Easy like Sunday Mornin'

Yes... this weekend was easy, besides the 8 hours I spent on a paper on Saturday. But we'll overlook that for the sake of enjoying the rest of the weekend!

On Saturday morning, Bobby and I set a record for sleeping in since our honeymoon - 11:34 a.m.!!! Not only did we sleep late, but we sat in our PJ's until about 1:00 p.m. MUCH NEEDED, let me tell you.

I often like to mark my weekends with some sort of productive thing that I've completed: hosting a party, cleaning the entire apartment, mastering some kind of recipe, etc. So this weekend, my project was new curtains! They are actually shower curtains (thanks Mom!) to which I placed grommets (thanks Mom B for finding them!) and ribbon in order to copy something I had seen in Restoration Hardware. How did I do??

*Also, Bobby would like me to note that he helped cut out the circles for the grommets and he also helped me put the grommets in place. He also hung the curtain rods for me - Thank you hubby!

Jen and April, this one's for you

So it must be something about the Wise family that makes us always want to match each other. We grew up with my mom making all of the Wise girls matching Easter outfits. My sister April and my sister-in-law Jen have carried this tradition on with their own children, which is so adorable. However, for some strange reason, my other sister Christina, and I like to continue this tradition for ourselves! Much to our excitement, April and Jen got Christina and I matching outfits for our birthdays - completely coordinating (Jen got the same outfit for herself!). Will we ever grow up? I guess not, because it's just so fun! And in the words someone who described Jen's little girls, we're "matchy-matchy!"

So Jen and April, although these are not the exact outfits you bought us, here we are being "matchy-matchy!" (And yes, we actually did go out like this together!)


Patience (right) and Charity (left) - April and Neil's girls.

Mary Claire (right) and Elle (left) - Bennett and Jen's girls.

Take me out to the ball game...

The all-American past-time is shared by many throughout this country. The feeling of a hot summer night, an ice cold beer (or lemonade), the smell of Boog's barbeque, and the priceless people-watching on Eutaw Street cannot be compared to anything else in this world. The atmosphere you get at a Baltimore Oriole's baseball game is unlike any other. On a given Friday night game, you can get an 80 year old man with his grocery bag full of peanuts who sits in the stands with his 1974 hand held radio listening to the commentary by Jim Palmer. Not two sections over, you get a rowdy crowd of college kids at the game for $6 student night. Just one level down, you get a father and son exchanging notes on how to keep score of the game. Slide over a little more and you get the biggest family reunion you've ever seen. Like I said, there is nothing like it.

Now Bobby can recall several months after we started dating that I once said to him, "Can we not go to anymore baseball games, please?" Not 2 months after that, I found myself on the 3rd floor of Camden Yards warehouse applying for a job to work there. 83 home games later, I was in love. Bobby likes to say about me that "She's the only girl who knows the intricacies of the infield fly rule, but still asks how many 'points' the O's have." (For those of you asking yourself what is wrong with 'points,' they are called 'runs.' There are no points in baseball). Although we no longer live very close to Baltimore, there are few things better than going to a baseball game for a date with my husband. While it may sound pitiful, I do get choked up when talking about things I feel deeply about. However, when Bobby heard the sniffles from the other room, without hesitation, he yells out to me, "THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!!!"

A few pictures from the night...

"A hot dog at a baseball game is better than a steak at the Ritz." - Humphrey Bogart

We got rid of Sammy Sosa so quick, they couldn't make the T-shirts fast enough! Just kidding, I just thought this was funny...

The Mr. and Mrs.

Happy Birthday, Charity!

Today another one of my precious nieces celebrates her 4th birthday! This sweet little blond has the BIGGEST blue eyes and the sweetest smile that will melt most hearts! She has definitely inherited whatever Wise family gene that is being passed down because she has the pink, pout-y cheeks just like her Aunt Melissa had, and just like her cousin Mary Claire (see previous post)!

It is so fun to see Charity grow up (although it's going way too fast)! Right after we got married last summer, April (my sister, Charity's Mommy) came to see me with all the kids (Patience, Charity and Neilson) when Bobby was on a business trip. We had a sleepover and I let April and the kids stay in my bedroom. After the kids went to bed, April and I stayed up talking. After a few minutes, we were both suspect of the lack of noise coming from the bedroom! No... not sleeping! Charity had taken all of Bobby's shoes and made a perfect circle with them around the bed, each pair lined up together! When we walked in, Charity was sitting quite contently in the middle of her circle!

We love you Charity, Happy Birthday!!!

Love, Aunt Melissa and Uncle Bobby

Happy Birthday, Mary Claire!

Today, my little niece Mary Claire celebrates her 5th birthday!! Rivaling many of the cutest blond girls out there, Mary Claire takes the crown... and quite literally, too. Mary Claire's mommy and my sister-in-law, Jen (also an avid blogger), tells numerous stories of Mary Claire pretending that she's a princess. Quite cute.
Anyway, Mary Claire is very special to me (as are all my nieces and nephews!) for a few reasons and here's why:

1) Up until recently, we shared the same initials - MCW!
2) We are both April birthdays
2) Every time I see her, she STILL asks me to sing "Miss Mary Claire" (a song sung with special words especially for MC in the tune of "Miss Mary Mack") for her.
3) She has rosy cheeks just like me!

Aunt Melissa and Uncle Bobby love you, Mary Claire!! Happy Birthday!