Memphis in May BBQ Festival

 Every May, Memphis honors a country and has month long events.  Our favorite event is the BBQ Festival.  Last year, the honor country was Colombia, which was special and fun for our family. This year, I took Brook and a friend with me because Avery and Isabella could not attend.

 I do love the city and area where we live.

 This is an international BBQ festival and the smell of BBQ is so good!

This is Brook and Catherine, and our host who invited us to the festival. 

Me and my baby girl in front of the Mississippi River 

I saw one of my friends who I went to school with from elementary to high school.  It is always fun to catch up with an old friend. 

Happy Friday Eve!

What's Up Wednesday ~ May Edition

 And just like that, we are on our last Wednesday in May of 2018 and it is time for another edition of What's Up Wednesday link.

What we're eating this week....................

Monday - Mexican take out with friends

Tuesday - Poppy seed chicken....and ice cream:)

Wednesday - tonight will be pizza

Thursday - Pork chops, roasted potatoes, green beans

Friday - ???

What I'm reminiscing about...................

Camp Palmer

My girls have been at camp for 5 days and this is the first time we have not been with them.  As a family, we all look forward to this camp and we missed not being there this year.

What I'm loving....................

We just upgraded our guest room mattress from a full size to queen size bed and got a headboard. Here is a photo, although I plan on lowering the headboard this weekend.

What we've been up to...............

While the girls have been away, we had 5 house guest from Friday-Monday.  We hosted my best friend and some of her family from North Carolina as we helped move one of her daughters to Memphis over the weekend.  

Avery explaining his new pizza oven to Heidi.  We used it to roast veggies Sunday night. They were delicious!

What I'm dreading......................

Trying not to think about those things

What I'm working on.......................

Planning activities for our vacation next month!

What I'm excited about...........................

Seeing my girls this evening!

Here they are when I dropped them off for camp last week.

What I'm watching/reading...................

Not too much, except we did watch the Bachelorette premiere this week.  

What I'm listening to.....................

My morning podcasts, with Greg Laurie being my favorite

What I'm wearing.....................

Jeans, wedges and short sleeve shirts most days

What I'm doing this weekend...............

I am relaxing, going to an appointment, and hopefully we are changing internet companies this weekend too.  

What I'm looking forward to next month...................

Vacation days with my family!!

What else is new...................

Just enjoying the day to day life with my family and looking forward to time together next month!

Anniversary Celebration

I hope you all had a great Memorial Day!  I spent the day working (I am required to work some holidays)  and the evening with Avery and friends.  I wanted to share a few pictures from our 20th Anniversary last week.

It was such a good day. We woke up and found this great gift from our thoughtful girls.

We had flowers,candy, a card with a gift card to Seasons 52 Restaurant all by our wedding photo book.  So sweet!

My first stop was the local school to register Brook then on to a day of work. I was able to get off work an hour early so Avery and I could make our dinner reservation that the girls arranged. 

The restaurant had a card on the table for us.

Dinner was delicious.  

Dessert was complimentary!

So thankful for 20 years and looking forward to the future!

20th Anniversary Throwback

Life has been a whirlwind lately with no time but in the middle of the night if I were to blog, so therefore, I have not had many blog posts lately.  However, Wednesday was our 20th wedding anniversary.  I will post more about our day later, but here is a throwback of pictures from the past 20 years.  

Tuesday Talk ~ Mother's Day

Today I am talking about Mother's Day.

These 2 beautiful girls call me mom and I am so grateful for them.

They woke me up to breakfast in bed and some thoughtful gifts.

We went to Sunday School, then went to my sister's house for our annual crawfish boil. It is always such a fun day with family.

There is always lots of other yummy food there too!

Of course, the biggest attraction of the day are these 2. 

I am so grateful for my mom, mother-in-law and legacy of my grandmothers, all of  whom love Jesus.