weekly review:

Picnic and pool night! And as an added bonus, grandma took the girls to their house so J and I could have a date night at the pool...he napped (came straight from work:) and then swam laps and I floated and then hit the hot tub 🤓

And, I bumped into a fellow clarinetist in the pool!

Grateful for another beautiful night in Paradise


 
our beloved hummingbird and fairy garden, midsummer: 


 
Beautiful night at Shelter Cove Park...picnic dinner on the marsh, and great music by The Headliners! 
 Sunday tea with grandma...third generation sipping tea from this set gifted from my mom's Aunt and Uncle, from Japan. Some of the original pieces still survive!
 
pancakes and shoe shopping with grandma and grandpa!
 
sweet backyard visitors!
 
 
Another fabulous Lowcountry night: brought a picnic to Palmetto Bluff to see The Blue Dogs....a fundraising benefit for Family Promise, an organization that helps get families on their feet with jobs and housing and education. My parents do some volunteer work for this through their church.

We started out sitting amidst the crowd, until I suggested (ahem told them 🤓) that we'd like it better by the river, behind the band: much quieter, more breezy, and a great atmosphere... There were big camp fires going too! Great night! 
 
16 years ago today: