Six girls, a beach, a book...and a little more!

Since moving to Charlotte I have met some amazing girls!  The past weekend I got a break from packing and drove down to the beach with some of my new girlfriends! We stayed at Beth's parents amazing beach house in Wilmington, NC.

It was a hot weekend so we spent a lot of time in the pool!

Most of these girls I met in book club and we were all trying to get some reading done while bathing in the sun.  Our current book is Cutting for Stone...so far its really good!

The last night we all got dressed up and went out for a nice night on the town.
Here is me and Traci...my roomie:)

Me and Beth...thanks again for the amazing weekend!

Group shot....Traci, Beth, Ashley, Simpson, Emily and Me!

Thanks for a fun weekend girls....now back to reality...and packing....

2, 4, 6, 11...

2...
Sorry for my absence blog...but I have been putting all my creative juices into our latest project....a NEW HOUSE!  Yes we are moving in 2 weeks into our second home.  We have been living in a townhouse in Charlotte while we search for our new home and are so excited to be moving...ok not excited about packing and moving again, but super excited to finally feel settled in Charlotte!!  I have been busy packing, organizing, and decorating!

4...
July 4th.  Yep I am a bad blogger and still have not blogged about July 4th:(  That does not however mean we did not have a wonderful time.  We, like always, went to Sunset Beach with the Lippards and Lees.  This is the first year that we have had to split the group up into two houses.  Sad because we want to all be together, but exciting because our group is growing so fast:)

We had a great menu: Hamburgers with Pimento Cheese and Bacon, Hot Dogs, Veggie Boats, and Rebecca made Gluten Free Tomato Pie!  While us girls were cooking dinner the guys set up a Corn Hole Tournament.  We drew names for our teams.  I picked Katie...she calls me Seantini so we named our team...K-tini:)  We did not win, but had lots of fun!

We spent the rest of our time at the beach enjoying the sun and sand!

We could not leave the Sunset trip without a big plate of George's Spaghetti and Meatballs (gluten free just for me:)

Happy Belated 4th!

6...
Ryan and I celebrated our 6th Anniversary...I can't believe we have been married for 6 years!  The 6 year gift is Iron and Candy.   We went shopping for a Cast Iron Skillet and I made a candy/flower boquet for the candy part of the gift!

This is the first year we are not taking a trip/vacation...but thats because we are buying a house instead!  We did however go out for a night on the town!  I truly feel like the luckiest girl in the world to be married to such an amazing man.  We have a lot to be thankful for and even more to look forward to this year. Love you Ryan and Happy 6th Anniversary!

11...
My little brother, Jake, turned 11!  Sad we missed his party, but looking forward to a family beach trip next week!!

Happy Birthday Jake.

Custom Made

For Ryan's Graduation his parents wanted to give him a leather chair.  After lots of shopping around and searching on the internet we could not find anything we loved.  So.....we designed our own!  My MIL is a designer and got us into the factory where we picked out every little detail of the chair and last weekend it was finally done and delivered to our house!
The process was so fun!  Here is a picture of the inside of the warehouse.

 The custom make every piece by hand here so we got to see the entire process...

Ok so when we finished our tour, it was time to get down to business.  First pick out a chair... we sat in lots of chairs to see their comfort and size...

They had all the templets and patterns in the warehouse...

Then pick out fabric...

or leather...

Then these nice people cut and sew what you have chosen....

few more details to pick out....

Finally ready to place out order...

Fast forward 2 months and......

Isn't she pretty?  Our den smells like new leather and the chair is perfect!  Hard to imagine what it would look like when you pick out all the little details, but we are in love with the final product!!!