Farewell Johnny

I bet I have watched Dirty Dancing a million times, maybe even close to a billion, maybe even a trillion....anyway A LOT, no matter how you look at it. Goodness I love that movie. It was in this movie that I fell in love with Patrick Swayze. I have the DVD and can watch it anytime but let it be on TV and I just can't make myself change the channel. It was and still is something about that tough, dancer guy that tugs at my heart strings.

I was so sad to hear that he lost his battle to cancer. My prayers go out to his wife, Lisa. What a lucky lady, she could "dirty dance" with him everyday!

Labor Day At The Lake

Let me start off by apologizing to the world.....I am sorry for starting the tradition MANY years ago of spending Labor Day at lake. Why you ask? Well, I don't think that I can remember a Labor Day since we have been going that it has actually been "summer like". It might not always rain but it isn't typically great swimming, boating weather. So people, blame me! Still, each year, we keep going hoping that our year will finally come. We are such troopers!

We changed up our routine a little this year, you know, hoping that would finally bring about the nice weather that we always pray for, by staying at a different cabin. Even though our new destination didn't bring about the sun, it brought about a lot of laughs, food, games, drinks and memories that will last forever, especially for Macy (sorry I have been forbidden to give details).

Ride'm Cowgirl

Karson rode this past weekend at the NBHA spring district show in Columbia. It was just an all around awesome weekend for her. Saturday she placed on both Classy and Chance and became $75 richer. That's a lot of money to a 13 year old! She improved her times each day on the horses, so by Sunday, she and Chance (aka ole faithful) had their best run to date. We were all there cheering her on, as you will hear in the video! (we probably annoy so many people) By Sunday, we weren't sure how much more our rearends could take. My goodness those bleachers get hard after 3 days of barrel racing, but you know what, seeing Karson run a 15.2 was well worth it! We're so proud of her.

Happy Anniversary To Us

Yesterday, Mike and I celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary. 22 years, oh how the time has flown by. I look at Kylie now, who will be 20 in March, and think about the fact that I had been married for almost 2 years when I was just 20. What the heck were our parents thinking, letting us get married? I'm sure they thought the odds were stacked against us, 18 & 19 years old, trekking off across the United States, no money, NO anything.....except this incredible love we shared. There isn't a person in the world that could have talked us out of it. I tell people all the time that God sent me Mike. I'm a lucky girl. Happy Anniversary babe, I love you. Thanks for marrying me!

A Room With A View

How about that view? That is what we woke up to all week in Tennessee. Aren't those mountains just beautiful? We had a really great time on vacation. For those of you who don't know, we went to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge and spent the week. We couldn't have asked for more perfect vacation weather, it was in the low 80's everyday we were there. We rented a cabin for the week, that we all fell in love with. It was our home-away-from-home. Kassidy said that she could move there (although after about 5 days, she began to change her tune, she thought she would miss Nanny and Regan too much). We had an action packed week that I promise to tell you all about in posts to come. I'll leave you with one little hint of just how fun our week was.....FINALLY got to the cabin, ready to take a shower and get all snuggled in for the night and guess what??? NO UNDERWEAR! Yep, that's right, of all things that I forgot to pack myself....bra's and underwear! Thank goodness for Walmart. I know you are cracking up but hey, I can't blame you, I laughed until I thought I would die!

I'm so thankful that the Lord has blessed Mike and I with the opportunities to make family vacations possible. I guarantee we have created many memories that will last a life time.

Yes, I'm Alive!

Just wanted to let everyone know (because I know that you are staying up worrying about me at night) that I am in fact alive, just very, very busy and I have not had a minute to sit down at the computer, let alone "blog".
It's fair week and for any of you old 4-Her's you know what that means....craziness! Good news is that Kassidy got blue ribbons on all her projects and Karson got 6 blues, one red and her inch worm cake is going to state. I will have to take a picture and upload it later. This cake is a blog in itself! I'm really proud of them, they have been working very hard.
I do have some catching up to do and I promise it will be coming to you soon. We are leaving tomorrow for vacation, so I'm hoping that in my down time I can catch up.
Happy Thursday to you!

Bachelorette

Is anyone else watching this crazy show? I swear, I can't for the life of me understand how I let myself get so wrapped up in reality TV! Anyway....Jillian is driving me NUTSO!!!!! Why, why, why does she keep making the wrong decisions? I hate the fact that she let Ed come back. You snooze, you lose dude. Should have thought it over more carefully before you chose work over your potential "perfect" match. I didn't think it was fair to the other guys either. Then to keep Wes. YUCK. He just creeps me out. Surely this week she will let that guy go. How many times does she have to hear that he's there for the wrong reasons and possibly with a girlfriend back home? I'll say this for him, he is one smooth talker. Then poor Jesse. I loved him. He and Kiptyn were my picks for the final rose ceremony. It broke my heart for him that Ed and Wes were chosen to stay and he got sent home. I did some major talking to my TV set and hopefully Jillian heard me! I'm praying for better decisions this week.