The Day I Taught Clint the Back Tuck

While awaiting Walmarts' call letting us know my new tires are on and my car is ready for pick up we went to Uncle Andy and Aunt Teresa's house for dips, burgers and sweets!

Calli Jean and Mom

Codie, Clint and Granddaddy

Andy blowing me a kiss while grilling our burgers!

Clint being kicked out of the kitchen by Teresa and Deb

Time to eat! Teresa fixing brownies, Mom directing traffic, and Granddaddy and Uncle Ray helping themselves!

After lunch we entertained ourselves with jumping on the trampoline and swinging on the swing behind the house in the beautiful Alabama weather!

Clint and me

Clint, Codie and Calli Jean

Clint, Codie, Calli Jean, and Colton

Colton doing a back flip and Calli Jean swinging

Calli Jean showing us her front flip

Codie is all smiles standing on the swing!

Now, there is a lot happening in this video. Clint conquered the back flip but in the background Codie swings into the tree. hee hee! :)

Clint is going to work his way to doing a back tuck on the ground so he can celebrate all his touchdowns that way! ;)

The Day I Got a Flat

Codie said: "What is that noise?"

I said: "I think it is that truck."

Codie said: "I think it is your car!"

I turned down the blaring radio to hear that it is my car.

While Codie is busting out laughing!!! :)

I said: "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"

We pull over to find a flat just a few short miles before the turn to the funeral home 3 minutes before 10AM.

My reaction to the flat!

My Mom came to pick us up and take us to the funeral home and then the graveside. After the graveside she took us back to my car to change the flat. I have no pics from the funeral b/c I left my beloved camera in my car with the flat tire. However, I did take pics with Mom's camera but fear I will never see them again as Mom has yet to put into practice loading them onto her computer and sharing them with the world... so they will be doomed to stay on her memory card for all time!! (Mom, if you send me the pics I will delete the comment above... you can redeem yourself!) :)

Chase (my cousin) working his magic with my sorry jack!

Colton and Clint taking a lesson in changing a flat from their big cousin Chase!

Mom and Walmart to the rescue!

Oh this is what a tire should look like!
Not like this!!

"The Day" will be continued on the next post...

The Day We Were Running Late

Codie, Clint, Colton and I woke up early Friday morning to get ready to go to Belgreen, Alabama for our Great Uncle's funeral. My Mom had told me the night before that the funeral started at 11 o'clock but Codie had just informed me that Mom had called her and said that it starts at 10 o'clock... and so the mad rush began. We jetted out the door and after grabbing breakfast at Hardee's we were off to Belgreen at 10 after 8.

Passing a chicken farm.
me
Clint

Colton

Codie is behind the camera! :)

"The Day" will be continued on the next post...

Girl's Night In

Thanks to Sarah for hosting our Girl's Night In! She fed us well and educated us lots! We always have so much fun together!! :)

(me, Martina, Kinnery, Lori, Whitney, Sarah, Taryn, and Ashley)

Webbed Toes

Yes I have webbed toes, AKA flower toes and mutant toes. This does make me somewhat weird and when I was in elementary school I was totally self-conscious about my fish like feature. Since then I have grown to love them and am now so proud of my uniqueness that I’m making sure all know that I HAVE WEBBED TOES. Let me clarify some things so you don’t have to ask:

• I don’t know if they make me swim faster because I don’t know how fast I would swim without them.
• I don’t think I walk funny. You can be the judge of that.
• No, they don’t feel weird. I don’t know what it would feel like to not have webbed toes.
• No, they’ve never ripped.
• No, I don’t know what it would feel like if I tried to rip them… I’ve never tried but imagine it would hurt!
• No, I can’t wear toe socks. I’ve tried.
• No, I can’t wear a toe ring on them. I’ve tried.

That’s all the silly questions I can think of that people have asked me throughout my life. :)

Snowing on Wisteria

I've been disappointed many times this year when James Span would say it's going to snow this weekend so I didn't believe it this time! Woke up around 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning and squealed when I opened the blinds to find Wisteria covered in a blanket of white! I'll show you around our quaint Wisteria, enjoy the pics! :)

Here is our house :)

This is the Segar's house, Betsy and Greg have three of the most adorable children, Anna, Andrew and Mary :)

Todd and Emily Celeste live on the other side of us. They moved to Birmingham from Texas. We've really enjoyed getting to know them better these last few months!

Miami figuring out this snow thing.

Miami deciding this snow thing is COLD!!

Me and Jared after a snowball fight!

Our mini-snowman

Jared really tired of me taking pictures!

The End.

Cheers To 2009

Jared and I have spent 3 New Years at the Garrett’s house playing cards and board games until after midnight. They are always so generous to welcome us into there home! Stephanie and Ryan Garrett are our fabulous friends that live in Nashville and we are lucky enough to live in Birmingham where both of their parents live, so every time they come to see the parents we get to spend time with them as well!
This New Year’s Eve we played a super fast version of Scrabble where you take seven letters and try to use up all of them in different word sequences as fast as you can. The first person to use all their letters yells 2, where the rest of us slow pokes have to grab two more letters to put into our nonexistent sequences, and on and on we go until the last letters were grabbed and someone yells done. I am the WORST speller in the universe so I knew I was going to be horrible at this game. I made it very clear at the beginning of the game that if someone sees a word in my mess of sequences to call me out on it… didn’t know that was going to be Jared over my shoulder the one game I’m not coming out negative! We were having so much fun we missed the ball drop! :)
After the Scrabble game we played my card game, Stop (it’s also called Nerts). It’s basically playing the game Solitaire with a lot of people (to many rules for me to blog about so visit this link if you are interested, http://www.pagat.com/patience/nerts.html).

The group playing Speed Scrabble

Lance and Donna Rushing (Steph's parents) are the BEST! When I said smile Lance frowned. :)

Steph and Ryan's first pic of the New Year. This was taken at 12:01 AM.

Mine and Jared's first pic in 2009!

Mr. Garrett always toasts to the New Year! (with COC Champaign)