Hope your 4th was great!

Written by Mel McLellan

The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays! I love the warm weather, the lightning bugs in the air, picnics, and fireworks - it's great! This year being in Westhaven, we of course had to combine all of that with a little Pleasantville fun. :) Every 4th of July the Westhaven kids all decorate their bikes and parade around the square lead by a fire engine. They're all so cute and this year the parade was followed by an icecream tasting. I vowed that I was going to get a picture of Sean and I on the 4th but of course we forgot so here are a few from the neighborhood!

Sonny has reached the age where a smile for the camera just won't do... :)

We ended the evening over at Shannon's and Hunter's house. We grilled hotdogs (or as I like them - burned hotdogs) and then shot off a bunch of fireworks after dark. What a fun day! :)

No Chandler smiles here! :)

Written by Mel McLellan

It seems like forever since we've had a weekend without a wedding! Being so busy is so much fun but we're also grateful for a bit of a break. We spent all weekend showing houses to a couple of our friends who will soon be moving back to the area. Sean has a real estate licence and we mainly use it for our own investment purposes but occassionally something else comes up and he really enjoys all of the ins and outs of the real estate field with the research and numbers and more numbers and more numbers. I just like looking inside houses. :) So that was our weekend and we ended it with an engagement session Sunday night with Jodi and Matt. Matt thinks he has the Chandler camera smile but I'm tellin' ya - they're both naturals - just look at them! :)

You guys did great! Thank you so much! :)

- Mel

Happy Birthday to Sean! :)

Written by Mel McLellan

So in addition to everything else going on this past weekend, my honey had a birthday on Saturday. We've been going so non-stop that we didn't get to celebrate until Monday night when we went to dinner at Carraba's (sp?) with some friends and then to see the new Pixar movie "Cars". If you're ever in Carraba's in Cool Springs and you get a waiter with a gotee named John then you have to order his special! I don't know what it is and if that guy ever quits I don't know what I'll ever eat at that restaurant again but this stuff is soooo good! Just say "Pasta Frias (free-ahs)" and if your waiter gives you a funny look, it's not John. :) "Cars" is very cute by the way - I highly recommend it!

So here's our birthday picture. Sean and I have this lovely habit of making different faces in the same picture. He always goes for the goofy face and I go for the smile - then I make a goofy face and it turns out he's smiling. We just can't get it together! But that's us so what are you going to do? Might as well think of it as endearing I guess. :)

Happy Birthday Dearest! ;*

- Mel