personnal best and Gal Pal fun!

It's been H&H here in Hotlanta, but not hot enough to keep us off the course. Friday afternoon, hubby and I hit the links after my doctors appointment. I don't know why, maybe we both needed to release some tension, but we both played really well. He shot a 35, a PB for him for 9 holes, and I a 48. My PB for 9 is a 47 shot last April. He continued to shoot a record round of 75! I on the other hand succumbed to the heat of the afternoon and ended up with a 103 for 18. How can I golf my best when I'd go down to eye a putt and come up dizzy from the heat?! I was drinking water and iced tea like a fish and even wearing a cold wet towel on my neck between shots! We finished just in the nick of time as the skies let loose after putting out on 18.

Hubby thanks you for waiting Golf Gods!!!

We hurried home to shower and make myself beautiful to get back in time for Member Appreciation night. It was held inside b/c of the storms but that didn't stop the fun!

The Gal Pals have a good time no matter the venue!

We celebrated G's birthday,
and were the last 4 couples to leave for the night.

love my gal pals!

to all my blog friends and gal pals...

Recently, a friend sent this to me and I want to share it with you...

"A thought to share… on the mind-body connection--the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman whereas, for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends. At first everyone laughed, but he was serious. Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences. Physically this quality "girlfriend time" helps us to create more seratonin--a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and can create a general feeling of well being.

Women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are going.

Jobs? Yes. Sports? Yes. Cars? Yes. Fishing, hunting, golf? Yes. But their feelings?--rarely. Women do it all of the time. We share from our souls with our sisters, and evidently that is very good for our health. He said that spending time with a friend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym!

There's a tendency to think that when we are "exercising" we are doing something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged--not true.

In fact, he said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as smoking! So every time you hang out to shmooze with a gal pal, just pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health! We are indeed very very lucky. Sooooo let's toast to our friendship with our girlfriends. Evidently it's very good for our health!"

You are all good for my health and I thank you for that! A cyber-toast to us... and let's all keep shmoozing!

The details...

... were impeccable,

the flowers were gorgeous,

the ceremony was flawless,

the weather was beautiful

and the bride and groom couldn't have been happier!

congratulations Ashley and Lake!

off to a weekend wedding...

...here on Hilton Head Island.
The weather will be sunny and 70 degrees, finally a nice weekend!

Congratulations Ashley and Lake.
And congratulations Donna and John, now you can relax and enjoy it all!

feelin' special

I received a gift from our BFF's this past weekend. It was a special thank-you from their family for my help in finding their son & wife a new home and their daughter a wedding venue.

wearing my hats as real estate agent and wedding planner

I was surprised and touched... and newly introduced to the world of Pandora bracelets and charms, as my gift was a bracelet with the package charm above. Because they said... "I was a gift to them"... awhh so sweet.

I love my new bracelet! I've since been online and to my local store to check out all the little intricate beads they offer to add to your customizable bracelet.
What fun!

I have to admit my little gift package was a bit lonely so...
I had to add a few more myself.
I got the wine basket charm for my love of vino, the angel because I always need someone watching over me, and the queen bee (I couldn't resist) because I'm Queen Bee over at my Bridal Buzz blog.

I'll be wearing it a lot, especially since I can't open the clasp.
But... that's fine with me, I love it!
Thanks again Harvey Family!

do you have a Pandora? Tell me about it

look what I found!

Remember the great house I found for my young couple ~ 2 weeks ago? Well... today was move in day! I helped unpack, and look what arrived safe and sound from Colorado...

Baby Grace!
She told me she loves her new home in Atlanta,
especially because now she's closer to both her grandmas!

Congratulations R&B, welcome home!

home sweet home

the good side of the current housing market:
low interest rates and lower home prices mean... more house that a young couple can afford, including...

