Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts

Friday, April 19, 2013

Picnic Time!

In Memphis you have a very tiny window of good picnic weather. Between the sweltering heat and crazy mosquitos it's really not that much fun late June- September. But in April it's just right! Here are some shots from our recent picnic in the park.

Pretty girls on a pretty night

Did I mention our church parish has like a billion kids in it..

Bubble chasing

These were my favorite (obviously) I never could get all 5 to smile at the same time




Slight mishap in the bubble chasing led to the bubbles being dumped on her head, I have a feeling she wasn't innocent in this.
 So get out there and picnic folks! It'll be 100 before we know it. And if your looking for someone to go with, I think we'll be in Overton almost every Wednesday from now till we can't take the heat.


Wednesday, December 12, 2012

My St. Jude Hero

Between birthday parties and anniversary celebrations. My husband squeezed in running 13.1 miles to raise money and awareness for St. Jude's children's hospital. This is Matt's second half marathon this year. And we all agree there should be a better name for them. Half marathon seems to imply you are taking the easy road. But I don't know anything easy about running for 2 hours straight for 13-friggin'-miles!  So here's the great pics from the day.

A tiny present the night before to get him excited

His official race shirt

Best buds watching their daddies give it their all

Here he comes at mile 7, looking strong! Sorry for the thumb in the frame, it's hard to catch a runner !

There he goes, only 6 miles left!

Waiting at the Redbirds stadium for Dad to run in

Matt and Jeff (friend, neighbor, training buddy) did it!!

A medal to prove it!
One of good friends did actually run the whole marathon. And his story of grace, renewal and hope is AH-mazing. You can read it here. 26.2 in 3hrs! Whoa!


To all our friends who ran the marathon, half, 5k, and 1-mile Thank you! We are blessed to have a healthy child and we give thanks for her, but so many are facing so much pain and illness. This race is a beautiful way to support St. Jude and I'm so very proud of my husband our friends!

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Little Boy Blue

If you haven't noticed, a few of my friends are having babies...by a few I mean 9. And I love all of these ladies and their precious angels, so we always have to celebrate them in style. Here is a quick look at the latest and greatest.

The theme was "Nursery Rhymes"

Our invite, courtesy of you-know-who
The decorations are not quite up to my regular standard, but just hear me out, school showers are held in a science lab y'all. AND "they" expect us to teach the whole day and then the shower starts directly after school. So we all would run and decorate for 15 mins at a time separately and at 3:15 it just was what it was. The theme was there, and we did our best. I think it turned out really cute, despite our limitations.

We used nursery rhyme posters we already had in the music room collection, cause that's how we roll.
And we Eliza, adorned the food table with cute nursery rhyme allusions to describe all of our goodies.





Jack and Jill....drink table

Pat-a-cake

How does your garden grow? Veggies and dip.

Peter picked a pack of pickled peppers


This little piggy had roast beef, This little piggy had none...

There are no actual pictures of us with the mom-to-be for a couple reasons. One it was a little chaotic as 60 people came in from dismissal duty and started making plates and socializing. And two it was pajama day at school, so we were all looking a little sloppy and no one wanted their picture taken. 

We figured out in the middle of the shower, it was actually perfect that the nursery rhyme shower ended up on pj day, we could have all gotten cute matching pjs with cows jumping over the moon, or little lambs etc. But, none of us thought of that until the shower. Oh well, next time!

Happy Baby Boy "Murph!"







Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Party like it's 1999

This past weekend one of my very best friends turned 30! We have been close friends since I was 20 so this is crazy to me, but alas, we are (almost) all in the 3's now! I feel like it was just yesterday we were hanging at the chapel. having endless All sing practices and going to formals!











Now we're getting married and having babies.





The time has passed by, but it has only made our friendship grow stronger and stronger!

So for this very special friend, we had to have a very special 30th birthday! So we did it up big. We decided to have a grown up prom! Of course this meant formals, corsages, cheesy photos and lots of glittery decorations. 







Official Prom photos were taken as guests arrived.
Mr. and Mrs. Congeniality
Teen Parents making it work 

The "it" couple, hiding a scandal
Most Popular


Prom King and Queen
Most Likely to Succeed



A Prom Queen!!

And we all had too much fun with the photo booth.






We all had the best time. Especially this guy...



And most importantly I think Kendra had a great birthday! Which is all I wanted because she will always be my BFF!