Aishas Engagement Party=)

Table of food consisting of sausage balls, chips and salsa, cheeseball, apple dip, and a cupcake tower.










Drinks anyone? My fav was the punch with sherbert ice cream









All the girls at the party! It was at Ashely's house.

Landscaping Fun in the Fall

The finished product.







Front of the porch with the pumpkin







Getting the mulch out from the back of the truck





Last Monday we laid landscaping fabric out in front on the trailer and lined it with rocks then filled it in with mulch. Dereks mom and dad came to help us. She has a small landscaping business so she is always helping us do yard work! There is still more to come.

Mummy Cakes

Cheatue Morsiette Winery/Vineyard in Virginia




We took a trip to Cheatue Morsiette Winery a few Mondays ago! SO AMAZING! We had lunch at resturaunt, toured the winery, and then did a tasting.




It if was not for my friend Ashely!!!! I would not have a blog... nor would I have made these mummy cupcakes to take to work tommarrow! With that being said.... Sunday is Halloween=) Not very excited because I will be working ALL weekend long, as will Derek. We wont be trick or treating or dressing up in the latest holloween fasions this year! Haven't blogged in awhile since I've been so busy lately! Derek just had a birthday, and his parents got to meet my mother last Monday. We had a great time, and I cooked some BBQ dinner for us all. Derek and I have been looking at houses and doing more yard work around the trailer. The trees are turning all shades of oranges, yellows, browns, and the lake is so placid this time of year, its absolutly gorgeous! Until next time...~Leigh

It's Thursday and time to BAKE!!!!

the next best thing----OIL and VINEGAR! So instead of salad dressing (which I usually use for my salads) I have started to put oil and vinegar on EVERYTHING. well almost...everything. But indeed, it is alot healthier than your everyday salad dressing and it adds alot of flavor to your salad. So...instead of putting fattening salad dressing on everything...try OIL and VINEGAR! I bought these bottles at Wal-mart yesterday for $2.95 each and they look wonderful in the kitchen!



Last night was the first night I used my NEW pampered chef baker dish! (sooo great). I baked cubed steak and rice for Derek and I which was quit delicious! Today, I am going to the grochery store and tonight for dinner we will do a whole chix with pineapples and cherries:):) YUM! Now, if you do not have one of these great pots then you for sure need to get one! Find your nearest pampered chef consultant fast!







I got to an early start this morning and baked my neighbor, Willis, a blueberry pie (his fav) and am giving him a Thank You note for all that he has done for me and derek. He lives near us and I cannot tell you how many things he has helped us do. He's helped me mow the yard, put a new battery in the jet ski, hang huge shelves underneath the porch to mount TVs on, borrow his lawn mower, and most recently he mounted my mailbox back on the post. He is always in a good mood and I just love talking to him about his cole mining stories. He just bought himself a new Camero too that keeps him quit busy:) Heres to Willis!

End of July-- newest post:)

ALOT!!! as gone on since I have last posted anything since April. I have had the best summer living with Derek at Smith Mountain Lake! We have enjoyed so much together and with our friends. We've had lots of company this summer as well, including my mother, my brother, dereks parents, and not to mention many of our friends have come to enjoy the lake and the surrounding beautiful mountains. I have also enjoyed going to North Carolina to spend some QT time with my grandma and my father. (who does have a new girlfriend named Colleen, and she is planning on moving in with him in August). Sooo much as gone on and I am going to try and start posting blogs atleast once or twice a week! So last Friday, Derek helped run the Addy Grace Charity Golf Tournament for a 2 year old name Addison Grace who suffers from SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) Below are me and some of my good friends who helped volunteer for this tournament! All together the tournament raised over 20 grand:) Way to go:) After the tournament we enjoyed people over at our house for the annual Catalina Wine Mixer 2o1o:)




here are some wine glasses I made myself with paint! They say Catalina Wine Mixer 2010 and our friends names are at the bottom:)



Here are all the girls that came over after the Golf Tournament for some Wine mixer fun! Derek made a 3 gallon pot of Sangria that was delicious to fill up the wine glasses. We also had BBQ, pasta salad, cake, and brownies:)

my first mood board:)

DIY floors and walkway:)

So as most of you know (as I have blogged before) I moved in with derek about 2 months ago....NOW we are trying to get the trailer set up for an enjoyable for summer fun with family and friends and THE LAKE! we have partaken in many DIY projects since I moved it. Yesterday, Carolyn, Dereks mom, came to the lake to help us "clean up" the yard and spruce up everything including the walkway (that was in horrible shape). We have redone the floors in the bathroom with DIY flooring from Home Depot. I have done most of the inside decorating including our bedroom, the bathrooms, living room and kitchen. Derek also mounted 3 TVs outside on the back porch so he can enjoy watching baseball/basketball/football games. Heres some pics of what we have done. Enjoy:)

then we layed the mulch for a finished product

after laying the stone slabs

Derek shoveling "crushed run" . First we dug a hole and cleared the path we wanted, then we layed down landscaping fabric, followed by crush run, the stone slabs, then mulch to make a much better walkway to take us to the back porch:)

dereks mom, carolyn laying the crushed run.