I had a great relaxing birthday weekend, and as such it does not make for very interesting reading. 😉 It involved a birthday dinner out on Saturday at an Italian place; some dog walking; some hiking; mountain biking with my brand new very fancy bike that Patrick and his family and my family all contributed towards for…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
Rockin’ the Free World
Little Sam Whitfield, last seen on this blog at Anderson Fest toddling around the pontoon boat, has turned one year old. To mark the occasion, his parents threw a birthday party for him at their home in South Carolina, and the Professor and I got up early in the morning on Saturday to head down…
Mini Lilypad – Memorial Day Weekend
The park where we camped with my husband’s family was three hours’ drive into the mountains. We took the fun pickup truck which we rarely drive anymore because of gas prices. Still – how can you not take the pickup camping?? Tent, cooler, sleeping bags tossed in the bed, windows flung open, the wind in…
Cinco de Derby Day
Being descended (recently) from Louisvilleans, my husband has an abiding love of bourbon and an inborn obligation to host a party on the first Saturday of every May. We celebrated the run for the roses AND Cinco de Mayo on this fortunate weekend, when the two celebrations collided in a julepped, corona’d, and sombrero-chapeau-ed fiesta, with…
Holiday Wrap Up
Christmas in South Carolina was wonderful. I think part of the reason my husband and I get along so well is that we have such similar families – the size is different, our living situations were different (his parents have lived in the same college town his whole life), but looking at a wider view…