Mystery Flowers

There have been so many wonderful things about buying our house.  We have been able to make it our home, share memories, and fill it with lots of stuff already! Over the past month or so, I have noticed these random "weeds" coming out in the flower bed next to the front porch.  When I realized that they were actually annual flowers coming up, I got so excited!

Except they literally too like 3-4 weeks to bloom! Finally I started to notice that they were budding and this is what I have gotten so far!

I have no idea what type of flowers these are, but I do know that they are making lots of buds on each bush! There is another flower blooming with a longer stem that I don't know what they are either.  They haven't blossomed yet, so when they do I will post more pictures!

If you have any idea of what these flowers are please let me know!

WEDDING SHENANIGANS!

The countdown is getting low everyone! Only 10 more days till I become Mrs. Cayte Merryman Brown! The past month has literally flown by and became so hectic I had no time to blog.  So many different things are going on in our life so I will give you updates one at time.. Here we go!

1. The Wedding
Planning is going well.  A few hiccups with the hair and make up, but I think we have that all figured out now! Everything for the reception is ready to go and all the vendors have been contacted and are confirmed! The dress fittings went PERFECTLY! I cannot wait till you all see this beautiful gown.  It is stunning! Rehearsal Dinner is going to be beautiful! Yummy food is going to be delicious! Hopefully everything is going to be lovely and I cannot wait to celebrate the big day.  As long as D.J. is there to say "I do", then it will be perfect. :)

Besides MY wedding, we also got to spend the weekend of Sept 7th celebrating the start of a new life for Ansley and Chris Curtis!!! We spent the weekend up in Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore.  It was a perfect weekend.  Beautiful wedding, weather, and delicious drinks and dancing!

2. The House

YES- The house!! D.J. and I bought a house! So much has been done since we first bought it.  Since it was a foreclosure, the AC was stolen along with the copper pipes for the plumbing.  Thank goodness I know a pretty good plumber. :)  We also had my uncle resand and restain the hardwood floors.  We put on a new roof and new paint! A new garage door was put in outside and a new fence aroudn the back yard! D.J. was home for a week so he was able to see the house before they started to paint.  He also accomplished a huge task of re-screening the screened in porch! So much has been going on over there.  My grandmother has been LOVING it! She goes over almost daily to clean the floors or bathroom or anything else she sees on her "to-do" list that she needs to accomplish.  At least it is giving her something to do and gets her out of her house! After the wedding we will move everything over there.  I have started to move some stuff, but its a work in progress! Oh- and we got an early wedding presents from The Browns-- A grill!!

      

3. The Off Season

... oh wait, there is barely an off season. #MiLBlifestlye.  D.J. was home from Sept 4th till Sept 15th.  He got asked to go out to Arizona for Instructs but is only going to be ale to stay for 10 days because of the wedding.  Even though its a good thing to get called out there, I really could have used him at home this week! The wedding is getting so close and I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with my baseball star! Hopefully one day we will be blogging from Cleveland!!

OVER AND OUT! 

Blog with the Browns

Ok so I know its not official yet, but I wanted to update my blog since my traveling with AST is over and needed a new name! After deciding between "Brown Chick wow wow" and " A New Brown in Town" I went with Blogging with the Browns! The past few months have been busy! I finished traveling in May and spent a few days at JMU to see some friends graduate, then I headed home.  A few days later I went to go get the first (and only for a while) addition to me and D.J.'s little family, Stryker! He has literally been a great dog so far! He is already 5 months old!

Julie graduated at the end of May and then the next weekend we had my Bachelorette Party! It was a blast.  We spent the whole week in the OBX and then friends came down on Friday to celebrate. After that my weekends were spent working Festevents and visiting D.J. I got to go up a few time and spend about a week each time there.  He is up in Ohio with the Lake County Captains and has been there since the beginning of May. We also celebrated the birth of our little neice Myla! She is super cute :)

July 1st I started my new job at Norfolk Collegiate School.  I am the Alumni Relations Coordinator and so far I am loving it! I plan to coach volleyball in the fall and cannot wait.  The first week was awesome since it was July 4th.. We had off that Thursday and Friday so it was a 3 day work week!  July 4th weekend we went up to our Camp house in PA and got to enjoy some family time.  We drove over to D.J.'s game on Saturday just for the day.  Mom had her 50th birthday and we celebrated at Chicks and had all the puppies back over for a play date! This past weekend we celebrate one of the bride-to-be Ansley at her bachelorette party and bridal shower! It was a blast :)

I promise this blog is going to stay more up to date and I will try and do it every 2 weeks! Cant wait for what this next year holds for me and DJ!

Counting down till the off season and wedding season!!

Cayte