July 4th in Photos....

Another 4th in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina!

We all had a great time.... lots of good food, good laughs... played some cornhole, can jam, and taboo..... time at the lake and in town shopping.... and best of all, GREAT weather!

We started off with an awesome pontoon boat ride on Lake Glenville! 

Mister Dave was the boat captain.

We found an island to hang out at and let the dogs play.

Brees loves some lake time.

Tuckered out.

Sunset at the mountain house.

B and her super cute 4th of July necklace!

Fireworks time!

Another day at the lake! Sister takes so long to dry off!

Another sunset!

And a sunrise! I found more pictures thanks to Jacquie! ...... 

We enjoyed dinner at Gamekeeper's taven in Sapphire. They have a great outdoor space with live music!

More pics from the lake....

Another view from the house...

Sparklers!!!

The neighborhood lake!

Me and Jacquie!

Jacquie went in to Highlands to do some shopping and snapped this awesome pics of the Old Edwards Inn!

Mariska

I love me some Law & Order and Mariska! I love reading the Hamptons magazine as I have always felt that I would be really good at summering in the Hamptons. Haha. A girl can dream! It just looks so nice and I love the nautical look of it all!

Here's a snipit of her interview:

GS: Tell me your perfect Hamptons summer day—what do you do?

MH: Nothing is planned. Get up, Peter makes me a cup of coffee, and we go with the kids outside on the swing set—that’s what we did today. [Then] we go on a run on the beach—we’ve done it twice this week; I’m very proud. We come home, make lunch, play with the kids, and then around 5, when it cools down, we take them to the beach. Then our friends stop by, and we make them jump in the pool. [Laughs]

You can read the entire interview here.

July 4th - 5th Annual Mts. Trip

......where every morning starts with a killer bloody mary made by Billy....

....and people get cozy with pups.....

.....and since it rained the whole time this is the only clear view of the mountains that I got...

.....where late nights are accompanied by pure silliness...

.....and puppies look at you like this in their swimmies....

...where these are necessary.....

....sigh...

....where we kept saying rain rain go away...

....and Josh and Bentley, eh, they seemed all right with the rain...

...where we have the best of times with the best of people... and Dave's fedora...(he loves it, I hate it)

...and cute preggie friends bring their snuggly dogs named Bentley...

...and oh how we love to play Taboo...

 

....and puppies are are sleepy. We ALL love the mountain house!