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Laurel at THE HIVEAugust 10, 2020

Sweet And Spicy Faux-Fried Catfish Recipe

Sweet & Spicy Faux Fried Catfish Recipe made with U.S. Farm Raised Catfish

August is National Catfish Month! I have the amazing opportunity to get to partner with The Catfish Institute and share a catfish recipe that my family has been enjoying recently! We love supporting the U.… View Full Post

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Laurel at THE HIVEJune 16, 2020

S’Mores Bars

S'Mores Bars. SO GOOD!

The kids and I made s’mores bars recently that turned out WONDERFULLY, so I wanted to share the recipe! I just searched Pinterest and found one that sounded best, which was THIS ONE! We did… View Full Post

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Laurel at THE HIVEApril 23, 2020

Charcuterie Lately

Mini charcuterie boards

If there’s one thing I’ve enjoyed about quarantine, it’s been visits to our hunting camp every weekend for a change of scenery! Since I’m not able to do many (any!) parties with charcuterie spreads these… View Full Post

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Laurel at THE HIVEJanuary 13, 2020

A Valentine’s Day Charcuterie Display + A Shopping List!

A Valentine's Day Charcuterie Table

Hi hello! I hope you’re having a great day today! I posted a video last week of me building a fun pink + red + orange + white charcuterie table on IGTV and wanted to… View Full Post

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Laurel at THE HIVEDecember 19, 2019

Sparkling Christmas Cocktail

Christmas Champagne Cocktail

I’ve recently fallen in love with a cocktail that I am so excited to get to share with you today! I’m calling it Sparkling Christmas Cocktail because I can’t come up with anything better right… View Full Post

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Laurel at THE HIVENovember 21, 2019

The Best Wines to Pair With Thanksgiving Dinner

The best wines to pair with Thanksgiving Dinner!

Thanksgiving is next week and I know many of you are in meal planning mode! Thanksgiving dinner is made extra sparkly with a great wine pairing, don’t you think? I asked my friends at Colony… View Full Post

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A fantastic little fourth and fifth! 🇺🇸 A fantastic little fourth and fifth! 🇺🇸
💥 FIRST FRIDAY GIVEAWAY 💥 for this month is 💥 FIRST FRIDAY GIVEAWAY 💥 for this month is to one of my current obsessions: @elviesrestaurant!! I think I could eat here every single day and never tire of their amazing menu! 🥰 If you know… you know. If you don’t know… please get to know! 

To enter to win $50 to Elvie’s in Belhaven, simply…
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🧡 tag one friend per comment. Each tag is an entry!

That’s it!! 🤩 but as always, there are bonus entry options! Three this time!!!
🧡 bonus entry option 1: follow @elviesrestaurant then put ‘following’ in a separate comment
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This opportunity is in no way associated with Meta or its affiliates. It’s simply because I love you and I love local restaurants and I want you to love the same restaurants I love! 🤣 

A winner will be selected and notified on Tuesday, July 7. Thank you so much for entering! It means so much to me! I really hope you win! 🥰🧡😘
The cutest flag cake by Lily Gal! She worked so ha The cutest flag cake by Lily Gal! She worked so hard on this delicious jello punch cake recipe that she got from her @raddishkids subscription! (They sent the fun candles with this month’s box, too!) 

Hope your Fourth celebrations are off to a great start! 🌟 🇺🇸
A few days ago while we were on vacation with Pric A few days ago while we were on vacation with Price’s family, Dempsey and I walked down to the beach to enjoy the pretty day. When we are playing in the mighty, mighty ocean, we take his cochlear implant processors off bc we do not want to risk losing them!

Anyway, Dempsey saw a couple of big kids skim boarding so he decided he was going to watch and learn. He went back to our beach house, got a skim board, came back, and started copying the big kids. It wasn’t really going too well 🤪

But the big kids saw Demps trying. They walked over to me and said, “is it ok if we teach your son how to do this?” I said, “he would love that, but he’s deaf and has his hearing devices off. He can lip read though!” 

Honestly, I thought that might scare them off. But nope!! Those two sweet boys went and taught my little bud all they could through motioning, lip reading, and patience. They worked with him for what felt like an hour! They did not have to do that.

