Long Week....

It has been a long week over at the Meek household. Monday Gwennie and I flew up to Boston for work and we had planned on spending the week with the Weiss Family. Unfortunately on the plane ride up I noticed a couple of bumps on Gwennie's hands and feet and quickly realized she had Hand, Foot and Mouth disease. Typically this isn't that big of a deal but everyone has that story where someones kid was so sick they couldn't eat and Alexis is still only three months old so we checked into the Sheraton and shortened our trip to Tuesday night. Thankfully Addie and Gladys did some babysitting for me so I could still work at our office. Addie took some cute pictures and video of Gwennie at the pool in her green swimsuit. When we got home the rash had spread to her back and tummy so just to be safe we headed to the ER where you will see that the cure to Hand, Foot and Mouth is Popsicles :-)

Saturday we all headed over to swim lessons with the rest of the kids from the "Parent and Tot" class. This was Gwennie's second time at lessons and she's already swimming like a pro. Corbin was a great cameraman and took lots of good pictures and videos of Gwennie in action. Saturday and Sunday we were back at the pool at the "J". Unfortunately we didn't take any video but Gwennie now goes completely underwater and loves to play around in the pool. The best thing about the pool....Gwennie sleeps in until 9 AM on Sunday mornings!!!

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Jeremy and Page

Yep...another great family weekend. Page and Jeremy were married on Saturday. Friday we all headed to the rehearsal dinner where we noticed a bunch of equipment in the front of the room. That is when I was told it was a Karaoke party as well. See the video below (sorry...it was pretty dark in the room) of Jeremy and his groomsman performing their own rendition of "Total Eclipse of the Heart". Between that and Mike (who will be marrying our cousin Sara - Page's younger sister ) doing Elvis' version of Dixie, overall it was pretty hilarious!

Saturday morning the Aunt's hosted a nice bridal brunch with all of the women in the family as well as all of the bridesmaids. Between the beautiful flowers and great food, we all could not wait for the main event. Saturday afternoon, we all headed to the wedding and at 6 PM Page and Jeremy were husband and wife! We all had so much fun!! As you will see in the pictures there are a whole bunch of people in the family. Between all the aunts and uncles and cousins and kids....it was an enormous picture....and a GREAT time! Then on Sunday Emily and Bill hosted a relaxing brunch with close family and friends.

I had a couple of pictures from Friday morning with Gwennie included in there, sorry about that!

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Happy Father's Day

This weekend was a busy Father's Day. Saturday Corbin golfed all day with his buddy Matt and then came home around 2 PM and decided he was going to work on his short game in the back yard. Of course with the dog poop and high grass, he had to make some adjustments so he dusted off the lawn mower (we got a service around the third month of living here and since then Corbin has forgotten how big our yard is) and attacked the backyard. By 3:30 he was almost in cardiac arrest so after he finished the yard, Corbin decided it might be smarter to watch golf instead of playing!

Sunday we headed to brunch at Pike's Soda Shop and then headed over to the JCC Aquatic Center where Gwennie was in her element! She had so much fun playing in the water and swimming that we can't wait for her to start swim lessons next week.

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Here are a couple videos from the weekend

Rachel and Parks Are Married!

This was a big weekend in the Webb/Duncan/Blythe family. Our cousin Rachel married Parks on Saturday evening. Everyone was so happy to see each other and overall it was a wonderful family weekend. We kicked off the festivities at the rehearsal dinner at the groom's family friend's house (of course I forgot the camera!!!!). It was so nice of them to host such a fun barbecue. Then Saturday morning the men braved the heat - it was 100 degrees on Saturday - to golf with the groom. The women all headed to Rachel's bridal brunch hosted by her aunts on the Webb/Duncan side. Saturday afternoon we all rested up for the wedding and at 6 PM Rachel and Parks were married by our Uncle Robert. The ceremony was very touching..I am pretty sure I started crying around when the bridesmaid's walked down and was teary well through to the end.

We then all headed to the reception for great food and lots of dancing. We munched on some World Famous Calabash Chicken (if you haven't tried it...find a Fatz Cafe now!), shrimp, grits, crab cakes and hands down the best wedding cake I have EVER had). I am actually going to get some in a few minutes (thanks Eileen!). I think one of my favorite stories of the night was when Rachel leaned over to our cousin Clay and said "You didn't tell me it was going to be THIS MUCH FUN!!!" I'd have to agree...as wedding's go, this was one of the best. Unfortunately my camera was acting up so I only have this blurry picture of the bride and groom. This picture of Rachel and her mother Eileen is one of my favorites.

Sunday Aunt Lynne and Uncle Bill were so nice to host a family brunch. We all headed over to their house, tired, bleary eyed and very hungry! Lynne and Bill did not disappoint...the food was marvelous and we all stayed around to recap on the wedding and how much fun we all had.

I'd like to also thank Aunt Nina for watching Gwennie on Friday, our good friend Jennifer for driving down and watching Blythe, Gwennie and Jackson on Saturday, the Aunt's (Anne, Louise, Susan, Emily, & Lynne) for having a wonderful brunch, Eileen for hosting a fun wedding and Lynne/Bill for letting us all hang around the house well into Sunday afternoon.


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For those of you that aren't from the South...this was my first real southern wedding...let me rephrase that..this was my first Clemson wedding!! As you can see from the video below, school spirit runs pretty deep in the family!

Big Reunion Weekend & Biting?!?!?!?!

This weekend was a big big weekend. It was our first time both leaving Gwennie. Nanna Susan took very good care of her, Gwennie was so happy to play with her and loved having a new face to show around the yard.

Corbin and I headed up to Vermont for my college reunion. As you can see from the picture on the left, my closest friends all drove and flew up to hang out. Overall we all had so much fun and can't wait to see everyone again.

Monday Gwennie went back to daycare and one of the kids decided to give her a love bite (twice). At first I was pretty upset and was scheming on ways to get dental records of these kids so I could figure out who the "biter" is. I had a nice heart to heart with Addie's mother Gladys (thanks Glad!) and she reassured me that as much as I want to hunt down the biter's parents and give them a piece of my mind, these things happen and I need to think about how I would feel if Gwennie is the biter. I know they will take good care of her at school and they are watching for repeats so this will not happen again.

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