Nashvegas Weekend in Pictures

This weekend we hung around Nashville and had a relaxing weekend that included a date night, time with family, and lots of football.  I'll let the pictures do the talking!

 

We had a gift card to Outback, so Friday night was date night!  I can't hardly get Grant to take a serious picture...

 

On to Saturday:

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday we met up with these three beauties and Kelly and Jason on their way to the Luke Bryan concert for Alec's birthday!  We spent the day shopping around, had a photo shoot outside of target, and then dropped them off downtown at the concert!  Fun times :)

 

After the concert drop off, we headed to Sam's Sushi for Dinner.  Sam is about to close and move back to Japan, so this was probably our last time to eat there! Sad day :(

 

Sunday:

There are no pictures from Sunday, because all we did was go to church and lay on the couch all day!  Justin and AJ got to our house on late Saturday night, spent the night, and went to church with us.  I made homemade potato soup in the crock pot (delish) and we literally spent the rest of the day watching football!

 

Fun weekend in Nashville!  Hope everyone has a great week!

 

 

 



 



Starting to Feel Like Fall

We had another jam packed weekend in Kentucky!  Friday night after work we headed straight to Kem and Ray's house.  We haven't been home to KY for an actual weekend long visit in about a month, so we were excited to get to spend the weekend with everyone.  We spent Friday night playing with their dog Rimmy, watching the Cardinals in the playoffs, catching up, and resting up for a busy Saturday!

 

Saturday morning Grant and I had a meeting in Paducah.  After the meeting, we went and picked up Karson and her friend Karly on our way back through to meet Kem for lunch.  We met Kem for lunch at Parcell's (yummy!) and then went and looked at potential house for us to buy!  We are just now starting to try to figure out where we are going to live when we move back, and its so exciting to start looking.  I love looking at houses and decorating, so hopefully the process will just go super smoothly and we can find something we like in our budget!

 

After we toured around the house and neighborhood for awhile, we headed back to Kem's house to hang out for a bit.  Saturday night we had an engagement party for Kurt's new wife's daughter, so we wanted to relax before we had to head over to the party.  So, I got my camera out when we got home and we had a photo shoot!  Here are some of the shots we took.  Karson and Karly were great models!

 

Karson with her birthday present from Grant and I! She turns 16 in a couple of weeks and she LOVES elephants.

 

Me, Kem, and Karson

 

Karly and Karson

 

Trying out my settings!

 

We got a little carried away at this point...

 

Rimmy got in the spirit!

 

Looking good, Kemy! Ha!

 

After our fall photo shoot, we headed over to Kurt and Tracy's for the engagement party.  They made homemade ribs, which were delish, and everyone was supposed to bring a side item and the recipe to go with it.  It was a fun night with all of the families coming together and of course, the girls wanted to take some more pictures...

 

Aren't they pretty?!  Karson and Klein

 

Just your typical jumping pic!

 

Cousins!

 

Friends!

 

Somehow we ended up with four out of the six in the picture above at our house after the engagement party for a slumber party! 

 

Sunday morning we went to church, and then met the whole fam at Cracker Barrel for lunch!  Sunday equals football for this family, so we hurried home after we ate and watched the Rams BEAT the Texans! Whoo hoo!  We finished out the weekend catching up with the Parker's before heading back to Nashville. 

 

It's getting harder and harder to leave knowing that it is almost time for us to be back full-time, but at the same time we know we will be back soon!  Thankful for a great weekend and weather that actually started to feel like fall!

 

 

 







Happy 16th Birthday, Tucker

On our way home from St. Louis, we made a pit stop at Grant's parent's house for a surprise 16th birthday party for Tucker.  He knew that we were in St. Louis for the weekend, so I text him and told him that we were bringing by his gift if he wanted to come out and get it.  He thought he was going to go to dinner with some friends, but they told him they didn't mind bringing him out to the house!  When he arrived he actually had about 40 family members waiting to surprise him!  Tucker doesn't get embarrassed to easily, so it was funny to see him actually surprised!

 

"Surprise!"

 Tucker and Gabbi

 

 Sweet 16!

 

 The Lovett Family

 

 When he realized he was getting a truck!

 

 This is scary...

 

So glad we made it back in time to help celebrate!  I can't believe that he is 16 and ready to be driving!  Grant and I have taken him out a couple times and let him practice.  He likes to hug the edge of the road a little too close for me...I'm not a very good passenger.  I think I'll wait to ride with him for another year or so! haha!

 

Happy Sweet 16, Tucker!  We love you!!

 



St. Louis Weekend Getaway (Part 2)

Sunday was game day!  We woke up, got dressed in our Rams gear, and headed downtown for the festivities!  We walked around the dome for a while and found some lunch before we went inside. 

 

Some pics from the outside/tailgate area:

 

Isn't he the cutest?!

 

 The Arch!

 

Edward Jones Dome

 

 Happy 10 Years!

 

 

The NFL has a new policy this year that you can't take a purse or camera bag into the stadiums, so my good camera had to go back to the car and the iphone came out for the game!  We had great seats on the 30 yard line!

 



 

The best part of the day was the Ram's won!! YAY!  I think the past 4 or 5 times we have gone, they have lost every time, so it was great to finally see a win! 

 

We had a great weekend in St Louis celebrating ten years together and a great finish with a Ram's win!  I can't wait for Grant to start making some money so that we can go to more than one game a year!  :)

 

GO RAMS!

