Blog Hop

Today a lot of bloggers are participating in a Blog Hop. Today is favorite picture day....

Our wedding.. July 28, 2007. Mount Pleasant, SC. It was 900 degrees at our reception but it still wasn't too HOT to keep us from dancing the night away. I love this picture of Drew laughing at me while I strut my stuff....

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One fine man

William Parker Lennon

Unfortunately we got a call last week with the news that my Grandfather had taken a turn for the worst. He has been sick for a couple of years and on June 27th it was time for him to head to heaven. I was extremely close with this man I called Papa. He was my mother's father and lived to be 90 years old! A mere 6 days after his death was what would have been my grandmother and his 66 year anniversary. Pretty amazing I think! All the family came together and during his memorial the grandchildren (myself included) read some of his favorite poems. He loved poetry and it was a great way to celebrate something he loved so much. We love him dearly and will miss him everyday. RIP my sweet Papa!

What's been going on....

Drew and I sat around Friday night contemplating a vacation spot for our 2nd year anniversary. We came up with the ATLANTIS in the Bahamas!!! I pulled out our passports and realized his expired in 4 days and mine had my maiden name on it. We are in a time crunch b/c our anniversary is next month so we took off to Walgreens to get passport pics made. I was first and the camera man made it very clear that I was NOT to smile. My bad! Drew was next and this was the crazy face he made for his passport. I kid you not! I died laughing when we got the pics...

Robin came to visit me on Saturday while Drew was working a big show in Charleston. My camera broke (not my fancy one thank goodness) so these lovely photos are from my Iphone. We had no one to take our pic so we did the best we could do... very scary pic if you ask me! We had a great time lounging by the pool and went out for sushi and wine on Saturday night. I am loving all my visitors lately!

Robin is no dog person and Tyrone LOVED her. He kept making circles around and around the pool with his bone in this mouth. Then he would come right up to her and stare her down.

Drew got in at 4am from Charleston and at 9am Sunday I sent him off to help run Clemson's basketball camp. This boy LOVES camp! He has had his stuff packed for an entire week. When we go on vacation I cannot even get him to pack until the night before. MEN! So he is off working camp this week while I am home. He called last night to say he had Clemson's head football coach- Dabo Swinney's 2 kids on his league. Too cool! The funny thing is that Madison and Bless are also at Clemson camp this week. They went for tennis though.

not thrilled to have his pic taken after 4 hours of sleep....

Big weekend fun!

Drew and I had an awesome weekend with friends! We went to dinner on Friday night and out to some fun bars after with our friends Roger & Mary and Brent & Whitney. We love having our friends living back in SC!!! At the end of the night I convinced Drew to swing by Krispy Kreme for some late night eating. WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE ON A DIET!!!! We didn't realize it was national donut day and they were giving out a free donut to everyone until midnight. We showed up at 11:45 and waited until 12:30 ...It truly amazes me what people will do for free food. I refused to leave after I smelled the hot d-nuts. So we made the best of our waiting and got into costume!

On Saturday morning my friend Rena came in to town to visit. I love having teachers as friends! She is off this summer and has already come twice to visit! I love her like a sister and we always have a blast together. We spent Saturday by the pool all day and Sunday on the lake with Ben, Brent and Whitney.

Rena and I

Drew carrying junk for 2 ladies!

Ben and Drew
me and hubs
Brent and Whitney

Drew and I have been dying to try this hole in the wall they just built by our house... JIMMY DAWGS! The sign says Hot Buns and Beer so we knew it had to be good. Rena loves hot dogs as much as I do so we knew she would get a kick out of it. Food terrible, atmosphere...hilarious!

Concerts, Concerrts, Concerts....

Drew and I have been concert fools lately! I have never been to so many concerts until I met Drew. He LOVES them!!! We have been to the Police, Dave Matthews (twice), Kenny Chesney (3 times), Hootie and the Blowfish (twice), Sister Hazel, Sugarland (twice), Elton John, and several more. We can now add Snoop Dogg to the list!

