Crabfest

My wonderful husband and I had a great time last weekend with friends at the Crabfest.  I had a good friend from college, Adrienne, in town.  We had such a great visit and caught up just like old times.  Adrienne is such a fun smart girl and it's just been way too long since we last hung out.

Matt had his good friend that he grew up with, Andy, in town.  We don't get to see Andy and his wife Liz often enough but always enjoy hanging out with them.  We missed you, Liz, and look forward to seeing you in October, hopefully.

I learned that Andy is a faithful blog follower.  Hope you can forgive me for being a week behind in making you famous on the blog.  :-) 

Anyways, here are some pictures from our fabulous time with friends.

We enjoyed delicious crab, shrimp, hotdog (I actually can't stand hotdog, but I did eat one with a lot of ketchup, mustard, and relish.  Not sure I tasted the meat.), corn on the cob, and desserts.  I will say that the crab is so much work and not near as much fun as it used to be growing up when my dad would do all the work for me.  :-) 

After we ate, we spent the afternoon relaxing and enjoying the beer.

Since, this was a JMU alumni fundraising event, the Duke dog joined us.

Dave and Lyndsay live close the event and they graciously hosted us at their house before and after.  Here's a picture with Lyndsay and I (not sure what is going on with my hair):

And, of course, Dave and Lyndsay:

I can't tell you how happy I am about Baby Hamrick.  I am one excited honorary aunt.  Isn't Ali cute?  She is the best pregnant gal for putting up with all us silly silly people and driving us!

And look who else is excited... (Sorry Matt!  Couldn't resist posting this one. 

Not sure what Mark thinks of you kissing his wife's stomach.)

The proud parents by themselves...

The weather was wonderful all day.  Such a great time with friends!

Happy Retirement to my Wonderful Mother-in-Law and the next...

Walmart Greeter! 

As promised, I wanted to post pictures from the retirement party that we threw for Debbie, Matt's mom.  Debbie has been excited about this day for a while.  Matt, Courtney (Matt's sister), and I decided that we would plan her a surprise party to help her celebrate her retirement.  The day was a great day and I think Debbie thoroughly enjoyed herself as we all gave our congrats.   

The invitation:

The food, of course:  (No party is complete without good food!)

We set up the appetizers outside for people to munch on until the guest of honor arrived.

Here are some of the yummy food and a lot of empty platters:

(Sorry, after it was serving time, I was busy hostessing and not taking pictures.  But I assure you, it was delicious.  I'm posting recipes later.)

The Grill Master:

The cake:

The weather ended up being wonderful and such a good crowd came to show their love and support.  I truly think Debbie saw how much she means to all of us.

    

 

Debbie told us she still feels like she is on vacation.  We are excited for you, Debbie, and hope you continue enjoying your permanent vacation as you take time to travel and relax. 

Catching Up....

is my least favorite thing to do!  I manage to continually get behind on my blog posts and then am reminded that people are actually reading my nonsense.  I started this as a way for me to document what's going on in our life (some of the major and minor events of The Wheawill family) with the added benefit to capture my thoughts along with the pictures we take.  However, I am horrible at taking pictures!  :-)  Then, I get behind and it just takes me while to catch up.  Sometimes I think, I'll just stop updating, but I do enjoy going back and reading what was going on months ago and reminiscing over the holidays and it's a great way for my family (some of whom live way too far away to see on a regular basis) to see what's going on with Matt and I.  With that being said, Matt and I have been busy for the last couple of months.

So, what have we been up to?  Here's the month of July, that flew by::

• We had a very nice cook-out at our house with friends for the 4th of July.  I didn't get any pictures but it was a good time.  I always enjoy having people over and relaxing with great friends.  Plus, having cook-outs with my friends is great because my friends are some of the best cooks!  We definitely ate plenty of good food. 

• I went to Grundy to see my parents and sister for the weekend.  Also, I went to a shower for my best friend, Ali, that was thrown by some of the ladies of the church that Ali and I both attended growing up.  My mom was on of the hostesses so my sister and I helped her with some of the setting up.

I thought the decorations were cute.

My sister and were put in charge of setting up the hostess gift (pack-and-play) .  I was pretty proud of Meredith and I.  It doesn't look that hard to set it up but, looks are deceiving.

Taking it down isn't that much easier.  How many college graduates does it take?

Ali's sister, Jessie, made a cute diaper cake.

Ali is the cutest pregnant lady and is very excited about the arrival of her son.   Here she is with proud 2 proud Grandmothers.

And here she is with her proud grandmother, Mimi, and Baby Hamrick's proud great-grandmother.

Oh, and my present to Baby Hamrick....

Can you guess what I got the future Hokie?

I was very excited about shopping the cute VT baby outfits and was happy with what I ended up buying for Baby Hamrick.

Ali looked very cute at her shower and had a good time.

She was showered with so many nice gifts.  This baby is going to be well dressed.

Matt and I had a nice weekend in Grundy.  It's always good to get home to the Grundy and we hadn't been there since Feb. so it was definitely time to pay a visit.

• We celebrated Matt's mom's birthday in July.  I made a lemonade pie and used the recipe from the Southern Living magazine.  We had fun celebrating her birthday and I hope that you had a great day, Debbie!

• Our final weekend in July was a big fun-filled weekend celebrating Debbie's retirement and since I think I actually have pictures, I'll do a separate post. 

So, now it's middle of August and our weekends continue to be filled with fun.  I used to work some weekends but that is now a vague memory from the past.  Since I took this new job this winter, I must admit, that I have adjusted quickly to filling my weekends with a bunch of fun things.  I do not miss working at all during the weekends and was happy to give up any days that I had off during the week to getting weekends off.  :-)

Wheawill Country Club

Happy Summer!

It's been a muggy hot and humid week and honestly, I'm over it.  My plants are dying and I'm ready to move on to Fall.  But, I had a good summer and I had a make-shift pool, sunning on the deck, that was quite relaxing during these hot days so figured I would share.  I promise to get back to blogging after a long summer break.

I'm ready for football season.  Have you seen the rankings?  I'm pumped and ready for the big game on September 6th.  It will likely be a nail biter.