Monday, August 10, 2009

Our Summer Break at Home

We made it back to Grenada safe and sound after our 6 week break at home! Our trip back to Grenada was not exactly easy...we had to stay overnight in Miami. But, we finally made it to Grenada early the next morning.

Our time at home was wonderful and relaxing! We were able to rewind from the previous semester and get prepared for the semester to come...considering this will be our longest stay in Grenada, 6 months.

Below are lots of pictures from our trip home, hope you enjoy them!

Combined Birthday Dinner
The day after we got home from Grenada Derek's Mom, Linda, threw us a combined birthday dinner at their house. She decided to have it combined because both of our birthdays were while we were in Grenada, mine in February and Derek's in May. This birthday dinner was awesome! It was very nice for Derek and me to get to spend our first real meal back home with family and great food!



Destin, Florida
During our time at home my Mom and Dad took off work for a week and we all went to Destin, FL. We had a great time there. We did a lot of relaxing!

This is the condo we stayed in

We took a few pictures on the beach

We went to some really good resturants

We rented bikes one day

And did a little fishing


Lane Kiffin Women's Football Clinic
Mom and I had a great opportunity to go the Lane Kiffin Women's Football Clinic. We spent the day at the football complex and stadium. We had so much meeting the new coaching staff, seeing the facilities, and learning more about football! It was so comforting for me to be back in Knoxville and on campus!

Coach Kiffin giving us a "Pregame Speech"

Me with Monte Kiffin

Me with Coach "O"


West/Mason Wedding
We went to Luke & Allison's wedding. They were married at our church in Livingston. They had a beautiful ceremony and a fun reception that followed at Luke's parent's house.

First Dance

Parents of the Bride and Groom


Johnson/Porter Wedding
We also went to DJ and Kelley's wedding. They were married at a great location in Townsend, TN. It was so pretty, the ceremony took place in front of a pond with the Great Smoky Mountains as the back drop!

Derek & Jeff waiting in the shade before the ceremony

Mr. & Mrs. DJ Porter


Tee!!
And last but not least...we spent lots of time with our baby Tee! We can't wait to be home with him in December!


Lastly, I found these fun things on the Internet to do digital scrapbooking. Here are a few pictures I have made that I wanted to share with you!

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2 comments:

Randy & Betsy said...

Thanks for the blog... it brings back great memories of when you all were home!

Anonymous said...

We are enjoying your new postings and will miss you not being here for 6 mo. We are glad Graham is down there with you now! Jack misses him! Mimi & B.J. August 12,2009 11:30AM