Saturday, August 4, 2012

Ben's First Trip to Fairview, TN

On July 5th, Ben and I drove from Opelika to Fairview to visit my family for the weekend. It's about a 5.5 hour trip, so, considerably shorter than the trip to VA. We got there around 10PM and stayed up talking to my parents for a couple of hours.

Friday, we went downtown to see my dad at LifeWay. He gave us a tour and we shopped at the store. We ate lunch with Mom and then got a tour of her office too. We went to McKay's used bookstore which was highly recommended by my mom and brothers. It certainly lived up to the hype. I think we were there over an hour and I only looked through two small sections of shelves. We each got several books and we are looking forward to bringing books back to sell on our next visit (we could easily become book hoarders!).

If you haven't noticed - I took zero pictures on this trip, so it's not nearly as exciting as the last post.

Saturday morning we got to visit with one of Ben's good friends from college. I thought it was neat that I got to visit one of my friends when we went to see his family in VA, and he got to see one of his in TN! That afternoon was my nephew Cameron's 4th birthday party. It was really hot, but luckily it was a pool party! We enjoyed swimming and Ben taught me how to do flip turns. He's a good coach.

On Sunday we went to church, and I enjoyed introducing him to my church family.

It was a great trip - it seemed longer than a weekend because we packed a lot of activity in. Ben fits in so well with my family. He keeps asking when we can go back again, which pleases me. I hope we get to go back soon too!

Ok I'll add some pictures from our beach trip over Memorial Day weekend so that this post isn't quite so boring! Julie's brother Tim took these for us. You can Like his facebook page here. And no, they're not engagement pictures - they're just for fun!



 Oh! By the way, this is my beach dress that I wore on our date in Virginia.


This was my first time to wear dangly earrings - they're butterflies. 


 This one's my favorite - I love his smile!


 This one's his favorite because it reminds him of a scene in Pride and Prejudice.



Aren't we so cute? :) 

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