Fieldtrip to Purity Dairy

Joni and I are always looking for free activities for us and the girls during the week this summer. We decided to go on a plant tour of Purity Dairy. If you're not from Nashville, you may not know Purity. They make milk, ice cream, cottage cheese, lemonade, and some other good things out of milk. It is a family owned business that was started by a man here in Nashville. Some of the family members actually go to church with us, which is a plus, because we always have Purity ice cream at our church functions! Anyway, we signed up for a tour and made the trek to downtown Nashville. We were a little surprised to find out when we got there that they don't actually take you on a real tour of the plant anymore. Our guide said the after 9/11 the FDA wouldn't allow the public to go through the plant. So now they have a big room with a wall of windows that you can watch one room of the plant. On that day they were packaging ice cream sandwiches. It was kind of neat because the line had a little glitch and we saw the boxes getting messed up and several sandwiches thrown away as they rushed to fix the machine before more boxes were smashed. Then they showed us a movie about how the milk comes from the farm to the plant and everything in between. I have to say that the movie was a little old, like from the 70's! Joni and I agreed that if you only get a window and a movie at the "plant tour", then the movie definitely needs to be updated! After the movie was the best part of our visit...ice cream! Our nice tour guide had a whole spread of ice creams to choose from. The coolest part was that we were the only ones there so she let us try all of them! It ruined our lunch, but, oh well! We love Purity! http://www.puritydairies.com/

After the "tour" we stopped by my sister Julie's work and brought her lunch. While there the girls giggled uncontrollably, climbed all over Julie, stole some of her bosses cornbread, and Reesi found a Glade plug-in scent that she has to have.

Golf Lessons

Larry and Joni bought Reesi a set of actual golf clubs a few weeks ago so Larry is excited about teaching her to play golf. He asked Eric to go with him last weekend and take all of the girls golfing! Eric took the camera. The pictures didn't show much golfing being done though. These are the best ones that he took. Eric said the girls were OK and he'd take them again so I guess they had a good time. I'm all for it...I had a nice quiet afternoon at home by myself!

A long overdue playdate

We finally got together with Addie and Ford last week. It's hard to believe it took half of the summer to do it. We had planned to swim at Kelly's parents' house but it was pouring down rain that morning. We made a detour to McDonald's for an early lunch and to see what the rain was going to do. The kids were uncontrollably giddy to be together. I think a certain little old lady thought Kelly and I were perfectly awful moms! They just couldn't contain themselves. By the time Kelly and I ate and the kids had a few bites and a lot of laughs the rain had stopped. We went back to the pool and had a good hour and half or so to swim. Grace and Lyla loved their pool. The rain came again that afternoon but just at the right time to give us a reason to get them out of the pool. I didn't take very many pictures but here are the ones I did get. Thank you to Kelly, Addie, and Ford for a great day of play!

Fun at the Farm

Last week Joni and Larry went on a cruise for a little vacation. Reesi spent the first part of the week with my parents and the last part of the week with Larry's parents. Mom offered to take Lyla and Grace since she was going to have Reesi for the weekend anyway. They had a great time but wore Mimi and Papoo out. They always say they aren't going to keep all 3 girls at the same time after a weekend like that but after a couple months they forget and do it again. After the weekend they had this time though it may take a couple extra months for them to forget! These are the pictures they took of the girls for us.

Mimi and Papoo's Farm

Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban

Keith Urban
Keith Urban
Kenny Chesney

This past weekend my parents kept the girls and Eric and I got to get some work done as well as have a little fun. We painted 2 bathrooms and 1 bedroom, went to the 4th of July festival in Franklin and were privileged enough to go to the Keith Urban/Kenny Chesney concert with some dear friends. The concert was definitely the highlight of the weekend. The weather was great, the friends were great and the music was great. We had floor seats but we couldn't really see the stage so we found new seats up high. They were high but you could see the whole stage. It was great. If you click on each individual picture you can see Kenny and Keith better when the picture is on the whole computer screen. I thought my camera did pretty good considering I took those pictures from club level! We even ran into Daniel, Eric's brother! What are the chances of that! The crowd was HUGE and we found each other. It was at the LP Field where the Titans play. Fun Times!

Red Caboose Park with Kathryn and Zoe