But they showed pure kindness to my kiddo and taught him something new. And I sat there and cried watching it. Just PURE GOODNESS. 🫶

Boys, I have no idea who you are, but you made a huge impression on us. You have no idea. Thanks for going extra out of your way in the name of kindness. Yall are awesome and your parents have raised you guys well!!
If you’re a “fun wine on vacay” gal like mys If you’re a “fun wine on vacay” gal like myself, you’ve got to get in on Levure’s new order-online-and-pickup-curbside system they’ve just rolled out! Simply click on the link in their bio, order your beverages ahead of time, then roll through on your way out of town for curbside delivery! 

Then, once you get to your destination, it’s time to pop bottles! 🥂 

I love @levurebottleshop’s amazing selection of clean, organic wines and I know you will too. Thank you, Levure, for carrying the BEST options! ✨
This book!!! My sweet cousin @belljericho introduc This book!!! My sweet cousin @belljericho introduced me to it and it is THE SWEETEST. Truly. Gorgeous illustrations, and the most precious words with so much heart behind them. Four unlikely friends, their kindness, their wisdom, and one’s love for cake 🎂 will win you right over! It’s not exactly a children’s book, but it kind of is. It’s just a GREAT book for any one of any age by an author who likes plenty of pictures with his words, and he does a great job of providing both beautifully. 

Have you read this book?! Do you love it too?!

Please go to your local bookstore and look for Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Or comment FRIENDS below and I’ll shoot a link to your DMs. It’ll make your heart swell! 🥰💛
We recently had a date night to @amerigo_restauran We recently had a date night to @amerigo_restaurant and it was soooo good (as always!) I’ve been wanting to check out their NEW SUMMER MENU (hold at the end of the video to see all the seasonal options) so I ordered the peach pizza with pancetta and hot honey an oh my goodness was it delish! 😋 Price went with an old pasta favorite, which hit the spot like it always does, and of course the wine + cocktails were the perfect compliments to our lovely meal! We love this restaurant so much and always have the best time there. Thank you, @amerigo_restaurant, for just being the best! 💛 Until next time! 😘
Comment MAHJ for a link to this so-super-cute floa Comment MAHJ for a link to this so-super-cute floating mahjong set!! 🍋 It’s from Sam’s so you know it was a great price. $150 for everything!! Cannot wait to get our pool mahj on when we go to the beach soon! 😎
The most fun day with my babies!!! A while back, The most fun day with my babies!!! 

A while back, one of my kiddos said he (or she 🤪) didn’t think that knowing about the color wheel was important, so I took that statement as a challenge and set aside a day for us to learn that the color wheel + compliments & contrasts + color mixing actually ARE important! I personally feel that knowing all about color helps us appreciate God’s beautiful creation even more than we already do! The vibrancy of wild flowers, the complimentary colors on tree leaves, the monochromatic color schemes God uses in the clouds… it’s all so meaningful! 

After brunch at @elviesrestaurant where I showed them a little slide show about color, then a coffee stop at @cultivatecoffeeproject, we headed to @msmuseumart! We each took a few Polaroids throughout the morning highlighting some sort of color story we each selected. Dempsey chose neutrals, Wilson chose pops of red, Lily chose the red & green compliment, and I chose monochrome! Sadly we ran out of Polaroid film so we didn’t get to take quite as many pics as we wanted to but it was still a fun project! 😆

After the art museum, the kids asked if we could do the Mississippi History Museum since we were already downtown, so we went for it! Such a great museum if you’ve never been 🫶

Overall it was a wonderful day, and it is my hope that all my babies appreciate color (and MS history) more than they did when they woke up! Grateful for a free day to get to spend with them. God is good, and color is beautiful!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my beautiful Marmee! It’s a bi HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my beautiful Marmee! It’s a big one this year, and she makes it look so good! We love you soooooo much @maryleehuntmiller and wish you the very very best day and year!
“They plucked fig leaves, sewed them together, a “They plucked fig leaves, sewed them together, and made makeshift coverings for themselves“ Genesis 3:7
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