SNOW!!

Its snowing in Richmond. In other words, everyone is running around crazy like its the apocalypse, buying enough water, milk, and bread to feed the brangelina crew for a month. And did i mention its just 3-5 inches? Regardless, it doesn't bother me. It actually works to my benefit, because i get to leave work and have a cozy snow day with adam morgan.



Happy snow day everyone!! :)

cookies, lasagna and wine, oh my!

Last night, i went over to my friend Mary's house for a night full of delicious homemade lasagna, avocado and corn salad, homemade cookies (which we got to decorate) and of course a little wine. Mary even had her christmas pandora station playing in the background. I had a lot of fun decorating the cookies, even though (as you can see below) i'm not the best christmas cookie artist.



It was the perfect way to spend a Tuesday night. I left full of christmas cheer, yummy food and good stories ;) I even got a little to go bag of christmas cookies for Adam (who was very appreciative for the snack when he got home from wrestling practice). Thanks Julia and Mary for being great hostesses!

our first christmas tree

Adam and i decorated for christmas last saturday. We got our first christmas tree from lowe's (we named her Felicia, she's awesome).



The whole tree buying and loading was a suprisingly easy and quick process, and we got the tree home in one piece (we were slightly terrified that it was going to blow off the car on 64, but it was all good).



We turned on our classical christmas (w/ amy grant variety) pandora station, made some hot chocolate, and put on our christmas hats :) We had so much fun with the whole thing, and we're pretty impressed with our decorating skills.







Merry Christmas Everyone!

Kensington LoLouise Hahn

Adam and I are the proud parents of a three and a half week old Boston Terrier Pup, which we have named Kensie. Kensie is short for Kensington, which is the name of the street we live on. We were tossing around names last night in the car on the way to the river house, and the second Adam said Kensie, we knew that was it!



She is a sweet, cozy, cuddly, playful, curious and lovable little pup. Oh and she's definitely a girly girl. She was born with mostly black hair around her body and legs, except for perfectly placed white hair on each of her toe nails :) Born with a pedi. . how much girlier can you get? She loved snuggling in our arms, which of course melted my heart to pieces. I picked her up and looked her in the eyes and said "girlie, are you our pup?" and i kid you not, she winked at me. Ok well that's exaggerating slightly, but she did blink really slowly back at me. I was sold right then and there :)




Out of the 5 girl pups in the litter, Kensie was the second biggest. She was the only one to try and stand up and move around when we let her sit on the carpet. It was clear that she had places to go and things to discover. She was definitely the smartest of the bunch, which made it clear to Adam that she was our girl. He was SO cute holding her. My heart just melted.




We get to bring Kensie home a few days after christmas. To say that we are excited is probably the understatement of the century. I'm going to have to practice that virtue that I'm not so good at. . whats it called. . oh yeah, patience! Not my forte ;)

We want to give a BIG thanks to my cousin Jess for putting us in touch with Kensie's breeder. Jess has Kensie's half brother, Oscar (who is the cutest, happiest dog ever). The breeder and her family were great and they take such good care of the pups, so i know our girl is in good hands until we bring her home. Thank you Jess!!

save the date for 7.23.11

Yesterday marked 250 days until our big day, which we got to celebrate with the arrival of our save the dates! Now is the fun part. . on to addressing all these :)


xoxo

the marvelous month of may 2010

In May, i went to visit one of my very best friends/cousin/co-maid of honor Lyns Marie in Nashville. We had such a blast, which goes with out saying anytime the two of us are together. It was so great to see her so happy and settled there. When i went, she was a week or two away from graduating from Belmont University, just about to move into an adorable house with three other girlfriends from school, and most importantly, on her way to becoming ridiculously famous with that beautiful voice of hers.



We celebrated Adam's 24th birthday May 14 by getting yummy barbeque at Buzz and Ned's before heading to a Richmond Flying Squirrels game. Meredith and Derek, G-Man, Kate, Pete and Kelly all came to celebrate with us. We had a great time, and (i think) the Squirrels won!



That same weekend, while Adam ran the Dominion River Rock 10k on Belle Isle, i went to Strawberry Hill with some of my co-workers. I had so much fun and even saw a few horses!




The next weekend, Adam and i got to celebrate on of our best friends, Emily Belyea's (otherwise known as Belly, Belly boo, Belly button, etc) birthday at her parents river house with a big group of our other JMU friends. The weekend consisted of playing yard games, riding mr. belyea's go kart, going for boat rides, playing musical flip cup (which i have to say that i introduced to the group. i was so proud of myself!), eating, laying out, playing dunko, catching up, and just generally having an awesome time. Many thanks to the Belyea's for putting up with all of us for the weekend!




That Sunday, Adam and i packed up and headed back to Richmond to have brunch with my family and the Hogebooms (Peter, Sarah's husbands parents and brother Chris). Sarah and Peter were in town for a family friends wedding, so it was a great excuse to see them! We grilled out on the deck, had a few beers and enjoyed catching up with everyone.


The last weekend in may we got the chance to head down to my parents river house, also known as my heaven on earth. We visited with my parents, my brother Tom Tom, and also got to see Aunt Joy, Uncle Tim and Ryan (who had just gotten back from a six month mission trip in Africa--yes he is probably one of the coolest people i know). We went out on the boat, almost died in the new sea biscuit daddy bought (see photo's below), and cooked a delicious dinner for the parents that consisted of Alice Springs Chicken, Outback style. It was a relaxing, fun, and overall lovely weekend!





So there you have it, may 2010 for adam and claire. Believe it or not, we did all those things in one month. Up next is June. woohoo!


Writing all this out really makes us realize how much fun we've had this summer and how lucky we are to have such great friends and family to spend our time with (readers note: i'm sorry in advance, but i can't help but come across as super cheesy. sometimes i just cant control myself!).

Thanks for reading. We hope y'all enjoyed it!

Kensington Avenue, here we come!

Now that we are moving in together, planning a wedding, starting grad school (Adam starts at University of Richmond MBA school next month), getting a puppy (err i mean talking about getting a puppy?), we decided that it was about that time that we started our own blog. Not only have i been bugging Adam to help me start one for over a year, but with all the family and friends we have spread around the country (and world), we thought it would help keep everyone a bit closer to home.

This summer has been a hectic one, to say the least. Instead of boring you with a really long post about all the things we've done all summer, we've decided to split it up into posts by months (yeah, i know we are huge nerds). I hope y'all enjoy our blog--we are so excited to have you share in our wonderful adventure of starting our new life together, and can't wait to share with you all the fun things to come!