It's Gameday! It's Gameday!

This weekend we headed to the Classic City to cheer on our Georgia Bulldogs with 92,746 of our closest friends.  We set up a tailgate at the Holiday Inn and spent the afternoon eating, drink, and hanging out with some of our favorite people.  It was so much fun to see our college friends and great to tailgate with some of our Waynesboro friends, too.   Around 7pm we headed down to Sanford Stadium to watch our dawgs dominate the Vandy Commadores 48-3 (!!) and of course ended the night with friends at a few downtown bars. 

 

 

 

 

How 'bout them dawgs!! :)

Ten on Tuesday

1. We've spent the past two weekends working on a project for the den!  We found this coffee table on Pinterest and after a little encouragement from our builder-friend-extraordinaire Chris Lineback, we decided to go for it. 

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We still have to add the "X"s and the "L-brackets" and of course stain it, but we're probably two-thirds of the way done and love it!

I'll post the finished product as soon as it's done. :)

2. I also created another quick little project I saw on Pinterest a few weeks ago.  I just put some scrapbook paper in a white picture frame that I wasn't using and created an instant white board for the kitchen.  We use it for grocery lists, reminders, and little notes to each other.  So easy!

3.  Aww today marks our little pup being six months old!  I realize I'm that annoying girl that treats her dog like her child, but I just can't help it.  I mean, look at that face. ;)

4. And speaking of important dates, today is baby Charlie's two month birthday!  I'm so sad I still haven't met her, but I fall more and more in love with her from each picture Demetria sends me.   We love our baby bah!

5. We have three couple friends in Waynesboro who are all due with their first babies in October.  I cannot believe Emma, Brigham, and Sydnee will be here so soon, and I can't wait to finally hold them!

6.  I recently started taking a class to get my "Gifted Endorsement," so I can hopefully teach all honors science classes next year. I have to take four classes throughout the year and each class requires a minimum of fifty hours. Thankfully, the class meets at BCMS, so I just have to walk down the hall, but it's every Tuesday from 4:30-9:30 and some Saturdays. The hours are long and we have homework, but I'm a big nerd and am actually kind of loving it. :)

7.  Gaines and I have been loving the fact that college football is underway and pretty much have our TV turned to ESPN all weekend.  Our Bulldogs have beat Buffalo, Missouri, and Florida Atlantic and are currently ranked #5! How 'bout them dawgs?

8. And speaking of the dawgs, we're going to Athens this weekend for the UGA vs. Vandy game!  I absolutely cannot wait to tailgate, cheer on my favorite team, and hang out with some of my college besties.

 

9.  This weekend is sort of Gaines' last hurrah for a little while, though.  He's had a ruptered disk in his back since about March and is getting back surgery next Wednesday to fix it and straighten out his spine. :(  Any prayers would be much appreciated!

10.   Is anyone else excited about the upcoming fall shows?  Gaines' recovery actually falls at a perfect time, because we'll have an excuse to sit around all of next weekend and watch our favorites.  Modern Family, CSI, The Big Bang Theory, Person of Interest, and Revenge, how we've missed you!  

Happy Tuesday!

The Future Mr. and Mrs. Lettre

Congratulations to one of my best friends since sixth grade Elisabeth on her engagement to Mike!!

 

 

He proposed at Oyster Bar in Columbia last Thursday night (look at that rock!), almost three years after their first date.  Congratulations to the future Lettres, and I can't wait for the celebrations to begin!!

Labor Day Weekend :)

I'm baaaaaaaack!

 

This past weekend Gaines and I headed home to see my family for the long weekend.  I had been looking forward to it for months, and it was by far the best weekend ever.  Seriously.  But how could I not have had fun with my most favorite people in the world at my most favorite place in the world? 

 

We left Friday after work and got to the rivah a little after midnight.  It was a long ride, but we passed the time chatting, listening to music, and laughing hysterically over Suri's Burn Book (if you haven't seen this site, go there now!). 

 

 

And for once we had another passenger!  Molly was honestly the easiest, best dog in the car. And I'm not just saying that beacuse she's mine.  She was literally perfect.  She would either look out the window...

 

 

sleep...

 

 

or look ridiculously cute the entire time.

 

 

On Saturday morning we woke up to this view...

 

 

I know, right? 

 

And since it was basically Molly's first time in the water, we were so excited to teach her to swim...

 

 

which she wasn't really sure about until she got left out of the family picture.

 

 

By the end of the day, she was a swimming pro! Watch out Michael Phelps.

 

 

My sweet grandparents joined us from New Hampshire....

 

 

Dales and Pat came down New York... and Sammy and Meghan (not pictured) came from up Florida and North Carolina.  Talk about a family of travelers!

 

 

That afternoon we sat on the dock and ate our way through an entire bushel of crabs...

 

 

 lounged by the pool...

 

 

and ate snacks out of poor Grammy's broken thumb splint thing.

 

 

We shared tons of stories and laughs over an amazing "surf and turf" meal...

 

 

and of course it's never a Turner family gathering without a little dancing in the kitchen...

 

 

and a little lovin' on Tucker.

 

 

Meanwhile, Molly cozied up to Papa...

 

 

but only used Gram for her wine. Smart girl. ;)

 

 

On Sunday the boys went off to play golf...

 

 

the girls hung by the water...

 

 

and Dad chilled with his new favorite family member.

 

 

 Later, we took the boat and jetskis across the channel the sand bar...

 

 

and then enjoyed another delicious meal made by "Momma T," followed by a little game of family beer pong in the basement.  

 

 

We ended the night and the weekend with a little family photo...

 

 

 that makes me smile from ear to ear every time I look at it.  It's so rare nowadays that my whole family is together, but when we are I just get such an overwhelming sense of happiness. 

 

I love you all and thank you for the perfect weekend!!  

 

Den Update!

The other day I showed off our new couches, and today I'm back with some actual camera pictures... instead of Instragram pictures from my phone. :)

 

Our den has definitely transformed over the last two years, and it was fun to look back on pictures to see how far it's come.  Here was our den right after Gaines bought the house...

 

 

...and after his family painted it and he got new hardwood floors (which you can't see in this picture)...

 

...and again after we added larger paintings, new borrowed lamps, and new pillows.

 

 

Here it is updated with our new couches, a new plant in the corner, and a few more accessories! :)

 

 

 

 

Last, but not least, here are some views from the other side of the room, even though that part hasn't changed much.   

 

 

And yes that would be Gossip Girl reruns on TV... the husband obviously wasn't home when these pictures were taken. ;)