The day started bright and early with the graduation of our daughter Hannah. This is our third child to graduate from Loudoun County High School and our last. Due to rezoning the rest of the kids will graduate from Tuscarora High. This made the day extra sad for us because my husband and I both graduated from County!!! It was hard to say goodbye to the school and hard to believe the rest of the kids will not graduate from County. Hannah was our last Loudoun County Girl!!

Notice we left child, 5, 6, and 7 at home. I can’t quite imagine a graduation service with a 6, 4, and 2 year old!!! Lunch at the amazing Tuskies was also far more enjoyable without the littlest Chaplets.

We returned home by midday and I spent a little time in the flower shop getting ready for this weekend. When I arrived I found this amazing lily specimen on my work bench. I don’t know this for sure, but I am guessing that Don the Dahlia man stopped by for a visit!!! It looks like his gardens and his business are seriously growing, I may need to start calling Don my “flower man!”

After a little time back in the studio, it was time to head to the village of Middleburg, where I was speaking on a panel about social media. Thanks to the Loudoun County Dept. of Tourism for asking me to speak, and many thanks to my fellow panelist Scott from Catoctin Creek, Sarah from The National Conference Center, and Stacey from the LCVA.

Now to the part we all are waiting for, lets see what’s “in the cooler.”

I cheated you on images tonight, sorry about that, but I still have the zoom lens on the camera from today’s graduation. I was simply to tired to go switch the lens for tonight’s blog post. Forgive me but we had a big day!!