Old Friends & New Fun!

 

 Last week, we went to Greensboro to visit my cousin Krista and her family.  Anna, Gracie, and Will went with us to join the fun.

 

Claire & Emma

 Rub a dub dub, three girls in a tub

Claire, Gracie, & Emma

 

 

Anna & Will

 

Claire & Emma

 

A way too crowded, possibly breaking the law car situation

One day we went to Wet & Wild Waterpark.  We had SO much fun playing in the pools and all of the slides.  I don't have a lot of pictures because I was busy going down every slide with all of the kids who had unwilling mamas (whose names I shall not mention).

 

This, however, I did not ride:

On a different day, we went to a park to play. 

 

 

It was all fun and games until somebody got hurt. 

 

We ended up here:

Anna and I entertained five kids in a doctor's office waiting room with only hot chocolate.

 

Here were our magazine choices:

Poor Hunter broke his arm! 

 

I talked with Brian and Max at home every night.  Everybody Skypes with their dog, right?

 

Totally normal.

Here we are the day we left to come home.  We finally rounded up the kids in one spot for a picture!

Me, Krista, & Anna
Gracie, Emma, Hunter, Claire, Will, & Parker

Grammy Nomination Concert

Because I know some people who know some people twice removed, I had a really fun opportunity to go to Nashville for the Grammy Nominations Concert. There were lots of great performers and presenters there, and we somehow ended up on (almost) the front row.  Just one girl and a blasted security rail separated me from my beloved Luke (Bryan) and Adam (Levine).  

 LL Cool J performed before the live show to record a commercial advertising the Grammy's.

 Dierks Bentley and The Band Perry

 There's Luke 

 Taylor Swift and LL were the hosts. LL and I are on a first name basis.  Or a first inital basis.  Or whatever.

 That would by Adam.

 Rachael, Me, & Lisa

 Adam again!

 Me & Megan

 Luke again!

 Tim was there too, but he was mainly there for photography purposes it seems.

 The rest of the group

Ted, Tyler, Megan, Miriam, Me, Emilee, Becky, & Caleb

 Taylor walked right by us.

Maroon 5 did a little concert after the Live show, so that was fabulous of course.  I have lots of other pictures and videos, but I figured I should just post the highlights.  Lisa and I got to spend the night in Hendersonville with Rachael and Tim at their new house.  That was really fun!  We went back to their house and watched the show.  We saw ourselves on tv a few times and immediately hired agents and managers.  Clearly, we were born to be stars.  Just like Luke and Adam.  And all the others.

(Not pictured: Ne-Yo, fun., Hunter Hayes, Sheryl Crow, Chris Young, Little Big Town, girl who stood in front of me and raised her arm every time I tried to take a picture, girl who tried and tried to push her way in front of Tyler and stinky boy who stood beside Tim)

November Stuff

I am catching up on all of these random pictures before I post our Thanksgiving stuff.  So here you go!

Pinterest gave me the idea of a pizza quesadilla.  One weekend night we threw them together for a quick meal.  They turned out pretty good!

 We've had some cold evenings here and there, so there has been some cuddling under blankets.

The first cups of hot chocolate of the season were consumed as well.

 Naps were taken.

 Little people stole my phone.

 Santa was spotted at the mall.

 Brian made his first ever French onion soup.  It was as good as any restaurant ever thought about being.  Seriously, look at that cheese.

 Claire's class had a Thanksgiving feast that parents were invited to attend.  

 They performed several songs and poems.

Then we all danced!

 Lisa and I went to see Breaking Dawn (Part 2) as part of her birthday festivities.  Here she is holding "the official birthday bag".  We can't even remember how many years we've been passing this bag back and forth for each other's birthdays.  She has the BIG responsibility of keeping up with it from November until the next October.  I am fortunate to only have to NOT LOSE it for the month and a half that it's in my care.  Honestly, that bag is probably more special at this point that the various gifts that have been inside it over the years.  Happy Birthday Lisa!