showers, showers, showers

Amanda's Baby Shower

Atlanta, GA

Mmmm... some of the best cake I ever ate... Thanks you Macon Cake Lady!

Granny and Gma

The Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers.

My team

Sisters 

Anna's Bridal Shower

Athens, GA

Pie themed yummo!

My Lar Bar. 

The gorgeous bride

V baby

Anna's quilt from the bridesmaids (I want one before I'm dead ladies...)

Chrissy's Baby Shower

Durham, NC

Not the shower, but I had to stick this in... Aislinn and Cole's awesome house. So amazing!

The Fantastic Four and Kai

Nana, Kate and Caleb

Noelle starting out the games

My version of Kai

"The Amazing Diaper Race"

Chrissy's nursing blanket

My gift for Kai

We stole a moment with Caylin... The card said 

"It's your turn! Love, Aislinn, Laura, Lauren, Chrissy and Jenni"

(She loved it)

Her awesome bag with her new initials and 3 bridal magazines... Caylin, happy as a clam :)

The Great Debate

The job debate has finally ended for the Clemens family and it is time to celebrate! Wahoo! I am so proud of my husband who received today a much deserved promotion. He had 2 amazing offers on the table, and after weeks of wrestling, prayers, advice, decision making, etc... he decided to stay at his current company. He is now an Investment Strategy Analyst. Booyah!

SO PROUD!

Proverbs 11:23 - "The desire of the righteous ends only in good..."

a generous man

Who knew husbands could be so generous? 

My already trophy husband on a whim buys me an iphone... pretty much blowing my mind. Just for fun, cause he loves me, got a promotion and wanted to treat me. 

(I am lucky)

And after having the gift in hand, I realized something. I am not a gadget buyer, at all. 

If I get a wad of cash... it either goes to two places: 

1. My secret wooden money box (yep, true and lots of cash resides there) 

2. Anthropologie

So all of a sudden having a iphone in hand, and a 3GS 16GB at that, is seriously empowering. I had NO idea what I was missing all this time. 

Thank you handsome, giving, loving, generous husband. And Steve Jobs. 

Caylin and D.H. sitting in a tree....

Sharing in their joy. Truly. 

Ian and I are so grateful for our wonderful friends. We have endured so, so much together. I can't wait for this next chapter. Cayd, its your turn :)

(Side note, there is so much I want to share from my incredible weekend - Revived, Renewed, Refreshed - but it will have to wait... my heart is just too full of joy for the soon to be Bathons!)

Getting out of town

Wow, the last week has been quite eventful... 

As I waited at 30th Street Station to head to the airport, I had no idea what the next 6 days would hold. 

Waiting for the R1 train to come so I could race to my gate and barely catch my flight.

Starting with meeting Lola in the airport, a 5 year old that began our friendship by complimenting me on my sneakers.

Courtesy of my husband for Christmas. Designed by him (impressive right!?) - notice the "Mrs C" on the heal. Love him.

Lola and I shared 15 minutes of riveting conversation, and as I turned away from her to eat my salad, I felt two little fingers in my armpit. Yes, you read that correct - IN MY ARMPIT - wiggling around. I turned to her cute smiling face and asked... "um, are you tickling me?" And sure enough, full of giggles, her cute little voice replied "yes, are you ticklish?... hehehe..." After explaining that I am the kind of girl who prefers for some one to know my name before they tickle me, (which she didn't really understand), she followed by tickling my neck with both of her little hands. What does one do in this situation?? She thought this was hilarious... until her mother turned to find her tickling a complete stranger. The scolding was so funny, considering her mother was laughing so hard and at the same time was mortified. 

And this was just my airport experience!

I soon arrived in sunny Florida, mid-70s, blue sky, my parents and awesome cousins and aunt.... ahhhhhh..... Do you know how hard it is at times to live 13 hours away from them!! 

3 days in Seagrove, off of highway 30A, is sometimes just what the doctor orders. It was bliss. Just wait til you see the sandcastles we built!