We got a new cousin and were so excited to meet her last weekend! The kids kept wanting a turn to hold the baby and couldn’t get over her tiny little fingers. 🙂
Welcome to the family, baby Greer!!
Southern Charm
Last weekend I hopped on a plane and headed to Charleston for a weekend of fun with some of my friends from Vandy. It was so good to see everyone and, despite a little dreary weather, we had a fantastic weekend. I had never been to Charleston before and am glad to be able to say I’ve been there. My favorite parts of the weekend? Our impromptu pedicab tour (including Patricia’s house from Southern Charm) and our impromptu tour of Sullivan’s Island from our Uber driver! Nothing like a little southern hospitality!
The crew back home stayed busy with plenty of baseball and even a win at the BBQ competition! Some of Robert’s co-workers had been out there since early morning cooking and serving BBQ. My crew didn’t show up until late afternoon after their baseball games but somehow managed to be front and center for the picture!
Love it! Fun for all!
Birmingham Iron
This year Birmingham got a football team! The Birmingham Iron is part of the new AAF – Alliance of American Football. The Sunday after spring break, all the boys made it out for the last game of the season (and, given the attendance and lack of finances, maybe the last game ever! eek!). It was an unusually freezing day but they all had fun and even stayed super late to get some famous football signatures!
Let’s hope there’s another season!
Legoland
After a fun day of baseball we drove over to spend the night at Legoland!
We’ve been once before but we had much better weather this trip! The kids loved the hotel…
and then we went out for a good dinner. It was in this spot where I’m pretty sure some chiggers got in my pants and bit me approximately 43 times all over the back of my legs and my bottom. Made for a fun rest of the trip!
The next morning we hit up the park and did it all!
It was fun but I think we can now really officially say that we don’t need to go back to Legoland again!
Peace out Legoland!
Backyard project
Last summer we ended up getting some new neighbors – GJ and Daddo! The house directly behind us went on the market and, even though they weren’t planning on buying a house here, the situation was too perfect to resist! With them right next door, it made sense to finally do something to our backyard so we could connect the two houses and clean up all the unusable parts of our yard. Here are the befores:
Some pics during…
See that pole up there? Yea, that pole delayed our project by several weeks because we could NOT get the comcast people out to remove it. It was the most frustrating part of the entire process.
There was a lot of dirt around for a long time and, yes, this is when we had our awesome mud party!
and the afters! We gutted out an entire area of yard that was nothing but poison ivy and sticks and put in an awesome parking pad. Now we’ll have plenty of space for 16 year old drivers to park their car someday! 🙂 We also took out the beds and put down more sod, got rid of the falling down fence, and put up an entrance between our yard and GJ and Daddo’s new house! We have a gate that we will hang there eventually, but it’s nice for the kids right now to just have it open.
We love our new backyard…and our new neighbors!