Williams Wedding Extravaganza

Last weekend one of my best buddies was married in Wake Forest. She was actually one of my college roommates at USC. So, myself and my two other former roomies and one honorary(aka "the Marion Street girls") headed to Wake to participate in the festivities and watch our girl get married. I had such a great time being with the gals again and creating new hilarious memories.

This is the beautiful bride Paige and her matron of honor Becca. They are looking over some flower arrangements before the wedding. It was an outdoor wedding and the flowers were absolutely gorgeous created by the groom's mom and her pals.

The rehearsal dinner was so much fun and Tyler even drove up, with Janna's husband Joe, to join me. From left me, Janna, Josh (groom) Paige (bride) and Emily. And, yes I gave the best rehearsal dinner speech known to man.
Before the rehearsal dinner, and after a long day of running errands, we really could have used a nap. Emily tried really hard to sneak one in, but this poor little dog had been wanting to look out the window all day long.

Our day of errands took us over to the mall and we were in kind of a hurry, but that didn't stop us from allowing this woman to pour an entire bottle of perfume and lotion over each one of our entire arms.I really don't know what to write under this picture. It really just is what is ...hilarious.

Kelly, Janna, The stunning bride, Paige, me and Emily enjoying the reception. And, the conclusion to a stellar weekend.

Happy Birthday Henry

RUF Fall Retreat

Every year we have the pleasure of taking our Johnson and Wales students to Camp Greystone for RUF's annual Fall retreat. This year it rained all weekend, but it did not stop us from having a great time and learning about the great God that we serve.
The rain did clear up Sunday right before we left so we were able to take our traditional group picture by the lake. This was the crazy one FYI.

So many students were signed up to come (from the entire region) that we almost thought the kids wouldn't be able to come with us. But, thankfully we all made it and Henry was able to enjoy a friendly cup of joe with Mr. Leo.
We played mafia.
And lots of spoons, card games and bananagrams. Saturday night there was a hoe down too, which is always a blast .After the conference ended on Sunday we went into Hendersonville for some lunch at Mike's soda shop. And, some of the girls posed on this Alice in Wonderland apple. It was a great weekend and we love to see our RUF-fers enjoying each other through fellowship and most importantly learning about our Lord.

Chick-fil-A fun!

Last Thursday Chick-fil-A hosted a Western Night and the Dirk's family mosied on over to check it out. There were pony rides, games, free chick-fil-a, the cow, crafts and line dancing. Maggie tried out her cowgirl skills on a pint-size, no quarter necessary pony. She was super cute and really enjoyed herself.
Right before we went inside Tyler noticed a potential deterrent to our evening of fun. It seemed Henry was having some stomach issues and had completely messed up his outfit. And, me being the oh so prepared mom that I am could not muster up a change of clothes. (I mean he is almost one and I thought we were over this phase in my defense.) But, nevertheless we had a situation on our hands. Normal folks would have counted their losses, packed their bags and headed home, but not the Dirk's crew. We stripped our boy down cleaned him up and headed inside for some fun in the buff.
It was hardly noticeable.

The BIG day

On Sept. 18th Maggie spent the day with one of her best friend's, Sam. They played in this box for the majority of the day pretending it was a bath, pool, car and just hiding in it. They also ate pizza for lunch and hit the PG (that's pre-schooler slang for playground..).
Sam was staying with us because his Mommy and Daddy were at the hospital having his baby. So to get ready for the big arrival we decided that it would only be appropriate to make this new baby a birthday cookie cake. And here are Maggie and Big brother hard at work and concentrating mighty intensely for two year olds.
They made sure that the presentation was impeccable...nice sprinkle work Sam.



Here's the Hunt family the day before Foard's arrival.And this is the Big guy that was hiding out inside my warrior friend Melissa. Sweet Malachi Foard Hunt, 10 pounds 5 ounces, 21.5 inches long...that is a whole lot of baby. Go ahead scroll back take a good look at Melissa (it is quite impressive). But, truly the glory goes to the Lord and we are so thankful for another sweet Hunt baby to enter into this world.

An apple a day...

Last week we joined some Charlottean friends for a fun field trip to Carrigan Farm's apple orchards in Mooresville NC. Thankfully the rain held off long enough for us to enjoy some good ole' apple pickin' fun. The above photo shows all the kiddos that were involved climbing on some random boulders just outside the orchards.
Henry and Maggie enjoyed some sibling bonding over some dirty...yet freshly plucked apples.

Maggie demonstrates perfect apple picking form.
Me and my apple pickers...the apples were so delicious that neither one of them could put them down to say cheese (and one of them can't even say it yet so you must understand my predicament).
The cousins showed up all the way from Columbia to join in on the fun. Trooper won the prize for youngest apple picker and also for having the head mostly closely sized to the biggest apple plucked.
I'm pretty sure there was more apple eating involved than actual apple picking, as demonstrated by this motley crew.
And then we found these randomly corralled goats, baby pigs and a single calf in front of a pumpkin patch...hmmm?

Also, a hen with her chicks and a rabbit with her bunnies. It really was a cool place and we had such a fun time.

Harmonica Henry