I was in National Harbor, MD a few weeks ago for the Choice Hotel Show. They don't normally give us vendors tickets to the shows but my buddy Rick Patel go me and my coworker Alice in to see the B52's! Love Shack, baby love shack....

me, Rick, and Alice. For some reason we are sticking our tongues out????

They had light up necklaces and cool shades for us to wear!
Before the show we went down to the water and acted crazy with this statue thing!

The weekend after my MD trip Drew and I headed to the Greenville Crawfish Boil. There were several bands that played but we were there to see Snoop Dogg! I LOVED Snoop back in my high school days. I knew every word to every song. Unfortunately after 15 years I remembered every 3rd word.

tons of people were there!

Drew and I and our enormous beers

Next concert was a few days later... Kenny Chesney!

he flew over the crowd when he made his entrance

We went to the concert with Brent and Whitney. We had seats basically on the floor but we spent most of our time hanging with them in the suite they had for their clients. Now that is a way to watch a show. Your own bathroom, unlimited drinks, and comfy chairs!

Blog slacker.. who me?

Yes you! I am working on some posts! We have been on vacation in Wild Dunes and it was soooo relaxing. Drew and I have been doing so many fun things lately so I will update hopefully tomorrow with LOTS of pics! A whole months worth.... For now I will leave you with a beach pic... taken 2 years ago! haha!

Look what got dropped off to my house yesterday!!!!

Drew and I have been talking about getting a king sized bed for the last year I think. Every time I say lets go buy one he moans and says he doesn't want to go. So FINALLY I talked him into going this week. I think it was the 5 straight nights of lousy sleep he had been getting that truly convinced him it was time! We have 3 queen sized beds (and 3 twins for that matter) in our house and we have tried out ALL the mattresses for several months. We hated them all! We bit the bullet and finally bought one! We went to 2 places, the second guy beat the first guys price by $600 so we ended up with money in our pockets! WHOOO HOOO! Drew came down this morning and asked how I slept. My answer... GREAT! His answer when I asked him.. DAMN GOOD! YAY for a KING in the house!

They left this on the bed. Such great marketing!

Girls Weekend!

When the boys are away let the girls PLAY!!!! My girlfriends in Knoxville celebrated our FOURTH annual girls weekend this past weekend in TN. We went to Beth's family cabin in Big South Fork. We had a blast as always. We told crazy stories, ate way too much, and well ...drank way too much too.


** Please note.. this girl has on no make-up, had been traveling by plane and car ALL day, and had been in a rain storm, PLUS just had a mild heart attack due to a mouse sighting. I am no beauty queen in these pics**

me, Rena, and Catherine

Cooking up some food
Catherine, Ann, Lori, and Cyndie

Rena kept bugging me to braid her hair. Here is the beauty queen getting her hairs did!

Heather acting like a nut with her Mike's Light. It is pretty much the only thing she will drink. When I first moved to SC I had to bring her back 5 cases one trip home b/c they stopped carrying it in TN. haha!

Heather, Beth, Laura, and Mary

I have no clue what we are doing...

Rena and Cyndie aka TOWN GOWN started laughing so hard they fell to the ground. Rena kept saying she was peeing in her pants. Then we all died laughing.

Drew and I have this thing about Town Gowns. I guess it began with the Old Navy commercial that came out last month. Every time we see someone wearing them we yell out "Town Gown". When Cyndie showed up, guess what I yelled! The name stuck all night.

Rena and I left on Saturday morning so that I could spend a night with my dad and Sara. Sara had her grand opening of her Flower Shop-- AMAZING-- in Townsend, TN. I had a great time visiting and staying a night with them. I have no pics of the parentals but I do of Sara's new shop. I came home with TONS of plants and flowers. So fun!

The Flower Shop

On Sunday I headed back home to see Drew and the dog children. Drew had been in Myrtle Beach for Jeff's bachelor party so he had a fun guys weekend himself!