Start to a Great Girly Weekend

For the next four weekends, we are going to be pretty busy with frisbee tournaments, a get-away, and a 5k race in Winston. It's going to be super fun, but very busy so this weekend we're getting in some quality QT and catching up with friends we might not see for a while! 

Yesterday I woke up early to meet up with Nikki for a girls date. We decided to go the Raleigh Home Show at the downtown convention center. They advertised it as a free convention so we were bummed to find out we had to pay $7 for parking, but it was still worth it to get some quality hang out time at a cool place. There were tons of vendors! It was really cool to just be there and look at all of the neat things out there for your home now.

I won my parents a security system for their old house once so I am a true believer in drawings. I diligently filled out every free drawing I saw and I'm confident I'll be getting a phone call to pick up my $25,000 Macy's giftcard on Monday :)

Our first stop was a Chiropractor booth who ensured we were sufficiently self-conscious for the rest of our time there. Apparently my head is way to far forward and I'm on the very brink of having a hunchback. The picture he gave me had me looking worse then Quasimodo. Nikki, on the other hand, was not likened to a hunchbacked Disney character and was able to walk around without her jacket hood pulled over her face for the rest of the convention. Here she is getting her analysis. 

The rest of the show was very cool. There were some places that had been transformed into outdoor gardens in the middle of the convention center. We were tempted by all sorts of things as we wandered around but were able to get out without spending too much moolah. 

How spoiled are the chickens that live in here!

Nikki and I battled it out at cornhole and I emerged victorious. Please stop staring at my hump.

 We came out to snow! You can't see it in the picture but it is blizzarding behind us!!

We headed out for lunch at this awesome restaurant called Beasley's. I had never been there, but Nikki assured me it was worth the 10 minute walk in the cold. It was so nice to just walk and chat with my best friend. Downtown is awesome in the snow!

 

How adorable is she?

Beasley's was not a let down! It's this super cool restaurant with Chalk board walls and family style seating. Since there were only two of us, they were able to seat us right away crammed between two other groups. It was awesome. We both got the Reunion (Biscuit with chicken and fried egg on top) Delicious!

 

Thanks for a great girls day Nikki!!!

After hanging out with Nikki, I had to head off to another baby shower. This time it was for a frisbee friend Katie. I only snagged one picture while I was there. Isn't she the cutest pregnant lady? She's due April 6 but I told her not to worry if it came a day early because great things happen on April 5. (That's Derrick's birthday :)

 

It was really great to see all of these frisbee ladies again. During the off season it's easy to not see people regularly. We just talked and laughed together for the 3 hours were there. Oh, and their house is incredible! They were married just two weeks before Derrick and I, bought a house in September, and our now expecting a baby girl in April. That's a lot of change in less then a year, but they are rocking it!  Can't wait to meet the baby!

Ok...this post is getting long but I can't leave this out. That night, Derrick and I were fully immersed in the NBA skills challenge.  Crosby has a tendency of heading to bed early if it's been a long day so we weren't really thinking about her and realized it had been over an hour since we had seen her. We called for her and she didn't come. Derrick got up to see if she was just laying in bed. Nope....

She was locked in our closet!!!! We died laughing!! She came flying out like a tornado and acted like she had never been more excited to see us!! We think she was in there sniffing around and accidentally pushed the door closed on herself. She is such a mess. It's good Derrick and I got a dog first and she's very forgiving :)

Here she is after we found her. No hard feelings. Sorry about that Cros!