Savannah Pictures

Some of the pictures that I took over the weekend, I thought would be awesome in black and white. So I chose my favorites to share with you. I would use the smilebox slideshow, but it doesn't show all of the picture. You can click on any of these and make them bigger.

1st Anniversary Weekend Trip

Next Sunday will be our first anniversary! I can't believe that we have been married for a year! It has gone by so fast. Next weekend, Kevin's family leaves for a week at Edisto Beach, so we couldn't go out of town on our actual anniversary, so we went this weekend. We wanted to do something special since it was our first anniversary, so we chose to go to Savannah, GA. We left Friday at 6:30 am and headed on our way. We left so early, because we wanted to find our hotel, then we wanted to spend the day on Tybee Island, GA. Neither one of us had been to Tybee Island before. It was a really nice, clean, family beach! We were both impressed with it. We both would like to come and stay at that beach sometime. We stayed at the beach just driving and walking around until sometime after lunch. We couldn't get in our room until after 3:00 pm in Savannah. Then we headed back. After checking in, we both took a long nap, I was tired after getting up so early. Friday night, we walked around River Street and ate dinner at Dockside Restaurant. It was very, very good! Then we were entertained by some of the musicians walking around River Street. We stayed at the Ballastone Inn, which is a bed and breakfast. Saturday, we had a delicious breakfast of fancy little orange tasting pancakes with powder sugar on top with scrambled eggs, sausage, fresh fruit, and freshly squeezed orange juice. Then we started on our journey to go stand in line to eat a Paula Deen's restaurant. Noelle, gave us a gift card for our anniversary to eat there. Thanks Noelle! We didn't have to stay in line but about 30-40 minutes. We spent the morning around River Street until it was time to head back for lunch at The Lady and Sons. We ate on the 3rd floor of the restaurant. We chose to eat off the buffet. We had fried chicken (which was very good), cream potatoes (which were OUT OF THIS WORLD, crazy, good!), mac 'n' cheese (which I am sorry Paula, my aunt Ann has got you beat hands down on that one), black-eyed peas, fried cornbread cakes (which Kevin said I could beat Paula with my cornbread), cheddar-garlic biscuits (Red Lobster has better ones), but then for dessert, I had chocolate-chip butter cake (oh my gosh, this was like eating cotton candy it melted in your mouth and made you want to slap the person next to you; it was HEAVEN!!!) To wash it down with I had freshly squeezed lemonade that was very delicious and refreshing. It was very neat though to eat at someone's place that was as famous as she is. It's neat and fun thing to tell people you have done. After we rolled ourselves out onto the street, because we were StuFFed; we went next door to shop in Paula's store. We spent the rest of Saturday around Savannah. I had to go to The Peanut Store. Two years ago my mom went to Savannah and brought back a can of chocolate covered peanut brittle and I just had to get some more. It was so very good! We rode on the Georgia Queen River Boat and saw the famous Forsyth Park Fountain. Since we had such a rich lunch, we decided to eat at Five Guys Burgers and Fries for dinner. We had a very nice weekend. We did a lot, a lot, a lot of walking, and we sweated a lot, a lot, a lot, A LOT! So we felt like we walked or sweated off our meals, but it was nice to be away and just get to spend time with each other.

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Weekend Wrap Up

This was another busy weekend for us. Friday, Abby went to the groomers and got her a summer hair cut. In this picture she had already lost one bow. But her bandanna is blue with Nemo on it.

My parents came down today with my aunt Susan and uncle Dan. They brought me a birdbath. I have been looking for one for about 2 months and they found one that I liked. So now my little flower bed is completed.

We had a nice visit. Susan and Dan had not been to our house before. It was drizzling a little bit when they first got there. We showed them the chickens, compost, and sheep it really started raining some. After we ate lunch, it cleared up. It was a pleasant day outside, not that hot, so we all sat on the front porch, taking turns throwing the ball to Abby. It was a nice day.

Swimming Lessons

Yesterday, to celebrate the end of another school year, Abby and I went over to Mrs. Katie's house to go swimming. It was just the 2 of us and Daisy. We only stayed about 30 minutes because it started raining. I wanted to see how Abby would react to the pool. So I put her in it and held her while she paddled around, then I let go. She was scared. She was splashing and carrying on so. I did put her in about 4-5 times, because I was trying to train her to go to the steps to get out. She kept on wanting to go up the side, but she just couldn't get the rest of her body out. I wanted her to know how to get out in case she was to fall in sometime. The last time I put her in, she did go to the steps after she tried to get up the side about 3 times. But I think she was very scared and probably won't get too close the pool. I had brought her tennis ball with us. She would take her nose and roll it to the side of the pool so it would drop in the water for me to get it to throw it for her. It was so cute.

Summer Break

Well, yesterday was the "official" last day of school for me. The kids' last day was on Wednesday and my day was yesterday. It is so nice to be done. Kevin told me last night that this was the first time in the past 3 years that I didn't call him and say " I'm FREE! I'm FREE at Last!". Which I had not even noticed. When we were at the beach I saw this Christmas ornament that was in the shape of an apple and it said, " 3 Reasons to be a teacher: JUNE, JULY, & AUGUST!"Which I thought was funny but true. I know that most jobs are all year long, but most jobs are not as mentally, emotionally draining as teaching. If we didn't have those 9 weeks off, I know for a fact many, many teachers wouldn't come back. We need this time to get the bad taste out of our mouth of the year, distress, and by August we come back ready for a new year and refreshed, thinking this year will be much better. However, all in all, I did have a great school year. I loved being at Kelly Edwards and I really enjoyed teaching 3rd grade. I was blessed and realized that over and over throughout the year to be at the place I was. I am also so thankful that I will be able to return to KEES and be in the 3rd grade again next year.

Congrats Graduates!

I just wanted to give a shout out to some graduates that I know.

Brooke Scott

Blue Ridge High School

Plans to attend Lander University in the Fall

I am so proud of you! You have many wonderful, exciting adventures and challenges ahead of you.

Drew Scott

University of South Carolina

Degree: BS in Sociology

Plans to find a job, if not, then plans to maybe attend graduate school in the fall.

I know that whatever you decide to do, you will succeed!

Amanda McCoy

Tri-County Technical College

Degree: Nursing RN

Job: a nurse at the Emergent Care Center in Anderson, SC

Congratulations on passing your boards! You have such a caring and happy personality-you will brighten any one's day and you will make a great nurse!

Aunt Arie Update

The surgery went very well last night according to the doctors. She has done pretty well today. She is awake and able to move her arms and legs. She had a small hemorrhage at the base of her brain where the spinal cord connects. She is still pretty druged up, but she is able to answer a few questions. Sometimes, though, to to move her arm she does have to pick it up with the other hand. Just keep praying for a full recovery and she will still continue to progress each day.