Backyard Improvements

We had my parents in town a few weeks ago, and in adidtion to just enjoying the weekend with the fam, we also dug up our backyard and did some landscaping... not manscaping- LANDscaping sillies!
No before shot, sorry, but it basically had a bunch of the small green bushes in rows

Here is the more important "after" - This is Jean Claude, our bew Bloodsport, I mean, Bloodgood maple tree. I wanted something called a Beni Otake so I could call our tree Beni (bc honestly, isn't it all about talking to your trees?) - but this one won out- with a name like bloodsport, shoot, bloodgood, how could he not! We also built in a little fire pit- so next time you vist we can make s'mores! Yummy-- it is always about the s'mores! (Please see JH post)

We also added some of these little arborvitaes and added some cool rocks we found at the construction site next door- all around we are very pleased. It is a huge improvement- and again thanks to my parents for helping- well really Nate and my Dad did a good amount of this while my Mom and I watched ND lose to someone, but I can say we helped a bit ;)

Bank of America 500- Megan

Hello, real time blogging (almost) will wonders never cease!

The past few weeks have been crazy- Marathon in Chicago (get that out your mind- of course I did not run it.. but I did get to work- and see the ops side of it, it was great- and I somehow have no pictures...) and then on Oct 13- we had the Bank of America 500 here in Charlotte. It was a blast- we had gorgeous weather, and just an all around good day.

Nate's Dad came in for the race, so I will let him share his side of the day... but I enjoyed working the race to help out fellow teammates. I do not have the same photos as last year, but by the end of the night we did finally run into Nate (who had the camera) and I got this pic of part of the team...

Jerrold, Sarah, Karen and me

More to share... but I will leave that to Nate..

BAC 500- cont'd

Here is one more photo of KB, Me, Tim and Jason- this was their first NASCAR race- and when they left we could hear them fighting about who was better, Gordon or Johnson- unreal, I think they are believers :)

Bank of America 500 -- Megan

And just in case Nate did not include this in his post... here is the one photo of us from the evening- it kind of makes us look like giants (definitely a bad angle)... but still, nice flagscape in the background