A Special Birthday Celebration and the First Half of April

Last weekend we had an fun and food-filled trip back home to celebrate my mom's birthday! It was so nice to spend that time celebrating her and all she means to us. Moms don't always get the credit they deserve for making everyone feel special and loved; I think that's just a tiny part of what makes moms so amazing--they're so selfless! Always putting others first and never asking for anything themselves. But we were so thankful to be part of her special day and loved celebrating with her!

I seriously don't think I have ever eaten so much food in my life, and it was all SO delicious. My mom's birthday request was brunch at Brio and it was a meal fit for the royal family. She even got a special little cheesecake {which she generously shared with all of us} to finish off the meal.

Happy 29th Birthday, Mama!!! :)

We also spent a lot of nice outside since the weather turned out to be very pretty. After being cooped up inside all winter, we enjoyed pulling out the slackline and trying it for the first time and Colin and Stephen got the little dirt bike running so we took turns riding that around. Stephen also did some work on the jet ski which we hope is the last thing it needs before it's ready to go for the summer!

For Easter, we had a great service back at the Summit and exciting sermon about the Resurrection! We had lunch with the Wild West crew at the Clubhouse {which we have deemed the Fairview Country Club because it just sounds fancier}. Then my parents put on their fabulous Easter egg hunt with the outdoor camouflaged Easter eggs to make things tricky. We enjoyed visiting family and friends but missed Stephen's family--his parents were visiting his brother and enjoying some time in Knoxville this year.


This week I have applied to several more jobs and am really interested in two of them, but trying not to get too excited since I haven't really heard much from most of the applications so far. One is a 6 month temporary job as an accounting assistant for a great Greenville company. After my last experience I'm very drawn to the structure of this type of role, and the temporary time frame is tempting too; I don't want to go through another job hunt in 6 months, but it is an opportunity to get my foot in the door with a good company. The other role is an assistant for one of the VPs at the community college in town. It's a gorgeous campus on the outskirts of Greenville more in the country and I think it would be a perfect fit based on my roles in the past. I hope to hear from both of these companies sometime this week!

Stephen has been hard at work on his schoolwork and is doing well with it, as always. Hopefully he can give an update soon on their new clinical unit and the special project he has going on with his truck which we're really excited about! He has another term break coming up at the end of this month so this is his last full week of classes. Yay for time off to rest his brain and enjoy the pretty weather!!!

We also were able to spend the day at Stephen's parents' yesterday visiting with them and his sister, which was fun as always. The pollen has been rough and was very thick there since they have lots of pretty trees around so we stayed inside and enjoyed their new tv setup! It's really impressive!

We are looking forward to another new week and hoping for a few more April Showers to wash some of this yellow away! Hope it's a great one!

~ Buckwheat