Hymans Seafood

Hyman's Seafood is one of our favorite places to take people when they come to visit Charleston. The best thing to get is the Crispy Fried Flounder, they bring you the whole fish! It is sooo yummy. Here is what is left of Don's Fish!

The Family at Hymans! You MUST try it!!

And how could I not post a picture of our 2 pups?!?!
Libby the Bummble BEE
Winnie the Lady Bug.
Their costumes truely fit their personality!

Dan's 30th Birthday!!

Dan's Birthday Dinner with Don and Crystal (dan's dad and Stepmom), Nana Caskie, and Wayne and Val (Kim's parents)

Dan gets to open His gifts!

He is very excited about the food Dehydrator from Wayne and Val.
He also got a Valet from ME (you can hang your pants, shirts, and a place to put your wallet and keys)

Kim and Val on the Sofa

Dan, Nana, and I on the Ferry to Ft Sumter. Burr...It was cold and Windy on the water!

Don and Crystal

Dan and Nana waiting to board the Ferry

The Caskie Family in front of Fort Sumter. Do you know what happened here??

Weekend Getaway to Myrtle Beach

My mom and I at Mt Atlanticus

Dan...It's putt-putt not baseball!!

Going for the hole

I love this Man!! We have a photo just like this one, from our 1st anniversary!!

Happy 30th Birthday Dan!!!

Yesterday, my Wonderful Husband Daniel, turned the BIG 30!! We had a great day...well most of it, but more on that later...
Dan's parents and Nana came into town on Sunday. They are our first house guests in our new home. WE spent the day in Downtown Charleston. We took a guided walking tour of the Holy City (something we hadn't done before), and learned lots of neat facts about Charleston. We even got Nana out on the tour, although we pushed her in the wheelchair. (which we found does NOT roll well on the cobble stone streets).
We had a nice seafood lunch at the Charleston Crab House, yummy yummy!!
Then we set sail on the high seas of Charleston on the Ferry to Ft Sumter. Dan and his family had never taking the tour and I haven't been since high school, so it was a nice but COLD and Windy experience.
WE finished out our Day with another yummy meal at CASA CASKIE (aka Kim's Kitchen) We even used our fancy china and new silver (that we purchased at and outlet sale) in honor of Dan's Birthday. my parents also joined us to celebrate Dan's 30th Birthday!

How we didn't expect to end the evening......
I put a load of clothes in the washer about 10:30pm. By 11 o'clock...we had a FLOOD, yes FLOOD.
(We had a leak a few weeks back, which the builder came and fixed and patched the drywall. They are supposed to come on Wed this week to fix the hardwood floors (they got some water damage and are warping.)
But compared to last time...this is WAY worse. The ceiling last time was a 1x3 foot section of drywall that needed to be patched. THIS time....the water was pouring out several spots of the family room. THAT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!!
We can praise GOD for several things: 1. We Were home!! and I was about to shut the water off. Who knows how bad this would have been if we weren't home! 2. Dan's parents were about to help clean up. 3. We have lots of towels and linens in our house, that we used to SOP in all the water.
Dan in his dad spent some time cutting holes in the drywall the help let the water out of the ceiling.
Dan now has a real bad rash all over his body. WE are not sure what it's from. It may be from all the dirty water he ended up covered in, or the drywall dust from cutting holes in the ceiling. But, he itches and does not feel well. He is in bed, in a Benadryl induced SLEEP!!
Please pray for us today, as we meet with the insurance company, the plumber, the builder, and the other repair companies. Pray that we were able to get all the water up, and that there will NOT be any mold/mildew. Pray that Dan will feel better. Pray that Dan and I will work together and not against each other. Pray that God will use this in our lives to help us better serve HIM.
Again I would like to say HAPPY Birthday to my WONDERFUL husband!! I know we will NEVER forget this Birthday!!!

I'll post some pictures of our visit Downtown and the Damage later!

