Hotel'in It !

This past weekend my In-laws took us to Maine for a night in a hotel.

The kids thought it was great ...

Simply because we actually let them jump on the beds ....

Little Man kept saying, " This is so wonderful " ....

His first time ever in a hotel ....

Can ya tell ?

This is a little more like where we are used to staying ....

So we let them jump as much as they wanted ...

Because I'm " The Mom " ....

That won't let them do this at home ....

Enjoy it while you can kiddos !!!!

And then they crashed ...

:)

Redneck Swing

You might be a redneck if :

Your kids swing on something that looks like :

THIS :)

What is it you ask ??

This is a creation my Uncle came up with  ...

He wanted to make a swing the kids would love ...

and they do ....

Some sort of bike/swing combo !

Otherwise known as :

The Redneck Swing ....

Good clean country kid fun :)

....

Welcome to the Country everyone  :)

The Gaithers

This past Friday night I headed to Bangor, Maine to see The Gaither's in concert. I was taking three of my Great Aunties ( my Grammie's sisters ) down. I volunteered to go with them since none of them like to drive on the interstate or in the city. I was looking forward to going though John and I usually go to concerts that are a little loud and a little more rockin' shall I say ....

You see I went to The Gaither's when I was 18 with my family ....

but I was in Love with this guy ...

he was 8 hours away at the time ....

and pretty much on my mind 24 hours a day ...

So I don't remember the concert ....

I remember going and that's about it !

Good thing I married him :)

and then I heard this guy was coming to a town near us on the same night ....

and I love his music ....

You can hear some of his songs on the Fireproof and Courageous soundtracks ....

but I was already committed to The Gaithers ....

I really was looking forward to going but ....

I was more excited about a little of this ....

and a little of this ...

Remember, we live in the country - this stuff is 2 hours away ....

It doesn't happen very often ....

You see we usually go to concerts and see people like these guys ...

Seen The Newsboys 3 times ....

and then again when they got a new lead singer ....

Seen these guys .... 

My Mom found this ....

With Third Day along long time ago ....

and this guy ....

seen TFK ....

we've seen this Country Man ....

and his wife ....

Now get ready ....

Don't be jealous ....

We've seen these guys twice ....

and once again when Greg left and Sam came in the picture ....

Yep - we know how to get our WIGGLE on !!!!!

The Gaither Vocal Band

Wes Hampton, Michael English, Bill Gaither, David Phelps and Mark Lowry

and now I can't believe I'm admitting this but ....

I've never heard anyone sound as good live as The Gaither Vocal Band.

They sing amazing!

I loved the concert :)

I'd like to point out that admitting this does not make me old ....

It does however ....

Make me older than 18 now :)

but not much older ....

I should add that I had a great time with the Great Aunt's :)

I have no pictures to prove it though 

because my camera stayed in the car the entire trip ....

I was very much on the ball :)

Remember you lose brain cells when your pregnant ....

I believe this to be Fact :)

Shopping & A Mountain

We headed to the city on Saturday to do a little shopping... When we head to the city we also head to another Country..... cause that's where the BIG sales are!!!! We knew we were about half way there when we saw this....... beautiful isn't it......actually made it worth our rising at 5:30 on a Saturday morning :)

As everyone knows, kids love to shop......being drug from store to store trying on clothes... especially little boys..........So we knew we had to take a break before there was a breakdown and go to the promised restuarant of choice.......

 Then we headed to the airport. Are we the only ones here who actually go to the airport just to watch planes take-off and land...... with no intentions of getting on one???????

I know.... it's hard to tell we're from the country and don't get out much...............

After everyone was tired and ready to head home, we had one last stop.... My sis turned me on to these last summer....... Strawberries and cream..... so good........It's probaly a good thing I live no where near a Starbucks........ cause it would be hard to drive by everyday and not go in to get one of these.........

On the way home we couldn't drive by and not stop at the scenic lookoff ..... Did I mention the road to the scenic lookoff is only open from May-October?????? That didn't scare my man... I wanted a pic of the mountain and he was going to make sure I got it :)