Labor Day 2012

It’s back to the work week after a much needed long weekend. I was one of the lucky people to be given Monday off and I took full advantage of sleeping in…every day! Saturday evening we went to my parent’s house to watch the big LSU game and Sunday evening we spent with Adam’s parents for dinner and watched The Help. I love, love, love that book and movie!

I hope you enjoyed your holiday and wanted to share some photos of our Labor Day cook out with family and friends.

Can you see Amber? Or as Papa calls her, Old One and a half, she is due in 3 weeks! We are all so excited!

Happy Birthday to Papa, he celebrated a very young 86th birthday. 

You might be curious as to what they are carrying through the living room. An organ of course!

Mr. Shaw (one of yesterday's guest) has an amp company and recently refurbished an organ for my dad's studio. 

I'm beginning to think everyone's dad doesn't have a studio or friends who bring them organs. Just thinking....

So that's it. There were a few snippets of our Labor Day gathering yesterday afternoon.

Again, I hope that you enjoyed your long weekend. 

I'll talk to you soon! 

xoxo bd

Sunday Funday

It has become quite the tradition that every Sunday we go over to my parents house for lunch. When I was little, while we lived in south Alabama, we would go to my grandparent's home and do the exact same thing. Relax, eat, hang out, take naps, catch up from the past week and have a great time. When we were little I know it was a respite for my parents to have the kids run around with a little extra help. Now we are older and are pretty good at taking care of ourselves, but the time are still as sweet. 

Daddy made sure the grill was fired up and hot for the burgers which were perfect for the beautiful late summer day. We sipped on wine, watched some fun shows and stayed until 5 o'clock. I love this time in my life where I get to spend time with my family on a regular basis. 

Thank you to my parents for always providing a comfortable place to land at the end of a busy week! 

I hope you all had a great weekend as well! 

I'll talk to you soon!

xoxo bd

I'm back from under the proverbial rock but only momentarily as we still don't have internet at our house.
Can you believe it's been almost 3 weeks since my last post? I'm pretty sure I'm having withdraws from my blogging and daily blog stalking. We have currently switched Satellite and internet providers leaving us with scrounging from local coffee shops and McDonald's.
Lots of events have occurred which I feel sad I haven't documented with this here space but you do what you can with what you have, right?
Spring has sprung in Memphis if only for a little while giving way to break out our summer clothes.
I am now the ripe old age of 22 and feel no different but celebrated the day with the most amazing of all men, my husband! Being as great as he is, he cleaned the entire house, top to bottom, washed, folded, hung up all our clothes, swept and mopped the entire house (hardwood floors throughout), cleaned the bathroom, made the bed and best of all had lillies waiting for me when I got home from work. A man doesn't fully know how big of a gift taking care of the house is until his crazy wife jumps up and down for about 10 minutes. Later that night we went to a sushi restaurant in what I wouldn't call the safest part of town but proved to be worth it as the food was unbelievably affordable and delicious!
My parents visited for my birthday last weekend where we were able to show them the new law school, devour the yummiest breakfast and bar-b-q all the while searching for a new coffee pot. {Thank you Mamma and Daddy, we are royally obsessed and coffee-holics!} I adore having them in town and staying with us in our home, they bring such a fresh perspective on things and make everything better, you know?
After they left we enjoyed the beautiful weather and invested in an outdoor grill which we have used for almost every dinner and/or lunch this past week. {Even pizza on the grill!} In an effort to further our love of the outdoors and change of seasons we also bought a rake and cleaned up our back yard. We're in the process of beautifying what little space we do have by planting flowers and grass. We may not have green thumbs yet but just you wait! I'll post pictures as soon as I have a camera and computer in the same room.
We're now to Sunday afternoon having spent the weekend with our families and Miss Holli Denham {love that girl!} in Nashville! The times we spend always seem cut too short but soon enough those problems won't be there.
I must get back to family time as I'm neglecting everyone I've come to see on account of this post!
I hope this finds you well and that you've enjoyed your weekend as much as I have. Please say a quick prayer for our drive back home and I'll post some time later this week.
Love you all!
xoxo .betsydavis

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