Cooke Street Carnival 2010

Not only are we homeowners, but we are charitable as well! We, including Buckley, went to the Cooke Street Carnival yesterday. It is a block party where most of the processed go towards Habitat for Humanity. There is also really good food trucks,beer, bands, and lots of family fun (that sounded cheesy, but it's the truth).

Since Latin Teacher used to live one street over with Will (see below) he has lots of friends living in the neighborhood and we got a primo spot on the front porch and (fenced in) backyard of the Christians.


The puppy you can actually see if Lola, she is Buckley's Cooke Street Girlfriend,he has a few... (don't hate the playa, hate the game) you'll get a taste of their relationship a little later. He was trying to show off for Lola and actually jumped this fence when Latin Teacher and I were out exploring. Good thing the Christans were there to see him trot around (of course tail held high) and put him back behind the fence. Latin Teacher wasn't even mad that he jumped. LT was more impressed than anything, I mean look how short he is compared to the fence!


There was a pretty good crowd for mid afternoon on a Saturday. There were some people missing, I assume because they were watching NC State get stomped by my ECU Pirates. But after the domination was over, people came out in droves to see the bands, eat good and sustainable food, and drink local beer.

I don't know whose dog this is, but he was acting like a dream ::cough cough:: unlike Buckley. But I thought people might want to see this sweet pup as much as I do.

Not only where there lots of pups, there were TONS of kids too! It's really nice to show your kids these fun street carnival things it's good to get them out hanging with new kids and adults.
There were probably 15 of these boards where people can stick their heads through. You can't really tell, but this little girl is one of the cutest little girl we hangout with right now.

Here she is, This is Aida! She was tiny when I first started dating Latin Teacher, and now she's a little woman. She just kinda climbed into someone's chair that was on the side of the road. She might have thought it was "her chair", evidently she's in that stage right now. Oh having kids will be such as adventure.

Here is a better picture of Lola Christan. Shes sitting next to her mother, Jenn and isn't really looking at me as much as she's making googly eyes at Mr. Buckley.

Here she comes... Nothing and no one can stop her from our boy. She's hooked.
Latin Teacher and I are trying our hardest to hold him back. Look at those eyes... he feels it too.

And the fun begins. Latin Teacher and I could have stopped it if we wanted to, but they weren't getting in anyone's way and were having a good time, so we just let it happen.

She's really showing him whose boss... Like any good woman. She's also older and slightly bigger, but whose counting.

After all that Buckley was worn out and his parents were getting hungry so we got some Only Burger. They were on the Food Network's "The Great Food Truck Race" they are from Durham and they travel around the triangle in their truck selling really good burgers (if you like that kinda thing, which most people do). You can follow them on twitter, if that's also you're thing.

This is Will, he was Latin Teacher's Roommate for the 3 years before we moved in together. He was partially the reason Latin Teacher and I even met. We went over to his place, which is a street over from the carnival, to eat our Only Burger. About this time we also realized it was almost 7 pm and our sweet heart-breaker of a puppy had not had any dinner (by the way look how good he's being right now, he definitely knew there was food around). So we made our way home to fall asleep in the living room. It was a really nice day :)

UPDATE!!

Latin Teacher and I have been trying to get things ready for his parents (Latin Teacher's Parents) and grandfather (Latin Teacher's Grandfather)... oh, this could go on forever.. to come over and see the place.

We have been storing our really nice wine glasses on top of the fridge since we moved in because they wouldn't fit in the actual cabinets (see below). And so I thought it would be a super idea to hang the glasses under the cabinets! It has made a world of difference.. That could be an over statement, but just go with it :)


As you can see, the wine glasses will not fit in the cabinets. This became a big problem when it came to putting everything away. Also, look how organized the coffee mugs look! Oh, owning our own home is doing wonders for our organizational skills!

Pay no mind to the date stamp on the picture, obviously it is not 11/02/2011, our camera just likes to look forward to the future.


Here is Latin Teacher using his NEW drill (LT got it as a wedding present) to mount the contraption. Background: this is the bottom to a wine bottle/glass holder that we kinda (Just go with it) bought off Callie, one of my dear dear friends. We didn't have the wall space for the whole thing, so we improvised with just the bottom part. It was pure genius on our part.


This is was Buckley's input on the whole project. He stole a dish towel and ran around trying to get us to chase him, then just sat down and chewed on it. He's so helpful.


Here is the final result! We are really impressed as how well it came out, and the fact that I changed the date stamp on the camera without completely wrecking it!
Ohh all is good at 6760 Chauncey.

Our New Home!

This is the moving in process of Latin Teacher, Buckley, and I into our new place at 6760 Chauncey Drive in "North Raleigh" we call it Midtown so we're not as far from downtown as we really are :)

Welcome to our home! Come on in!

Here is my loving husband, he loves changing the toilet seats, it's one of the instant gratification things that I think everyone likes. He had three of these to change today. We both feel better having new ones.
This is the epitome of Pioneer Woman, leg cocked out to one side and taking a picture of herself in the mirror. Note the white piece of "furniture" that is to the right side of the screen, this is going to come to its death via Latin Teacher about 10 minutes after this picture.Here it is. He had been longing to take that thing down before we even bought the place.
We needed a beer after all the work we did today, we sure were tired and excited all at the same time! We are so blessed to have a great new home and such wonderful friends and family to support us!
We we left the house this night we were kinda worried about the color of the walls (thought it might be a little dark, but we've gotten over that by now. We really like it and are excited about the other painting we are planning on doing.
This is not the best picture, there had been a lot of work on the house the day this was taken so there was a bunch of dust in the air. You should have seen the place before. I thought I'd gotten a picture of the ceiling before and after. But let me tell you, it was amazing the difference. CTI property services did a superb job!
Mary came to unpack and hangout for a little, she was SUCH a big help in moving, and as moral support as well :)
And to play with a sweet puppy. Who, by the end of the night was being called "Buckle" although he didn't mind as long as you followed everything up by giving him a Charlie Bear which are so easy to find at the Trader Joe's right down the street.


Mom came to visit and install cabinet liners for me (Still protective, what can she say) and took us to Costco my new favorite store. Take notice of the chandilier, it's my new favorite thing in our new house, other than every other item in our place! And CTI installed that as well!
Goodbye Boylan Avenue. You were very good to Latin Teacher and I, we started our marriage with you, started raising a sweet puppy with you and we will come and visit. Promise