sentimental journey...

heart to heart...family in kentucky.

thursday evening...captain d's with aunt virginia, jon & bethany (tipps) bingham and their beautiful family, morgan, ethan, reagan and little autumn and #5 due in august. i am in awe of this family...bethany home schools all four and jon is so awesome! WOW! these are the most amazing kids! we enjoyed them so much!

friday morning...seeing uncle roland.

brother to brother...

sweethearts. alzheimers may creep in but the heart KNOWS.

no words needed...

friday evening...uncle lanson (rogers) and sue came to visit with us and aunt virginia, we walked over to subway for supper.

brothers...

bethany came with kids in tow...

all of us (gail took over camera duty)...left to right; aunt virginia, bethany, mama, uncle lanson, daddy, me, sue, morgan holding autumn, curly headed reagen and ethan.

saturday morning...leaving kentucky, headed to springfield, tennessee for a wedding shower cookout for will & casey.

important stop on the way back to tennessee...

uncle lanson and sue's little slice of heaven...built by their own hands, it is amazing! a sweet refuge where the pace is slow and peaceful...BEAUTIFUL!

in springfield...celebrating will and casey, wedding in july.

will belongs to ronnie (aunt christine (mama's sister) and uncle merky's son) and gail. a great party!
congratulations will and casey...see ya'll in july!

A GREAT WEEKEND...full of family...tipps/rogers and crabtree.

-holly

memorial day.

the griller of the hamburgers...

the eaters of the hamburgers.

fred (alfred), troy and "patton".

not just for water.

tomatoes, squash and peppers, oh my. mama & daddy's little garden spot....we'll see how she grows.

the graduate.

Ashlyn graduated with flying colors! She did awesome! We are all so proud.

Celebrating Ashlyn's accomplishment were Mama, Daddy, Jax, Grandma, Paw-Paw, GiGi, GiDa, Nana, Poppy, Jarrod, Blair, Noah, Grey and Great. Congratulations sweet girl, it is a pleasure watching you grow. You are so loved.

mother's day.

troy and I took mom & dad to our downtown italian restaurant, Arezzo's, for brunch after church to celebrate mother's day...gail came over for the afternoon & brought mom a homemade coconut cake that she was SUPPOSED TO SHARE with aunt nellie but...

she had no self-control! even scraped the leavings and ate them off the knife! just kidding...she shared and i...

had some "couch time" with my boy. it was a great mother's day.

--holly

hooray grey.

we celebrated grey's #2 at his house saturday. cake, ice cream, balloons, presents and bubble mowers...pictures say it all.

uncle t. building the "city"...jax helped.

celebrating ashlyn.

i'm a little behind...so backing up to share ashlyn's bday party at the bounce barn. lots of family and friends showed up to celebrate the birthday girl...she is as sweet as she is beautiful. we love you ashlyn!