Some Instagram favs, PGA Championship & 5K plans..

I was just flipping through the photo album on my phone and decided to post a couple of my Instagram favs :) If you want to follow me on Instagram, you can find me under sweettealove.

Lunch with my love at Cork Bistro.

 Saturday on the Edisto River

Brown hair, tan jacket, just over Roxy's right shoulder..that's ME on Army Wives!! One of the few episodes where I was an extra :)

Over the weekend, we had the opportunity to go to the PGA Championship, which was being held at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island about 45 min. from our house. Even though the championship was sold out, they were still giving out free tickets for active duty military AND their spouses! S is all about golf and I love to play myself so this was a great opportunity for the both of us. 

 2012 PGA Championship at The Ocean Coruse on Kiawah.

Me on the Ocean Course!

Tiger Woods on the 5th hole.

Tiger Woods.

The 18th hole.

18th hole.

18th hole.



It was beyond hot, but luckily there was a slight ocean breeze since the course is right on the water. We drank tons of water and only lasted about 4-5 hours before we were spent and ready to go home!

Have any of y'all ever done this race or one similar??



I am dying to do it!! They are holding the Color Run 5K in Charlotte on my birthday in November, however, it is already SOLD OUT! This looks like the next best thing and is in Columbia, which is only about an hour away.

I would love to hear about your experience if you've done it before!!



I'm a lucky girl.

That boy always knows how to make me smile :) #lovemysailor

Turkey Sausage and Parmesan Frittata recipe

Hey Y'all!

So I decided to do a quick post about the turkey sausage frittata that I have been obsessing over lately. Not only is it healthy, but it is high in protein and is a great all-in-one for breakfast, lunch, OR dinner! S loves it and it always makes the girls at work's mouth water when I bring it in to work for breakfast or lunch. I actually just typed up the recipe for one of them so I decided to post it here as well.

Turkey Sausage and Parmesan Frittata

8 eggs (you can also do 5 whole eggs and 3 egg whites or 4:4, etc. if you want)

1/4 - 1/2 cup milk

1/4 - 1/2 yellow onion, chopped

1-2 tsp minced garlic

2 handfuls of baby spinach with stems cut off
1 package of Jimmy Dean turkey sausage crumbles

3-4 Tbsp Bisquick

½ cup shredded parmesan cheese (and a little extra to sprinkle on top before you put it in the oven)
Cooking Spray

 

 

 

Preheat oven to 350F. Beat eggs, milk, and Bisquick together in a large mixing bowl. Sauté onions and garlic in a couple teaspoons of olive oil until softened and slightly transparent. Add onions and garlic to egg mixture. Spray pan with cooking spray and add turkey sausage crumbles, cook on medium heat until browned then add to egg mixture. Chop stems off spinach and add to egg mixture along with the parmesan cheese. Spray then pour egg mixture into a large casserole dish or baking dish. Bake at 350F for about 25-30 minutes or until slightly browned on top. I would check it around 20 minutes to determine how much longer you think it needs to cook since all ovens are different. I also put estimates for most ingredients so you can adjust them to what you like. Enjoy! J

Depending on what you like, you can substitute or add ingredients such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, mushrooms, etc. Pretty much anything you would put in an omelet, you can put in a frittata!



For Sale!

Here a couple items from my closet that I am putting up for sale. I bought the necklace from JCrew a little while back and never wore it. It retails at $150. The shorts are Lilly Pulitzer and I bought them on consignment. They are in excellent used condition, size 8, but way too big for me. Please see pictures below. If interested, I only accept PayPal and I can be contacted at kcasey04@gmail.com

JCrew Salon Necklace - Originally retailed at $150 and is in brand new condition, never worn. Selling for $75 shipped, or OBO.

EUC Lilly Pulitzer Seersucker shorts in "Hotty Pink Seerious Sucker(?)", Size 8. $40 shipped.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Monday!

I'm having mixed feelings about this Monday so far. It started off badly because a) its Monday. S and I had a little tiff over the weekend and although it all turned out just find, he called me this morning to tell me that he's been beating himself up over it all morning and that he feels bad and apologized again and again. It makes me feel good to know that he realizes his mistakes and I'm so glad that we can talk things out. Unfortunately, as I was on the phone with him having this conversation (we were both at work), my boss proceeds to come into my cubicle and stand next to me looking over a couple contracts that I left for her on my desk. Now, if you saw that someone was on a phone call and you can clearly see that they only have a little 6x6 cube of space to themselves, what makes you think that it is okay to stand over them while they are on a phone call???!!??!?! OMG. I'm so done trying to justify her behavior and pretend like everything is okay. I.am.so.over.it.

Note: I'm sorry, I try to keep everything in my blog very upbeat, but I was just astonished at this behavior. I was seriously on the verge of writing her a very nasty email about personal space, but I decided I would rather not fuel the fire. She is a nasty person as it is and she doesn't need anything, especially in writing, to use against me. Instead, I will use it to fuel my fire in getting a new job.

