saturday.

Our hearts are full from a week of reconnecting with friends from church and from Columbia . . . dinners and play dates and lunch meetings, and we look forward to another one ahead of us.  So to recharge from and for all the fun, we declared today “family day.”

and judah was thrilled with the declaration!

“take my picture, Mommy!” (I don’t think he’s ever said those words before)

it’s so fitting that a Carolina farmer’s market be punctuated by a palm tree

choosing tomatoes for tonight’s calzones

our friend Nick’s coffee company–get the iced coffee, sweetened with milk

stopping for made-on-site donuts: the kids love the apple cider and we love the blueberry!

sneaking a sip

there’s live music, and one restaurant comes out and makes a breakfast plate that is out-of-this-world

next stop: the Irmo public library

and we rounded it out with a swim at the Lake Murray beach

“can we come here every day?”

i love a man who chooses to spend nap time making mozzarella

and, as for my afternoon?

. . . where to even begin?

p.s. thanks for praying for us this week. so many emotions, but, yes, we are truly able to rest.