Still Working

Well, it's a slow process, but Dan and I are getting things settled. Dan's parents are coming this next weekend for a visit, SO I'm trying to get as much done this week as I can. Dan has been busy with "projects" around the house. He's finished the Garage floors, and they look great (he's very proud of himself). My mom has been painting my guestroom. There are still a few boxes taht need unpacked and lots of "things" that still need a place. We have a long list of "TO DO's" that will eventually get done. It's just nice to be in our place.
I'll have Dan post pictures soon.
Love, KIM

The New Google Data Center, and Lunch with the Governor!

Today Google opened it's new data center in our town! They had all the big wigs is from across the state, as well as the fire dept to raise the american flag for the dedication of their new building.....

Governor Sanford is a REALLY nice guy, He thanked the fire department for what we do and was very personable to chat with

I love photo ops....the Governor joined us for a picture then for a good southern lunch of smoked BBQ chicken, Frogmore Stew and Cole Salw!

well it couldn't stay perfect forever....

Today we had a little mishap in paradice. I attempted to do the first load of laundry when the drain pipe clogged and flooded the laundry room- and we quickly found out the ceiling of our living room. They never sealed around the floor drain so any fluids not in the drain pan just flow right thru the floor and into the ceiling below. I was able to rip out the affect area quickly and get it started drying pretty fast. I think we spared damage to the hardwood floors. we will just need a plumber to seal the pipe and fix the drain and a drywall patch and we will be good as new! could have been alot worse with mold and rot and other water damage but God protected us there.

It occured to me that a blow dryer may be a fire hazard...but instead of taking it down i just got the fire extinguisher ready.

After about an hour of "drying" most of the edges were dry...

we had talked about puting in a skylight.....

the flood alarm helped but that big whole in the floor didn't....

It coming right along...

The master now has it furniture (and was it heavy!!!)

Kim is making herself at home taking up the entire closet already, she has had lot of funny digging out her skinny clothes that did not fit prior to her now almost 60lbs weight loss!!! GO KIMMY GO!

The Girls are making themselves at home too, Libby just wants to play ball and Winnie is her protector...now if they could only run in the yard but no fence yet!

We have boxes everywhere, we are looking forward to getting it all done to be settled. We are awaiting our first guests still...all are welcome, we would love to see you. Dan and Kim

We Are Moving in!

Kim spent the day unpacking the kitchen


She made a bit of progress (and a mess)

With some help from family and friends, all the furniture and boxes are in. Dan put up the ceiling fan tonight.

I never thought i would see my garage this clean AFTER we moved it. And we probably wont ever again, tomorrow the concrete guys are coming out to put on the epoxy floor finish so i had to load all my junk back out of the garage for 4 more days!

Home Sweet Home

Well, We closed on our house 1 week ago today. It is becoming more like HOME!! The painting is almost all finished (what rooms we are painting for now, we'll finish the other bedrooms and office later). Today we started moving in furniture and unpacking. I unpacked several boxes in the Kitchen. Ahhh, this feels like HOME!!! We put together our bed, so....WE are sleeping in our new house for the first time TONIGHT!!! We even brought Winnie and Libby to the house today, this was their first time here. They are still getting used to everything, a lot of new smells to check out! Moving is a slow process, but We are happy. Love, KIM

Moving Right Along...

Crown looks great finished, and man do i love that olive!

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

First coat of the faux finish in the down stairs guest suite

Halls feel sooo warm....kinda like a cup of....HOT CHOCOLATE!

Today's Menu Fire Weed, Honey Carmel, Olive and Hot Chocolate!!

The Hallway color is caslled hot chocolate!

here you have Fire Weed, Honey Carmel and Hot Chocolate...It looks a lot better than it would taste!

Upstairs Hallway getting trimed out with the first coat of paint

Color makes it a home....

Olive makes a nice look in the formal living and dining room....

Kim chose "Almond fugde" and "Lyndhurst Duchess Blue" for the master....Now if we only had some furniture in there we could stay in the house. For now we continue to stay at Val and Wayne's house. Maybe we will break out the airmattress and stay a night or two till we can get the painting finished!