This year for my birthday we chose a new restaurant that we had not been to before, we went to Vino in English Village in Mountain Brook. Jeff made reservations and we met there after work, yes I had to work on my birthday. Traffic was awful going into Mountain Brook that night, there was…
Memories – Cheese Please!
Update: We stopped in on our trip in August 2025. I grabbed some updated pictures, so as promised I am updating this post. First off, we should have stopped on our recent trip for updated pictures. LOL! I know we’ve been there since these pictures were taken, but this is what I found on my…
Watermelon Festival
We stopped by the Watermelon Festival on July 19 at the Howard Family Holiday Farm in Moody, AL. There were several vendors set up. They had activities planned for the day and were having an ice cream eating contest at 2:00 but we just had a few minutes in our day to stop in. I’ve…
Burning Tree Smokehouse
We recently went from Irondale through Avondale into downtown Birmingham. Along the way we passed the Burning Tree Smokehouse on 3rd Avenue South near Pepper Place. We added it to our list of places to try. We had a rare weekend home, seems that lately our weekends are for traveling. We decided to have lunch…
We are Grandparents again!
You know that saying “ask me about my grandkids”, well if you’ve talked to us or follow us on social media then you already know that we love our grandbabies. We are Grandparents to 2 beautiful grandchildren. Our baby girl, Jane Elizabeth Jones was born on November 17, 2024 and weighed 6lbs 8oz and was…
Memories – Guntersville, AL
In January we had a long weekend and we looked for somewhere to visit. We talked about going to Chattanooga, a place we love and have visited often. Then we started looking at new places. We finally decided to stay close to home and visit Guntersville, Alabama. It’s about an hour and a half from…
Amicalola Falls State Park
In researching our trip to Dahlonega we came across Amicalola Falls. We love a beautiful waterfall, but we aren’t hikers and prefer one that is easy to get to and not one that you have to trek through the woods to get to. So Jeff found that this one we shouldn’t have to trek through…
Dahlonega, GA
I have heard that Dahlonega, GA is a really cool place to see around Christmas and that some of the Hallmark Christmas movies have been filmed there. I had mentioned to Jeff that I’d like to visit there at Christmas. He got to researching and found that there were several things to do and decides…
He’s growing up!!
This weekend our Grandson has decided that we are dropping our funny names. He’ll be 3 in 2 weeks. I’ve called him Judah Woodah and Jeff Pepaw Womp-ah and I was Mina Bobeana. Or as he said Pepaw Wawa and Mi Bobean. This weekend we were told that we are now JUST Pepaw and JUST…
The National
Recently while in Cullman we wanted to grab a bite to eat and we found a restaurant down the street from the Christkindlmarkt called The National. That meant we didn’t have to move the car or try to find another parking spot. It is also not somewhere that we visit often so we checked out…