Amie visits!!!

For the first time ever Amie came to visit me in Williamsburg. We've lived here almost 4 years, so she was LONG overdue to come and visit me.

She arrived Friday evening and after picking her up from the airport we went straight to dinner. I brought her to GreenLeafe which is a local bar and grille type restaurant.

We both wanted to get our cameras out. She beat me to it while I was still looking for mine.

Mozzarella Sticks for an appetizer were delicious. Amie liked to just eat the sauce, nasty.

We decided to share this pasta dinner. It was delicious. Shrimp, sausage, chicken, zucchini, mushrooms, etc. Amie made sure that no shrimp were touching her plate. Apparently the texture reminds her of cartilage. She doesn't know what she's missing.

After dinner we stopped at the grocery store to get dessert.

We decided on a brownie mix that has a cookie topping. It was so good. We had Ben & Jerry's ice cream on the side, (Brownie Cheesecake & Cinnamon Bun).

Saturday morning we woke up fairly early had our Lucky Charms, (Crosby Tradition) and got ready to go to the beach. Since Amie lives in Phoenix one of her requests was a beach day. We went to Yorktown since it's still a nice beach and not as far or as busy as Virginia Beach.

We packed a cooler with water and snacks (apples, pears, oranges and goldfish) and walked down to the water. The parking garage I usually park in wouldn't allow beach visitors to park in it so we had to park a little further, which normally wouldn't be a big deal, but this cooler kept tipping back and forth and was super annoying to pull.

We got our spot on the beach and we were so glad we were near the water since it was really hot out.

We loved watching the people, catching up and watching the boats on the water.

I love my sister!

We lasted less than three hours, since it was so hot, and we were starting to get hungry so we decided to call it a day and head back home. Amie had cooler duty on the way back to the car.

On the way home Amie wanted to stop at Barnes & Noble so we went and she wanted us to pick out a book for Baby Murphy! It was so sweet of her. She didn't know what books we already had, and neither did I (so many saved from when we were kids) but we were able to find something good. We decided on There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly, and than a plane board book since Aunt Amie and Uncle Jay both love airplanes. This was an unexpected yet fun surprise, thanks Amers!

We than stopped and picked up sandwiches for us and Sean to bring back to the house. It felt so good being inside with the A/C.

Amie than surprised us once again with a homemade quilt for Baby Murphy.

I couldn't believe the detail, this quilt was amazing. I love it so much, and I know Baby Murphy will too.

Sean and I show off our new quilt. I love the frogs!

Now showing off the back of the quilt.

After present time we had nap time! I'm glad Amie likes naps as much as Sean and I. After nap time we got dressed and ready to go out to dinner.

Amie's only request for dinner was not a chain and she really wanted to branch out and try some seafood. We decided on going to The Kingsmill Marina.

We definitely enjoyed the nice weather, while it lasted.

Dinner came and I was excited about my shrimp and corn!

and than the storm came

They boxed up our food and shut down.

Boo!

Amie was however very excited for a mini thunderstorm. A thunderstorm was yet another request of hers. It blew flew pretty quick, but we had already packed up our food and the restaurant had already closed down so we went home.

We decided it would be fun to play some wii so we stopped at our friend's house on the way home to borrow a wii controller.

We started out playing Smarty Pants. I was doing the Double Points Dance.

The last game Amie finally won, and was so proud of herself. I've never won, I'm awful at trivia.
We played a little Super Mario Bros and Mario Kart and than called it a night.

Sunday morning we woke up and had our Lucky Charms again and than decided to head down to Colonial Williamsburg.

The best part of CW is The Peanut Shop, unfortunately with Amie's allergies it would have been a REALLY bad idea to venture inside, unless we wanted to spend another weekend at the ER.

Amie expresses her love for The Peanut Shop

My favorite part of CW, besides the Peanut Shop is walking around looking at the animals.

This pretty horse was out in the awful heat.

He really wanted a sip of Amie's ice coffee.

We took a break from walking around and sweated in the heat.

Posing in front of the Governor's Palace with my Amie Leigh

Come on, I dare you to throw tomatoes at us

We continued walking around and enjoyed every bit of shade that we could find.


After walking around we decided to share some ice cream, Grape & Apple Sherbet with popping candy. It's delicious.

Just part of my nasty sweat from the day.

After getting back to the house we took more photos of the quilt.

And than it was nap time. Amie and I crashed and took a nice long nap, and we woke up feel rejuvenated.

The next item on our list was teaching me to sew. I know I won't ever be able to make stuff as cool as Amie, but I did want to learn as much as I could.



I think I did pretty well and I'm excited to practice and make something I can show off. Hopefully there will be a blog entry in the near future with an awesome sewing project.

After sewing we decided to go out yet again. We don't normally go out for every meal, but it was just easier so we didn't have to cook.

We decided on going to our favorite restaurant, Bonefish. We made Amie try our favorite appetizer Bang Bang Shrimp. I wish I had taken a photo of her face. She was so scared to try it, and she psyched herself out so she didn't like it. Maybe she would have liked it if she had given it a try, or maybe it just tastes like "cartilage."

Right before leaving we had the waitress snap our photo since we hadn't taken a photo of the three of us.

We went home stuffed and finished off the ice cream and rented a movie on Demand, Leap Year. All three of us snuggled on the couch and eventually we had to go to bed which meant the weekend was over.

Amie's flight left at 7 this morning, so her and Sean left the house around 5 am. I woke up to say goodbye, and I was thankful that Sean was able to drop her off. I went back to bed for another hour and a half and when I woke up my sister was gone.

Although the weekend was short, Amie and I had so much fun. It was great seeing her and spending quality time together since we don't get to see each other very often at all.

I love her and I can't wait to see her again. I hope you had fun Amie Leigh!