Food Truck Friday

The Food Truck Rally was a great success! Sharing pictures with y'all? Not so much. I transferred all my information to my new iPhone 5s on Saturday morning and the last time I backed my stuff up was Friday before the rally. Boooooooo. You'll just have to use your imaginations!

We arrived at Rural Hill a little after it started and the wide open field was already pretty crowded. The band was rocking and the lines were growing as we staked out a spot in the middle. We made a loop around while we waited for friends to join us. While we waited we munched on pumpkin and kale tacos and sipped Highland Brewery's IPA. Mmm!

We were joined a bit later by some of our sweet friends from church. Then we were all off for more food! Some of our favorites were:

fried broccoli

homemade sweet potato chips

crabcake sandwich

turkey philly cheesestake

a burger loaded with slaw, bbq, and other yummies

mozzarella sticks

pomegranate margarita pop

spiced plum pop

There were more yummy food choices than we could possibly try, but we did our best! There is another food truck rally in a few weeks and you better believe I'll be dragging David to that one too!

Friday's Letters [09.27]

Happy Friday, folks!

Dear Food Truck Rally, I am SO excited for you. I kinda fell in love with your concept when  I heard about one in Raleigh. The fact that there is one just a hop, skip, and jump away from us has me giddy with excitement! I will be fasting all day in preparation to pig out on you.

Dear iphone 5s, I can't wait to meeeeeeet you! You are scheduled to join the fam this afternoon-wahooooo!

Dear David, I love you. You are wonderful and amazing and superb and any other similar adjective that exists.

Dear allergies, I am done with you. Donezo. Caput. See ya later, alligator. Hit the road, Jack and don't you dare come back! I am so tired of clawing my eyeballs out and sneezing more times than I can count.

Love Languages

If you're married it's likely that you've heard of this concept. If you're single, you're probably wondering what the heck I'm talking about. Or maybe it's backwards. No matter what category you are in, I highly suggest figuring out your love language! Let me explain. . .

The 5 Love Languages originated as a book by author, Gary Chapman, and exploded from there. The concept is that there are five "love languages" and everyone has at least one that they "speak". This is the way they prefer to show and receive love from others. You can only imagine the problems that can be solved/prevented if you know how your loved one prefers to be loved! Keep in mind that a loved one isn't just a spouse. This can be a sibling, a parent, a friend-anyone!

We received this book as a gift at our wedding and didn't think much of it. It wasn't until we started hearing people talking about it that we started investigating. We researched what the five types were and immediately saw which one we each identified with the most. We didn't even have to take the quiz to figure it out!

 

Any guesses?? If you've spent any time with David you know that he adores having his head rubbed and his back scratched. We knew pretty quickly that his love language was touch. I, on the other hand, do not require constant touch or connection but I do love receiving and giving notes, food, and "prizes" (what I like to call them). We saw immediately that my love language is gifts. The thing to remember about love languages is this is not only the way you like others to show you love, but this is the way you show love to others. For example, I used to give David cards or gifts for almost every month anniversary when we first started dating. Homeboy could have cared less! All he wanted was to put his head in my lap and receive a good scratch. 

It's amazing how much our relationship has benefited from this realization. I now no longer give David pointless odds and ends and instead just take the time to rub his head or scratch his back every night when we're relaxing. He also no longer tries to cuddle with me at night (this lady needs her space to sleep) and instead leaves me random notes or surprises me with Starbucks on occasion.

If you haven't taken the quiz I highly suggest you take the time to do it!

30 Before 30-Vacation Somewhere New

Well, this past week my sweet husband who reads my blogs daily (hey, baby!) reminded me that I could check something off my 30 Before 30 List that I haven't checked off yet-a trip somewhere new! A few months ago we took an amazingly awesome super exciting trip out West to Colorado and it didn't even dawn on me to check it off. Here are the posts about our trip:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

 19 tasks down, 11 to go!

The Amazing Maize Maze

I've mentioned a time, or twelve, before how important dates are to us. We try to have some form of a "date" once a week to connect with each other. So, a few weeks ago when I saw a Groupon for admission to a corn maze I jumped on it!

I grew up one town over from where we live now and I remember going to the maze many, many moons ago when I was a kid. I remember it being a lot of fun trying to figure it out with my friends. I knew it would be just the right challenge for two oldest children who love to compete. The downside to this little Groupon gem was that we only had a few weeks to use it. In an effort to make sure we used it before it expired we ended up going when it was raining. It wasn't torrential or anything like that, but it was more than a sprinkle. In fact there was one point when my beloved husband turned to me and said, "this is absolutely miserable". But I'm jumping ahead of myself. . .

We arrived just in time to received our "maze orientation" from a very enthusiastic worker who has been leading people for almost 20 years. He got all into character and told all sorts of silly jokes to get us excited. Once he finished his spiel we were off! 

David taking the lead with the flag. 

We knew the general outline and the maze and where we needed to go first. While it wasn't our original goal we ended up collecting all 12 of the maze pieces for our map. There were times of running and excitement as we raced through it and then other moments of dread and frustration (not to mention claustrophobia!) as we dragged ourselves through it.

The corn was 10 feet high!

We finished in exactly 90 minutes with all 12 of the pieces. While we didn't set any records or anything it was a lot of fun. As we were leaving we even learned about a Fall Food Truck Rally the farm was holding the next weekend-score! 

 A little soggy and a little tired, but we did it!

A pumpkin beer-the perfect end to the day!