Five on Friday: Married Edition

For the first time in seven years... I didn't pack a bag for the weekend. Patrick didn't pack a bag for the weekend. I'm not driving two hours to Columbia, he's not driving two hours to Charlotte. I don't even have to make that 20 minute drive across town that I made for the last 14 months. But we still get to see each other?!

Y'all. It's our first weekend ever where we're both living in the same city, in the same house. Patrick asked me if I was ready for this weekend. My response?

"I've been waiting for YEARS for this weekend!!!"

 

We have exciting things planned.

 

Errands. House work. Meal planning & meal prepping. More house work. Probably some yard work too because we live in a jungle these days. Church. A lot of Olympic watching. Thank you note writing.

 

I can't wait!

 

{one}

This past Monday was Patrick's mom's birthday & so we all went out to eat at Mediterranean Café in Lexington, SC for her birthday dinner.

 

Plus, it was his older sister's going away dinner as she left the next day to return to London :(

 

{two}

I got to cook in the kitchen of our new house this week. Granted, I've cooked in it before a few times. But this is the first week that I've been 100% in my kitchen {/outside cooking on the grill} and it is fantastic. I can't even explain it.

 

Also, stay tuned for a house update next week! That whole "we're not going to do anything else until after the wedding" thing didn't exactly happen. Plus we've already completed a few things in the four days we've been back in town.

 

{three}

3 weeks until college football {& tailgating!} is back in our lives!

 

Now that wedding planning is over, I can concentrate on planning football season. Tailgates in Clemson, tailgates in the fairgrounds for Carolina games, and parties at our house for away games {is it bad that we have already planned 3 of those?}



Here's hoping that this season I can avoid packing the rain jacket, the ponchos, the extra clothes, the rain boots, and Bean boots and that we have a lot more sunshine at our tailgates this year!


 

{four}

Last night, we met up with a friend of mine, her boyfriend, and Patrick's old roommate at Craft & Draft on Devine Street in Columbia for their "Battle of the Breweries" evening. Up on tap? Ballast Point and Low Tide. You know that as soon as I saw that Low Tide was going to be in town that I had to go.

 

As always, the beers were delicious and it was nice to have a little bit of our low country favorite in town for one evening.

 

{five}

I am SO excited for this high school friend, college roommate, sorority sister, and bridesmaid of mine... she and her husband just announced that they are expecting a sweet baby girl in January!

 

Ashley had just found out she was pregnant before my brewery-filled bachelorette weekend in June {& the above picture is from a brewery where she had zero to drink and somehow I missed that} and she filled me in on the secret a week or so before our wedding. I wanted to make sure that Ashley could still participate in our wedding weekend fun, so there might have been a bottle or two of alcohol-free sparkling wine floating around :) I could not be happier for her and her husband Andrew!

 

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Happy Friday, y'all!