Which leads me to two new and exciting things! First, I have an interview at the Citadel (Military College of South Carolina), for Admissions Counselor on Wednesay, YAY! PRAY FOR ME. Haha, I need it! Although I think it will be a great seeing as to how I have worked in Admissions at two different colleges and am working at a third right now :)

Second: I had a meeting today with the Volunteer Coordinator at the Fleet & Family Support Center to talk about volunteer opporunities. I've thought about getting involved in with volunteering in the past, but never really did anything about it. But, since I am on the hunt for a new jobby job, I decided what better time to get involved? I know it will look kick-ass on my resume and it will be a great way to learn about Navy life. To make a long story short, I accidentally emailed the Volunteer Coordinator's boss's boss and she saw to it that I got contacted haha. Oops! I so did not mean to do that, I was literally just looking for someone, anyyyyone who I thought might be able to help me learn about volunteer opportunities.

Erin, the VC, said that they don't normally invite significant others in unless they are spouses, but they do make exceptions and apparently I am an exception! I am okay with that. Since I have both my bachelor's and master's degrees and a background in Higher Education, she was very interested in my background and very happy to meet with me. She also mentioned that the woman who oversees their Education and Scholarship area had an assistant who JUST retired this year and she said that she was going to pass my information and resume on to her. Score! She said that she is pretty sure that they are looking to bring in 2 people, but she wasn't making any promises. I am okay with that, but wow! How nice of her to think of me for that! I would absolutely love to work on base, that would be super convenient and a great way to get my foot in the door for the future.

She also said that it is good to get involved because although the FFCC has a very small staff, they do tend to hire their volunteers or recommend them for employement in other areas on base. She also invited me to come to Military Spouse 101 in a couple weeks to learn about all the services offered to families on base. I really couldn't believe how nice this woman was to me. I really wasn't sure how I would be treated since I am not officially a spouse.

SO that has been my day so far. We had a little bit of a rough weekend, but it has all been smoothed out by now. Here are a few pics that highlight the funner parts ;)

We floated down the Edisto River on Satuday for a friend's birthday. There are no rapids and its actually very shallow in some parts yet over our heads in others. It was a really fun, beautiful day. This is was South Carolinians do for fun :p

Lots of drunk peeps!

S

Me, S, friend Kt

S and I <3

Meeee :)

The end.

To get a dog or not to get a dog?? That is the question.

Hey yall,
So S has been very adamant about getting a dog lately. He has always had one growing up where as I grew up with no pets (unless you count a cat until I was 2 and a couple hamsters and fish along the way). We especially never had a dog. I have kind of a bad outlook on the who situation because I mainly hear a lot of negative pet stories; people mainly complain about the bad things that happen and tend not to brag about all the awesome things their pets can do. I know from reading a lot of blogs that so many people are so happy to have their "fur babies", but I'm not sure I'm that type of girl.

This discussion has been going on for a while and I have mostly just been making up excuses as to why we shouldn't get a dog. When S's fam was in town, even him mom was trying to talk me into it! He has been pretty good about understanding my reasons for not wanting to get a pet right now; we like to go out a lot and on the weekends, its not unusual for us to be out all day. It's not always easy to swing back by the house and let the dog out nor is it fair to leave them all day. My main concern is that a dog is going to keep us from doing the things that we want to do and I don't want to turn into that couple that always has to leave early to let their dog out, etc. I also don't want to give up spontaneous trips or trips home because we can't bring it or afford the added expense of a kennel.

One night last week, I came home from work exhausted and S brought up the idea again (he goes back and forth; if he hasn't seen a dog for a while he doesn't bring it up, but since we just saw his fam and their dog, it's on his mind again). I was tired and didn't want to get into it so I didn't say much, but I could tell that he was getting upset with me.

I know that it will make him very happy to get a dog, should I just give in? I have been entertaining the idea a little more the past few days and I may have told him we could start looking, but I don't want to regret my decision. This is an added responsibility/expense that I'm not I want to take on right now. I also made a list of my concerns for if we did get a dog (things like no pets on the furniture, must take obedience classes, cleaning/vacuuming). And I also told S that we would have to both agree on what type of dog we were to get. Right now, we are deciding between a German Short-haired Pointer or Weimaraner.

What are ya'll experiences getting/having a dog? What should I doooo????

Some overdue 4th of July fun and photos.

I get so caught up in reading everyone else's blogs that I tend to forget to post in my own! The past weeks have been pretty uneventful though so I guess yall aren't really missing out on anything.

So to recap, S and I took the first week of July off because his family came to town to visit. We had a lot of fun being tourists in our own town, which is very easy to do. Charleston is a very beautiful, historical city and there are TONS of great restaurants. It's minutes from several beaches and you just cannot escape that southern charm. Since S's fam is from Kentucky, we made sure to spend lots of time on the beach and eat plenty of seafood. We also took a trip up to the lake for a day with the boat and had tons of fun tubing and swimming and lounging in the water.

