Nashville Bound

Ally had a student council state executive board meeting at Montgomery Bell State Park August 13-14.  We have been trying to get to Nashville all Summer to visit with Aunt Jan. So, I decided to plan a "girls weekend" in Nashville and a "boys weekend" in Covington. Jud and O did "man stuff" and we did "girls stuff"! We all decided that we should do that more often. It is nice sometimes to be able to focus on one or two kiddos instead of all three. We always have such a good time in Nashville when we go...we leave saying we are coming back soon...and then life happens!

Friday when school was over, we hit the road. We made great time. We went to Aunt Jan's place and unpacked. Then we all decided we were ready for our pajamas, so we ordered The Cheesecake Factory to go. Just as we were starting to eat Aunt Jan walked in the door from her happy hour for her friends birthday. We just sat and visited and enjoyed each other's company. It was a nice night and we went to bed by 10pm! FYI...food was delish and cheesecakes were AWESOME!

We hit it pretty early saturday morning because we had "things to do" before Ally had to be at the meeting. We started out at The Donut Den a Naifeh tradition! We got the usual...glazed, chocolate, blueberry cake, and donut holes...

We grabbed our goodies and went to Signature Nails & Spa for another Naifeh Nashville Tradition - a pedicure! Ahhh...it was great...I hadn't had one since before July 4th! It felt wonderful. Thanks to Sittie for treating us!

Then we went to the sporting goods store that always has great deals. We picked up some spandex, UA, running shorts, etc. After that, we raced over to the shoe store, Off Broadway, where we had NO LUCK and NO FUN. We left there and raced to have lunch at yet another Naifeh Nashville tradition...Otters Chicken!

We devoured our lunch and raced to take Ally to the meeting. She DID NOT want to leave us and miss out on our plans for the rest of the day, but she had to. We dropped her off and then went to the mall. We had a little success there. Abby's favorite store was the candy store, of course!

Abby (and I) was POOPED by then and we were ready to go back to Aunt Jan's and rest and veg. We went back to the house and started working on Aunt Jan's Ipad! We had lots to do to get her setup. She is new to Apple so we were trying to teach her the basics. We downloaded a ton of Apps - her favorite - Pandora. We started getting hungry and decided to go to Mafiaozas for pizza. It was delicious. They have the best breadsticks with cheese. We watched a little of the Titans preseason game and then headed back to the house.

Abby went straight to the pajamas and bed. I think we had worn her out! Jan and I worked on her Ipad a little more and had another early bedtime! NICE! This picture is of Abby going through the "toy trunk" from when the kids were little. I remember Abby wearing this visor that the Easter Bunny gave her one year. Her Daddy brought her the Groovy Girl from Las Vegas one year!

We left Nashville around 9am and went to pick Ally up. When we got there, she wasn't finished yet so Abby and I took a picture through the peep hole!

We  met Dad and Oney in Jackson for lunch at Coyote Blues'.  We got back home around 3:00pm. What a fun weekend! Aunt Jan - we are coming back REAL soon!

P.S. I will have to do a separate post on what the boys did all weekend:-)