Girls Weekend

So Brittany and David bought a house up at Lake Norman outside of Charlotte and she rounded up the girls for a much needed girl's weekend! We spent Friday night checking out her beautiful new home while enjoying a delicious cookout compliments of her hubby, then drank wine and enjoyed good conversations in the hot tub...We woke up Saturday and checked out Britt's new neighborhood and then headed to Charlotte for a day of shopping and lunch at South Park. We got a room at Aloft in the new Epicenter and spent a fun evening bar hopping. We started with dinner and drinks and headed to the Charlotte version of a great dueling piano bar..followed by an attempt to fit into the "club" of the epicenter and finished out the evening talking until 4 am and almost getting kicked out of the lobby ...great successful girls weekends and I cherish every single one with my greatest college friends!

Brittany Dixon, Alexis Fallon, Kristin Hewatt and Christen

The Masters

After spending 4 days in Breckenridge and flying into Atlanta late Sunday night on April 4, we went to The Masters at Augusta National on Monday. This was Brad's 4th time going but Christen had never been before. She was in for something special. Right when they got there, they found Tiger Woods who was playing a practice round with Freddie Couples. They followed that pairing for a few holes but there were so many people following them that it was hard to see. The best thing about The Masters are the prices at the concession stands: $1.50 for pimento cheese, ham & cheese, turkey, $2.50 for BBQ (so good, I had 3 of them) and$1.50 for drinks or $2.75 for beers. We took two buddies of mine from Greenville, Joe Mathias and Joe Mikhail. Mathias had been before but Mikhail was a Masters rookie. We had the best time! We even saw a golfer we went to high school with, Bill Haas. I spoke to his dad, Jay, who was there with his wife watching Bill. Here is just a small sample of pics we took...

Brad and Christen


Joe Mikhail, Joe Mathias, and Brad

#16 Par 3, Brad's favorite hole on the course

Christen's new golf crush, Paul Casey

Vijay Singh

Tiger Woods

Breckenridge Ski Trip

Hey everyone! We just got back from our Breckenridge trip last week and wanted to share some pics with you of our trip. We had the best trip ever! This could be one of those trips that we take every year...it was that much fun! There were 8 of us that went...Christen and Brad, two friends from Christen's pharmacy school, Nicole from Atlanta and Kevin from Missouri, and some of Kevin's friend from MO. We all had the best time. We had an awesome mountain house about 2 miles from the slopes that had a hot tub on the back porch...it was key! Sitting in the hot tub while it's snowing is AMAZING! No one got hurt skiing...we all got a little sore but not as sore as you would think. It snowed every day we were there which was awesome. Breck is a cool little town..we went out to dinner downtown two times and stayed at the house 2 nights. It was hard to leave the house with all the fireplaces, the great open floor plan and need I mention it again, the hot tub! We had a ball staying in...having "family" dinners and playing games. Alright, enough about the trip, it's time to see some pics!

LASIK Update

Two weeks ago, Christen got LASIK. Her eyes are now better than ever. No more hunky glasses or nights of falling asleep with her contacts in (how annoying the next day when you wake up with dry, blurry vision). She couldn't be happier with her decision to get the procedure done.
We are now looking forward to our ski trip to Colorado next week (hope there is still some snow out there). Neither one of us has been and we are very excited. There are 9 of us going. Should be a fun time. We will hopefully have some great pics that we can post when we get back so until then...

Random Pics

Since we just started our blog, here are some random pics from the past couple of years:

At the Biltmore Estate

In New Orleans after Lindsey's wedding

In New Orleans after Lindsey's rehearsal dinner

Brittany and David's rehearsal dinner

Brad snowboarding in Asheville

Upcoming Surgery

Christen is scheduled for Lasik surgery next Friday, March 12. She is very excited about the fact that she will never have to wear contacts ever again. Brad is jealous...maybe in 2011 Brad. Our neighborhood is having a Chili Cook-Off next Saturday, the 13th. We hope Christen is well enough to attend. Sounds like it's gonna be a good time...oh yeah, did I mention, it's also doubling as a St. Patty's Day party. Could be a late night, like the Toast the Tree party (our annual neighborhood Christmas party). Check back after next weekend to see how the surgery and party went. And who knows? We may even have pictures posted of Christen passed out after surgery :)