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Two posts in one week! Look who is getting all fancy. I wanted to share some pictures from our birthday celebration weekend! I don't actually have any with Phil and Susan in them, but I promise they were here. I had strict instructions not to buy Tyler anything for his birthday because he had bought himself golf clubs a while back. Well, see that is hard for me...I wanted to purchase SOMETHING. So, I got him a ball filled with candy from Party City. At first he acted underwhelmed, but he sure has been knocking back the candy this week. I also made a sign and decorated the living room. And we had a layered funfetti/strawberry cake! I didn't do so well getting the cakes out of the pan, so it is a little lopsided, but still tastes VERY good! Sunday on his actual birthday, the puppies and I sang Happy Birthday! (see Sprocket in the background??) Random picture of us from dinner Saturday night... We are headed down to 30A this weekend to celebrate our 1-Year anniversary and I could not be more excited. It will be nice to have a few days with no plans and just the 2 (4) of us to worry about. Of course the dogs are coming with us! Susan brought them some precious shirts to get them ready for their vacation. These dogs love the beach. Sprocket goes crazy and scoots his face across the sand. It is so cute to watch him step over the waves too. We actually took them to the volleyball courts by our house Sunday afternoon to let them run in that sand, they love it so much! Speaking of shirts....my dogs are very anxious little guys. They have always been scared of storms, but since we have moved into our house, this fear has increased...a lot. A few months ago, we had a rather bad thunderstorm while I was cooking dinner...which happened to be chicken frying in a pan. Well, while that was going on, the smoke alarm went off (it is VERY sensitive). So now the poor little guys are not only scared of thunderstorms, they are scared of chicken frying in a pan and the smoke alarm too. awesome. So, someone suggested I look into Thundershirts! They have a 100% money back guarantee, so I figured I didn't have much to lose. Well, last night was the first time I have had an excuse to use them, I was cooking dinner. I put them on both boys before I started cooking and they worked like a dream!! Sprocket literally did not move a muscle and stayed under the table the entire time, not panting! Wembley still stood at my feet, but he didn't act scared. I am so happy and am kind of looking forward to the next thunderstorm to see how that goes! Like I said in my last post, Tyler was out last week and we miss him terribly when he is gone. I thought this was a cute picture of the pups keeping his pillow warm!!

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Not really sure why the post below is dated for April. I think I started one way back when and never posted it...

Me oh my!!

Hello, is anyone out there???? I think I forgot about my sweet little blog here for a little while!! I went through a phase where I didn't feel like we had anything exciting to share! We probably still don't but I want to write some things just for me to remember!

We have moved in to our new house and we are LOVING it! Seriously, to get up and let the dogs out in the backyard in the mornings is a dream. They totally love it too. Every. Single. Time. the door is opened, they blast out.

I miss writing my blog, so I will really try harder to document the things we are up to!

Phil and Susan are headed to Atlanta this afternoon to celebrate Tyler's birthday which is Sunday! He has been in Vegas all week and I am ready for him to be home. I don't like staying alone! And the dogs miss him terribly!

I will try and get some pics from our weekend and share them soon! Next weekend we are headed to down to FL to celebrate our one year anniversary! I cannot believe it has been a year! So excited for some beach time for a couple of days.

Snow Days!!!

We are totally snowed (iced) in for the second day in a row along with much of the South from what I understand. Because of the location of our apartment there isn't much shot of Tyler and I getting out for a couple more days unless we have some serious melting. And considering they are saying it will only get above freezing for about 1 hour today, we are stuck. The local weather guy is predicting school will be out this entire week. Good thing is, I braved the grocery store on Sunday, so we are stocked up. And we did a restock at Total Wine on Saturday, so we are good to go!! Tyler is sick, so it is probably a good thing that he has the option to work from home for a few days. He is quite pitiful...he RARELY gets sick, so when he does it is pretty much the. end. of. the. world. Our neighbor across the hall came over last night to watch the National Championship game. I think Tyler was pretty excited to have the company since I had already retired to the bedroom to watch The Bachelor. :) I will post some pics of the puppies in the snow later... Oh! We have had some exciting news this last week!! I got an email yesterday and our wedding planner from Watercolor is submitting our wedding to Gulf Coast Bride magazine AND they want our pictures to use for their new marketing material there at Watercolor! Too fun! Shows you haw awesome our photograper was!!

Our year from A to Z!

I got this cute idea from a Christmas card that we got this year. I thought considering we have had quite an eventful year, this was fitting for us! So, Tyler and I sat down the other night and made a list of our own! I am sure we have gone for hours and hours changing the letters, eventually we just had to quit!

