Whew

I haven't blogged in about a month because things have been busy busy. A quick update of what has been going on lately!
*I went down to Alabama at the end of March for a week. I got to spend a week with my grandparents, which was much needed & so much fun! (more about this visit later :) )
*At the end of the week my best friend Laura got married!! Everything was absolutely beautiful & so very Laura! She looked like a princess bride & was glowing all day with that beautiful smile. It was wonderful to be able to be a part of her very special day. Love seeing her so happy & wish her & her husband Daniel all of the happiness in the world!!
* After returning from Alabama GoGo came to visit us for a week. We enjoyed having her visit us. During the days while Ab was at school and Lee was working we went shopping and went to several beautiful vineyards (and even some that were no longer vineyards :) ) She also got to see Ab's first show of the season!
* Abigail had her first horse show of the season & did wonderful! She rode 3 horses including her own Tai!
*Ab's school had their variety show. She and Lily sang a song together and did a wonderful job as always :) They were also in a really funny skit!
****** We have also been packing up some of our things getting ready to move into our new house!! We are all sooo very excited and cannot wait to be in our new house and make it a home for our sweet little family :)
I will have more posts on some of these individual events with of course pictures, later! But for now this is a little bit of what has been going on with our wonderful busy life.

Spring Fever!

It's 

Spring Fever!!

  

This is what the name of it is.

And when you've got it,

you want-oh you don't quite know

what it is you do want,

but it just fairly

makes your heart ache,

you want it so!

-Mark Twain

Beer Braised Beef with onions...... YUM

Mom e-mailed me this wonderful Beer Braised Beef recipe last week. As soon as Lee saw the recipe he was very anxious to try it, so we decided to do so Saturday night. And it was pretty amazing!! Not to mention it made the house smell wonderful while it was cooking!!
It was too pretty and yummy looking not to take a picture of :)

Onions, Garlic, Beer ,Thyme & fresh Rosemary straight from the greenhouse :)

Already looking wonderful and it hasn't even cooked yet.

Cooks enjoying some fresh warm air while we "patiently" wait the 3 hours for it to cook.

DELICIOUS!!!!

 

 

Thanks for the recipe mom, we really enjoyed it!!

Happy National Pound Cake Day!!

Yesterday was National Pound Cake Day! Only one of the BEST days!! So what did we do? Bake a pound cake of course! Not that we needed an excuse to bake a pound cake around here! So we ended our day by eating a piece of hot pound cake fresh out of the oven. The only thing that could have made it better was if it was Maw-Maw's pound cake, but it was her recipe so it was close.

The baking begins

And no pound cake is complete without a "sad" streak! Even though the sad streak makes me very HAPPY!!