my special birthday cake

Here is my birthday cake! Isn't it lovely? Ever since I was little my birthday cake would have a theme each year of one of the biggest things I liked or did that year. My Mom and Zach collaborated and got this cake made for me with a picture of our house on it. The lady who made our wedding cake made this one and it is yummy!

Griswold Griffin

Here is our new family member! Griswold Griffin!  We adopted him from our local humane society. He is an american cocker spaniel/poodle.  He is about 4 years old.  After we got him Zach planned an afternoon in the park with a picnic.  We had a really great time. Griswold loves to play and run around.  We just got him home about an hour ago and he is being such a good boy. We are so excited to have him.

Our House

We're buying a house!!!! We found it back in December and put an offer in January but we couldn't get it for the price we wanted so we just decided to wait since we weren't in a hurry.  Five months later we saw it was still for sale and decided to give it another try. This time they were willing to negotiate more! YAY for us! It's an older home in an older established neighborhood. The advantage of that is we have a larger yard, big mature trees and lots of nice houses around us.  We are going to update the house with new paint, rugs, refinish the hardwoods, redo the master bath, etc.  Gotta love having such an amazingly handy Dad who will help us do the work. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bath with a living room, dining room, 2 fireplaces and a sunroom. We're really excited about it.  We are closing on it July 23rd or around there.  I'll post more pics when we start to fix it up.

a night out

On Thursday night Zach and I went downtown to Visulite for a show.  We saw John Mark McMillan and Public Radio.  The show was really great. We got to hang out with some of our friends as well.  It's awesome always having your best friend to go out with!

new job

Today I started working at the front desk of our local hospital (which is 4 minutes from home). It's definitely something i've never done before but I think it will be pretty good.  One thing I have liked about being a temp within our healthcare system is each position I get is totally different and I learn new skills each time.  This time I will be working with people all day.  My last job I had my own project and hardly ever came in contact with anyone.  My hours are also different than i've had before... 5am - 1:30pm.  It is nice that i'll be done by 1:30 and have the rest of the day to do whatever I want...like workout! 

extra time

Two and a half weeks ago my temp job with CHS ended because of their finances...so i've been off.  It's been pretty nice...I can sleep in, workout, get errands done. Zach and I went to the beach two weeks ago for a long weekend.  We had a great time.  We saw The Killers at House of Blues the first night we were there. Now i'm looking forward to Valentine's Day.  Yesterday I decorated the apartment up in valentine things...it looks really cute.  Saturday we're probably going to go to Sushi 101 for dinner. But tonight is the UNC vs. Duke game.... That's almost like a holiday in the Griffin house.  Go UNC!

no news is good news

Yeah...it's been awhile...but as they say, "no news is good news".   We had a great Christmas with our family.  We ventured up to McAdenville which was prettier than I remembered. On Christmas Eve we had our first service in our new building at Southbrook:Monroe.  Our New Years Eve was fun and relaxing...we stayed home, ate our favorite snacks and watched the shows on tv...and the UNC game ofcourse. Zach and I got new bikes for Christmas and today we took our first ride...it was a lot of fun.  Tonight Zach is at the Panther's game so I went a did some shopping and now I'm relaxing at home. Go Panthers!