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Thursday, May 24, 2012

40th Anniversary !!

We went to Knoxville last weekend to give my parents a 40th anniversary surprise party. It was so fun and they were very surprised!
BUT we acted like we came so we could go to the Biscuit Festival! It was AMAZING! Clay and I took Jack, Madeline and Maeve and we ate LOTS of biscuits.
 There were restaurants from all over the Southeast who had booths and you could eat biscuits at them all! Clay was in heaven! Benton's bacon teamed up with Blackberry Farms and their bacon biscuit was so yummy!
 Tupelo Honey Cafe had a pimento cheese biscuit. Clay ate two and got three to go! on our way home, we stopped in Asheville at Tupelo Honey Cafe for dinner. Well worth the wait!
 There was live music and the kids wanted to sit and watch.
 But they didn't sit long- the dancing began shortly after!
 Madeline and Jack showing Maeve their moves!
 More moves...
 Love this girl!
 Clay joined in

 Maeve's favorite was the cinnamon toast biscuit
 Jack took this shot of me , Madeline and Maeve
 And then it was party time! Mom and Dad were truly surprised. It was such a great night and so fun to have so many of their friends who have known them for 10, 20, 30 plus years!
 Me, Julia and Shannon
 The guests
 Mom feeding Dad cake :)
 The happy couple

 My wonderful family
 My mom's sister, Maureen, flew in from NY. We "hid" her at the DOnaldson's house until party time.Another fun surprise! My dad surprised my mom the weekend before (their actual anniversary) and took her to NYC. She said she couldn't handle any more surprises!
 Mom and Aunt Maureen with the Motley Crew!
We loved celebrating Mom and Dad and are so thankful for them!

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day! Spoiled by my sweet husband and kids with breakfast in bed and a wonderful scrapbook of the past year's pictures and artwork. Jack and Madeline were so excited to wake me up!

 My youngest cutie
 After church, we drove up to Winston-Salem to see CLay's grandmother Dottie. Jim and Bambi were in town for a visit too and so all got to celebrate together.




 Four generations
 Virginia Ann loves to pick flowers and give them to you
 Here she is giving one to Dottie, her great-grandmother :)
It was a great Mother's Day! I am so blessed to be a mom and to have such wonderful women in my life to learn from!

A KaBOOM! playground is coming to us!!

A long time ago, I used to build playgrounds with KaBOOM!, a non-profit that helps communities build playground in ONE day! OUr YMCA here applied for one last year and they got the good news that they are going to get a new playground! I took the kids to the Design Day where kids draw their dream playground and then those designs are used to come up with the real playground!
Virginia Ann was very excited!

 Working hard on their designs


 Jack's playground had a large tunnel!
 Madeline's had swings and a bridge!
 The Project Manager from KaBOOM!- Dan- called up some kids to share their ideas and Jack was happy to do so!
 The Whole group
 We can't wait to build our new playground!

Strawberry Picking

Virginia Ann LOVED strawberry picking! She insisted on carrying her own basket :) and eating all the berries she picked!





 exhausted and covered in dirt and strawberry juice! it was a good day!

Councill Wedding

We went to CLay's cousin Andrew's wedding in Statesboro, GA. It was a fun family weekend!

Virginia Ann loved riding the luggage cart at the hotel!
On the way to the wedding
Madeline and Uncle Will
Jack and Lizzie- share the same great-grandparents!
Andrew and Lena
A little croquet before the reception




Councill Men

Andrew's fraternity brothers singing to Lena- notice Madeline on the dance floor in awe!
Madeline loved the dancing!




What? Did the music stop?



Fun times in Georgia!

Friday, May 4, 2012

GroopDealz

My water bottles are featured on GroopDealz! Check it out http://www.groopdealz.com/index/view-deal/side_deal_id/1092!