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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Pink Palace




We were so excited that our friends Carrie, Edie, and Gus are back on our "weekend schedule" so that we could plan an outing today! We went to the Pink Palace, which is a natural history/local history museum here. The kids had great fun in the Treasure exhibit, where they panned for "gold" and used metal detectors to find treasure. Ashley found out that if she was solid gold, she would be worth $565,000! But of course, in her present form, she is priceless :)

Redbirds game




Tuesday night our firm sponsored a Redbirds night for our office (which, for those of you who don't know, is our local professional baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals). Thank goodness it cooled off a little (the day before, I think it was 97 or 98). We all had a great time!

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Girls Gone Wild!

What a fun weekend! Carrie and Heather were two of my best friends in high school...we kind of lost touch with Heather but reconnected over lunch a few weeks ago and set up a wonderful girls getaway weekend to Heather's lake house at Sardis. She had an absolutely wonderful house on the lake that they built about three years ago, and a fabulous boat...Carrie planned all our meals and blessed us with her super cooking...and I was lucky enough to get to show up with a bottle of rum and my sparkling personality (ha!) and enjoy a really wonderful weekend with two very special friends. Perhaps if I get ambitious I'll scan a picture I have of the three of us from some high school dance so you can see that we haven't changed a bit in 17 years! :)

Saturday, July 5, 2008

July 4th Fun!




What a nice holiday weekend so far! Yesterday we grilled out and had my parents and my aunt and uncle over, which was a lot of fun. My aunt and uncle live in Hernando, which isn't that far, btu we almost never see them and they had never met Mallory, so we all had a good time catching up. Today poor Mallory had to go back to work, but I am thoroughly enjoying having one whole day to myself (the kids are at their dad's) to clean the house, do some blogging, and maybe do a little shopping, all completely uninterrupted.


The first pic is of Ashley introducing Tyler to the joys of bubble wrap. After they sat here and popped individual bubbles for a while, Ashley laid it out on the floor and they had big fun stomping all over it...it was like indoor firecrackers! The second pic is obviously of Tyler and Mallory swinging...for lunch on the 4th, we got some Wendy's and went to the playground for a little picnic. Due to a storm that was about to blow in, we were the only people there, but we managed to get in a little bit of play (in the sprinkles) before Tyler got attacked by some ants and we decided it was about time to head home for a nap anyway. The third picture is of the kids playing in the sprinkler that Ashley was dying to play in. Tyler was not a fan and stayed mostly on the outskirts of the water. Ashley quickly discovered that sprinklers aren't nearly as fun as the commercials make them out to be...don't think I'll have to hear about that sprinkler again for a while!