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:







 

our week in review:

daddy's off this week for a staycation, and it's proven to be a spectacular blend of fun, celebration, dragonflies, catching up around the house, and relaxation!  Independence Day Festivities were a blast!  We hung out at Sun City, taking the golf carts down to the fireworks launch location, where we enjoyed food, music, family, fun, and a spectacular show! check out the fireworks launch that looks like a sunflower!


 




The next day, we hit the high seas!  We had SO much fun...we launched from our small coastal town's fabulous new boat landing, and accidentally found and enjoyed this amazing sandbar, lovingly titled, "the Redneck Riviera," by the locals, and finally hit the boat again and headed to Daufuski Island for a great, casual, coastal life dinner!
 
Last night we enjoyed our weekly Pool and Picnic night, with Grandma and Grandpa...this time, daddy finally joined us, for the first time!


and what would a Lowcountry life week be like, without ice cream outings and pastry picnics...and storms, lots and lots of storms!
  


and of course, nature adventures:



grateful for another beautiful week in our neck of paradise!

Our week in review:

pools.....picnics.....pictures....lily pads

lots and lots of lily pads! 

oh, and we may have squeezed in a beach visit, just to try something different :D





 

 

Our Thursday night picnic at the pool was cut short by some incoming powerful storms...

But it was fun and delicious while it lasted!

Our Thursday night thing.....

picnic and pool time with grandma and grandpa and homeschooling friends:

it's Friday Fun day....a day early:)

this week, we decided swapping Thursday for Friday, was indeed in order...why?  because we are fair-weather friday fun-day folk!  (how's that for alliteration;)  Today it was 83 degrees...tomorrow is supposed to be a high of about half of that :/  Today we went to our little town's farmer's market, had lunch at our favorite place, outdoors, did some swimming, and we even saved a baby turtle who my girls found swimming in the pool....(he was safely transported from pool to pond....only my mother pointed out that he may become alligator food :(  I hope she's wrong)


this is Miss Brie...grandma and grandpa's girl


this is color....the reason wny I left WI...WI is colorless...and gray and dirty snow on the roads...and friggin' cold...for about 7-8 months a year.
....side note:

end side note:)



Here is baby turtle (I was told he is a baby red-earred slider) being transported from pool to pond, via Thirty-one pouch...he wasn't too keen on the ride there:)



a GREAT day was had by all...hopefully the turtle will live a long and prosperous life in his new home:)

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