Beauty - noun. beau-ty, The quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind.

I just need everyone to take a moment and see how blessed I am to have the most beautiful little boy. It's so fun to see him growing and learning and see his personality come alive. He's got so much of his father in him, it makes me love him that much more. Here you are, take a minute and bask in the greatness that is Xander.




I just love these two, and soon I'll be lucky enough to have three of them!

Propaganda - noun. prop-a-gan-da, The particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.

Misha and I took a walk around the neighborhood this very hot morning and started to see random 'art' posted around. Some nailed others drilled into light poles. We went on a scavenger hunts of sorts and took pictures of those we found. This is why I love Charlotte and especially NoDa.
Shepard Fairey knock-off.
Whoever did this art is probably really sexy and has a gorgeous wife.
More Shepard stuff.
This is one of my favorite pieces in NoDa. It's on my favorite brick wall that's been painted and re-painted. I hope no one ever covers it up.
I don't know what this means.
I like this one, probably my favorite...unless they're making fun of NoDa, if that's the case I hate them.
I like this too.

Absence - noun. ab-sence, period of being away: failure to attend or appear when expected.

I still love you. I'm sorry I've ignored you. I believe I'm back. I'll catch you up on my two months of me being AWOL:

-I'm married
-I'm pregnant
-I haven't been alone in my house with my husband since either of those two things happened.

That's about it.

Let's all forget about me ignoring you and never speak of it again.

My garden is being fruitful, no pun intended, it's more like veggieful, since I've got banana peppers coming out of my rear. I took it upon myself to pickle my banana peppers since I've never done it and I'm not going to eat them raw. Caleb did a great job of documenting my progress, and this is how it went.
Choppy chop.
Stuff.
Vinegar and water and salt.
Boil the cans for a while, set them on the cupboard and 'pop' the little lids just seal themselves. I felt a weird sense of accomplishment, in a housewife kind of way. Look how frugal and womanly I am, I canned something. I am planning on pickling a friend's jalapeno's sometime this week.

Bliss - noun. Supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.

Way too much to do to be blogging so I'm just doing a nice short one to get you by. The wedding was a success and a great time was had by all! I loved every second of my wedding WEEK! Thursday party and TBS show and Friday gallery crawl and Saturday wedding, just so much time spent with family and friends I wish we could do it all the time, except I'm so TIRED and the house looks like a tornado went through it. Most everyone leaves tomorrow, which will be sad but refreshing in a the-house-is-actually-quiet-and-empty sort of way. Here are just a couple wedding pictures while you wait for what will probably be the worlds largest post...
This photo was randomly featured on Buzznet: http://www.buzznet.com/featured/?id=54721161, pretty cool...

Family - noun. fam-i-ly, All those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor.

Here are a bunch of pictures from the last week. The wedding is getting SO close and people are starting to show up, with Misha being the first. She flew in early Sunday morning, more like late Saturday night and we've been going ever since. Church on Sunday and the usual hot-spot Dolce Vita for wine with friends. X and K are so cute together, X will make such a good brother someday, he's sweet and nice and love to kiss K. Enjoy pictures...
Xander about to have beans and rice at Fat Burrito after I got a much needed haircut.
Xander loves this car/cart at Earth Fare, I love going there and sampling ALL of the soups, yep, I'm that person.
Misha and Xander, about to eat brunch at the Crepe Cellar, our newest addition in the NoDa restaurant scene.
This is a classic. Misha got herself trapped by giving X a taste of ketchup, then all he wanted was more...
Friends meet up at Dolce.
Ashley getting her practice in with baby Kea's.
Crystal (Muffin) joined us for a glass of wine before heading to the airport, duty calls...
Kelly and Misha being cute.
Xander singing 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' for everyone.
X is so sweet to his little cousin, he loves to give kisses and put the baby-paci in K's mouth.
Time to cuddle.
In awe of the little baby.
Kea's enjoys the attention while X watches tv.

Sarcasm - adj. A sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms.

This lady is funny. There's no way around it. Even if you're not pregnant nor ever have been I think it's something that everyone should read, in case you're ever in the position of having a family/long term relationship or really just looking for a funny read. I'll go a couple days, maybe weeks, without reading her and then spend the next couple minutes laughing out loud or grabbing my head in the horror of her reading...she's raw and honest and very dark, and I like it.

Check it out: http://www.dooce.com/node

Wild - adj. Unrestrained, untrammeled, or unbridled: wild enthusiasm.

What a great day out on the town X-Man and I had with our friend Kelly yesterday. We had planned to hit up the Mint Museum, before we found out it was closed, then we decided to go to Discovery Place (a science museum), when we arrived there we were told it was closed for construction! We were 0-2. Since we were already parked we decided to take a walk around uptown Charlotte and go to Imagine On, a kids library with a ton of things for them to play with and climb on, I'm so glad Kelly told us about it, it will definitely be a place for us to go from now on. Xander had sensory overload and ran from one thing to another. After that we went for a small snack and a drink and watched the trains come and go. On our way to the car we thought X would have fun in a little fountain and he sure did, and got very wet. It was such a nice day, we'll definitely have to bring papa next time.
Building towers for X to tear down.
He's a wild thing.
Mama posing in the picture frame.
Xander's tiny head.
Playing a game with mama, hoping that Kelly notices.
What a little ham.
Don't mess with this face.
Starting to get wet from the fountain.
What a little monster. His shirt is right...'Mr. Mischief'.
I'm in love with that little monkey.
When he would touch the fountain it would run down his arms into his shirt, getting him wet from head to toe.
I had to rein him in a couple times when he ventured too far away from the fountain. He wasn't happy at all to leave but it was getting late and we needed to get some food in that adorable belly. It really was such a great day!