Darden Reunion and Foxfield!

This year was Todd’s 10 year Darden reunion….which also happened to be Foxfield weekend, which is where/why/how Todd and I met 11 years ago!  This also happened to be the weekend after grandma and papa moved so close to us!  So I typed up the weekend itinerary and left her lots of wine and away we went!

Sadly I don’t have any pictures from Friday’s festivities.  We got in so early on Friday that we were able to have lunch with friends, buy some UVA swag and buy a case of wine and a cooler and have our own little cocktails in the garden on the Darden grounds while greeting everyone as they arrived!  That night was also class dinners.  And then Saturday was Foxfield!!!

Foxfield 2002 vs 2013!

Please enjoy all the glory that is Todd’s amazing shirt!!!

 

Races!!!  (Confession:  this may be the first time I’ve ever actually seen the races in the 4 years I’ve been!)

 

 

 

And I took video for the boys!

The civilized grad school area…

and the undergrad!  hysterical!  and to think my first year I was part of that mayhem…..

 

lovely ladies!  thank god for facebook!

 

We’ve got cookies, we’ve got pretzels, we’ve got wine, we’ve got fist pumps and we’ve got love!

I’m not gonna lie, I’m quite proud that she didn’t let go of her beer!

Gotcha!

And later that night we had to go and get all respectable looking…

Well, respectable didn’t last long….Smokestack in 4

 

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This about sums up the weekend!

Sunday we got to have brunch with our very dear friends before heading back home.  It was an absolutely perfect weekend, so very blessed for our good friends and for grandma and papa’s help so we could have such a lovely weekend away!

The busiest and most exciting weekend ever!!!

The weekend of April 19th-21st was the busiest weekend in the history of ever!  Todd was leaving Friday morning to fly to Indiana to pack up his parents and move them to North Georgia Mountains!!!  (WOOOOHOOOO!!!!)  This was the most exciting part!  And the busy was everything else!

Finn had a half day on Friday and we also had 1st grade orientation (eeep!!!!).  Saturday we had a soccer game for Riley, a birthday party for one of Riley’s friends (that only Riley was invited to) Finn had golf and a t-ball game and we had a big BBQ at a friends house (4th Annual Lutz 420 Festival).  But of course everything was at conflicting times and with Todd out of town there was no way I could make it to all of those things on my own. 

When they say it takes a village…they aren’t joking!  And on this particular weekend, I called in my village for reinforcement!  I had Uncle Buzz come and help with Finn and Kellen while I took Riley to his birthday party and then Aunt Tay Tay came in time for Uncle Buzz to take Finn to golf and she stayed while Kellen napped.  We ended up skipping t-ball and I took them all to the soccer game in the morning and to the BBQ in the afternoon.  It was exhausting coordinating it all, but an amazingly FUN day!

We also threw in a little birthday party for Aunt Tay Tay in there!

And we also squeezed in some time to make cards for Aunt Tay Tay and Papa!!  The boys are being super creative with their cards lately, these were amazing!  In order from top to bottom:  Finn, Kellen, Riley

 

Sunday morning I packed up the boys and we headed up north to check out grandma and papa’s new place!  Due to many snafu’s, they unfortunately were not moved in to their house and so we helped them out!

  

And their new GORGEOUS view!!!

And because we just had to squeeze one more thing in, Finn had a school project due on Monday for transportation….so we built a wooden school bus together!

Yes, those are beer caps for wheels.  Klassy.

And then we slept for days.

I Moustache You A Question….

This shirt cracks me up every single time he wears it!

And Riley got a new outfit, which is his FAVORITE outfit (hooray because I think it is adorable!) and he just wanted to get a picture with Kellen!

East Lake Community Garden Goats!

Our neighborhood garden acquired some goats awhile ago and Todd usually takes the boys over every couple of days while I cook dinner.  Saturday night we had some friends over and after dinner we walked over and fed the goats some dinner!

First the boys sat on the front porch with the front door open facing the TV so they could watch the masters, but still enjoy the gorgeous day we were having.

And off we go….

 

Oh we so need a mini wheelbarrow….although I suppose we would probably need 3 or they will just fight over them, and where would we put 3, but oh how cute!