the shack is taking over

Exactly three weeks until our GRAND OPENING! We will be selling delicious, organic, homemade, fruity, snow cones from the East Beach Concession Stand here in St. Simon's Island, Georgia. That's right, everyone! The big, busy concession stand at the coast guard station... we own it! At least from Memorial Day till Labor Day. We are still building an actual "shack" to sell the snow cones from, but we need a few more dollars before we can finish. Until then, we will be at the beach serving up happiness in a cup. If you live in the area, please come see us at the beach! If not, please stay tuned for ways you can help us get dollars to finish the shack.

a few more easter pics

Good rainy morning to ya! I wanted to share a few more pictures of our super fun Easter weekend...

Warning... be prepared for large amounts of Snow Shack blogging after today. I repeat, Snow Shack mania is in your near future. Three weeks until our grand opening!

easter sunday

We were so excited to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord today! Our day was beautiful. Hope yours was too.

good friday earth day

Dear Earth, happy day! Love, me. In honor of Earth day the kids and I decided to have a "lights out" day. No t.v. or lights on all day. Major fun. We recycled old toilet paper rolls into bunnies (pictures coming soon), had a puppet show, played restaurant, and splashed in the lake behind our house. We had an exciting Good Friday service at church tonight and we cannot wait for "Resurrection Sunday!" Here are a few pictures from my non-iPhone phone of our happy lake time...

P.S. I would like to introduce the new and improved Stella Belle! NO CAST and a new haircut.

spring recital

Little Dean and Millie g. are adorable. They love piano lessons. They have been taking piano for almost one year. I knew Millie g. would love it since she is the "granny" of our house and she loves all things grown up and serious. I wanted little Dean to do piano because I thought the focus and discipline it takes to play piano would be a nice challenge for the large amount of energy that consumes his little body.

The first of (hopefully) many piano recitals was very exciting for them. Their gorgeous teacher, Hannah, is going to college in the fall. Sad. It will be hard to find another teacher who will keep Dean's attention like she does.

Millie g. doesn't look tiny until she stands next to the big kids. She was the youngest child in the recital. She is cute.

i would walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 more

We are driving home to Georgia. Our Mississippi/ Louisiana happy time was perfect or maybe a little better. Here are the highlights...

Anyone getting tired of pictures from my phone yet? No? ok great, me neither. If you happen to be driving eight or nine hours today, please have an iced soy latte. It will make you very happy.

traveling is super fun

So we got home from Missouri last Saturday. I literally dumped our suitcases out into the washing machine and re-packed to leave again today. This time we are going to Baton Rouge for a little visit. Charlie is preaching at his friend, David's, wedding. Here are the top five reasons why I love this trip...
1. We are spending the night with my parents on the way to and from Louisiana.
2. We get to see all the nice people that we miss in Baton Rouge
3. Anthropologie
4. Charlie has given me permission to purchase 20 to 25 packs of jambalaya mix from the Red Stick farmer's market.
5. Anthropologie

Here are a few pictures from our lunch at Big Momma's in Springfield, Missouri. Last blog about Missouri... promise.

Happy Traveling!

elsie flannigan

I met Elsie Flannigan! We stopped in Springfield on our way home from Missouri so I could take a picture with her. She's been sort of a superhero for me in the art world for a long time. She and her sister Emma are the tiniest, prettiest, nicest gals. And the Red Velvet store was even more gorgeous in person.

I was a little overwhelmed because my children were acting like animals that had just been let out of a cage, cutie-pie Charlie was trying on sweaters in the dressing room, and I was trying to talk to Elsie and Emma like a normal person (as opposed to a creepy super-stalker Red Velvet fan...). So I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted, but I did make a few purchases. Millie g. wore these bear headphones all the way home...

Hopefully I will see these two again and we can talk a little more and take a few more pictures. Much thanks to Elsie and Emma for being so nice and inspiring! Click here to read Elsie's blog. It's fun.

date in missouri

Lots of Charlie's Aunts and Uncles live in Missouri. Last night they decided to split up all the kids in between them and send us out on a date. We ate dinner at a sweet greek place, gobbled up some cappuccino ice cream and went bowling...

We love dates and sexy bowling shoes!

Double dose of sexy on my face in the picture above. Only the Good Lord knows what I was saying or doing. We should be home tomorrow and I will upload all my pictures of today's VERY exciting happenings. Very exciting. Nighty night.

missouri is far away

We drove two days to get to the great state of Missouri. Since we are traveling with Charlie's parents (who are super cute) and our three kids (who are also super cute), we're gonna call this a "trip" to Missouri and not a "vacation" to Missouri. We are visiting some of Charlie's family. We are having a nice time.

More blogging about the exciting parts of our trip coming soon. Hope everyone is enjoying delicious waffles this morning.

what's in my makeup bag?

We're packing for a fun-filled family trip! I like packing things into my travel makeup bag... it makes me feel happy all over. My makeup bag is from Fossil and I specifically remember buying it because it looks like Mary Poppins' carpet bag. A perfectly good reason to buy something. So here's what I have in my makeup bag...

Sephora white eyeshadow
EMUgency (I use it on my lips and cuticles at night)
ESSIE nail polish in "Sand" (I'm going through a gray nail polish phase)
Mineral Fusion bronzer
No7 black eyeliner
Mineral Fusion concealer pencil
Armani Code perfume
White 2 Nite teeth whitener
No7 black Mascara
Hot Mama blush (by The Balm)
Tinted Moisturizer (by The Balm)

Hot Mama blush is my most favorite thing in my makeup bag. Anything by The Balm is amazing.

Ok! That's all for today! Happy April!