• Life Lately: New Niece, Best Friend’s Baby, Trip to Maryland, Clemson Football Games

    My life lately has been a busy one :).  My sister and BIL welcomed my niece, Harper Ann, into the world on September 7th! I could not be more excited and happy for them.  Of course, I could NOT wait to meet the little lady so Reid and I took a flight out that Sunday morning to see the happy family of 4!  We stayed in Maryland for a few days and had lots of quality time with my family.  I cannot express how much love our family has for Harper–and now much more shopping to do (I know I have a boy, but girl clothes are just so stinking…

  • Surprise Maryland Trip for Dad’s 60th/Mother’s Day

    Hello!  I am writing from my wonderful kitchen table this morning.  And boy, it has been a whirlwind of the past couple of days.  My dad turned 60 on Thursday–so we decided to make an impromptu trip to Maryland to celebrate his birthday.  Mimi invited us to a cookout in my dad’s honor a few weeks back and since it was a free weekend for us, we decided to go!  I told the majority of my family about the surprise trip–and everyone kept quiet until we arrived and dad greeted us at the door.  I am so happy that we got to surprise/celebrate with my dad at his party! The…

  • Good Bye 2014, Hello 2015

    Good morning!  I cannot believe that it is already 2015–it is really making me start to feel old.  Can you believe that 2000 was 15 years ago?!?  That was the new years that everyone thought that the world was going to go black because all the computers were going to shut down aka “y2k”—and now we are dealing with iPhones, iPads, the cloud, etc. and think that all the y2k business was ridiculous! Hindsight is 20/20. I had a great end of 2014 and great beginning of 2015–it is going to be hard to beat!  I visited with my family up in Maryland where I got to spend quality time…