This trip is one of my favorites and I’m SO thankful we make it a priority to go each year.  Last year I was super pregnant with Isa and 4 of the girls brought their babies with them!  So, this year, with Isa being the only baby there (since she’s still under 1 and still […]

This year at the beach was even more special than usual because this year?  This year we were celebrating Clemson becoming NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!  It’s still surreal to be able to say that!  The last time Clemson won the National Championship game for the 1981 season and I had just turned 2 years old.  Which, now that […]

We didn’t actually see any falcons, but we did see some vultures, which completely gave me the heebie jeebies.  Yikes.  They were close to the giraffes and it made me fearful for them!  I think maybe I’ve watched the Lion King and the Lion Guard too many times :-) Catherine and I headed down to […]

This weekend is one that I look forward to every year.  It was also our 10th time taking a trip like this, which not only made us feel old, but it made us grateful for the time we’ve had to spend together with such intentionality.  Most of us first met our freshman year in college […]

Every year, this trip makes me wish that we still lived in Lightsey Bridge where we were all within a 2 minute walk of each other, we all saw each other on a regular basis, and the only thing that got in the way of that were classes (not life, jobs, or other adult responsibilities…) […]