Honeymoon Highway

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

A Long Lost Blog Post Update.

Wow. Where have I been? So much has happened since the last post, SO this one I am just going to jump right in like I never went MIA! First things first.... I bet you are DYING to know what our new loft looks like. I hope you weren't holding your breath 'cause that was a major teaser! Without further ado... here is our new loft... AKA The Arts & Crafts Room!

Pretty nifty huh? We love it and use it 10x more than that plain ole boring sitting room! We did move the sitting room furniture to a back bedroom and we now use that as a reading room (and Santa's Workshop during Christmas!).

A few more things going on...

Erica got engaged!

Yup, Will proposed on Dec 30th, 2012 up in Cleveland, GA at Woodlands Camp. After she walked through the chapel to find a note directing her to the bridge where then she had to walk through about 100 candle-lit mason jars and lanterns, Will was handsomely waiting for her! Once she said yes, the chapel bell was rang by my brothers and the rest of our family came out from the woodworks! We then had a surprise engagement party for them at our house! What a fun day!

And then last but not least... we had 45 people over for a New Years Eve Party... no big deal.

Happy 2013!! Let's do this!

Friday, August 17, 2012

Hoot Hoot!

Today is the first day of college for my first baby brother and sister (I have another baby brother that started high school this year too!) They are growing up and I am growing old. Story of my life!

So Tyler and Erica are both following in not only their mom, a little bit of their dad but also my lovely footsteps! They are Kennesaw State Owls. Hoot Hoot! So on Tuesday, Tyler moved into the dorms on campus and Erica and I thought it would be a great time to come up and bring him dinner before he gets too cool to hang out with us. We went with the typical college dinner…fast food! We did all of the things that sisters love to do:

1. Sat on the floor outside his dorm room door and ate our dinner until he came walking around the corner with his new buds and naturally we freaked out like we hadn’t seen him in ages (I think he may have blushed a bit!).
2. We rearranged his furniture.
3. Made sure his roommates seemed like “good guys” and we might have taken a peek at their rooms too to see what kind of people they were. Maybe.
4. Checked the laundry room for detergent (which they actually had like 10 containers of it….that will last them a lifetime!).
5. Made sure that no one could see through his window when he went to the bathroom (this one could have been realized by accident but that’s for Erica and I to know!).
6. Hid under his bed and in the shower when he walked into his room to scare him.
7. Opened up his utensils and started digging into his ice cream.
8. Tried stealing his Swedish Fish but were caught and he pulled the “poor college student” card on us.
9. Took lots of pictures.
10. After leaving his room, walking around a bit, and were headed back to our car we saw him in his room from outside so jumped around and waved our hands like crazy to get his attention. We got it. He shut his blinds. Can you say too cool for school? Haha He loves us!

Anywhooo (get it? like an owl?) keep going… while I was there I was also reminiscing on when I lived in those exact dorms as a freshman in college and decided to do some comparisons! So here it goes:

This is Tyler’s room.

This was my room (and my friend Lauren who came to visit me from Ole Miss!).

This was their living area (typical guys area – plain, stuff everywhere, a laundry basket on the kitchen counter, and mountain dew!).

This was our living room. Now I didn’t have a picture of our living area (can you believe that?? I can’t!) so I had to watch the video of Lester and I swing dancing and capture a shot from there! (Please notice the tube TV with -a feather boa might I add, the old school boom box, lamps, throw pillows, and pink everywhere…we were newly Phi Mu’s, can you blame us?). *Also, you can’t see their furniture but it is the exact same as what we had – some things never change!

Here is Tyler – all proud to be living on his own! And Erica on her first day of college!

Here are my roomies - Sam, Leslie, and I (oh, and Lady, our cat that we snuck into the dorm to live with us for about 8 months until we got caught!)

Man, college was awesome! I miss it.

I totally took it for granted while I was there!

OWLS FOR LIFE! HOOT HOOT!

(Tyler's view from his room - Gotta love the beautiful Kennesaw!)

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Gone Campin'

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but August 10th was National Smores Day and you probably didn't celebrate it. But no worries because I did for you! So Happy Belated National Smores Day People!

Last weekend my Dad and family decided to take their new hand-me-down fishin' boat from our Grandpa to the lake and go camping! Well luckily for Steven and I, we live 5 minutes from the lake and 10 minutes from the campground so we told them that we would come make an appearance, grill out dinner, and fire up smores but that then we were gonna go back to our cozy beds to sleep! So we thought since we really weren't going to get the feel of camping ~~with electrical outlets, running water, and a park ranger~~ "in the woods" that night that we should definitely dress like we were. So we did.

Here are more pics from the adventure!

So yes, all our friends who saw our "hard core camping" picture and thought that we survived that massive storm in the middle of no where - think again. We were sound a sleep in our bed that we are so thankful for!

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Flip Side

So after continually reading this absolutely awesome blog that I follow on a daily basis – I figured that I should get back into this thing that I ~~feel silly~~ love writing.

My Blog.

I am planning on getting a smartphone in the upcoming weeks so that should help me keep it up to date (even if it is only really ~~silly~~ fun things that ~~no one~~ everyone wants to read about).

So you are probably thinking that since I have decided to start this thing back up that I have something SUPER AWESOME to write about. Well think again! Today I come to you to tell you that we are updating our loft and I have some teaser pictures to prove it!

First – The before picture.

A nice quiet sitting area where we never sat!

Second – after about 5 long hours, 1 “almost cutting off a thumb with a saw” incident, 4 hammers, 2 crow bars, all kinds of saws, 10 pallets, and 3 people almost passing out … we had finally gotten all of the wood we needed! So after about 2 more hours, many many nails, a hammer, a level, and 2 manly men (yes, I wish I could have helped them but I was busy working downstairs on Lilly, my sewing machine, to make my very own curtains for our sliding glass door…post about that one coming soon too), anywhooo… we got this.