DEGA Bound...

Guess where I leave for Thursday....Talladega!!! You all will be SO proud to know that this will be my 14th race at Talladega. I cant' believe I have been going so long! WOW. Anyway, you know what else that means....Mullet Hunt and Fashion Show Pics!!! Stay tuned. We leave on Thursday and come back on Monday. We aren't taking our camper this year (first time ever) Jason and Ashley are staying by themselves in theirs so we are staying with them. PLUS, Gibson has had to work so much that he has not had a chance to get the camper out and get it ready, NOR have I had the time or energy to deal with it either! I am excited about staying with Jason and Ashley, I spend most of my time down at their camper anyway!!! Stay tuned, Mullet pics when I get back!

House Hunting....

For those of you that don't know....we are house hunting. When I married Gibson I never thought we would be house hunting, much less living IN Greenville. Granted, I am very excited about it, its just kinda stressful. You see, I thought we were going to be at 36 Riverside Road, forever. Granted, being a 200 year old house DEFINITELY had its quirks, but I LOVED my 13 ft ceilings, huge rooms, floor to ceiling windows, my 20 X 24 dining room, my 2nd floor porch that wrapped around the entire house, my bedroom with no windows, I even grew to love my awful pepto pink tiled bathroom (once I FINALLY found a good brown to paint it), I made it mine and I loved it. HOWEVER, on March 8th, the furnace decided differently and where my house once stood are 6 brand new grain bins! SO, that leads us to where we are now. Renting....granted renting has been fine, but I am starting to get really restless. We have narrowed our choices down to 3 houses, and we look at one more on Friday. It may or may not work. Some people think I am being picky, but considering we already had our house plans drawn up for Lake Washington(oh and that includes paying for them) then decided buying in town was a better fit for us, its hard NOT to be picky. I know the layout I want. WE plan to live in this house forever and what my be fine for Gibson and I now, may NOT be fine for teenagers! I am just trying to think for the future. SO, anyway, that is my frustration of the day. We shall see how it turn out, hopefully....NO, unless something pops up in the next weeks or so, we WILL own one of the 4 in the near future!!! Wish us luck!

And we made it home in one piece...

Headed to the Notre Dame in Paris, excuse the way we look, we had been up for WAY too many hours at this point.
At the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Again, looking WAY too cute.
Jane and I on the beach in Nice. Notice there is no sand, only smooth flat (well, kinda flat) rocks. Not the most comfortable beach to lay on but at least you didnt' get sandy.
Jane and I on our way up to Cascade Donjon, it was over 500 steps tto a waterfall overlooking the coastline in Nice, it was Gorgeous!
At dinner at the L'Meridian rooftop restaurant in Nice. The hair dryers over there were utterly useless, hence the reason for the lovely 'dos we have going on with our hair!


Jane, Anna Rives and I had a GREAT time on our trip. It was WONDERFUL. AND, I managed to pack in only a carry on. Well, I had my carry-on size suitcase and a REALLY REALLY REALLY big "personal item/purse" It was basically another duffel bag, but I survived. I did NOT only carry-on luggage on the way home, however. I wound up checking two bags and carrying on one that I bought there. Anyway, we had SO much fun. We left Tuesday, Aug 26th and flew into Paris. The flight was 8 hours from Atlanta, but FLEW by because Delta now has Movies on Demand on the back of all their seats. You can choose what movie you want to watch, start and stop it, watch re-runs of several tv shows, play games, watch music videos, whatever. I planned on having a few glasses of red wine and passing out, but that did not happen. Coming home was another story. Delta has not updated the planes that fly into Itlay with Movies on Demand yet, so we didn't have it. That 11 1/2 hour flight did NOT fly by. They showed 3 movies that I have never heard of, but even after we watched all 3 of those, we had 6 hours left. YUCK. Delta DESPERATELY needs to update. Anyway, we flew into Paris, then went to Nice, Venice, Florence and Rome, where we flew home from. It was BEAUTIFUL and we had great weather the entire trip. I think Nice and Venice were definitely my favorites HOWEVER, I really want to go back to Florence and go to the countryside. We were just in the city the entire time. I posted a few pics, I have a few funny stories to tell so stay tuned!!!

Bonjour from Nice

So...we loved Paris and made it to Nice. After relaxing on the stone beach yesterday, OUCH, today we climbed over 500 stiars to the Cascade DonJon, a waterfall and viewpoint overlooking the beach and city. ABSOLUTELY one of the most beautiful sights I have EVER seen. If I can ever get my computer to charge over 10 minutes, I will try to upload some pictures. I am definitely coming back to this area in the future, only I am staying a week this time and going to Cannes, St Tropez, Monte Carlo, Monaco, etc. I LOVE NICE. Many stories to tell, but short on battery power.

B-day pics

Smith and his daddy playing air hockey
Sherrie and Caroline playing Smith and Bradley
Concentrating to block that shot!
The birthday boy, Hayes and his mama Brittney

More Bday pics

Sherrie trying the "mountain"
It worked much better if we pushed the kids up there!!!
Caroline on the slide
Smith on the big slide.

Smith LOVED playing air hockey.

Pump..n.up (as Smith calls it)

A few weeks ago was my cousin Troys, son's bday party. Hayes turned 2. His party was at Pump It Up in Jackson. Smith calls it pump..n..up, and its hilarious to hear him say it. Since Gibson was scuba diving, spear-fishing off the coast of Louisiana that weekend, I decided to go home for it and spend the night with my parents. That place is AWESOME. I think I had as much fun as the kids did. I am SURE all of you know what it is, so I won't go into detail, but it was SO much fun. Well, until Smith went down the slide backwards and his shirt came up...so his belly got a "rubber burn" You would have thought we shot him the way he screamed. It was AWFUL, he wound up settling down a LITTLE, we finally had to leave early because he was screaming so bad. Despite the injury, we still had a blast!!!


Memamma and Smith climbing, but falling back down
Not really sure WHAT this face was for!
Rolling down the slide, he loved flipping over.
Me trying to see how hight I can get the flags!
Memamma didnt' make it too far!