 



St. Louis Weekend Getaway (Part 1)

Every year on our anniversary of "dating" we try to make a trip to St. Louis to see the Rams play.  This year happened to be our ten year anniversary (whoa!) so we made a weekend getaway out of it!  We headed out of town on Friday, once we both got home from work, and took our time making the 5 1/2 hour trip.  We stopped at Chick-fil-a, then again at Dairy Queen (hey, it was vacation) and then arrived at our hotel around 11 on Friday night.

 

The view from our room on Saturday morning.  We decided this trip we would stay outside of the city a little bit and closer to the mall!

 

Saturday morning we woke up, got ready, and walked a few blocks over to a delicious little breakfast/brunch joint.  We sat outside on the patio and had a nice relaxing brunch.  The food was great!  After eating, we headed back to the hotel, got in the car, and went downtown to take a tour of the Budweiser plant.  As many times as we have been the St. Louis, this was one thing we had not done yet.  I couldn't wait to see the horses!

 

 

 

So Pretty!

Look what we found!  A type of copper that they used to use was called Grant Copper!

 

 

 

The tour lasted about two hours and was pretty fun!  Even though I hate the taste of beer (yuck!) it was still pretty neat to see the whole process and how they make it.  Fun fact:  It actually takes about three months for the beer to go through the whole brewing process before it is bottled up and headed to the stores!

 

After our tour, we had to get some shopping in of course!  I was hoping that the Victoria's Secret in St. Louis would have a wide variety of St. Louis Rams gear, but they had nothing...just one tiny rack!  ugh!  The mall there is awesome, though, and we spent a couple of hours shopping around before going back to the hotel to freshen up for dinner.

 

We ate dinner on the Hill in St. Louis, which is an area of town known for their Italian restaurants.  It was delish! 

 

Heading out to dinner.  I was trying to take the photo from my app that links directly to my good camera, so excuse the half, weird smiles! It's the best we could do!

 

Once we got back to the hotel after dinner, we were exhausted!  We had to get plenty of rest so that we could cheer the Ram's onto victory the next morning!

 

 

 

 

 



Cody's Back!!

Cody's back in Nashville! Yay! He really likes this blog, so he's getting his own blog post! You're welcome, Cody!

 

Cody has been away the whole time we have been here being the youth minister at church in Birmingham.  He recently got offered a job at his home church here in Nashville, and made the move back last week!  Usually whenever we end up living in the same city together, one of us usually moves off pretty soon after. Boo!  But, at least we will at least get three months of craziness with Cody before we head back to Kentucky. 

 

He came over tonight and we went to Pei Wei for dinner then stopped by Starbucks so the boys could get a coffee.  I hate coffee, but decided I would try to Pumpkin Spice Latte since it's the first day of October.  The PSL inspired this instagram post...

 

Pumpkin + Cody's Spiciness = A pumpkin spice latte. Ha!

 

We are so glad that he is back in town!  There is never a dull moment when we are with Cody!

 

 They love each other!

 

Besties :)

 

PS.  Check out that beard!



Walk to Emmaus

Wow!  What a great weekend I had!  I spent a full 72 hours doing nothing but worshipping the Lord, making new friends, and deepening my faith! 

 

A few months ago Kem approached Lisa and I with the idea to go on the Walk to Emmaus.  It is a 72 hour women's retreat that she had already participated in a loved it!  She was telling me how great it was, but I have to admit I was a little skeptical at first.  Anyone who knows Kemy knows she gets excited about little things (mt dew, dippin dots, etc) so I wasn't sure if this was another one of those things or if it really would be awesome! haha...sorry Kemy :)  After a few short hours, however, Lisa and I both knew it was going to be great!

 

I can't give away the full report, because some people reading this might go on the walk later, so here is the short abbreviated version.  I left work early on Thursday and headed to KY.  The retreat was at a camp not far from our hometown.  Thursday night we had the opening ceremonies, got settled into our cabin, and started getting to know each other.  Friday we were split into different tables of seven or so people.  These people made my weekend!  We had worship time and listened to several speakers throughout the day.  Some of the stories that we heard were just unreal!  The way God has worked in some of the women there was amazing!  It was so encouraging to see where they had been and where they are now.  Saturday we had a couple of special activities that really made us look at our faith and our Christian walk.  We had a couple more surprises on Sunday and then closing ceremonies that night.  We went pretty much nonstop and I was exhausted by the end of it!

 

My table was labeled Mary.  Best table ever!  We were all relatively around the same age, but we had all experienced so many different things in our lives.  We had dealt with things such as death, drugs, alcohol, disease, abuse, family problems, and questioning our faith.  After we started to get to know each other these girls were so easy to talk to!  It seemed like we had known each other forever!  I can't wait to hopefully get to meet back up, keep each other accountable, and catch up.

 

Candise, Karlye, Ashley, Me, Amy, Aimee, and Brittany - Table of Mary

 

The whole group!

 

I learned so much about myself and my faith this weekend.  I needed the revival!  One of the most uplifting parts of the weekend was seeing the amount of sacrifice, thought, and work that the people in charge put into the weekend.  It was crazy!  There were two women who stayed in room and literally prayed the whole 72 hours.  Someone brought them their meals and they took turns sleeping.  Someone was literally constantly in prayer for us the entire time we were there.  Thanks Kemy for sponsoring me and encouraging me to go! This weekend definitely opened my eyes and strengthened my faith.  God is good!!