The Story of Us- Part 1

Today is our 3rd anniversary.  In honor of this I decided to write "our story."  It's taken longer than I thought, so this is just "part 1."

2007

Once upon a time in a medium sized city there was a young teacher who spent most of her time shopping and going out with her girlfriends. On the other side of the city there was a banker boy who spent most of his time going to ECU football games and chillin at "the compound" with his boys.

Both were happy with their lives except they still had not met "the one".  The both decided they would give Match.com a try just to see.  The girl and boy  found each other on-line and sent a few emails to each other.  The girl was very intrigued about the boy and thought it was interesting how much they had in common already.  The boy got brave and called the girl, but she never answers unknown numbers.  The girl remembers hearing the boys voice mail and thought he sounded as nice as he looked, so the girl had to get the nerve to call the boy back. The boy and girl talked for quite a while and decided to meet for their first official date on May 3, 2007.

The boy and girl continued to grow fond of each other and enjoyed every minute they spent together. They went to parties, football games, the zoo, and several weddings.  The boy took the girl home to meet his family in Swansboro, NC.  The girl was so happy and felt so excited for what the future held for the two of them.

1st picture taken together- June 2007

night out in The Dash

1st ECU game together- ECU vs State 2007

Halloween party @ the Compound

Christmas Cocktail

1st Christmas @ the Morrison House

2008

The boy and the girl rang in the New Year together and continued dating and falling more and more in love with each other.   The girl's sister got married that summer and the boy met ALL the girls extended family and everyone fell in love with the boy and thought he was a great catch for the girl. 

Happy New Year- 2008

The girl and boy went on a road trip to visit the girl's aunt in Maryland.  They visited the Inner Harbor, an Orioles game, and 6 Flags.  The girl laughed hysterically at the boy screaming like a little girl on the roller coasters.  

 The boy and girl finally went to an Appalachian State football game where the girl went to school.

ECU game with Mark and Mary- 2008

The boy and the girl often went to hiking to Hanging Rock.  One Saturday morning in October they picked up some Subway and headed up the mountain to enjoy a cool fall day outside.  The boy packed a backpack (which he NEVER did) and took his own camera (which he NEVER did), so the girl thought that was weird.  They hiked to the top to eat their lunch and enjoy the beautiful view.  Then they headed down to the waterfalls to "take some more pictures."  Next to one of the beautiful falls the boy asked the girl to marry him and of course she said, "yes"!!!

Top of Hanging Rock 2008

bling bling

Engagement Pic- one of the few times he let me spike his hair :)

 Stay tuned for more to come on our story....

Mr. and Mrs. Vogel

Courtney and Matt said their "I do's" back in February in Asheville, NC. 

The Morrison and Vogel parents through the happy couple a reception this past weekend in downtown Kernersville at the Harmon House.  There was great BBQ, a scrumptious cookie and milk table, de-lish peach sangria, and tons a well behaved little ones.  Courtney and Matt received a generous amount of gifts to help them complete their kitchen as "grown ups".  Now my parents can sit back and relax because we are all married and all the babies (for now) are here and healthy.  It has been an eventful year for us and we couldn't be more blessed. 

Beach Baby :)

We went to stay with Joe's parents for 10 days the week of the 4th of July, as we have for the past 4 years.  This year we had a few more bags, toys, hairbows and floatation devices weighing down the car.  Avery is one lucky lady because she is only 9 months old and this is her 3rd trip to the beach (well 5th actually, but the 1st two trips she was too little and it was too cold to actually go to the beach).  Once again she showed no fear and was an amazing little swimmer.  Of course we didn't let her out of arms reach, but I was shocked to see her face light up and the waves washed her ashore.  Joe's parents live on the sound, so when I say we were at the beach we were actually at an island on the sound or the sand bar so these "waves" were not your typical waves crashing into the shore that most of you are picturing.  Had to make that clear so none of you think I'm a horrible mother putting my 9 month old child out in the deep blue sea.   Here are some pictures and some videos of my water baby in the ocean. Uncle Jeff and Aunt Nicki were there the first weekend, so they got to spend some time with lil miss Avery before heading back for work the next week (wah wah waaaaaah).  Of course Uncle Mark and Aunt Mary live there and got to spend several days and evenings with their favorite lil niece :)  Avery is hoping for some cousins to play with on the Ellington side of the family, so come on guys!!!!

 

 

 

Joe's parents own a lot in an amazing neighborhood on the water called Cannons Gate. As I mentioned in an earlier post this neighborhood has a beautiful pool that we were able to take advantage of when we wanted to take a day off from the ocean.  Check out this place, not too shabby if I do say so myself.  One evening we packed up the kitchen a few things and grilled out poolside with Mimi, Pop, Uncle Mark and Aunt Mary.

We were so excited to take Avery to the Aquarium near Joe's parents while on our vacation.  She was memorized with all the "fisheys".  I think she was still a little too young to really enjoy it, but Joe and I loved watching her soak it all in.  Next year will be even better, but I'm not rushing that- don't worry.  I wish she'd slow down already.  We will have to get a picture of her on this turtle every year to watch her growth.

This is soooo amazing!!  Thank you POP and MIMI :)