The fam left fairly early on a Saturday so S and I took that as an opportunity to head back up to the lake and have some more fun, but with friends this time around. We took the boat for a quick spin, but then tied up with a couple other boats and literally just floated the rest of the day. Another couple that S knows from work came with us and even though I had only met the hubby once, the wifey was super friendly, we got along great, and had lots to talk about. Here are some pics of our super fun, probably funnest day I've had in Charleston yet, lake day.

Flotilla!

Brilliant!

Nothing like some redneck fun!

Since it was the week of Fourth of July, they had fireworks that evening and we kept the boat out on the lake until about 10pm when it ended. It was so much fun!

New post!

I always feel like I should have pictures when I'm about to write a new post, oh wait...I do have pics yay! I almost forgot that I do indeed have pictures from out CT trip. I have additional pictures from the wedding we went to a couple weekends ago, but I keep forgetting to charge my camera so I can upload to my computer.

Some time has passed since I last posted. We had a great trip to NYC and Connecticut. S loved my family and they loved him right back. I can't help but wonder if he had a little chat with my pops, but I guess I'll leave that as a surprise. Speaking of my parents, they just bought a condo in Port St. Lucie, Fl, which I am very excited about because I will have free reign (and a key) to visit any time I want! I am planning on spending a week there with them in September, can't wait! It's also nice because since it's only 8 hours away, we can drive instead of having to buy two plane tickets. You would never think it would be SO expensive to fly from Charleston to pretty much anywhere in Florida. Crazy.

Hmm, what else is new...

I posted a little while back about how S and I started attending Seacoast Church here in Charleston, I really love it, however, S is a little on the fence because it's such a big church. He said that no one ever talks to us. My response is that we never stick around long enough to meet/talk to anyone! A couple weeks ago, I saw on the church's email newsletter that a couple about our age was starting a 20/30-something life group and I thought, that is just what we need! It was the most perfect thing and great timing. It is just a casual almost social group that gets together every week at the couple's house. We went last night for the first time and I really enjoyed it. We got to meet about four or five other couples and a couple singles as well :) Everyone was very friendly and I'm looking forward to getting to know each person there. The group isn't very structured; there is no required reading or workbooks or anything like that. Just a group of peeps who are around the same stages in their lives who can get together and hang out and maybe chat once in a while if there is anything heavy on their hearts. I'm looking forward to many more gatherings and now S will finally have some people he knows to stop and talk to at church.

The next big exciting thing, not sure if I already mentioned it, but S and I are taking that next BIG step and moving in together. I am currently living with a roommate and his brother just moved out of his apartment, leaving plenty of space for all my things! It doesn't make any sense financially for us to both pay rent. We are both 30 years old and we know that we will be married in the very near future so I don't see anything wrong with is (and I don't think anyone else should.) I have been soliciting everyone at work for all their boxes so I can get packing this weekend. I can't wait!

I just realized that I never really posted any pics from our Kentucky trip from earlier in May so here we go!

While in Kentucky, we hiked at Red River Gorge up the Natural Bridge, it was pretty awesome. As you'll notice, we had quite a bit of rainy/overcast spring weather on both of our trips..

S's new truck that we picked up in Kentucky!

It was Military Appreciation Night at S's little brother's baseball game :)

A couple weeks after we visited KY, S's grandma and grandpa came down to Charleston to visit us. We showed them around and played tourists in our own town. Here are some pics from a carraige ride that we took them on.

The next day, we took them on the ferry out to Fort Sumter.

The weekend after the grandparents left, we hopped a plane to NYC and visited CT, too! S was dying to go to the Carnagie Deli and here is his giant sandwich, he killed that thing by the way.

Rainy day in Times Square.

My favorite bakery EVER, Crumbs. It is seriously cuppie cake heaven.



The Statue of Liberty from Battery Park.

Once in CT, we took a little trip down to the shore. We stopped at Sub Base New London and toured the submarine museum and USS Nautilus. I have no idea how S does it, but I could never spend days and days beneath the sea on one of those things!

 I promised S a trip to the casino (where he won $1200 playing blackjack!)

 And he got his lobster dinner that he couldn't stop talking about :p

On our last day in town, we visited my friends, Shay and Mike, and my goddaughter Maddie. Here she is with the little Carolina Girl t-shirt I bought her :)

I miss her, can't wait to visit again!

On my parents' doorstep, just about to leave for the airport to head back to Charleston.

Trips home always go by too fast and there is never enough time to do everything I want to do. Can't wait to get back home and visit again, but until then, I am always having fun in the sun in SC<3



Thanks to Karina over at Mr. and Mrs. Powell, I must have this!

{via Best Buy}

I can't get over the quality of pictures that it takes. I knew I shouldn't have let S talk me into that Sony even though I've always been a Canon girl! :p

Oh, and follow me on Pinterest!

Oops!

I don't know why I was thinking that I already posted about our NY/CT trip already, I guess I should look at my own blog more often :p I have lots of pics and fun things to post about, maybe later this afternoon I will have time....or tomorrow.

Hope everyone is doing well!