Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Weekend Recap (a little late)

Thought I would catch up on our weekend recap or should it be weekends? Either way, I digress. I won't bore you with a bunch of words but rather multiple weekends worth of pictures. Our life in fast forward...ready...set...go!

-WEEKEND OF JULY 20-


Thursday we checked out Nashville Dancin'. Good music, good beer and free moonshine before 8:00pm, I don't think you can beat that.
SIDE NOTE: Whoever created that logo = genius. Batman building + rock fist = epic graphic design. Nashville is doing big things!

 

Friday I got this little text from one of my best girls Julie. She is preggers and they found out they were having a girl. She wants me to teach her how to twirl to which I said of course!


Saturday morning Mr. Cotty and I woke up and got some good work done. BOOM- work hard, play harder.


After working hard, we decided to try and be good parents by taking Ellie for a little swim.


Then we decided to throw the good parent thing right out the window, by keeping it super classy and drinking 40 ouncers (speaking of playing harder). You can pass judgement if you like. We don't care.


Then we headed to a cookout with The Walkers. Since we were in the pool, this was the only shot I got. It pretty much sums up the evening. 


Sunday, we tried out a new Mexican place right around the corner from our house. It was pretty tasty, but no US Border in my opinion (Team Cotty's personal favorite).


At some point during that week, we had a candlelit dinner just because because we are badass and we love each other.



Then we tried to pick back up the good parenting by throwing the ball down our tiny hallway where she only has to run five feet playing fetch. 


Then at some other point that week, I had a girls night with these lovely ladies.


-WEEKEND OF JULY 27-


Towards the end of the week, I had another girls night with these girls. 


Saturday we went to the dog park and Ellie made a new friend. This is Faith from Indiana. Her family was in town for a high school reunion and her Dad and two sisters brought her over to the dog park. I swear if we could adopt 10 other dogs we would, but we can't because we tried adding a second dog once, but that is another post entirely.


After the dog park, we went over to Matt's office to set up some new things for his first day with his new firm. He hadn't cleaned that thing in 3 years in a while so, being the stellar wife I am,  I swept and swiffered until I was blue in the face. 
I always forget my husband is techincally a Doctor, a Juris Doctor. I have no clue what that means, but I know it's fancy.



Saturday night, we decided to take dinner to the deep south and make a shrimp boil. We got the recipe from our best friends Beth and Kelly. It was ahhh-maze-balls. We also had "What to Expect When You Are Expecting" on DVD from Netflix. It had some funny parts, but overall kind of a dud. 


Sunday we went to church and took it easy. We have been trying to lay low so far this week since we are headed to Chicago for Lollapalooza this weekend which usually makes for amazing pictures and great memories with great friends.










Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Birthdays at Tin Roof

Last night we celebrated the birthday of good friend at a little place called Tin Roof. 



It's funny when you live in Nashville and you want to frequent a place just for drinks and food and not necessarily for the music. The best part about living here is that you can walk into pretty much any venue during happy hour on any given weekday and hear some great live music, but sometimes that presents it's challenges. Tin Roof is a great hang, but when the sound guy pumps the volume cringingly (I also like to make up my own words) high on a writers round... conversing with your friends is touch and go. I promise you, we don't need to hear the song that this guy wrote in his basement about how much he misses his ex-girlfriend in some artsy fartsy way at 175 decibels...mmmm k- thanks!




All that to say before the round started, we had about an hour of catching up with some good friends and celebrating of Hannah's birthday. It was great to catch up with some friends we hadn't seen in a while. We had some ever so tasty quesadillas and a few choice beverages. Fat Tire on tap makes me one happy lady! Good times were had by all then we got to go home to this little gal...


After we locked up and were heading upstairs, we turned the corner to this. Absolutely.love.that.face.

We have a pretty busy week ahead of us so let's see if we can keep this blog thing rolling.


Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Here Goes Nothing...

Ok. Let's just do this damn thing... I'm starting another blog.

This is us. Team Cotty. Well, plus, our dog Ellie and we will get to her.


Last time, I can honestly say that I royally sucked at blogging. I'm going to do better this time. I wanted a way to document the things we do and to create a timeline of sorts. We also wanted a way for our family members to keep up and see our lives without posting 80,000 pictures on Facebook every time we do something (cause you know if you don't want to see it on Facebook, you know you want to see it on this blog). Here are a few highlights:

- This is a blog
- About our life
- We live in Nashville
- We have been married for a little over 3 years
- No kids...yet
- We have a dog named Ellie
- We are MTSU Alumni (Go Blue Raiders!!)
- We thoroughly enjoy beer and whiskey
- We love to travel
- We are huge foodies
- I'm drawing a blank on short one liners to sum up our life so if you want to know you will just have to follow along

Here goes nothing. Welcome to our life.