Our church changed when you can go into our temples to do baptisms so all of the sudden Cameron could go ten months earlier! We drove the few hours to the Colombia, SC temple. It was fun to do it just the four of us. It is a peaceful place but we did get a […]
South Carolina’s favorite tradition to us was the Polar Bear Plunge on Sullivan’s Island! On New Years Day people come dressed up in old Halloween costumes, with their chests painted, crazy drunk, to play games, or just in their swimsuit to all be together and RUN INTO THE OCEAN! You smell BBQs going, hear lots […]
Shae was 7.5 and it was time to get her ears pierced! The girls always get a present Christmas morning after their 7th birthday to let them know it is time. Shae was excited and had lots of plans on what earrings she wanted to wear. Stinky thing is I wish we had never got […]
Christmas Eve we tried yet another tradition, a horse carriage ride around downtown Charleston. Learned some things about the history in the area, weather was perfect, and cobblestone streets & southern homes never get old. The girls opened some gifts from extended family, sunglasses from Uncle Bryan were a winner. Then the three elves got […]
The Brown girls were on the hunt for new holiday traditions. We like to try new festivals, concerts, shopping places, plays, etc. Not so much into traditions that are done at home. Which didn’t translate well into 2020 life. However in 2018 with our first year in Charleston we wanted to try some new ones […]
On Isle of Palms there is a resort called Wild Dunes and we tried out a new tradition to go stay overnight there on the beach and do Breakfast with Santa. It didn’t have the same charm as Grand America. Our first holiday outside of Utah it was hard to not compare all the new […]
Mrs Callie Condie taught the girls’ piano while they we lived in South Carolina and she was also in our ward. She did a large Christmas piano recital each year that the girls got to participate in. I’m always so proud of them when they walk up to play their pieces. I remember how terrifying […]
At the girls’ new dance studio they have a “Sneak Peak” in December to show off what they have learned so far on their competition teams. So the dances aren’t finished or cleaned but we can get a sneak peak on what it will look like in the spring. Kasie & Jeanette who run the […]
I had heard that the Biltmore Estate was on people’s bucket lists out there which I found a teeny bit odd. Sure it looked like a cool manor to walk through but I never thought it would classify itself as a bucket list item. We were in Asheville the last part of November which is […]
The girls and I didn’t take the move from Utah well…at all. There were many many nights of crying ourselves to sleep and intense loneliness. However one night we decided to go to the fair and for that night the girls all forgot about their sadness. They ran around and had such a ball that […]
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