***SUMMER VACATION***

Oh Home sweet home..... TEXAS!
It was fabulous to be able to take a whole month home I will say. The travels began on June 11th from NC to Tennessee! My neighbor and I, Sonja, were on our way to see my old roomie, Lacey. After a lovely scenic drive through the Smokey Mountains...across most of TN, 9 hours later, we arrived in Mufreesboro around 11 pm. Puppies and ALL~!
Well after a weekend of sight seeing, partying, drinking, tattoos, and honky tonkin... roaming the streets of Downtown Nashville...we packed up my truck all over again, and headed out west. Texas bound!!

Well being the best hostess that I am, I tried to take Sonja to as many cool places that North Texas had to offer. We went to the Stockyards, the lake, swimming at my aunts house, shopping, Rangers vs. Astros baseball game,
backroading, country dancin at Billy Bob's Texas, the casino and I even wined her and dined her. I know it was some good "away from home" time for her, and believe me.. she was just as anxious to go back home. So after all of that fun, she flew out around the 23rd, and then I had a week to myself before Mike flew in on July 1.

Mike and I spent about a week visiting my family & friends. We got an awesome chance to see my brother in action {on the drums that is} for 2 weeks in a row. Him and a couple of HS buddies threw a small band together and got a chance to play a live show at Sarah's on the Square in downtown Gville. It was pretty sweet to see him play.
After all of the Gainesville fun, we were off to see his parents for a week. Our trip overall was fabulous, and for me it was more than words can describe. I needed it lets just say that.
So here we are now... a couple weeks back into the grind of things.... work for Mike, school & FRG work for me, in the midst of still trying to enjoy the last month of summer.

We hope to stay around here for the coming holidays.. but I will definitely let everyone know if anything changes, but for now, we are standing our ground in hopes that our parents come this way for once.
Anyhow.... well thats about all that I have for now... check out the slideshow above. Its the whole trip summed up in a slide show! ha!

Memories...

It feels like it was only a few weeks ago.. that me and Mike packed up and drove that crazy 1200 miles to North carolina! Well 22 hours before... we where packing up saying Goodbye to my folks in Gainesville.. before driving to Texarkana..knocking off 3 hours..and staying with Mikes parents. Keeping in mind... that we had just had our wedding ceremony less than 12 hours before all of these pictures!! Anyhow... I found these pictures....

Busy busy weekend...

A few pictures from last week....
For those that dont know...Mike and I had a Military ball on Friday, I coached my last Tball game Saturday, and had a end-of-the season bowling party, and then Sunday I finished some letters for a customer.. {those to be posted later-dont want to spoil the fun for her--see my other blog for details {L}one{S}tar Letters.. and today ive done laundry {dont worry.. no pics of that}.. and did a ton of other things.
But Im mainly posting to show pics of the ball... here we go!

Mike and I after the ball

And again.. it was a lil humid that day, lil sweaty =)

The hair definitely saw a pony tail early on.

My Oh so sexy heels... Made by... THE DEVIL I might add.

Crazy lil LJ

Definitely a handful!!

Skyler & Jarrod

My crazy backyard squirrel that eats all the bird seed!

And lets me get super super close to take his picture! IDIOT! haha

Procrastination!

I am totally not the girly type... THATS for sure! But Desperate times.. call for desperate measures. Im in need of a dress for our ball coming up in a week! hahahaha.. procrastination.. yes please. For all of you that know me, I dang sure hate shoping at this point in my life.. for tons of reasons, but mainly beacause I consider myself a lard-a** and hate hate hate facing the nasty number on the pair of jeans I try on, or in this case, a dress. YACK! So this week I will be on the hunt again.. for another ball gown for our upcoming Chemical Ball. WATCH OUT! Pictures to post soon! At least the event will be fun, and have an open bar. Definitely one way to make the fat sorrows go away.. DRINK!

Signing off this Rainy Tuesday...
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