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Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Home for the Holidays

Cullen and I went home to Atlanta for Christmas this year.  
We had a great time being home with family and friends. 

We started off our journey home with a night in London.
We had a great meal at Polpo and saw
Les Miserables at Queens Theater. 






Here are a few highlights from our time in Atlanta.

The whole fam
 

Mom and Dad's amazing tree





Meeting baby Baddour


Hanging out with family
 

Celebrating with friends


New Years at the Lake


Happy Birthday Dad!



Thanks to all those who made our time home so special!

Monday, November 26, 2012

Thanksgiving

This year Cullen and I hosted 
Thanksgiving dinner with some great friends,
here are a few pics before people arrived.







Saturday, June 9, 2012

Borderlands


Thanks to the Queen and her 60th year of reign we had Monday and Tuesday off last week to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee.



Cullen and I went to Scotland with some friends for the long weekend.  We stayed in the beautiful estate, "Towerburn" that one of our American friends' parents own.  They were kind enough to offer it to us for the weekend.  

Towerburn is divided into a few apartments.  We were on the second floor on the left with the little patio.  The grounds were spectacular complete with wild pheasants roaming around.


Melrose Abbey 
One of the richest abbeys in the medieval world.  For all you Braveheart fans, legend has it that Robert the Bruce's heart is buried there.



Cullen and I went on a beautiful walk one afternoon up to Rubers Law. 
The view from the bottom of the hill:
 

These guys weren't so sure about us passing through their field 
 






I didn't have any group photos on my camera -
 I promise we actually went with friends!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Birthday Surpirse

When I first started dating Cullen he loved treating me with surprises
I hated them at first
they made me nervous - what if I hated the surprise.
(I'm terrible like that)
Then, the more I fell in love with him
the more I realized he knows me pretty well and
that means he knows what I like and don't like.
He even surprised me with our Honeymoon -
and of course it was exactly what I could have dreamed up.

For my 28th birthday he surprised me with a trip to London.

We hopped on an early morning train



Stayed at the most adorable boutique hotel in South Kensington,
Number Sixteen









Cullen wanted to buy me a piece of jewellery for my birthday
so we headed off to Portobello Road in Notting Hill.

One of Lindsay's friends took us to her jewellery guy there
and he was amazing -
he is making me rings!

Needless to say their was a queue of ladies waiting to see him
He had some beautiful stuff, uncut black diamonds, enormous emerald earnings,
chunky gold cuffs, he even made rings for Johnny Depp.
I choose two thin hammered gold bands.

It was a ridiculously crowded day at the markets
being the warmest day England had seen since summer





It was our third trip to London,
so we didn't feel pressured to see everything - which is great.

On Sunday stopped by the V&A which was really wonderful





We took a stroll through Hyde Park



and said good bye to London
- I really like you.
Good thing we will be back a few weeks!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

28 and counting

Happy 28th birthday

to me


Here are a few pictures from Tuesday.



Part of my present from Cullen was a trip to London

this weekend - so more to come!


Thanks for all the sweet birthday messages!

Being far away really makes you appreciate a card, an email, or a facebook message -

I felt very loved.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Christmas Cards



Christmas Cards make me kinda really happy.

I did not receive most of my cards until after Christmas when we got home January 7th,
so I am still enjoying them.

So to all of you who sent a Christmas card to England,

Thank you!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

2011... What a Year

Welcome to 2012!

As I take look back at 2011,
it was a pretty amazing year-
filled with lots of transitions and wonderful memories.

So cheers to 2011
and all the memories that were created.
Here are some of my favs:

January



Happy Birthday Love!

February


Why not run 5 miles and eat a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts?

duh....that's a great idea!


March




Trip to Haiti



April


Easter


May


Spring in Durham


June





Ended a wonderful job at DA,

spent time with great friends and
said a hard but good farewell to DURHAM, NC


July


Family Beach Trip


Moved back to Atlanta


August


Met Tristan



Said goodbye to Atlanta



Moved to Durham, England


Celebrated our 2 Year Anniversary in Paris


September




started to travel and explore England


October



November





December


flew home to Atlanta for Christmas



Happy New Year!