Quick Southern Retreat

This past weekend, the fam had a blast!  It is Louise's last spring break, so she and my mom made plans to go to Charleston for a few days, and asked Kyle and I to join them!  We drove down Friday night, and came back Sunday afternoon, but despite the brevity of the trip, we had a great time.

Of course, yall know my favorite activity is eating, so it should be no surprise that my favorite part of the trip was the eight minute walk to Black Tap, a coffee shop I found on Yelp, which was just perfect.  In some ways it reminded me of Fairview in Montpellier, in that each drink was perfectly crafted (and took 15 minutes to do so) and the shop was filled with friends and families alike, as well as your book-reading, laptop-using coffee shop staples.  It was different in that it was open, airy, filled with light, and scattered with beautiful thick wood tables.  I think, like Fairview, they pumped some good oxygen into the building because I was supremely happy spending an hour or so Saturday and Sunday morning in its small walls with my mom and Kyle.  Not to mention they had a lavender latte, which was more like an herb, than sweet, but I love anything lavender, so I was smitten.

In addition to all the good food (Charleston Grill omgggg) and drinks, my other favorite part of the trip was looking at all the beautiful houses and daydreaming about my house one day.  I seriously think more about my future house than I do the wedding.  Like I know the wedding will be beautiful and lots of fun,  but I also can't wait to make a home with Kyle and Sienna.  Here are some of my favorite houses.

Finally,  I loved spending time this weekend with my mom, Kyle, and Louise.  We don't often go on trips all together, so it was fun to have a mini family vacation.  I'm all about having everyone I love at my fingertips.  Sometimes with all of them in short periods of time I will forget things I've been meaning to talk about with them, so I like being around them for several days so my old lady brain has ample time to remember everything.  Even Kyle, whom I see everyday, I forget to tell things to because we are both extremely busy people.  I guess you could call the fam vaycay, "quality time" that sometimes I seem to lack in everyday life.

Here are some more random pictures from Charleston: