Cousins

Being only 9 months apart, these two really do play well together! Grace loves her Crewbie! I wonder if she'll call him that forever. ;)


This photo was taken Memorial Day Weekend. It was a busy weekend with lots of friends and family and time in the sun and on the water! Needless to say these two were tuckered out from a long day of playing and no nap!


And another one taken one random weekend!

Photo A Day: May

So I wasn't very good at Photo A Day: May either, but I was better than I have been the past few months. Here were the daily prompts for May:



1. "Peace" / Peaceful Ballerinas:


3. "Something [I] Wore Today" / Love what capris and jack rogers in the summertime:


4. "Fun" / Playing Dress Up {mermaid}


6. "You" / Me & My Mini Me:


7. "Someone that Inspires Me" / My Mom:


8. "A smell I adore" / Mimi & Grandaddy Clyde's Roses:


10. "My favorite word" / The word teach in the Word:


11. Kitchen / View from my "kitchen" window:


12. "Something that makes me Happy" / Bulls Bay Sunset:


16. "What I'm Reading" / Interesting article on baby names in @parentingmagazine:


17. "Snack":


20. "Something I can't Live Without":


22. Pink / Grace's "pink" pig:


24. New / Shinin' her up, almost as good as "New":


So- I got 14 out of 31. Not too shabby. I do think I took a photo a day, it just didn't actually go with the theme of the actual prompts. Maybe I'll have a chance to share some of those later! All of these photos are taken with my cell phone and edited using the Instagram App.

Up for the challenge? It's June 1st! What are you waiting for?

Happy Birthday, Scott!

Lordy, Lordy....

Today is Scott's Birthday! (And its a big one!)

You can tell he's real excited about it, huh?


Random things about Scott:
*He takes good care of Grace and I.
*His baby girl is the apple of his eye, right next to his Nanny.
*He has a brother.
*He graduated from Manteo High School and then NC State.
*He loves fishing, especially offshore fishing.
*He has a desire to get his pilots license.
*He owns 7 different businesses located in 3 different towns.
*He's making that 8 by opening up a restaurant this summer.
*He loves a good deal on real estate.
*Most of his friends call him Scotty Mac.

Wine and Cupcakes

...two of my favorite things! Thursday, March 29th the Meredith College Young Alumnae Board hosted a Cupcake and Wine spring social at Cafe’ Caturra in Cameron Village. We got to enjoy a complimentary cupcake from GiGi’s cupcakes and glass of wine from Cafe’ Caturra. But the best part was spending time with some of my favorite girls!



Steel Magnolias

My friend, Julia, asked me to go with her to see the play Steel Magnolias one Friday night. This movie is probably in the top 5 of my all time favorite movies so I jumped at the chance. :)





The play was fantastic! It all took place in Truvy's beauty shop, which I wondered how they could tell the whole story that way and the fact there were only 6 actresses, but they did, and they did it very well.

Ballet Recital

This afternoon is Grace's ballet recital dress rehearsal! A few weeks ago their had their dance portraits taken and we just got them back last week. Here's Grace's photos:



One with her classmates:


I snapped the following photo on my phone the day these portraits were taken:


Their routine is to the song, Baby Beluga! So excited to see how dress rehearsal goes today! :) Maybe I can snag a video!

3-Year Interview

A little interview I did with her just a few days after her birthday:

1. What is your name? Allie Grace
2. How old are you? 3
3. What's your favorite color? Pink
4. Who is your best friend? Camden
5. What is your favorite animal? Pig
6. What do you want to be when you grow up? To have long hair
7. What's your favorite movie? Ariel (little mermaid)
8. What's your favorite book? Angelina Ballerina
9. What makes you happy? Camden
10. What makes you sad? When people aren't my friend
11. What's your favorite food to eat? Pizza and Okra too
12. What's your favorite song to sing? Oooo, Miss Grace
13. What game(s) do you like to play? Dora Legos


Rocking her baby night-night.