Spencer's Graduation Hilton Head SC

The last few weeks have been so busy!!!! It is amazing how fast the summer goes by... if only the cold winter days were like that :) Well a lot has happened in the last few weeks. Spencer graduated from high school, I can not believe I am even typing that! It seems so strange, where did time go? We had a wonderful time in Hilton Head for a few days with the family. We were a little disappointed that it rained for graduation. They had to move the graduation inside and each student was only allowed to have three family members come in to watch. Chris, my mom and I went in while Dad, Jordan and Madison watched the video footage. Unfortunately the video went out a few minutes in to it and so they just had to sit in the auditorium. I am just glad he graduated and am looking forward to taking him to the Citadel in August.

Madison's New Shoes

Here are the shoes that go with Madison's new dress. We went to TJ Maxx on Saturday and actually had a good time! She picked these out on her own and I must say I think she did a great job!!

Madison in a Dress!!!

Okay... so while I was typing my last post about the dress shopping Madison actually put the dress on. Nobody even held a gun to her head!! She looks so beautiful ..... and she has extremely long legs as her brother had to point out. It makes me a little sad to see her so grown up looking. It seems like it was yesterday that she was wearing cute little ruffle dresses, black shiny shoes and big bows in her hair. Where does the time go?

Dress Shopping

Madison and I went dress shopping today. I told her that she needed to wear a dress to Spencer's graduation, she of course said "I would rather die" Elizabeth made a deal with her that if she gets to come she will wear a dress if Madison will. I am still not sure if Elizabeth is going to be able to come but we are praying about it and hopefully her grandmother will let her. Well, anyway Madison has a dress now and it is really cute. She knew exactly what she wanted but we did not find it until she had tried on every other extra small dress in the store. It was quite an experience I hope that some day when she gets married and we go dress shopping it will be just as much fun :) Madison's dress is the one on the bottom. The picture does not really do it justice. It has little tiny black polka dots on it a some black lace that comes out of the bottom. It is actually very pretty. Madison did inform me that when she is done with it she is going to get a mannequin and put it in her room to wear the dress. I am hoping that she will decide she likes it and want to wear it again.... wishful thinking I guess.

The dress in the top picture is a dress I found at the Goodwill. I was so excited it is from one of my favorite stores "White House Black Market". I know it probably had to have cost at least $150 new but I got it for $4.99..... I love the Goodwill!!!!!

Our Friday

We just went to see a movie together. It was so nice to be together as a family again. The guys went to see Clash of the Titans while Madison and I went to see The Last Song. We went to our little movie theater in Davidson, it is so funny because they only have movie seats on the front row and the rest are office chairs with round tables in between. It is really nice though because it is only like 1/4 mile from our house. The Last Song was really good but incredibly sad. There was a lady behind us that was sobbing uncontrollably (like extremely loud). My sensitive daughter said when we left "geez it was just a movie what was she cying about?"

We went to the track at Davidson College after the movie was out and the boys ran. It was great to get to see them run together again. We are looking forward to the weekend. Tomorrow we are going fishing and Sunday after church Chris and I have our marriage retreat in Asheville. Sunday will be kind of bittersweet, we get to go to our conference that we have been looking forward to for so long but Spencer has to go back to Hilton Head. We are looking forward to seeing him at the state qualifiers meet in Columbia in a few weeks!!!!

Our Saturday

We had a wonderful Saturday! Madison volunteered at the Life Span Therapeutic Horse Farm. She helped with the Easter egg hunt and took care of the donkey, pigs and goats. She is showing off her fancy new boots in the picture above. She had a great time and loved spending time with all of the animals, she had quite a few funny stories to tell about the donkey. Jordan went to a horse show that his friend Kaitlyn was riding in. I know Jordan at a horse show?? It surprised us too but he actually had fun. He did not ride any of the horses because there were not any big enough there for him (inside joke!!!) I guess I should explain; when Jordan was in preschool he had the chance to ride a horse with the rest of the class. When it came time for his turn he stood there with his hands on his hips and his cute little voice and said "that horse isn't big enough for me" It was a good way of getting out of having to touch the horse and risk getting dirty yet still look like the cool little man that he was. We still get a good laugh about that.
Chris and I got to go to Olive Garden while we were waiting for the kids to be done. We actually ate out two times in one week and it was Italian both times, imagine that!!! We finally got our tiramisu that they were out of on my birthday. It was not as good as the tiramisu that Chris makes but it was pretty stinking good. When we saw the picture of the dessert I think we both wanted to skip the meal and go straight to the good stuff. Oh, I almost forgot.... we had our first dinner party Friday since we moved here! We had Chris's friend Brandon and his wife over for......you guessed it an "Italian Feast". Jordan had three friends come over and spend the night. It was really nice to have friends over. Madison made all of the appetizers ( I will post pics later) Chris made the pizza's and I made our famous chocolate cake for dessert. It was a lot of fun. I am looking forward to church tomorrow, it always seems like by Saturday I am in desperate need of hearing a good sermon from Pastor Steven.

Birthday Blessings

I had such a wonderful birthday yesterday. I have been so blessed with such a wonderful and thoughtful family. Madison made me waffles stuffed with cream cheese and topped with fresh strawberries yum!!!! Chris told me to go my favorite store (Maurices) and pick out a dress to wear to dinner and he gave my a gift certificate to a little Italian restaurant in Davidson that we had been dying to try. It is located in the old ice house and is always very busy. While Chris was at work the kids and I went to Maurices and the Goodwill (my second favorite place!) Jordan and Madison got me the new Toby Mac cd and several food network dvds with my favorite stars. Chris and I had a wonderful dinner, it was actually the first time that Chris had eaten in 3 days because of his juice fast. I would imagine the dinner tasted even better to him than me :).

We were a little disappointed to find out that they did not have our favorite dessert, Tiramisu. The meal was really good and it is always fun to get dressed up!!! We got to enjoy Madison's delicious cake after we got home. Spencer not only remembered my birthday but sent me two text messages saying "Happy Birthday". My mom and dad sent me a subscription to Cuisine magazine. I am looking forward to my first issue!!! Thanks mom and dad, I wish you were here to taste test all of the recipes.

Thank you guys for making my day so special. I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful family. I love you all so much!!!!!!