4 bedrooms, granite counter tops, wood floors, architectural trim and moldings...

ahh... home sweet home for my young couple!

hooray! They accepted our offer!

circles

so... I've been house hunting for the past week. In and out of the car, in and out of houses, back in the car, etc... Looking at homes for our bf's son and daughter-in-law and their new baby girl. It's exciting for them, moving back to family after 5 years of being alone out west. I just know they'll become good couple friends with my daughter and son-in-law who live here also. Another generation of bf's in the same families.
It can be hard for couples to find another couple that they can be bf's with... when the gals are friends and guys are friends and the couples all enjoy each other. We have that and I treasure it. We've been best buds since the kids were little. From NY to Atlanta... they followed us here, a few years after we moved, they moved here too. We've shared everything together.
And now the next generation is here! It will be so great to watch baby Grace grow and get to know her.
The circle of life, the circle of friends. It warms my heart :-)

another hat to wear...

I renewed my real estate license today to help a family friend find a house here in Atlanta.
driving around looking at houses will replace my tee time tomorrow...
oh well, duty calls!

welcome to the world...

Grace Marie

born 9:02 pm May 1, 2009
8 lbs 10 ozCongratulations Robyn and Brendon!

Kings of Swing

We went to see Big Bad VooDoo Daddy Saturday night at Atlanta Symphony Hall with our friends the Harveys, and needless to say they had the place jumpin' and jivin'!

click the pic to take you to their website for info and tour schedule.
It's a jumpin' and jivin' good time you won't want to miss!

and here's a bit of big bad news for the fans:

BBVD'S NEW ALBUM IN STORES TOMORROW!!
BBVD'S NEW ALBUM ENTITLED "HOW BIG CAN YOU GET" THE MUSIC OF CAB CALLOWAY WILL BE RELEASED TUESDAY APRIL 21RST!!! ENJOY!!

BBVD ON JAY LENO!! BBVD WILL BE PERFORMING THE SONG HOW BIG CAN YOU GET FROM THEIR NEW ALBUM "HOW BIG CAN YOU GET" ON THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO ON THURSDAY APRIL 23RD!

CNN.COM LIVE CHECK OUT SCOTTY AND GLEN'S INTERVIEW WITH CNN! www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2009/04/17/dcl.big.bad.voodoo.daddy.cnn/ hint: turn off my player first so you can hear the interview :-)

I love these guys!
doesn't our very own Mike Moore (left and right)
look a lot like the lead singer Scotty (middle)?!

I love the Lake!

Even in the winter cold, it's peaceful and beautiful out at the lake house. We had a 3 day weekend, and had not been out recently b/c of the holidays, Drew's travel schedule and the rainy weather, so... we decided to meet Alex out there and enjoy a quiet weekend. We all relaxed, ate yummy food (still low carb-ish) and played a ton of Mexican train (our new game obsession).
This will be our 10th year! An anniversary we've never spent in any house, so we decided we need to have an anniversary party to celebrate! We may have to make it a co-celebration with Alex's college graduation, to be sure all the family will be there. Just think of all the fun you've had at the lake house over the past ten years.... from deciding it was the one, to the very first dinner and the oven catching on fire and sleeping on cushions on the floor that night, to ripping out the kitchen and the flooring and rebuilding it all, painting all the trim work white (4 coats later), to all the high school and college friend sleepovers, swimming in the lake at night and shining the flashlight on all the bugs that were there with us, sunbathing on the dock, playing board games and imprinting the table with our Balderdash words, crashing the brand new wave runner, Dad, Alex and Kaitlin getting a ticket from the DNR, water skiing and tubing on big bertha (ouch), jumping off the "Big Rock" dare, Kristin living out there all by herself one summer while interning at Reynolds, growing a vegetable garden, going to Union Point to adopt Sharkey, the Thanksgiving visit we had our own version of arachnaphobia but with wasps, fires and s'mores in the chimenea, canoeing, visits from Zach and Hanna when they were little, having a house full of guests when the AC chose to break down, shaving your legs off the dock and giving the pups a bath, Easter at the little Methodist church, 4th of July fireworks and taking the boat around to Great Waters, celebrating Grammy's b'day Labor Day weekends, using the lake as a stop-off point to and from Kiawah, and more recently swamping the pontoon boat on the 4th, boating over to the Ritz for lunch, hanging out floating at the "little rock", walking the pups around the circle, boating over to the Harvey's for dinner and coming home in the dark...
... ten years of fun and memorable times! What's your favorite memory?