Our trip north ...

At the end of June after a few uninterrupted weeks in the new house, Graham headed to Montreal for a conference (for real), and I packed the girls up in the car for our trip north. That makes me laugh every time, since the farthest north we'd go was Oxford, MS.

While we were on our drive on Thursday, I got a message from Mica asking if I just happened to be in Jackson if I just happened to want to go to dinner with friends. Yes!

Jennifer, Mica, me, Christy

I love catching up with these girls.

We had fun swimming with CC and Granddaddy and visiting (hence no pics) and on Friday during naptime we headed out again for Oxford. We made it a few hours but ended up having to stop during this drive. Everyone needs to stretch at the rest stop ...

We did make it to Oxford safe and sound and started loving on the star of the weekend -- Winters! We arrived early on Friday so that we could help CoCo and Britton get the house ready for Winters's party on Saturday.

I was so happy to be there early -- I always like being the person that's "in" enough to be asked to help set up. Maybe that's weird, but we had a lot of good visiting time for the cousins and for me, Court, and Britt. Up next -- the party ...