This Time Last Week......

This time last week I was settling in after a weekend away. 

It all started with these two.....

John & Matt started playing golf last spring.  A few months ago they began talking about a golf weekend away.

Naturally I was thrilled when they decided to include these two....

It was just about perfect.  I had my friend to do all of my favorite girl things: shopping, afternoon coffee, a great morning run... And then our evenings with the boys!

Enjoying the cool air around the fire pit.  Not the best pictures but certainly a great time.

"The Hound" a resturant in Auburn had been recommended to us & it was delicous.  I HIGHLY reccommend it! Our table took full advantage of their menu: wild game sausage sampler, pimento cheese, hot pepper jelly, gourmet grilled cheese, beet salad, an amazing take on chili, burger out of this world........ (that doesn't really cover it).  Like I said you should try it.

John & Emily live a few blocks from us.  They have two precious little ones, Durham & Caroline.  Emily & I tend to fill our afternoons together when we are "golf widows".  Thankful for the friendships  and looking forward to our next golf trip.  Golf just may become my new favorite sport.......

Just What I Needed

Mauree, Holly, Virginia, Kim

This past weekend was just what I needed, & I didn't even know I needed it! My sister & 3 of my very dear friends from college came in for a long girls weekend! Matthew kept Anna Caroline & Mary Stewart for us Friday night & then Saturday morning he & Mary Stewart headed to Camp D. Thank you honey for such a sweet time with my friends!!!
I've said it before, but there is something so easy & refreshing about old friends. Friday we stayed local & enjoyed drinks at The Strand & then a great dinner at Simpatico. For my Marietta friends- you must go try the peach sangria!!!! Saturday we headed into Atlanta & shopped! Saturday night we ate in & laughed & talked & traveled down memory lane ( I knew scrapbooking in college would pay off!!!).
It was hard to say goodbye this morning, but a little easier knowing I'll see them all next month!
Thank you girls for making the road trip!!
I have to mention that Anna Caroline was an absolute gem shopping on Saturday!
Thankful for such sweet friendships that just continue to pick up right where they are left!

Lions & Tigers & Bears Oh My!!!

We celebrated the end of a great week with a trip to the zoo!

I was so glad our friends Emily & Durham could join us for our fun morning. It was an absolutely perfect morning to see the animals. I was surprised by how much Durham and Mary Stewart really enjoyed seeing the animals. There was lots of waving and blowing kisses to the the animals & of course the bigger the animal the better!

Emily & I heard quite a few comments on the cute twins!

I have to say my first outing with my new stroller was a success! So excited to have it.

After the zoo and before the car ride home, we needed to stretch our legs. Durham found all the sticks

while Mary Stewart ran around checking things out.

Thanks Emily & Durham for a wonderful Morning & Thanks Ya Ya & Poppy for the zoo membership!!!

Sweet Friends!

When we first moved to Atlanta almost 5 years ago..... Crazy as that sounds, we knew no one. My sweet friend from camp Laura Anne put me in touch with her college roommate Katy who was also newly married and living in Atlanta. We decided to meet with the husbands for dinner & a movie. Katy & Paul brought along there new friends Ben & Mary Catherine (Katy & MC were in nursing school together). We all just clicked & have been good friends ever since. We all had girls within a year of each other & this past Sunday we celebrated Mary Francis baptism. We all live in different parts of the city, so I don't see these sweet girls near enough!

Charlotte & Mary Catherine, Katy & Mary Francis, Me & Mary Stewart!

Me & Mary Stewart, Katy & Maddie, Mary Catherine & Charlotte, Jenny & Emalyn

(Mary Francis was at home napping)

I also had to throw this picture in that has our dear friend Jenny & her girls Maddie & Emalyn in it. They were part of our sweet group & then moved back to Nashville. We cherish our visits and are looking forward to our beach trip this fall with everyone!!

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Comfortable

There is something so comfortable about being able to pick up right where you left off with old friends. It's almost as time stands still in between times together.

My time at LSU was so wonderful because of the great friends I had. Our relationship was so sweet and I am so thankful it is also so enduring. About two weeks ago, I went home to Baton Rouge for one of my dearest friends Virginia's (her name is Virginia Lee Jackson, everyone calls her Lee except Suzanne & I) baby shower for her sweet baby boy James who is set to arrive in July.

It was such a great visit on so many different levels. It was so nice to have a few mochasippi's (my favorite coffee EVER) with Virginia over the week but it was also the longgggg anticipated meeting of Mr. Perry Burke (if you know Perry's parents, Suzanne & Alex, Mr. is more than appropriate in front of his name though he is about 3 weeks younger than Mary Stewart).

The shower was wonderful. Virginia got lots of great gifts! The food was wonderful, compliments of Holly Clegg, and the fellowship amazing.

There was something so comfortable about walking into a shower seeing so many sweet faces that I miss (not even realizing how much I miss them). It is the level of comfortability of sharing a chair & talking with Ms. Karen, watching Virginia open her presents, and feeling like I do this all the time.

Such comfortability is something I truly treasure, it is rare and special.

Katharine, the top picture is incomplete!

My sister Holly

Kim, Meredith, Holly

Hostesses with Virgnia

Suzanne, Joanna, me, Virginia

Me & Suzzy Q