A Village

This morning the weather was gorgeous. I opened up the porch doors and let some fresh air in. We are looking forward to this weekend's fall weather. Highs in the low 80's and lows in the 60s make me very happy! There are so many things I'll miss about summer, but I love all seasons.

One fun thing about fall is all the local festivals. Today's FarmFest in town didn't disappoint.

We really enjoyed the parade..

We listened to the high school band.. (which has an unbelievable percussion section by the way)

Of course no parade is complete without the farm equipment....

Not sure who this fella with the guitar is but man could he sing! 

It didn't take Addie long to find her good friend Sydney...

But I think the part the girls liked best was seeing Mr Doug, the local hot dog man. When the girls were small, Mr Doug had a little hot dog cart he drove around the Vidette Country Store. The girls used to go there with Poppy often. Today when Addie saw Mr Doug she didn't want to leave. When we were walking to the parade, she wanted to stay with Mr Doug!  I promised her we'd come back and get a hot dog from Mr Doug when the parade was over. So, on our trek back to the hot dog stand, Addie asked "Mama do you think Mr Doug would let me sit on his tailgate and eat a hotdog like I used to when I was little?". I told Mr Doug she remembered that and since his truck was too far away, he opened up his trailer doors and let the girls eat their hotdogs there! They felt like they had VIP passes or something! It was too cute. Thanks Mr. Doug for being part of the awesome village that's raising these two precious girls. 

Bennett Blog is Back

I intentionally ditched the blog this summer. I really wanted to enjoy the summer and I am always conscious of the fact that some people out there spend more time trying to capture the moment than actually enjoying it. I just focused on enjoying it. However, the primary reason I blog is to remember. I want to remember the details.. the little things.. So here's the last couple months of little things..

We had a fabulous 4th of July... Addie had a major bike accident earlier in the week. She wears dresses but she's hell with a bike on a dirt road. The road rash on her face still hasn't completely healed.

We showed a few goats..

We had cousins visit out the ying yang and when they came they generally crashed on the floor even though there are 5 bedrooms in this house...

Ali Grace turned 12... She thinks she's 21 but that's another story..

We had new baby puppies born...Sarah Rose fell in love..

Speaking of falling in love... awww ... Pete and I celebrated our 14th anniversary in Athens where it all began.. I really had a great time. Here we are at the East West Bistro in downtown Athens.

We swam so much our hair smelled like chlorine and our fingertips were shriveled...

We lost a tooth or two...

School started without much drama..

Addie Belle started cheering Jr Pro at school. She's got too much of her Mama in her though and I catch her watching the game more than she's paying attention to what cheer everyone else is cheering.

We harvested a significant amount of honey and we're waiting on our jars to arrive in order to start selling a little here and there... let me know if you are interested in some local wildflower honey from Ali B's Bees! It's raw so it's great for allergies.

We ushered in college football season! Notice I'm not wearing a UGA shirt. I'm a rabid Dawg fan but I swear they lose every time I wear a UGA shirt. So it's a Hokie shirt for me. Second favorite team will have to do...

One of the dogs killed almost all of our chickens right before they began to lay.. Still so sick about it I could cry but nevertheless, Daddy's chickens across the road started laying like mad.. Check out this blue egg..

Ali Grace was invited to participate in the Duke TIP program. She will be taking the SAT at Georgia Southern in January... She also placed 3rd in the Region 4H Forestry Competition in Reidsville and helped her team from Burke County win first place!

And Addie Belle  got a new hermit crab named Bobblewitch who died within 14 hours of residing with the Bennetts. He's been replaced by TWO hermit crabs because Addie insisted he died of loneliness. 

And that's about it.. Just an ordinary couple months around here. But I'm all about ordinary. I love this everyday ordinary life. It's easy to feel blessed by an ordinary life when you have extraordinary people in it.

Onward to fall.... 

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