• Flying with Baby: Reid’s First Trip to Minnesota and Weekend at the Lake

    What a manic Monday… Reid and I have had a whirlwind of a week.  On Monday we flew to Minnesota to visit my Nana.  I was super nervous as I was flying alone with a 4 month old (meeting my mom in Minneapolis), but Reid was a great flier and people were so sweet and helpful along the trip–it really does take a village!  I would say that the travel was smooth sailing, BUT I was flying Southwest and my flights on the way out got delayed by almost 24 hours! (stuck in the Atlanta airport until 1:30 a.m. when I was supposed to fly out at 9 a.m.) and…

  • Edisto Beach Vacation and What to Bring to the Beach for 4 Month Old Baby

    We have been going through some serious 4 month sleep regression or just adjusting to the craziness after being on a week vacation!  Little did I know (or rather even think about) that babies don’t adjust as well as adults when it comes to travelling and new places.  #rookiemommove Aside from our frustration with the lack of sleep that Reid is having at night/no napping during the day, life around here is pretty great!  We had our first long family vacation that lasted 9 full days 🙂 It was a wonderful trip and really allowed us to wind down and connect as a new family. We headed down to Drew’s…

  • Memorial Day Weekend 2016

    We just got home from an extra long Memorial Day weekend.  Christina, one of my closest friends and sorority sister, got married on Friday before Memorial Day.  Reid and I drove down to Charleston on Thursday morning for the bridesmaids luncheon.  Reid was an absolute joy and got his flirt on with all the ladies.  Following the luncheon, Reid and I stopped over to see his cousin/best friend, Watson.  It was fun to see the boys together again–even though they both are pretty much blobs right now! On Thursday night, Drew and I went to the rehearsal dinner at Red Drum followed by a quick drink at Tavern and Table.…

  • Weekend Update: Edisto Island for the Fourth of July

    Today I am linking up with Tara for Weekend Update. I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.  I went to Edisto Island with a couple close friends for a great long weekend of fun in the sun!  Drew’s family has a beach house on Edisto Island that we have been going to for years.  We usually invite our close friends, Megan and Brandon to join us when we go down to Edisto.  Over the years, it has become a tradition to go to the beach house for the Fourth of July! We got to the Island around 6:00 on Thursday afternoon.  Luckily, we were able to leave Greenville…

  • Asheville Bachelorette Party Weekend

    Wow this weekend was a fun one!  After months and months of preparation, Paige’s Bachelorette party in Asheville, North Carolina went off without a hitch (or at least not a major one!).  Paige has been my best friend since we were both 2 years old–this fourth of July marks our 25th anniversary–and deserved the best last fling before the ring. We got up to the rental home (VRBO.com rental) around 2 on Friday afternoon.  Laura, Holly and I arrived before the rest of the gang around 2 on Friday afternoon.  As we had 13 girls, we rented a big home from VRBO.com that could accommodate all of us.  It was…

  • Davidson River Campground Trip and Oskar Blues Brewery

    Happy Monday! This weekend, I went on a camping trip with Drew’s family.  They go camping twice a year–once in the spring/summer and once in the fall.  This trip we went to the Davidson River Campground near Brevard, North Carolina.  We ate a lot, drank, napped (amazing!), investigated the farmers market, floated/tubed down the river, went on a couple amazing runs through the woods and enjoyed each other’s company.  It was a great time spent with his family 🙂 If you would have asked me 3 years ago if I would enjoy camping the answer most definitely would have been no!  Growing up my family never went camping–we are not…

  • Girls on the Run Coaches Dinner, Strawberry Pie and Charleston Run

    Hello from Charleston!  Drew and I woke up super early this morning and made our way down to Charleston.  We are celebrating my mother-in-law’s birthday in Edisto this weekend and came down early so that Drew could work in Charleston (he travels to Charleston a couple times a month for work).  My sister-in-law, Meredith, and I are going down to the beach house later this afternoon and Drew will meet up with us a little bit later.  After Drew dropped me off, Meredith and I ventured to pick up some last minute items from Trader Joe’s–which lets be honest I went in needing to get lettuce and walked out with…

  • Cooper River Bridge Run 2015 and Family Time

    As my memory on my iPhone keeps telling me that my cloud is filled–I have decided to post some pictures from my girls weekend a couple weeks back.  It has been a standing tradition for a few years now to make a girls weekend out of the Cooper River Bridge Run.  We started running the race back when we all first moved to Charleston after college.  I lived in a house with 4 of my friends off of Wentworth/Pitt Street in downtown Charleston.  It was a great transition from college to postgrad life–and really made us all feel like we were just living in a sorority house rather than being…

  • Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach Recap

    I had an awesome long weekend traveling to Fernandina Beach, Florida.  My mom has been looking at moving to the Amelia Island area for sometime now and I decided to take a trip with her to scope out her potential new home.  My cousin, Kelsey, and two of my mom’s girlfriends joined along.  It was a fun group of ladies and we all really enjoyed our stay on the island. Fernandina Beach is such a cool town.  It has small town charm, amazing restaurants, beautiful views, lots of sidewalks (a runner’s dream), extremely friendly people and is really a hidden gem on the Florida Georgia line.  I seriously cannot believe that such…

  • January Beach Weekend

    My wonderful husband turned the big 28 this past week.  Drew has a ton on his plate between school and work, so I wanted to make sure that even though he had work and class on his birthday–that he would still feel special on his day!  I fixed his requested meal (which we ate super late) and then opened his presents.  I bought him a Bose Soundlink III–it is a small but powerful sound system.  He has been wanting a sound system that we can take to the beach and on the boat–it does it all and is bluetooth powered! The next night we stopped at his parents’ house to…