• Absolutely amazing year, from beginning to end!!
• Beach-spending the week before our wedding relaxing at the beach with the people that mean the most to us in the world!
• Czech Republic-And INCREDIBLE weekend in Prague with Reagan and Mikey
• Daddy-My daddy walking me down the aisle to Tyler on our wedding day.
• Erlangen, Germany-The town we lived in while we were there. I have to secretly admit I learned to appreciate it.
• Flights-I haven't sat down and counted the total number of combined flights that we took over the last 6 months, but it was a lot!! Enough to get us both to Salt Lake City in February
• Georgia-Where we will make our home. :)
• Hedgehogs!! Such a fun discovery for us while we were in Germany...and the puppies too
• Italy-Traveling to Lake Como and Milan with my mom!! What an awesome experience, can't wait to visit Italy again!
• Journey to Germany-I have so enjoyed writing on this blog. I love going back and looking at it even if no one else is reading!
• Kilt-We met the most fun group of Scottish guys in Prague and spent the entire night hanging out and even learned all about their kilts!! They were in Prague for a soccer game and guys in kilts were EVERYWHERE!
• Lexus-Our new car! If you know us very well, you know we are obsessed with our car. First major purchase together.
• Moving-My big adjustment of leaving the city I was born and raised in to move to Atlanta to pick up and go to Germany a short 1.5 months later!
• New jobs-Tyler started with Kilpatrick Stockton in February and I transferred to Vaco Atlanta in May!
• Oktoberfest-Having the awesome chance to take the ICE train to Munich and go to the 200th Anniversary of Oktoberfest. And sneak our dogs in.
• Persian Gulf-Standing with our feet in the incredibly warm water of the Persian Gulf in Dubai
• Questions???="Sprechen Sie Englisch?" I wish I had a dollar for every time we asked that question. I really wouldn't have to go back to work!
• Red Bar-I think we successfully kept this and Bud & Alley's in business the week of the wedding. I ate Red Bar for lunch I think 4 out of 7 days
• St. Lucia-Our honeymoon in paradise!
• Travel-Boy have we ever this year! Tyler and I have always loved to travel and we got to visit some amazing places this year including Florida, St. Lucia, Germany (MANY cities), Prague, Italy, Vienna, Dubai, and a few more
• Unemployed-I was lucky enough to be able to take a "leave of absence" from my job (Yes, they are awesome and held my position for me!) to travel to Germany with Tyler, but my days of unemployment are quickly coming to an end. I start back with Vaco January 3rd.
• Visitors-We were so blessed to have the visitors that we did while we were in Europe! Reagan, Mikey, Mom, Cissy, Susan and Sonja. Now we just need to start scheduling visits to Atlanta!
• Wedding-Becoming Mr. & Mrs.! What an amazing day, I could probably do a whole A-Z just on that!
• Xeric-(dry or desert like conditions)-Tyler spent a total of 15 days in Saudi Arabia. He even kissed a camel! Not sure that is a place he ever wants to vacation (we had to get creative here)
• Yikes!! Just a general description of some of our experiences over the last year! Like...Sprocket falling under the train in Munich and an oil spill threatening to damper our wedding, just to name a couple!
• Zwiebel-Onion in German. Tyler took a liking to this word and would say it all the time! I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year!!! I am off to finished preparing for our company this weekend! It is so fun to have people in our house!! I haven't told the puppies that their cousins Sydney and Marley are coming to visit yet, they get too excited. They are going to have a FUN weekend too!!

It's Wednesday, right??

Which means I only have 2 more work days to stay at home!!! And one really if you count that Friday is a holiday for most people. That makes me sad!! I have SO not gotten bored being at home everyday. I am sure if I continued for a long time, I would. Who knows. :) My Christmas "break" was great, super busy but lots of fun. I drove to Nashville on the 18th, stopping in Murfreesboro to pop in to Ivelisse's store since I hadn't been there in a while. After that I headed to Nashville to get ready to hit up Broadway and honky tonk with Leslie, Erin and her friends that were visiting from Arkansas. Then Sunday morning we drove out to Opryland to see the ICE exhibit...it was fun, but I have to say, definitely not worth the $24 that is cost to get in! Here are some pictures from ICE That night it was time for GARTH!!!!! I have never seen Garth Brooks in concert and knew that if he ever toured again, I would be there! Reagan and Mikey fought the crowds and got us tickets to the Sunday night show. Let me tell you, we had a blast!! Such a fun night! Oh what a night... Monday I had lunch with my buddy JT at Yolos in Green Hills where we saw Reba. Then that night we got to spend some time with cousins from my dad's side of the family that we haven't seen in years!! It was really good to catch up with them. Tuesday, lunch with Amy and then dinner at Jackson's with Paige and Jenn!! Wednesday mom and I did last minute shopping before Tyler got in town that afternoon. He requested Red Lobster for dinner and I agreed since we had a coupon. :) Thursday was our "Christmas Eve" in Nashville and we cooked all the old things we always have on Christmas Eve and then decorated cookies while watching Elf. It was a great night! We woke up early on Friday to open gifts with my family before loading up the car and heading South to MS. We spent Christmas Eve at Rita and Marty's and then had a lazy day around the house on Christmas! Which was great! We are back in Atlanta now with everything FINALLY put away! Every time we get home with more and more goodies, I have to rearrange closets to get everything put up! Shannon came over and had dinner with us last night and hopefully my dad will be here tonight. He is doing some business in Atlanta today and is staying the night. THEN Thursday Reagan, Mikey, Sydney and Marley get here to ring in the New Year with us!! Leslie and Erin will be in Atl too and we are all going out. I can't wait! Back to the grind next week, so I am living it up now! (Which means laying in my bed blogging at 10am) Here are some more fun pics from the holiday!!

100th Post!

Woo hoo!! That is such a huge milestone for me! No, really... Not much new here in the Scarbrough household, just general day-to-day stuff. Today we are getting the fun "wintery mix" that has been happening everywhere else in the south. Already, I am over it. Tyler left work an hour ago and he still isn't home. I mean, Atlanta traffic sucks, but it usually only takes him about 25 minutes to get home. We have been building fires every night because it is SO cold in this apartment!! Also, we keep blowing the fuse with the little space heater, so the fires help a lot to keep the living room warm. Wembley HATES the fires. I think it is the constant popping of the wood, but he sits behind the couch and barks at us most of the time. Last night I had to take him in the other room so that Tyler could get some work done. He won't stop barking!! I have been on a cleaning spree today. I want to get everything clean before I leave town for Christmas!! I am headed to Nashville on Saturday and Tyler will meet me there next week, we will spend a few days and then head to MS. Just doing our own little tour of the South again! Friday night is Tyler's Christmas party for his practice group at the law firm. It's being held at an partner's house out here close to us. I hope that all this funk weather clears up before then!!!