My weekend visitors

Last weekend I had some special visitors! Jennifer and her girls, Kim and her kids, and their mom, LouAnn, all came to visit the mountains! I love it when they visit. The kids start school next week so this was their last weekend getaway for a while.

The girls needed to so some back to school shopping so we hit up the new Asheville outlets. Our first stop was J Crew to visit one of my former co-workers, Mary.

Harper found some sunglasses and thought she needed to take a selfie.

They found some shoes to try on.

Granny Janet gave the kids some coins to throw into the fountain and make a wish!

It started raining and I think the kids were over shopping so we headed home!

On Saturday we did some back to school shopping at my favorite place, Palm Village!

We have little girl leggings and I couldn't wait for the girls to try them on. They did a good job being fashion models!

After shopping for a while we decided to have lunch in Biltmore Village. I took them to one of my favorite places, The Wayside.

This is so rare...Myles and me in a picture! Sweet Myles rarely lets me hold him. 

Of course Harper has no problem posing in a picture with Aunt Moe!

Asheville has a hop on hop off trolley that goes around town. We thought that might be a great way to ride around town and visit downtown Asheville. (I absolutely hate driving downtown. I always ride with someone else if I need to go. I thought this would be a good way to get out of having to drive downtown!)

Just three of my favorite people! 

And three more of my favorites

The kids loved being on a bus and not buckled up!

If you look close you can see the Grove Park!

On Sunday it was time to go home.

Love these kids!

It's no secret that I absolutely adore these girls! I know we are not blood family but there is no doubt in my mind that they are my family! I love being Aunt Moe! 

xoxo 

July

July.

I spent the 4th at the store working with one of my favorites, Alex! She makes working at Lilly on a holiday more enjoyable!

 I love a theme so dressing for the 4th of July was fun! 

Jennifer sent me this picture of the girls before they went to watch fire works.

 I want time to stop right now. I don't think I am ready for them to start school! 

I didn't go watch fireworks. We just had a family cook out and sat on my cousin's porch. My aunt Catherine and I were chilly and wrapped up in blankets! On the fourth of July! Only in the mountains.

 I think our view for the evening was just as pretty as fireworks.

I just had to include this picture in my July recap. Again...time needs to stop! 

 I put myself on a buying freeze at work. So for six weeks I didn't buy a thing! I was excited to stop the freeze and buy this top! Definitely one of my new favorites!

Another big thing happened at the Lilly shop...

 I got my monogram on the wall in one of the dressing rooms! 

It's the little things that make me happy.

We traveled to South Carolina to watch my cousin Meredith play in a softball tournament! Since they live in Virginia we really never have the opportunity to watch her play. We were so happy that we got to go and see her play. We had a blast cheering her on. She is really good at what she does. I hope we have the chance to watch her more!

The last week of July was spent at the beach with my friends! This was my view for the week! 

xoxo

June

June was full of celebrations! Graduations, donuts, babies, friends, and weddings. 

At the beginning of June my cousin, Lyndsay, graduated from high school in Virgina. Several members of my family made the seven hour trip to celebrate this milestone.

June 5th happened to be national donut day. So I did some research and found a Duck Donuts in Charlottesville, VA. I love a Duck Donut. 

My cousin, Tanya, made this to display at Lyndsay's graduation party.  It's a picture of Lyndsay's first day of school as a kindergartener and her last day of school as a senior. I thought this was such a neat idea! And I will admit...I cried just a little bit when I saw this. 

The graduate!

We love our sweet Lyndsay Lou! 

The next weekend we had my cousin Lauren's gender reveal. I wore pink because I was hoping for a girl!

And guess what? I was right! Lauren is having a girl! 

I'm a big fan of traditions. My school friends always plan a trip to the Grove Park Spa to celebrate the end of the school year. This year we just celebrated our friendship. (I didn't have an end of the school year to celebrate!) I hope no matter where life takes us that we will always find a way to celebrate our friendship with each other! I love these girls so much! 

And soon we will be celebrating a new baby for my friend Kelly! I can't wait to have a new little one to love! 

I also celebrated my one year anniversary at Palm Village! I love my Lilly dream job! 

Another fun celebration was the wedding of my friend Brooke! I did my student teaching with Brooke's mom. I love that I still have a special friendship with these girls! 

The beautiful bride! 

Father's Day was the next day and to celebrate I think I broke my toe on my maxi dress! I don't have a picture of my dad and me because of this...

You can thank me later for sharing a picture of my toe! Ha! 

At the end of the month I made a short trip to pinehurst! I love any time I get to spend with my favorite girls! 

And my favorite dog! 

xoxo

Friday Favorites

Just a few favorites from the past week.

These girls

When I visited NYC a few weeks ago I got these classic NY tees for the girls. I think they liked them.

Harper wanted to write some names for me. She wrote Harper, Hadley, Moe, Janet, and Mom.

Pretty girls

We got new spring Lilly at the shop. Alex and I decided to try on some of our favorites. I just wish it was warm enough to wear those shorts! 

Have a good weekend!

xoxo

Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party 2014

Turning the corner and seeing the castle for the first time. We were so excited to see the kid's reactions. I promise they were excited! 

(Photo credit goes to my brother Ryan)

I was beyond excited to go to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party with the girls and everyone else too! When you go to a "party" at Disney World, you can enter the gates at 4:00 pm. The parties are from 7:00 pm - 12:00 am. We actually got there about 3:45 and they let us in! Our first stop was Main Street USA to take some fun family photos! (I know these are my friends but I really consider them to be family!)

 The whole group ready to take on the world.

We also had to stop and take pictures with Tinkerbell. 

After Main Street USA we headed over to meet Ariel! 

 

The kids had pillowcases for the characters to sign and Ariel was the best talking to the girls about them. Since Ariel is a mermaid she doesn't really know about human stuff so she had a lot of questions about them. At first she thought the pillowcases were hats. Then she asked if it was for holding collections. The girls just stood there in awe of her. They loved it! 

We also met Cinderella and Rapunzel that night. 

We rode a few rides but then went to find a seat for the Christmas parade. This parade was so neat. The floats had scents with them. So we got to smell Christmas trees, cookies, and candy. We saw Anna and Elsa, Olaf, and Kristof. We even saw the main star of Christmas...Santa! 

For the pre parade entertainment we had a small dance party in the street! The kids loved it!

It also snowed on Main Street most of the night! 

I think Cinderella's Castle at Christmas is the best! 

I think the kids enjoyed their first night at Disney!

The Christmas party has a lot of special activities that happen throughout the night. They serve hot chocolate and cookies throughout the park. The Wishes (what Disney calls their fireworks) is a Christmas theme. They were spectacular. The parade is just for the Christmas party and they do it two times that night. We watched the first parade with the kids and then they called it a night. We had to get up early the next day for a Princess breakfast. My mom, brother, and I stayed in the park a little longer to watch the fireworks.

xoxo