We started out our day by visiting a new antique store in the Bluff Park area, called Shades Mountain Mercantile. When it was time for lunch we decided to see what we could find on Yelp. We found this really cool place hidden right across the street called The Electric. We walked in and it…
Cookie Fix
Do you have a favorite dessert place? Do you have a favorite cookie?? One of our favorite places in Birmingham is Cookie Fix. All of their cookies are delicious!! These cookies are a little different in that they are finished with a little salt on the top, but don’t let that deter you from giving…
We’re Grandparents!!
If you talk to us at any time or follow us on social media you probably already know that we are now GRANDPARENTS to the sweetest Grandson ever! Judah Charles Jones was born February 9, 2022. He weighed 5 lbs 14 oz and was 19 1/2” long. He is the cutest baby ever and such…
Besito’s Mexican Kitchen
It’s been awhile since we’ve been to a new restaurant. I guess we kind of got away from checking out all the new places since Covid shut everything down. but new places are reopening and we are getting back to checking them out. We were in the Brook Highland/280 area of Birmingham and decided to…
Gatlinburg – Pigeon Forge
We finished out our vacation in the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge area. We had spent lots of time searching for a cabin. We finally found one that we really liked, in an area where we’d be close to Wear’s Valley and to Pigeon Forge. We found out after trying to book that it had been sold. We…
Happy Birthday Boy!!!
Ryan, today would have have been your 29th birthday. This is your first birthday without us and oh how you are missed!!! I wasn’t there the day you took your first breath and I wasn’t there when you took your last, but I was there for everything in between. I miss your hugs and those…
Biltmore House
In the fall we planned our vacation for places we visited places before and a few new places. By the end of the the trip we had actually been thru 5 states!! We started our trip with breakfast in Leeds and then we hit I-20 and headed East thru Atlanta. For lunch we were in…
Next Leg of Fall Vacation
After our couple of days in Asheville, NC we left and headed towards Gatlinburg. As I said in the other post we visited some new places and some old. Well this was one of the places that we have been to before, BUT we looked for some new things to do. We found a few…
Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park
We recently had the chance to visit the Gulfarium in Destin. When our son was growing up he loved marine life so we have visited aquariums when we traveled somewhere with one. He wasn’t on this trip with us, but how could we not go and send him pictures?? We were going to watch the…
Wetumpka
For my birthday this year we were looking for something to do, so we decided to visit Wetumpka to see what HGTV Hometown Takeover had completed while there. We had never been to the area before so we aren’t sure what it looked like before their visit other than what they showed during the shows….