A Road Trip!

Last Saturday, I packed up Ford and Virginia and we drove to Nashville to meet up with my sister and her 3 girls. The Taylor Swift concert was the reason for the drive . . . and it was worth the 11 hours in the car for one night in Nashville with Taylor and these fun folks!

The crew all ready for the show (my sister didn't actually go to the concert because you could only by 6 seats together -- that means I took a 16, 13, 9, 7 and 6 year old to a concert all by myself!). . .

Waiting on the show to start . . .
A little Taylor <3!

And the next morning, we did the Nashville thing and headed to Pancake Pantry for breakfast. Yummy!

1st Grade heads to the gardens . . .

The Missouri Botanical Gardens are amazing! I was so excited to go with Virginia's first grade class on their field trip. Sadly, rainy weather (not so surprising these days!), ended our day a little early, but we still had lots of fun!

The girls loved leaning over the ropes and touching the koi. I can't believe no one fell in!! This will definitely be on our "to do" list for summer!





An amazing place with some really sweet girls!

So busy and so behind!

We have been so busy! And I am so behind! So, I'm going to throw together a camera phone post on what has been keeping us on the move . . .

Virginia has been hip hopping! The recital is June 11th. She loves the teacher, Reggie, and all her friends in the class. I love watching!

And a little frog catching . . . this one was much, much larger than the tree frogs at Uncle Bryan and Aunt May's lake house!
A little cake pop eating . . .
A lot of batting cages, baseball practices and games!
Some end of the year Reed Rockin' . . . Ford is on the left in navy! He loved the music which included a little Beatles and other oldies. He was amazed when Brent and I knew the songs . . . I love it when we surprise him!
A little park swingin' . . . and Jeb learned to ride a bike with no training wheels! Maybe a video will follow if I can get it to upload!
A little Cardinals baseball too . . . sitting on the VERY top row with lots of our friends from school.
Did I mention it was FREEZING AND WINDY on May 2nd!
Jeb had an adorable Mother's Day program and Mema happened to be in town to join us!
We have also been playing tennis, Jeb has been swimming (videos of that possible too!), and school has been ending. Plus a road trip and the start of a new summer ritual! Stay tuned . . .