Catching Up

This morning I got an email and "Inactive Blog" was in the subject line.  

It was from my dad and all it said was, "Beach report? Pictures of Rooster? Gripes about work?"

Point taken. I was gone for a while and busy around here when I got back. 

I made the trek to Tampa last week to visit one of my good friends and her two cute kids and then I drove to Orange Beach to visit with some family. I didn't take a lot of pictures but here we go...

We lived it up like true adults and the two of us went to Disney World! I was one of the few people in the world who had never been. I paid an insane amount of money for a one day ticket so we ran around like crazy to make the most of it. 

Here we are in front of the Magic Kingdom. 

In front of the cookie in the Honey I Shrunk the Kids play area. 

On the ant from Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

This is one of my all time favorite movies so I made sure we stopped. 

In front of the Voyage of the Little Mermaid show. It was probably my favorite thing that day and not just because it "rained" on you (which felt amazing because it was no less than 145 degrees that day.)

We also went to the beach one day and the water was beautiful.

Just as her husband was about to snap the picture her son chunked a handful of sand at us! 

I think these two pictures are so funny.

Laughing after the sand incident. 

Now we venture to Orange Beach.

I have done the beach things many many times in my life. I LOVE going to the beach but on this trip I learned that I have been doing it WRONG.

See those chairs?

See those umbrellas?

I cannot explain how nice it was to sit in that chair and read my book up off of the sand in the shade.

I'm a changed woman! I have seen the error of my ways. 

P.S. I've already informed my good man that we will be buying two of those chairs.

This is the only recent picture I have of Rooster. He's all curled up on some shopping bags in the floor. 

He grew out of his harness while I was gone. He still sleeps a lot but is about 1000 times more hyper when he is awake. We've been taking him on two thirty minute walks a day which help a lot. It is good exercise for us too. 

Work starts back tomorrow and I hope I don't have many gripes. :)

My Momma's Wedding

The wedding was in the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum which has the USS Razorback submarine next to it. It ended up being a really neat location with several things to see and do during the reception (you could take a tour of the submarine, visit the museum, feed the turtles and fish, or feast on some BBQ.) 

Here it is all decked out for the 4th of July. 

Garrett will hate this picture but it shows where you could feed the turtles and fish off of the side. 

The top of their mountain of cupcakes. 

The whole cupcake mountain. 

The Groom's cake (that my sister, Kelsey made) complete with the "Just Married" truck on top. 

Kels getting the BBQ ready. 

These two helped us out so much!

Me and my love!

The bride. 

The groom. 

I LOVE this picture of my grandpa. He looks so happy!

Congrats, Mom and Ron!

Dog Tired

I took Rooster out for a walk this morning and look at him now...

He's been curled up on the couch for an hour. 

Of course, this is nothing new or strange I guess. 

Here he is stretched out on the middle console on our trek back to Atlanta. 

Curled up in his crate. 

 Stretched out on the couch. 

Happy and fat and sound asleep after supper. 

He isn't picky. He'll curl up to whoever is around. 

Could be me...

could be my good man...

could be Grandpa Bud.

Must be a hard life for him, huh?

Home Again, Home Again

Sorry I've been MIA for a while. We planned on staying in AR for a week but ended up staying for two instead. We did lots of fun things (like floating the Buffalo, helping with my Momma's wedding, shooting guns at my dad's house and showing Rooster off all over The Natural State- just to name a few) and we got to visit with a lot of folks. 

Even though we were really busy for parts of the trip it was so good to just  "be around" family. I loved being in town and actually getting to go to Garrett's shrimp boil birthday party. I like our life in Atlanta right now but I do miss being able to show up at my grandparent's house on a Saturday night for pancakes. I miss being able to go bowling with my cousin. I miss hanging out with my Dadio in the shop and picking the dried wood glue off the bottle (probably bothering the heck out of him) while he works. 

That's one of the great things about the summer I suppose. You can spend two whole weeks at "home" and get to do all of those fun things. 

My good  man took a trillion pictures of the trip but here are some of my favorites. I'll do a post later with more details and pictures from the Wedding because it deserves its own post.  

My mom, me, and Nana making cupcakes. 

This picture cracks me up!

My good man and I. 

Shootin'.

Rooster looks so little here!
Go ahead...laugh at us...but we didnt' know if he would be able to swim on the canoe trip. He hated the life jacket (and he could swim!) but we wanted to be safe. 

I know, I know. Ridiculous. 

The only picture I took at the river. Garret and Micheal playing with the dogs. 

Bowling. 

Kelsey, Micheal, and Gidget's head at Garrett's Shrimp Boil. 

Twins!

Adrienne and Garrett. 

Dadio and Rooster. 

All the "kids" at the Bowling party. 

Enjoy!