On the road again...

My friend Suzy and I are headed out at 8:30 in the morning for Houston! Well, actually Kingwood if you want to be technical. That's where we'll be sleeping. We snagged tickets to see Carrie Underwood tomorrow night and we couldn't be happier! We both love road trips, but pray for us. Even if I am driving and we have a TomTom, I still might get us lost!!

We'll be home Sunday night, and then first thing Monday morning my best friend will have her 2nd baby boy around 7am. I'm going to be one very tired girl Monday evening!

Look for pictures soon!

6th and 6th

So no one technically tagged me (**edit, I now realize my sweet friend Becca tagged me a few days ago--shows how much I pay attention!!) but enough of the blogs I read have done this, so I tagged myself. I went to the 6th folder and 6th picture on this computer and this is the picture:



Me and my loverly sister on the boat this past July going whale watching. In the middle of the summer and it was probably 50 degrees or colder! I think we were on our way back to the harbor at this point, everyone crammed into the inside of the boat because it was so cold! Hand down, one of THE best vacations I've ever been on. I want to go back to Seattle!!

So, I tag everyone! If you are reading this and haven't done it yet, go for it!

She loves the way the leaves crunch.





I love the way she loves the way the leaves crunch.

I am one lucky godmother.

I am

I am: In my mid-twenties. Holy crap.

I have: The most beautiful Goddaughter in the world.

I Dislike: being sick.

I Miss: my grandmother.

I Fear: never finding that someone.

I Think: That life begins at conception.

I Know: That I am blessed, although I don't remember this all the time.

I have no idea: what the future holds for me. But God does!

I Want: to make a decision about my future.

I Hope: I don't get sick before next weekend.

I Feel: sleepy.

I Smell: cotton candy, hot dogs and chili. Carnival day at work today.

I Crave: a change. I hate change though.

I Cry: when people tell me I'm doing a bad job.

I Usually: over-think things.

I Search: for purpose.

I Wonder: when I'm going to meet my future husband, or if I already have.

I Regret: not getting more involved in my college years.

I Love: spending time with my beautiful goddaughter.

I Care: about a lot of things.

I Always: am quiet.

I Worry: about my future.

I Am Not: a leader.

I Remember: where I was and what I was doing when 9/11 happened.

I Believe: God can handle anything.

I Dance: like a white girl. With no rhythm.

I Sing: about like I dance.

I Don't Always: have good self esteem.

I Argue: too much.

I Write: to vent.

I Wish: for clarity .

I Listen: to whining almost the entire time at work. And it's not always me thankyouverymuch.

I Don't Understand: why people are cruel.

I Can Usually Be Found: around children. Or at work.

I Need: a vacation from life.

I Forget: to blog most of the time.

I Am: me.

More pics..

Sorry about the captions on the pics...I haven't had time to add them...

There's a lot, so enjoy! You can click on the slideshow to get taken to the page where they're listed individually, if you don't want to stick around to see them all.

What a weekend!

Wow!! That's about all I can say about this weekend. We had an amazing time. Already made reservations for next year!


We got to the Vidalia RV park a little after 1pm, set up the RV and made sure everything was level, called Laura's husband to reassure him we didn't break his baby, and headed across the bridge to Natchez. We stopped at Fat Mama's, who are known for their "Knock You Naked Margaritas". I ordered one, but could only drink a few sips. We all had tamales, which were so good. After that we went to the Natchez Visitor's Center to get tickets to be able to get into the festival that night. We had no idea what to expect.




We all figured we'd be watching the balloons from a good distance away. No siree, we got up close and personal! They blow up the balloons in the same yard/field where the festival is. It was AWESOME! Friday night was the Balloon Glow, so they all got blown up and then lit their fires at the same time when the dj counted down. It was so neat! We all got some great pictures.





Saturday morning Laura and Angie met up with a guy they met who flew for Curves, and had said Laura could ride with him. She ended up not being able to, but they became honorary members of his chase crew, and tried to find him after he landed from the morning flight. Shari and I stayed behind in the RV, because we really didn't want to get up at 5:30am on a Saturday. We ended up walking down the levy down to the bridge and just sightseeing and people watching. We had fun, but boy do my legs hurt. We walked probably 3 or 4 miles. I'm in such bad shape!






Saturday afternoon we went out for lunch and drove around the town just hanging out. There was a "barge drop" that afternoon and we wanted to find the perfect spot for watching it. My old college roommate lives there, so I called her and she gave us a general direction to be looking. We got a great spot for pictures, so we parked and stayed there for a while.





Shari had wanted to go on the Natchez Ghost Tour, so we called and booked that for that night. We left at 7:30 and got on a bus with 30 other people and drove around looking at old "haunted" mansions downtown. It was interesting to hear the history behind the houses, but Laura and Angie both said they fell asleep in the dark bus. I did too for a few minutes!

This morning, we had the BEST ending to the weekend. We knew there was another flight this morning but we didn't know where. Angie had gone up to the park office for something, and Shari happened to look out the RV window and saw a balloon in the sky. She casually mentioned it, and then looked harder and saw the sky was FULL of balloons! They were doing another drop, and the target was right in our RV park! There was a sky full of balloons flying directly over us. We jumped out of bed, threw on sweatshirts and hats and shoes and ran to the levy to watch. It was neat! We couldn't have asked for a better ending to the trip. Or better weather the entire weekend!





Just to give you an idea of how many pictures I took, I filled up an entire memory card on my camera, and there were 2 other cameras there too. We're all going to share and compare pictures. I can't wait to see what they have. More pictures to come!!

Natchez bound

I'm leaving in the morning to hit the road and head the 100 miles to the big ole town of Natchez, MS. My friend Laura has an RV, so we're hooking 'er up to the truck and taking off. There are 4 of us going, and with these ladies, there's no telling what kind of stories we'll have when we come back. We're staying at an RV park on the LA side of the Mississippi River, but it's not hard to walk/drive down to the fairgrounds. We might even decide not to brave the crowds and just climb up on top of the RV to watch the shows. We have no set plans, and that just thrills me. No pressure to do anything. A weekend away from Funroe...what more could I ask!

Look for pictures next week!