Rolling Clouds

Trussville's clouds were gorgeous on Saturday!

Quote Me This

My Friend from work, Melody, has been a blogger since 2005 and since I met her just last year I decided to look back at her previous posts and see what she had posted in the past and found this quote...

"I think a person has to be at least a little bit egocentric to have a blog (and to expect other people to want to read it.)" -Melody's mother

This is a reaction I have gotten several times when referring to my blog in conversations but I love the way Melody's mom worded it! :)

Read More about Melody at Mountain Melody!

Elephant Befriends a Dog, And We Cry Big Elephant Tears

This is a forward that I have received twice and still tear up!! Instead of forwarding it on I decided to post it! Enjoy!:)
Elephant Befriends a Dog, And We Cry Big Elephant Tears

A Hardy Dinner Party!

Leah and I went to eat with the Hardy's last night! We has a blast laughing with Justin and Whitney and taking turns holding Hayes! He is such a cutie!

Mommy Whitney holding Hayes

Leah smiling at Hayes smiling at her! (he's really smiling!)

Daddy Justin and his other baby, Rez! (Notice Justin's hand making this picture rated PG!)

Quotes of the Night:

"I know my forward slashes from my backward slashes!"

"It doesn't really happen unless you blog about it!"

"I'll google it, how do you spell it!"

"They are laughing with me!"

"Hayes has great aim!"

"Praise God!"

Progress On Our Yard

It's coming up on mine and Jared's second summer at our fabulous house on Wisteria Trace and ask me if I've done a thing to our yard.... NO!! I got the itch to do some damage after our neighbors, the Celeste, started working on their yard.

Jared reluctantly posing as I show him destroying our hideous plastic white fence that came with the house!!

The couple that lived there before us really didn't want that fence to go anywhere... it was cemented really deep into our yard!

Emily and Leah posing at Home Depot as we gathered mulch and two potted hanging plants! Thanks ladies for joining me on my attempt to beautify my yard!

I gave our bushes a major hair cut!

Me putting the final touches before rushing to get ready for CORE group.

My potted plant!

At present this is what my front yard looks like... whew!

Yesterday when Leah and I were coming home from our walk I actually held my head up a little higher as we walked onto my clean, nice, but working progress front yard.

A Night Full of SPIRITS

My Thursday night was full of SPIRITS again!
I use to work the wine tastings at my cousin and her husband’s wine cellar, Spirits, in Tuscaloosa every Thursday night while I was in school at UA. I haven't been to one in over a year and finally got down to T-town this past Thursday night. I left right after work and met Codie at her house to change out of work-wear and into cas-wear and headed off to Spirits! My Aunt Susan and Uncle Bob Tanner, Jen's parents, were in town from Texas which was one of my main pulls to go and Codie had succeeded in talking Beau, Jen's brother, into joining us as well (driving in from Mississippi). My two favorite wines of the night were both Berger wines a smooth summer white and a rich red. After the customers left the wine tasting my parents joined us as we ordered multiple appetizers from Milagros for dinner (crab cakes, fried shrimp, mussels) ... delicious!
Pics from our night at SPIRITS!

Jen and Beau

Aunt Susu and me

Aunt Susu and Beau

Codie and Beau

Me, Beau sticking his finger in Elliot's nose (Elliot is Jen's dog and Miami's biological brother)

This is Sophie (Aunt Susan's dog and Miami's biological sister)

Beau, Uncle Bob Tanner, Aunt Susan, Matt and Jen

Codie, me and Beau

Beau, Uncle Bob Tanner and Papa

Aunt Susan and Uncle Bob Tanner

When I asked Beau what he was doing tomorrow he answered with this motion which means fishing at SawGrass. :)

Me and Codie

Mom and Susu

Beau's new ride!

We didn't order enough Milagros to fill me up so on our way back to Codie's house we stopped by Taco Casa for a late night snack! A large messy nachos and a large Mt. Dew, YUM! :)

Crafton Stephens Wedding

My childhood friend and now coworker Ashley Crafton became Ashley Stephens this past weekend. The wedding was held at Mathews Manner in Springville, Ala. It was such a sweet ceremony and I loved seeing all my friends from the University Church of Christ there!

This was displayed for the happy couple in the entrance to the reception hall.

Her flowers were gorgeous!

I know pronounce you man and wife! :)

Me and Jared

Me and the beautiful bride, Ashley.

This was the best strawberry wedding cake I've ever had!

Mother of the Bride (Shela) and Father of the Bride (Scott)

Ashley and Jeff cutting the cake.

Jared and me taking a photo of ourselves outside the reception hall... it was a fabulous spring day!

Jeff and Ashley

Shela, Emily and Mom

Congrats to Jeff and Ashley, have fun in Mexico!!