Davids Dad & Bro over here for Pool & cookout- I am not feeling this AT ALL. ... especially since they are so tight with their money and we are scraping it right now for real. I don't feel like feeding and buying alcohol for people who aren't aprpeciative. Plus they spent ALL of last Saturday over here Go Over to mom & dads and have a cookout-  I prefer this option, obviously - don't really have to explain too awful much lol This is the mostly likely thing that we will be doing.... Go to Carowinds for fireworks- probably won't do this.. because I … [Read more...]

So I have been meaning to update my bio page here on the blog for quite sometime- I also kind of want to do one of those things on the side bar with a pic and a little blurb and link to that page as well- so hopefully this might inspire me to do so. Also, I have to come up with a 150-200 word blurb and a picture of myself for part of a blog thing I am doing this week- so maybe this will help get the ball rolling on that as well! So- this is for all those folks who have been with me for a while and those who might have just popped by via this writing challenge too I am Nichole and I am a 30 something gal who has been married for 8 years! David and I met in January of 2007, got engaged in Feb of 2007 and Married in June :) We don't have any babies other than the fur babies just yet! The fur babies are Sam- Evil in an orange fur coat (cat) who we have had for 5 years and Marley who is our very loving dog who we have had for almost 2 years! We live in the Charlotte, NC area and I am … [Read more...]

Hey Everyone! This week is feeling like one of those weeks that just is going to fly by before I know it! I know that this is going to be a short guy for David because he managed to get Thursday off even on short notice so that we can go make our Gold Seasons Passes at Carowinds since our vouchers got here yesterday! Plus we are going to the daughtry concert there that night and if he hadn't got the day off/off a little early we would have been in a rush trying to eat and take Marley over to my moms and such. One thing that is kind of putting a damper on our plans though is that they are doing an APARTMENT INSPECTION on the same day and personally i don't want people all up in my stuff if I am not around, i don't care who you are unless you are my mom that just doesn't fly with me so hopefully since we are in the first apartment building we will get things going sooner than later.  I wish they could have picked any other day .. The things on the list they are checking are things … [Read more...]