Thanksgiving Recap

What an amazing Thanksgiving with family! This might be the best one yet…hubs and I went full Griswold style and hosted his entire family plus my parents for Thanksgiving. My parents came up from Atlanta for just one night, but we got to have Ben’s family from Michigan, Texas and Palau for the week. Yes, […]

Dad’s Birthday

The greatest dad ever turned seventy something Saturday, so we headed down to Atlanta to celebrate. The dogs joined us, which made for a full car. Have Dogs, Will Travel I sat in the middle row with Gipper so Bodie could give Ben the play by play of the 3:00 football games. Emery and Knute […]

Travel Tuesday: Grand Haven, MI

My family and I spent our annual week in Grand Haven (hubby’s hometown) over the Fourth. Our visit was just as spectacular as all of the others. Grand Haven is such a charming little town and my in-laws make sure everyone has a fabulous time. Emery and Bodie love spending the week with their cousins […]

Bodie is 11

Bodie turned ELEVEN last week and all he wanted for his birthday was a trip to Steamboat for some skiing. We have IKON passes and a place to stay, so the airfare was the biggest expense. Unfortunately, that turned out to be on the high side (it was President’s Day weekend, so it was expected), […]

Travel Tuesday: Grand Haven, MI

Good morning and happy Tuesday!  I gotta say, I really didn’t think I’d be writing a Travel Tuesday post anytime soon, but we bit the bullet last week and headed up to hubby’s home town of Grand Haven, Michigan, to visit family and get a break from the Greenville heat.  Boy, am I glad we […]

Small Business Saturday

I just wanted to write a brief post commemorating Small Business Saturday….this is new territory for me and I’m happy to report that SBS was a success in my book! I fulfilled a few orders and watched a lot of college football with the fam. Black Friday was also fabulous, but for entirely different reasons. […]