Leonard Family Pictures

We had been talking about getting family pictures taken and I received an email from our wedding photographer saying that she has started her own business and that she was offering discounts.  Needless to say since we liked her so much that this was a no brainer.  We decided to have the family pictures taken out at the plantation house.  The same place that we had our engagement pictures taken.  The day ended up beautiful and we ended up with some pretty good pictures.  If you are ever interested in a photographer please see Erin McCoy Photography.  I've posted her website below.  When you go to the site, you'll see some of the pictures from the wedding.

 

http://www.emccoy.com/Erin_McCoy_Photography/Welcome.html

Robertson Family Vacation

This year instead of going to Ohio for vacation, my family came down here.  Since they were here for the week we were able to go to the beach almost every day.  We would start the mornings off at the beach and then the afternoons were spent site seeing.


Lukie seem to like the beach.  He even liked being out in the waves.

One afternoon we went to the train museum.  Lukie and Da Da love trains, so we thought it would be a good time for grandpa and grandson to spend together.  Ironically I didn't get a picture of either of them together.

Air Force Museum

Each time we go to Ohio we always say we want to make it to the Air Force Museum but some how never make it.  This time we did.


Just by doing some research I knew that we would be doing some walking and that we would get to see a lot of cool things.  Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought we would see as much as we did.  The place is huge.  Massive.  We spent almost 4 hours there and still didn't see everything.  My fully charged camera ran out of battery because we took so many pictures.  Between my dad and I we had over 300 pictures.  I know that we are trying to plan another trip there. Out of the 11 exhibits we saw 7 of them.  If you are ever near the Dayton area it is a must see.  Just be prepared to take a lot in.

Christmas

Christmas this year was a bit different.  The weather was suppose to be bad Christmas day, so instead of leaving Christmas morning, we drove up Christmas Eve.


We had our Christmas a few days before we left.  I actually have pictures this time of me, Brian and Maggie opening our presents and us opening presents in Ohio.

Brian got me a Staub Oval Cocotte and Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking.  I liked the movie Julie and Julia so much so that is why he got me those.  You can do so much with a dutch oven.

I got him his own beer making kit.  He had a suspicion, but he was surprised none the less.  He says he can't wait to make is first batch of beer.

Since we left on Christmas Eve, we were able to spend Christmas Eve dinner with my family for the first time in about 3 years.  It was nice to wake up on Christmas morning and already be at our destination instead of driving 9 hours.  Christmas morning was spent at my sisters house to watch Lukie open his presents from Santa and breakfast, then it was back to my parents house in the afternoon to open our presents from them and dinner.

More Pictures From the Wedding

Here are more pictures from the wedding.  Once we get the professional ones from the photographer I'll post some of those.  That should be some time after Thanksgiving.

Our Wedding!

The week of our wedding it did nothing but rain.  From the time we left Charlotte on Sunday night after the football game, right up until Friday morning it rained.  We started the week off in a drought but by the end of the week, we were not.  We had so much rain that part of Carolina Beach was flooded.  The silver lining of the week was that the forecast called for sunshine on Saturday; the day of our wedding.

My family got here Wednesday evening and we were able to get the beach house on Thursday.  It was nice to be able to hang out for a day before all the excitement and preparations of the rehearsal and the wedding.

Friday was the rehearsal and we finally had sun.  The rehearsal went off without a hitch and friends and family that came from out of town we able to come to the rehearsal dinner.  There was one thing that happened.  Brian's mom got us a cake and they completely messed up my name.  Not only did they spell my name wrong they also had me as a boy.

The day of the wedding was nice.  I couldn't have asked for a better day.  I didn't have any stress, the only concern was how to keep the tables from falling over.  It was a very windy day.  The ceremony was quick, pictures didn't take long and the reception, we had a lot of fun.  By the end of the night we had people doing keg stands.