Friday Favorites

TGIF! TGIF! Why is it that short weeks so often feel longer than regular weeks? 

Anyhow, here are my favorites from this past week.

1) Daves visit!!! - One of our best friends from MD visited last weekend and he brought a mutual friend with him. They got here Thursday evening and we spent the weekend catching up, lounging, touring breweries and trying new restaurants, along with some of our favorites! We had such a great time with them and we were both sad to see them go. Dave is the friend we lived in while we waited to move to NC. Bailey LOVES him, so she was super excited to see him too!

This is us at Trophy. Delicious pizzas and yummy beer!

2) Pack 9/impromptu date- Wolfpack baseball made it to the ACC Championship game! After everyone had left Sunday, we had planned to work in the yard some. Josh asked if I wanted to go to the game instead, so we did! Unfortunately, we didn't win. We didn't decide we were going to go until the 2nd inning and we didn't actually get to the game until the top of the 6th, so we missed the best part. Either way, we both had fun. 

The view from our seats. Not too shabby!

Since we had driven all the way to Durham, we decided to grab lunch while we were there. We walked over to Bull City Burger and Brewery and Oh. My. Goodness, their burgers are delicious! They get everything local and they even have a little sheet that tells you where they get most of their ingredients. Super cool! We ordered the secret burger. It's secret because you don't know what's on it until you get it. He did give us a hint and tell us it had a sunny side up egg on it (we asked and he said as long as that didn't scare us away, we would be fine) - it normally would have scared me away, but I decided to be adventurous. I am SO glad I did! We also got the duckfat frites. YUM!

Our burger had duckfat frites, a sunnyside up egg, bacon marmalade and truffle aioli on it. It tasted even more delicious than it sounds. Luckily, we halved the burger and fries. It was plenty for the two of us. We each ordered a beer and they did not disappoint either. We would definitely go back!

3) Bermuda - No, we're not going to Bermuda...that would be nice...but we do finally have some in our back yard! I was SO paranoid that we had wasted a full weekend prepping and seeding our yard, but so far, the hard work has paid off. It's still fragile, so we have to make sure we stay on top of watering and try not to walk on it for a bit, but we've got a good start so far. Josh noticed the first sprouts Sunday, which was a week after we seeded. It's coming up steadily and we're hoping it spreads well into the areas it hasn't come up yet. We're also hoping for some solid rain soon!

 It's coming in nice and thick! Obviously we still have some rye grass that should be dying off as it gets hotter. We definitely still have some weeds and crab grass. We'll be treating for those as soon as we can, but we have to wait quite a few weeks so we don't kill our new grass babies!

4) Chaise - I've been looking for furniture for our sitting room for quite a while. Josh wanted to make sure we got something comfortable and I wanted it to be cute. Neither of us wanted to spend a fortune. We ended up snagging this chaise from Wayfair. It fit all our needs AND I had a coupon that made it even cheaper! There was another one that I liked a bit better, but it was significantly more AND it was out of stock until at least July, meaning we wouldn't get it until around August. I also preferred this color to the other one. It's in the bedroom, but we haven't assembled it yet. I'll post a picture once we have it put together and in place.

5) More garden progress - Our garden is still doing great! I might actually do a separate post on this so I can go into more detail about what we have and a couple things that we're trying out this year! I'm super excited to be picking our very own produce this summer! We're already starting to plan for cool weather crops too! 

6) Fire - I mentioned last week that we got a fire pit. Josh and I stayed up late Sunday night by the fire and it was SO relaxing. Being by a fire in the mountains is just as relaxing to me as laying on a beach. Maybe even more. We're obviously not in the mountains here, but it's quiet enough to be super relaxing. We even got to see some fireworks that someone nearby was shooting off. They were short and sweet, then we got back to relaxing by the fire. We just took the time to enjoy each others company and reflect on us. It was some great, much needed, relaxing for sure!

Our first ever fire in our fire pit.

7) BBQ - We had a pork shoulder that we had planned to smoke when we had friends in town, but it just didn't happen. What better time that Memorial day to smoke it?!? Despite staying up late on Sunday, I got up early and started the day long process of smoking a big 'ole pork shoulder! It smelled heavenly. I finally woke Josh up after it had been in the smoker for a while. I had just checked on it, so I smelled just like the smoker. Josh said it was an amazing smell to wake up to. lol. It turned out amazing...it was definitely the best BBQ we've ever made! We had the Mortons over and Andrew made DELICIOUS green beans. We had corn on the cob and corn bread. I made 2 flavors of homemade butter. It was an all around great meal! The Martins came over later and we just hung out for a bit. It was a really nice day.

We plan on getting a smoker soon. We've talked about getting one as a joint gift for our anniversary, so maybe really soon! We're doing lots of research, but if you have one that you love, suggestions are welcome!