Edie Grace, our daughter, is 18 today. After 12 years of marriage, on our twelfth anniversary actually, we learned that God was granting our prayers for a child. From that day, until now, Edie Grace has been our greatest blessing. Our hearts are overflowing by what a beautiful, compassionate, giving, smart young women she has become. Today, she gets her class C drivers license {from 16-18 you have a driving curfew and some other...
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Edie Grace has continued a “True Blue” Family tradition that she wasn’t even aware existed. She has been dual-enrolled at Georgia Southern University during her Junior and Senior years of high school. While attending classes at GSU, she has also worked on campus for Campus Recreation and Instrumentals (CRI) at the RAC. This past semester she has been featured in a series of ads for Georgia Southern encouraging...
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Edie Grace’s first day of school this year was the second time in her life that I did not drive her to school. She began a couple of weeks after most of her classmates because, even though she is technically a senior at SHS, she is taking all of her classes at GSU. Edie Grace is both a high school senior and college freshman simultaneously. I knew this time would come, but boy does it make Lori and I feel...
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Lori’s Two Favorite Things Today is Lori’s Birthday and we want you to join us in celebrating with her. This picture is one of my favorites because it combines two of Lori’s greatest loves, photography and our daughter Edie Grace. There are many more of her “favorite” things captured here also. Her love to travel and explore new things. Her incredibly gifted ability to see the...
Read MoreEdie Grace’s first day of school this year was the first time in her life that I did not drive her to school. She is in 11th grade at SHS which makes her a Junior in High School. Oh My, where is time going. She has discovered the new found independence of being 16 and having a car and a driver’s license. We did continue our tradition of having our first day of school snapshot taken together. Thanks to having a mom that has spent...
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Isn’t it fun how traditions begin so simply, yet become so wonderfully fun? It seems like just yesterday, that I was buckling up Edie Grace into her car seat for her first day of school. Now she is driving. How amazingly fast is time moving. Lori and I are so proud of the remarkable young woman Edie Grace is growing into. She spent her summer babysitting and working with Free Spirit Pottery helping with summer camps. In...
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