What do you do when you hear what sounds like a fire breathing dragon outside your home? You grab your Nikon and run out to take a picture or two!
The lovely hot air filled baubles from this weekend’s Freedom Weekend Aloft in Simpsonville loftily made their way to our side of town and managed to give the residents of Holly Tree quite a show. Many even landed in our cul-de-sacs and yards! How cool is that?
Yesterday was a muggy, sunny day, the kind of day in the South that tends to produce late afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Well… not only did we get showers and thunderstorms, we got golfballs falling from the sky! I have never seen hail like this in my 42 years on Earth so I felt it was worthy of sharing on my blog! Go ahead, ooh and ahh and wow yourselves silly because this did happen!
And if I could figure out how to make the video I took of this event smaller, I would have been able to post it as well as prove that I wasn’t just getting creative with some water in the freezer! Ahhh…technology!
Our trip to New York last weekend was full of good times, food, and family. It was also full of beautiful blooms everywhere we looked. I don’t know what it is about flowers but I could spend hours photographing them. The rainbow of colors and the variety of shapes are amazing and they just plain make me smile!
So here they are, an array of New York flowers to make you smile!
Our first day in New York started early. We ventured to Alexa’s apartment to drop off our bags. When we arrived, our perfect hostess had a lovely little note with a map waiting for us! She had prepaid metro cards and a pot of coffee for us as well! Our day had officially begun!
We met Alexa for lunch and ate at Bryant Park in the sunshine, surrounded by blooms! We then got to go to her office to finally see where she works! She has a door! We were impressed and proud!
Sadly, we had to leave her for a few hours while she finished her day at work so back out to the streets of New York we went only to be greeted by this…
So our rainy afternoon museum trip was well worth our time and it kept us occupied until we needed to head back to meet our working girl.
Then it was off to Veselka to eat some Ukrainian soul food with one of Alexa’s former professors and her husband. We had a great time and the weather had cleared so we could eat outside. What a great first day we had but it was only the beginning to one of the most wonderful of weekends with family in this great big city!
There are just certain moments that stamp permanant memories into our brains. This past weekend was full of those moments. Lots and lots of “laughing so hard that you cry” moments, aha! moments like realizing your daughter has webbed fingers (this also fell into the “laughing so hard that you cry moment” category), moments of culinary bliss (I think my eyes may have rolled back once or twice), and reflective moments. I revelled in the fact that I was watching so much go on right in front of me. I was in a city full of people with their own moments and new memories being made.
But there, amidst this gigantic city was part of my family with so much going on! There is a new baby Moyer on the way who will get to have a most wonderful Mommy and Daddy, a daughter full of potential with so much to offer and making her mark in this world, and my husband and I on the way to a new phase in our lives. I have so much to be thankful for and these moments only add to my appreciation for all I have in my life. I love these moments!
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