William and Jul

William and Jul are friends that I met through David and had such a pretty wedding yesterday. I always love a wedding that gets everyone out on the dance floor. Here are just a few snaps of some fun last night.

William and Jul's first dance

My hot date

Miss callie (soon-to-be mrs. callie). A friend from college that I l.o.v.e.

David being his dapper self.

And this is what happens when David decides he doesn't want to dance to the song, "I like big butts."

I thought it would be fun to cut down my own Christmas tree...

so off I went with David, the roomie and her fiance to find the lumber jack in me. What I didn't realize, though, was that the typical fir that I'm used to having in my house each year is not grown in Florida. It cannot, in fact, be grown in Florida. Who knew? "Not I," said the girl trying to be a lumber jack.

PINES. Pines are grown in Florida. Pretty. Just not what I consider a worthy Christmas tree.

The Christmas tree "farm" was, however, a nice photo op.

Meet Stuart and Taylor. David's old roommate and my new roommate. We like having double dates with them. They're getting hitched in June(!!)

Besides the fact that all the trees were pine, we also didn't get one here because they were definition "Charlie Brown" Christmas trees.

Three stops later we finally found a fir that was priced appropriately for two underpaid single girls and carted our little baby home. David proved himself as Christmas tree light extraordinaire.

Sugar obliged when I asked her to pose for a picture. Bless her.

And this is what relaxation looks like

David and I went to North Carolina this weekend...

to visit my sister, brother-in-law, their dog, and their bun-in-the-oven , Emily, Paul, Lucie and (insert the baby-girl name of your choice here....as the sibs have decided not to share their kiddo's name until she arrives : )    ). We had such a wonderful time. Em and Paul are quite the hosts!! Sugar and Lucie hit it off from the get-go (no pun intended...Sugar literally spent the weekend hitting Lucie in the face with her paw).

Unfortunately, I got to take one picture with David at the farmers' market in downtown Durham. And then, in true Megan fashion, I placed my camera down at one of the vendor's tables to look at something and then walked away completely forgetting about it, never to see my camera again. : (.  Emily has been calling the vendors and the farmers' market in hopes of tracking it down, but no luck yet. Say a prayer for my cute little pink camera.

Besides that unfortunate event, we had a great time!! I found some pictures online of some of the things we did to give you an idea of what we saw.

First thing Saturday morning we went to Elmo's diner, my favorite breakfast spot in Durham. I've been looking forward to it for a number of weeks now and they certainly didn't disappoint.

Then we made our way over to the Durham Farmers' Market. (RIP little camera). It was such a neat place, with a ton of vendors selling various veggies, meats, plants, wine. E and P got some vegetables and meat and I got some pictures of pretty places in Durham that I've been to over the past couple years of visiting.

Then we made our way over to the Handmaid Market. This is an indoor market of, see if you can guess.........handmaid things!!  So fun to walk around and see all of the pretty things people have made. The boys were good sports and walked around with us, pretending to be interested and then took off explore downtown Raleigh while we continued to shop. I love things like this...great for Christmas shopping which may or may not have been done ; )

On Sunday we went for a hike along the Eno river with the dogs. We hiked to this spot called Bobbit Hole. This is a picture of it, but instead of dead winter trees, imagine all of these trees with golden yellow and red fall leaves. It was so beautiful. Sugar loved playing in the river and almost caught a fish!! (Go girl!!).

Thanks Emily and Paul for such a fun weekend!! Love you both!