three cheers for friday!

it has been a good week. the weather has been nice and crisp and perfect in nashville this week. as i write this, it's raining and perfect. perfect because i am not working this early morn'n and am sitting here in my pajamas with peggy curled up by my side, towel still in my freshly washed hair, today show on...you get it.  if it gets any better...i might just fall aslee..........

happy weekend friends.

its instagram friday (aka weekly photo dump).

this past weekend, the second brad and i got off, we hit the road for a quick trip to charlottesville, virginia. i had never been and we were due a road trip, so to charlottesville we headed.

such a fun city, there is always something to do and see. and it's just all around lovely. the first night we were there, we ate at a little diner (we love us a good diner) called the nook, and while we were there we read a local publication called the hook.

we read the hook in the nook.

and i thought that was huuuuularious and ran that joke into the ground.

bless brad's heart, man has a lot of patience.

 we also ate at a little pub called millers in the outdoor downtown mall, and when i was handed the menu, i noticed the saturday special was the 'nacho burger' and i immediately thought, "oh my lord, that sounds horrible, WHO would order that?"

waitress came to take our order, "i'll have the nacho burger" said brad - i threw up in my mouth just a little.  and it looked as disgusting as it sounded.

possibly it was delicious, i will never know.

by the way, those bricks up there...monticello.

thomas jefferson might have walked there.

that's cool.

oh lord, i would accidentally put the nacho burger picture in twice!

sweet frog became our local hang out.  because the frozen yogurt was gluten and sugar free and AWESOME.

the OPERA!!!  brad took me to the opera to see the king and i.

and IT WAS awesome.

then, baaaack to reality to these three sweet faces.
she has decided that shirts are optional in her life since her brothers tend to never wear them.

we drew pictures of our families yesterday and this is the best i could do.
watch out...i might be a budding artist.
or maybe not.

happy instagram friday!

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yay!  happy friday!

p.s.  i am doing a little maintenance on the blog, so if things seem crazy around here, i'm sorry.  soon we will be running smoothly!

hooray for monday!

i just got finished reading jaycee dugards autobiography.  i am overwhelmed and speechless at the courage of this lady.  to live and SURVIVE in the hand life gave her for eighteen years says a lot about the human spirit and, especially about her spirit.  it's a must read.  it will challenge you to be more thankful for the everyday.

speaking of the every day, i had the children over the weekend while their parents enjoyed some time away.  their grandmother took each of the twins for an over night stay for some one on one time and i was left with the other and lil bit for our own special time.  the first little fella, lil bit and i went to swim with our best nine year old girlfriend.

lil bit discovered with much prompting and encouraging that it was, in fact, the greatest thing ever to push people in the water.  so for a good thirty minutes this was the scene over and over and over again.

when we got home, it was bath time and she opened the potty and pulled her skirt up to "potty" just like her brothers do.  oh, potty training is going to a long one...

the next day was the other fellas turn and he wanted to make sure that whatever we did i did not do with his brother.  i suggested swimming, but was met with protest since i did that with his brother.  get an original idea, ms. jessica.

so we did cartwheels in the kitchen for a while.  i didn't do that with his brother.

we went on a walk, with lil bit and he even got to push the stroller.  i didn't do that with his brother.

and of course, we had to bring "blue" on our walk, then blue got thrown out of the stroller 254, 567, 509 times so i decided to carry it and the lullaby that played when you push its belly got stuck and it played the entire walk.  it was awesome.  

sunday, again on the mission to only do what his brother did not he decided he wanted (and i let him create his day) 

1.  books a million

2.  dollar tree

3.  target

and even though target was in the same shopping area, we went in that order complete with a pizza upon leaving target.  he thinks the pizzas at target are the best.  ever.  it's really a thrill when you say "hey, i will take you anywhere for a special lunch, where do you want to go???" and he says target.  really?  

all in all, it was a good weekend.  

after baths last night, we watered the flowers outside...and a little more too.

how was your weekend?