A Northern Belle in Boots

Monday, August 4, 2014

Momma's Vacation

My friend Jessica was getting married near Atlanta, so I used the opportunity to turn it into a long weekend Momma Vacation. It was SO nice to get out of the heat of Dallas, the construction going on inside my house and generally just be commitment-free. Here are a few pictures from my trip.

I'm always correcting the use of "10 items or less" and loved this at Publix.

Matching Mommy/Daughter sunglasses.

whoo-whoo-whoo-ing with Daddy

THE WEDDING:

Typos on things like this kill me.

Seth was excited to know they served Yuengling!

Doing the Aggie War Hymn cheering thing..

They've known each other since they were 12. And once had a marriage contract!

Silly wedding guests taking selfies for 20 minutes...

A BIT OF MADISON, GA:

where we stayed...

Some GORGEOUS architecture:

YES, Please.

That porch makes me drool!

A LITTLE OF THE REST OF THE TRIP...

Little Azios... YUM.

Sprite in a bottle (though not Sprite Zero) always reminds me of AM, and I got some on the plane ride home.

Below, got the boys some shirts for football season!

Kids Cuts are Coming Again!

We're doing it again! Let me know if you want a spot!!

Saturday, August 2, 2014

JULY: FieldTrip Fridays

We only made it to one FieldTrip this month and I wasn't impressed with it. The Legoland place was good at first and then got way too packed. It was so packed you could barely walk around, let alone keep an eye on your kid(s). We had a tour, raced cars, played on the inside jungle gym, and then went to lunch at the Rainforest Cafe with friends. Overall, it was a good day, but I'm not looking to go back anytime soon.

Friday, August 1, 2014

Cute Pic Post -- July 2014

July was so different than June! We had the boys' bedroom remodeled and then our bathroom remodeling started as well. It's so disrupting to have someone in your house all day long! Not just the noise and the dust, but having someone else (a stranger) in the house makes it feel so full. When the bathroom was down to the studs, there was nothing but one layer of sheetrock between him and the other bathroom (read: toilet usage, showering, etc). Thankfully, God gave us some cooler temps which was amazing because there wasn't a ceiling at times and the windows were open when stuff was coming out of the bathroom. The boys' bedroom came out fabulously. Just like my dreams! I'd only been thinking about making it just like this for YEARS. We had a Friday FieldTrip, the 4th of July, Austin had his second dance camp, Seth's birthday, a Spofford Family Day in West, and then Austin had a gymnastics camp. Much more stressful and crazy-making than June, but good nonetheless.

Here's our July:

boys' bedroom remodeling = messy front room

Graham watching Austin dance

Graham is a serious blankie man. LOVES it.

We inherited some of Gran's piano music and some of it was stuff Seth had played growing up. He was able to sit right down and play and it was so fun. Graham kept deciding it was supposed to be a duet!