Showing posts with label Rock-N-Roll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock-N-Roll. Show all posts

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Out with the old and in with the new...

2010 has flown by.  Seriously.  Last month I dated a check 11/14/09.  I think at this point I just need to forget about 2010 and move straight to 2011.

But first I'm going to do a brief really long year in review.

2010 started out with Snowmageddon 1.



Followed by celebrating our princess turning 3 at her "Breakfast at Melody's" tea party.


February was quite interesting when I, the physician's daughter, totally underestimated Jack's tummy ache while Alex was over-reacting following his intuition.  Jack had his appendix out.


February had us celebrating Valentine's Day


And freezing our tails off while trying to smile about it in Snowmageddon 2.


In March I turned 24.  Again.
We entered baseball season.


And then we finally welcomed spring and Easter in April!




And then I went back solo for the Beth Moore conference 


And the Bon Jovi concert!  \m/ (Those are metal horns for all you non-coolrock-n-roll people out there.)


 Jack lost his bottom teeth and we had our last day of school in May.


As well as this infamous incident.


We celebrated Mother's Day and Grandma's 80th (and last) birthday in May as well.  She passed away in October and is now home with the Lord.


In June I dove out of my comfort zone and went camping.  Ok, fine, it was actually yurting. I understand you tent-camping people think there's a difference but to us 5-star-resort people there's really not.


And Batman Jack turned 6!


The summer was spent swimming. A lot.  And making sure certain body parts stay attached.


And doing a little tubing on Lake Oconee.


We headed back to FL in July where Melody and I met some real life princesses!  It was truly a magical moment for both of us.  I'm a little teary just thinking about it.


 In August we took one last vacation to Resort Mitchell and Charlie had his first haircut courtesy of Granddaddy.


Once we were back home, we were all ready for the first day of 1st grade




In September Alex and I were able to take a vacation to visit Ben in Colorado


and we took several family trips down to the Plains for some fun, family, football!




and my handsome Cub Scout went on his first Scout camping trip.  This was probably the highlight of his year.  That and getting his batman costume.  I only say that based on the fact that he mentions both things at least 10 time a day.




Thanksgiving brought us to FL yet again.  We are definitely thankful for these friends...we've had a lot of fun with them this year and appreciate them hosting us so frequently.


Early December brought us Sasha who will ring in the new year with us and stay here until mid-January.


 We were happy to celebrate Christmas Day with Uncle Ben and his girlfriend, Bekah.


And we received an unexpected gift...a white Christmas! Georgia hadn't had a white Christmas since 1918.
I guess this makes Snowmageddon 3 for 2010.


We've had many adventures in 2010 and are looking forward to what lies ahead in 2011!

Happy New Year!


Monday, April 19, 2010

Livin' on a prayer

I went back to Tampa this weekend.

This time for a little girl time.

And after hearing Beth Moore speak on the power of Christ (more about that later)

we rocked out at the Bon Jovi concert!

And when I say rocked out. I'm talking seriously rocked out.

I could barely talk the next day.

Apparently 3 hours of yelling "yeahhhhh" and "woooooooooooo" can do that to you.

We went down to Channelside first and listened to the Bon Jovi cover band Slippery When Wet.

Don't you love our shirts?



Jon and Richie.

Amazing hearing them play. Totally amazing.

And, regardless of what my husband claims, they TOTALLY rock and ARE NOT a girly band. I just had to say it.

WOOOOOOO!!!!


Thursday, January 21, 2010

PSF and Adios!

Tuesday my youngest brother, Andy, left for Costa Rica for a year.

After graduating college in December


he got a job teaching English at Glory Christian School in Heredia.

He has the awesome opportunity to spend a year immersing himself in another culture, teaching children, and sharing the Gospel.

Before he left, he came over here to visit.

And entertained us with his awesome talent
(can you believe that's just him playing around!?)




and provided some good dance music for Melody while playing my favorite song for me!


We'll miss you, Uncle Andy!

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Monday, August 17, 2009

it's the post you have all been waiting for...

Here's the concert recap:
The concert was a blast. Unfortunately, I don't have any stories for you. I failed to take into consideration that this is a PG blog and the stories *ahem* are not.


I do, however, have many pictures.

Here we are tailgating at the concert. This was before we got really crazy!

You know, people watching is one of the best aspects of concert going.

We got to see all kinds of crazy people in all kinds of crazy get ups. And not all are strangers. The guy in the hat is our friend Brent. And the hot chick in the next picture is his wife, Mari.
Now, OK, the guy in the spandex. Seriously. It was horrible to look at but we just couldn't stop staring. There was a line to get your picture made with this dude.

TIME TO ROCK-N-ROOLLL!!!!!!
The music rocked. Cheap Trick started off and got us going. Poison followed and they were seriously kickin' it. Def Leppard was just awesome.


As you can see we're now getting just slightly crazy. Alex snagged the hat from Brent and I'm not really sure what I'm doing other than just singing at the top of my lungs with the other thousands of people at Lakewood.

Mari and Alex were rock stars themselves dancing to Def Leppard. Here's one funny story I can share. Mari dressed the part which included extremely high, er, um, hooker shoes. On our way back to the van, she kept getting little rocks from the gravel parking lot stuck in them and kept stopping. Finally, Alex couldn't stand it any more and just picked up Mari, (who is probably about 3 in
ches taller than Alex and about 8 countin
g the shoes) and carried her fireman style all the way to the car!


We had such a great time the whole time, but I have to say that my favorite part of the concert was swaying back and forth like cheesy high schoolers dancing with the husband to Every Rose Has Its Thorn. Nothing like hearing Bret Michaels sing a romantic ballad while dancing with a sexy man. Alex said that his favorite part was dancing to Pour Some Sugar On Me. But I think that's just because I let him cop a feel or two.

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Now, in other news, our camera broke. I'm pretty sure it's a result of the camera being crushed in the pocket of Alex's jeans all night and/or being left on a blanket where whomever could have and probably did step on it.

Obviously with kids as cute as mine I can't be without a camera for took long. =P So, I am in the market for a new one.

Any advice? We had a P&S (Cannon PowerShot) and I'm not sure if I'm going to get another P&S or upgrade to a DSLR.

Do you have a camera you love? What kind of features should I be concerned with?

Thanks!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Nothin' but a good time

On Saturday night


it's going to get wild
and crazy!
Rock-n-rolllll, baby!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for pictures and, if I'm lucky, maybe a story or two.

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