For Tyler and Katie’s Wedding!

Finally updated the ‘About Us’ page here on this site.

Raleigh

North Carolina’s capital seems to have gotten a free pass where the housing slump is concerned. Prices have been buoyed by job growth in the Research Triangle, home to dozens of tech firms. Total sales in the first quarter of this year were the fifth highest on record. In some cities, suburbanites stung by gas prices are moving downtown in favor of walkable neighborhoods. But not in Raleigh. “People move here to get away from that type of living,” says local market analyst Stacey Anfindsen, only partly in jest. Although downtown Raleigh has added hundreds of condos and lofts, the real growth has come in suburbs like Cary, Morrisville and Apex, all on the western side of Raleigh, where home prices have risen steadily.

The subdivision of Preston, where prices are up 3.5 percent over last year, reigns as the area’s übersuburb. The northwest Cary neighborhood was bankrolled in the 1990s by Jim Goodnight, founder of software giant SAS, and supersizes the standard suburban amenities: Most lots are at least a quarter-acre, double the size of newer developments, and prices approach $500,000. Parents can choose from a roster of lauded private and public schools. John Minicucci, a technology analyst, moved his family to Preston in May after stints in New York and Vancouver, B.C., and chose the neighborhood in part because it is already built out; it doesn’t run the risk of being flooded with discounted properties because of overbuilding. “Since this area didn’t really experience the boom, it won’t be as susceptible to tanking,” he says. And he’s loving perks like abundant tee times. Like more than 60 percent of Preston residents, Minicucci belongs to the local country club, which hosts 54 holes of championship golf, two tennis facilities and three swimming pools.

Full Article can be found here

Abel played with a new set of Nike clubs. Woods wrote on the bib: “Thank you for letting me caddie for you. Your friend, Tiger Woods.”

As someone who wears a dress shirt to work every single day at first I thought this was kind of a gimmick, but now I see it’s incredible use!  I’m very particular on my dress shirts (just ask Caitlin how long I take in a store) , they MUST be:

15” neck, 35 length, slim fitted, button-down collar to be exact - no deviation

Examples:  here and here

It’s incredibly hard to find them in stores without having them tailored (which i recently discovered only costs $12.00 - score!).  Then I’m at the mercy of an online retailer and I never get to see the shirt.  Well - hopefully that’s soon gone.  I can wear non button-down collared shirts again!  Why you say?  Because with my small neck size collars on shirts tend to “flare” out and look completely ridiculous.

Can’t wait to resurrect some of those old shirts in my closet with my new christmas wish!

http://www.wurkinstiffs.com/

Kiss and Run….. 

He doesn’t even know all his shapes and colors, but he can tell the difference between different makes of cars….. 

By the way, I’m still on a high from my hole-in-one a while back.  Just FYI.

First he makes it

Then he eats it, the “Yummy Shippins”