Save the Date

It is unofficially Official, Jordan and Ashlyn are engaged!  They don't want to tell their friends or post anything on Facebook until the ring is on her finger, but Jordan said I could post for my 5 or 6 readers!  So, now you know, just don't congratulate them on Facebook yet!  The wedding date is August 22, so write that on your calendars!  Colleen, we will be sure and sing Happy Birthday to you, too!

Hats Off To The Derby Girls

First, for my few readers who may not know what a Derby Girl is...my sisters and I and our daughters were skiing together a few years ago and decided we needed a name for our "club" and somehow we came up with Derby Girls...we get together about every month or so for some kind of fun activity...of course, we invited our Mom to join and now as we have started adding daughters-in-law and granddaughters, they join in the fun, too!

This last week was our Derby Girls' Tea.  We decided that celebrating around the Kentucky Derby was a good idea, especially since my Mom and sisters and I have all actually lived in Kentucky!  We also took a cue from the Derby and made sure we all wore hats.  

Here is a close up look at the hats...

Cheryl wins for having the best themed hat, with
an authentic pinewood DERBY car attached...

and here are the ladies wearing their hats!

Colleen set a beautiful table on her patio...

 and she has worked tirelessly planting beautiful flowers for all of us to enjoy!  She also photographed flowers and made us all bookmarks and left them on our plates...

Everyone made up one or two delicious recipes to enjoy and put on the last minute touches 

in the kitchen... 

 and then took our beautiful food outside!

It was all delicious, we ate until we were beyond full, and we
all had a great time, except for missing our Texas Derby Girl, Jessica!

I will close with this last picture of our oldest and youngest Derby Girls!

Tim's Senior Trip

Tim is graduating this year, so it was time for his Senior Trip!  For Tim's trip, we took him to Atlantis in the Bahamas.  I decided that if I was ever going to get these pictures online, it would have to be in smaller groups, so here is the first set!  In the hotel is a huge aquarium!  It is in the middle of the lobby...but if you do some exploring, you find out there are tunnels connected to it.  There are smaller tanks filled with individual kinds of fish, too.  Here are some of the cool things we saw...

Lion Fish,

Paper Fish...

Jelly Fish...

Seahorse...so cool!

and Moray Eels!

the same eels, up close!

and of course, sharks!

But our favorite, was this enormous ray...he is swimming towards us...

and then he arrives!

And here is Tim, posing in some kind of diving cap!  (At least we think that's what it is!)

That is round one!  Hope you liked the aquarium tour!