Off to the Races

We headed to Lexington this past weekend for a great time with family and friends. Lee and Ryan were in town from Charleston and we got to spend some time with J.Ed's grandfather. It was a beautiful weekend. A little chilly out a Keeneland, but overall so much fun.

After our traditional dinner out at Suggins, we went out for a celebratory drink. Lee & Ryan announced their exciting news of baby Weatherly!! And we were pretty pumped about the apprehension of the second bomber of the Boston Marathon. I'm not kidding, we were pretty excited he got caught!

The boys and the proud papa to be

Love that Keeneland had the Irish flag flying at half mast along with the Kentucky and American flags.

me and the hubs, looking ever so dapper.

One lucky little boy! One of the race guys called him over to the track and gave him a horse shoe that came off of one of the horses. We thought it meant we would have good luck all day with our bets, not so much.

The Budweiser Clydesdale's, R was so excited. The Dalmatian was on there too and was so stinking cute.

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Posing:)

Very intense race watching

Loved getting to spend some QT with Brooke and Sam

Showing off the horse shoe

After the races we headed out to Danville to Matt and Audrey's. Lee and Ryan were spending the night there and it gave the kids a chance to play. I love seeing the kiddos together, getting along for the most part. Audrey and I were saying how mice it would be to arrange their marriages so we could make our lives a little easier!

Robbins was cracking me up. He would go back and forth between Annie Capers and Lillah. One minute he'd be like I want o play with her and not want to play with the other and then switch. I was like seriously bud? You can't pull the sister switch, especially right in front of them!

Landry enjoyed just chasing them around and giving Townsend the occasional hug.

Sunday, we headed to Paris and got to go see Gramps at the nursing home. He was having a good day and I think a visit from the kids was a great pick me up!

It was a big weekend down south on the plains as well. I am so proud of my Alma mater and the 80,000+ strong that showed up for A-Day and the final rolling of Toomer' Corner. Auburn had the largest spring game attendance in the nation and considering our record last year says alot about the respect our fans have for the tradition of this program and the trees that are in their final days. I read something last night that literally made me cry but is so true.

"More than a place on a map. More than an intersection in a small town or a corner in a community. More than a tree. It's the embodiment of the Auburn spirit. A place where family and friends gather to celebrate all that is good about tradition, success, and Auburn. Many memories have been made under the Auburn oaks-memories that are forever ingrained in the minds of the Auburn Family."



Charleston

A couple weekends ago we headed off on our yearly tradition weekend to Charleston for the Cooper River Bridge Run. As always, it was a wonderful weekend of good food, fun , drinks and relaxing times with great friends. J.Ed and I love going back to our former home, hanging out at all the places we did while we were dating and reminiscing about the days of "Summer of Fun" as we called it. Those were incredible times that we are so blessed have and especially in such a great town.



Mandatory fish tacos and margaritas at Poe's. I think we spent every weekend for two years at that place when we lived there. 

A delicious Italian dinner. The boys needed to carb load before the big race so I wine loaded:)

J.Ed pre Bridge Run

The boys post run

Another race tradition, The Griffoyn for drinks and brunch post race.

Thanks Lee and Ryan for a great time!



Easter

We were excited to have our friends Ted, Leah and their four kids spend the night with us on the way to their spring break in Florida on Good Friday. They like in Milwaukee so Nashville was a great stopping point for them. They had met Robbins and we had met Hudson and Maddie but 3 kids had been added to the bunch since the last time we were all together. Ted was in the Air Force with J.Ed out in Utah and has always been such a great friend to him. He was really fortunate to have both if them out there and I have enjoyed getting to know them so much!

Robbins, Hudson and Birile

Hard life for this little one

All curled up watching Harry Potter. A favorite in our house and theirs.

Can you tell Robbins was kind of a big fan of Hudson? he has a new fascination with "big guys".

Leah and sweet Maddie

Dibritu showing me her jumping skills

Ready for the playroom camp out! Apparently Robbins was way more into talking than sleeping. I have no clue where he gets that from.

On Saturday morning we headed to Lexington. j.Ed's grandfather has been ill so we wanted to get up there to visit him and it worked out well that all the cousins were in town.

Here is Robbins at the UK baseball game. So, apparently the new trend are these flat bill hats. Every college baseball player wears them and every kid 15 and under. They.are.the.worst. Thanks Justin Bieber!

But, Jack had one and all the baseball players and J.Ed told Robbins before they went he could pick out any hat he wanted and much to my dismay. Oh baby,baby,baby. I know this is just the first of many trends my kids will wear that I will loathe. I mean, the things I tried to pull off growing up, wow!

Do you see how Robbins is trying to be just like Jack? If Jack turned his hat a different direction, so would Robbins. It was so cute but also a reminder of how impressionable they are and how important that they choose friends wisely, even at an early age.

A boy and his pile of dirt

Grace, Abby and Robbins

Landry putting on a show

Easter morning the kids had some goodies.

All attitude, all the time

Robbins train city that he loves to play with at Nana and Pops

Easter lunch/Nana's birthday at Mary Jo and John's

His pops told him that his hat is only allowed to face one direction, forward. Thank you Pops!

I cherish the time the kids get to spend with their cousins. They have such a good time together and we are so blessed on both sides of our family with cousins and aunts and uncles to love on our kids.