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Happy Birthday DBC

Twenty-five years ago my dreams & prayers came true with the birth of DBC .. 

Happy Birthday, Bear!

 

All You Need To Know About OLE MISS!

This is precious!! 


'This is from one of our PDS Pre-K Bible classes...They started talking about Ole Miss and our Bible teacher had to record it :) Click the link below and enjoy!! 

This started today with me telling the boys we are praying for Morocco this
week. Will T. asked "when are we going to pray for Oxford? It is the home
of the Rebs." I replied, "I agree. They need LOTS of prayers!" Then Will
and Trey started telling me all about Ole Miss. I had to pick up my camera!
 Enjoy!!!'

 

HOTTY TODDY!!

Such a wonderful four days spent in Oxford, MS with our entire family! 

Bear flew in on Friday afternoon, a day after us, due to work, but he had such a great time .. his first visit to Ole Miss.

We rented the same house as last year and had a tent and food all ready for us in The Grove for game day. Of course, the game was - dare I say - pitiful! But, as the saying goes, Ole Miss never loses a party. SO much fun in The Grove!

Thursday lunch at Ajax Diner and shopping on The Square

Griff's lunch .. fried catfish (their specialty), fries, mac & cheese and corn bread 

Connor's house .. so nice, just a block behind The Square and actually neat & clean!!

Love the dining room 'table'

And, um .. the next day after a party. The house not so neat and clean

We walked to the cemetery, for a little field trip to see Faulkner's grave where there is always a bottle of Jack Daniel's or two

Also took Griff to see Rowen Oak (Faulkner's Home). I have been on a previous trip, but since Griff was playing 'hooky' from school, another field trip was in order.

He was thrilled ;)

Dinner at The City Grocery .. Our Anniversary (27 years!) Cheers!

Griff and 2 of Connor's friends that joined us for dinner

On to Friday ... breakfast at Big Bad Breakfast. SO good - Oxford has the best restaurants.

One of Connor's roommates joined us.

A cool morning .. Connor in his ear warmers!

 

Dinner at The Ravine Friday evening.

May just be one of the best restaurants I have ever eaten at. So good and another fun evening!

With ALL my boys ...

Our friends from Nashville. Katie goes to Ole Miss and her dad went to UF with Dan

Katie, her boyfriend Michael, friend Allie and parents

Two of a kind!

At Boure on The Square after dinner

A new store opened on the Square, Pink & Proper .. a Lilly Store!

Connor was excited about it (well, not exaclty, but knew that I would be!)

And .. Christie Leigh Mueller was there on Saturday morning signing her new book, Gridiron Saturdays!

My lucky day .. I was planning on purchasing this book and how fabulous that I was able to meet the author - she is darling! - and get a signed copy. 

I had to include all our teams

On to THE GROVE!

LSU fans .. all were so nice and quite 'colorful'!

 

Look who I found .. Col Reb is alive and well!

Griff with LSU fans .. such handsome, nice boys!

NO Bear sightings at all in The Grove .. The Colonel has risen again!

 

Dan & B with a former player, Marcus Allen, I think?

Someone else took this picture with Dan's phone - too bad it is so blurry

And we actually went to the game and had great seats , about 10 rows up on the 50 yard line. Of course the game was painful to watch .. we only stayed for the first half.

Palm Beach Girl's Weekend!

Such a fabulous weekend trip down to Palm Beach with my friend's Kerry and Lisa (3 other gals meet us there too).

Lisa was so gracious to invite us to stay at her beautiful Palm Beach home .. complete with bedrooms decorated in Lilly style! I just wanted to move in for good (not having any daughter's, I have no girly- girl bedrooms).

Love the monogram head board ..

Gorgeous hand painted dresser and lamps ..

 

We started our weekend with lunch at Cucina ..

And a little shopping ..

Bracelets galore!

All set for Friday evening happy hour before heading out to dinner and dancing (to Motown!!) at The Polo Club at The Colony Hotel ..

 

Desserts for later ..

 

My party 'favors' ..

Dinner at The Colony Polo Club ..

Dancing to Motown music ... love this picture of Lisa and Carol. We had SO much fun!! 

My new boy friend .. and can he ever do the 'bump'!! He about knocked me off my feet. Ha .. thank goodness no pictures of that!

Saturday, we were off to the 80th Birthday Brunch at the Museum of Lifestyle and Fashion History  for Miss Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau!!

I am honored to have already met Lilly (just this past January) and have photos taken, so I did not get a picture with her this time. (I graciously allowed others to talk and have photo ops with her) ;). She is just as lovely as ever and looked so pretty and stylish in her pink sweater, murfee scarf and beautiful earrings.

My sweet friend Natalie and Lilly. Natalie use to work at the WP Lilly, but moved down to Palm Beach to work at the new Lilly store about to open in The Breakers Hotel! Miss her lots, but am so happy and excited for her!!

With Kerry .. it was so hard to get a good picture since I had to work my way through the crowd of Lilly-clad ladies waiting to meet Lilly!

Of course, I changed my mind (about 10 times over) as to what to wear, and ended up wearing a solid, navy lace Lilly (which I love), but now wish I would have worn a print. Kerry and I have many of the same designs, so there was lots of talk prior as to what to wear.

 

DCal needs this outfit for the golf links! ...

I donated a gift certificate to the silent auction ..

The Museum and event is in the Boynton Mall and right next to Sears! Ha, ..

 

On to Saturday night dinner at Echo. Another fun evening, but no dancing included .. we were all a bit danced out (although, I can not wait to return to PB and my Motown men)!

Beautiful Lisa (our Palm Beach hostess)!

And her sweet pup, Cory. Stylin' in Lilly ..

 

More Wedding ..

 I forgot to post the family pictures at my niece's wedding.

Fun times for sure!

 

My handsome men  .. missing Connor :(

 

My little brother, Marc - Dcal - nephew Jordan - Barret & Griff

SIL Terri, Pat & Doris (my mother's dear friends), sister Deb, me and niece Alli

fun with the photo booth props

Allie

 

Cousins

 

Behind the scenes at The Pink Palace ...

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Halloween Past ..

My little 'punkins'

Barret - Connor - Griff

 

Bear Boy ..

Connor ..

B & C ..

arrr .. some mean pirates (and a sweet little penguin) ..

and the next year .. Connor wears the 'fro' (this was a favorite of all 3 for many years)

Griff ..