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Congratulations Brook and Tristan. Thanks for letting us be a part of your special day!
This weekend has been great. One of those weekends with a good mixture of getting stuff, being able to relax, see friends and enjoy the great weather we have been having here in RVa. I started the weekend with a girls night with some of my favorite people, we had dinner and drinks at Strawberry Street Cafe. On Saturday me and one of my best friends ran the Susan G Komen 5K. It was a lot of fun and I loved running it on Mother’s Day weekend in honor of Beth’s mom, Pam.
On Mother’s Day we celebrated our usual way with church and lunch at a great little Greek restaurant called Stella’s. As C slept away the afternoon we got a lot of stuff done around the house including finishing up painting the front porch. We ended the day with Sweet Frog, hamburgers on the grill and bubbles. It was a great day. Here are some shots of the day. I included a shot of my new super-de-duper new Kitchen Aid mixer that I got today from Jay and C, I am so excited about it and can not wait to use it!
Thanks Jay, for yet another great Mother’s Day! xoxo, Mo
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WOW!! It looks like you had a very HAPPY Mother’s Day!! You will love the mixer for making just about anything. I love the picture of you and Charlotte…..two little cuties!!!
This afternoon we met up with some friends at the strawberry street festival. It’s a short little street in the city that has a great cafe you should check out if you ever get the chance. There is also an elementary school nearby that holds an annual festival as a fundraiser. We’ve never been before so we decided to invite some friends and check it out. Here are a few shots from the afternoon. Hope you got out there and enjoyed the weekend like we did!
Melissa took this one right when we got there while we were waiting for our friends to meet us.
The school had one of the best playgrounds I’ve seen at a school. It was neat to see this Stella scooter repurposed as a piece of play equipment. The red bokeh-licious items in the background are drums. One portion of the playground has different types of percussion instruments from xylophones to drums that all had mallets or sticks that were attached so kids could come up and play on them. I bet recess at the school is pretty musical. Made me wish I had something like that at my school when I was a kid.
Like any good festival they had blow ups and bouncy houses. Melissa saw this below and automatically decided that Charlotte should ride the shark slide…with Melissa of course. So we purchased our tickets and up they went.
I managed to grab this shot as they got to the bottom. Charlotte was not amused. Not upset, but not amused. Maybe when she gets a little older.
I love this shot of Scott and Connor. Charlotte and Connor were born about 24 hours apart from each other, so they make great buddies. Connor has been able to throw a ball for a while now so this game was perfect for him. Connor got so excited and I think Scott was having fun too.
Charlotte tried to play a little duckie game, but didn’t really know what to do. She loves the water in the bath at home, but I think the germ-a-phobe in her came out and she really didn’t want to put her hand in the water.
Street shot of the festival and Charlotte’s new favorite way to be carried around. See next two pictures.
Charlotte refused to take her second nap today so by the time we went to the festival, grabbed a bite to eat and started to head home, she was looking a little tired.
What a better way to end an afternoon at a strawberry festival than with some nice raspberries on Charlotte’s belly. I love Charlotte and can’t wait to celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday. I thought I was lucky when Melissa said “I do” over 7 years ago and now God has given me another girl in my life to love. Tell the people in your life that you love them and enjoy life together.
-jay
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This spring has been pretty busy, but we took some time out this afternoon to make some beautiful burlap flowers for Tristan and Brooke’s wedding that is less than two weeks away. The flowers were quick and easy to make thanks to this blogpost that I found. If you love burlap you should definitely give it a try…I am already dreaming up a new summer wreath or centerpiece of my own.
In other crafting news I have been working on a surprise quilt, here is the plan and I will put the finished product and its details up when I finish.
Let’s get one shot of Abby in, I feel like she is never the star anymore! Isn’t she pretty!
This crafting/photography/blogging break brought to you by a good nap by little C.
-melissa
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WOW!! They turned out great. See, I knew you could do it!!
They will look beautiful on the cake.
Remember several months back it was my very dear friends birthday, you know back in January! Well for her birthday this year I promised to make her a quilt. But first I had Jay’s quilt to finish and then a baby blanket or two and a first birthday party to plan, well guess what… I finally finished it! It was only three months late, good thing she is so patient with me!
This quilt was really tough for me. It was not the quilts fault at all, she really picked out a very simple pattern. It stated on the pattern that it was classified as a weekend quilt and I believed it! I told Beth when we went to buy the fabrics that I thought I should have it finished in roughly a week. That totally did not happen, not even close.
It turns out life really got in the way of my quilting, don’t you hate when that happens. Jay was really busy the past month and it seemed that every time he went out of town C managed to get sick somehow with either teething or a double ear infection that just would not go away. So every time I went to quilt I had baby fever brain and kept making stupid mistakes.
I had a couple of down times, but kept on persisting because it was for Beth. I like to think about the person I am making the quilt for when I am sewing. It helps me to keep going if I know I am making it for a loved one or a loved ones wee baby. This one really took a lot of love to finish. If it was for anyone else (yes, even you Jay) it would not have been completed. But it was for Beth and I do love her so! So it eventually was finished . Way later than promised. But finished with love.
I hope she enjoys snuggling with it in this lovely 90 degree spring we are having in Va! Love you Beth, Happy Belated Birthday!
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Oh Melissa, this turned out really pretty. I love the fabrics and the pattern. Lucky Beth!
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