Sneak Peek

Just a quick sneak peak of our family pictures we took last weekend.  More to come soon--in the meantime, go check out our photographer's blog

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Rain Rain (don't) Go Away

I'm pretty sure the saying is APRIL showers bring MAY flowers.....mother nature must be a little confused.  Oh well, my baby loves the rain...

Hope everyone (that wanted to) stayed dry!

Love,

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School's Out For Summer...

This past weekend we journeyed home to Missouri to attend my youngest sister Kaylyn's (or Auntie Kiki as Jay calls her) high school graduation.

I'm just going to go ahead and say that I'm probably one of the best big sisters of all times as I spent multiple hours hand gluing on 300+ sequins onto the top of her mortar board ONE AT A TIME.  I will admit that it was worth all of the time and effort (and glue-stained fingers) and her hat was the prettiest one at graduation.

On the way back to Memphis we stopped (as we often do) at Lambert's for some dinner.  It was a popular spot and we ended up having to wait about 40 minutes for a table, during which time Jay had a chance to ride the mechanical horse...

...and drive the covered wagon

The food was fantastic (as it always is) and the atmosphere was very fun (where else can you see a lady get hit in the face with a flying roll because she chose the most inopportune time to stand up?)

P.S--this is their idea of a "salad"

I hope everyone had wonderful weekends, and congratulations to all of the graduates (especially Auntie Kiki)!

Much love,

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The best part of Mother's Day

...is being one!

And a very Happy Mother's Day to my favorite woman on the planet---MY MOMMA!

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Nashville and Memphis in May (AKA Tsunami 2010)

This weekend we were blessed to be visited by some of our favorite people.  Heather and Jim, Erin and Paul, and my good friend Rachael came down to enjoy the Beale Street Music Festival (and eat some delicious, albeit unhealthy, food).

Jerome, Jay and I drove up to Nashville on Thursday night (I managed to get food poisoning at lunch that day so the ride was not so fun for me) in order to pick Rachael up at the airport early Friday morning.  We stayed at a very cute hotel called Hotel Preston close to the airport.  Very modern and "trendy", they had some cool art installations scattered throughout, my favorite of which was a dress made out of pink crayons.

After nabbing her from the airport, we enjoyed breakfast at a cute little diner called "Noshville"

Fantastic food.  I highly recommend stopping by if you happen to be in the Nashville area.  We basically shopped the day away and headed back to Memphis to wait for the rest of the gang to arrive.  With the appearance of Paul, Erin, Heather, and Jim also came the beginning of the storms (which lasted ALL WEEKEND and I refer to as Tsunami 2010).  We made the most of the bad weather by enjoying pulled pork sandwiches from the Germantown Commissary....

....and gearing up for a little puddle splashing

Despite the rain, we had a pretty fantastic time on Beale Street later that night

I'm so glad that everyone came down to visit and I hope that more of our friends have a chance to come experience Memphis before our time here is over.

I hope everyone had a blessed weekend and stayed as dry as possible!

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