june 23

isn't this cake beautiful! and soo delicious!

a wonderful day :)

mum time

my lovely mum came for a visit just in time for my birthday! while we have some pics of that (and the RSA game we went to), i'm sorry to say that we didn't take many photos together. 

photo sesh

a few weeks ago, we had some family photos taken... check out the first couple on our photographer's website! 

melissa, our photographer, is the sister-in-law of one of my close friends.  she was in town on vacation and offered a little photo sesh. we'd been looking for a good photographer for a couple of months and so we jumped at the chance to use her! we had so much fun with her and i can't wait to see the rest!

here's a little sneak peak...

definitely check out the rest of her work! she's a great photographer :)

RSA v FRA

an exciting game and great win... but so sad to not be able to advance to the next round!

bright and early ;)

even madison came prepared!

mom made some new friends!  on holiday from south africa, they were driving through town headed to ft lauderdale and stopped in to watch the game!

south africa v uruguay

not a great game in my opinion, but i still had fun!


some new friends

sweet husband took a "break" from work to come watch with us

after the game...

who's ready for world cup south africa??

... me!!

n'kosi sikeleli afrika!

sharptop cove ... pt.2

sharptop cove ... pt.1

happy memorial day!

get ready for africa!

get excited folks- the world cup is in south africa this year!

derby day!

i love the kentucky derby.

such a fun event with such great traditions.  i watch it every year happily. hugh could care less as long as i make derby pie.  he's pretty adamant about that. and faith tried to get her mom to drive her up (over an hour) to our house just so that she could have a piece.

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this year's derby day with a lovely group of friends...

my hat, complete with heirloom brooch from granny

none of us picked the winning horse, so kate got the prize for coming in closest to 1st

the kingdom

loveland

a recent trip hugh took out to colorado... he was worried that there wouldn't be enough snow. but these are the pics i got. and this came after the phone call saying that he was stuck in thigh high powder about 30 minutes off the trail (this due to the fact that he couldn't actually see through the snow enough to stay on the trail)