We be travelin'

Guess where were going tomorrow!?

Europe!

Ya... headed on a cruise boat through greece.


SO.FREAKIN.EXCITED.

Don't worry in 10 days time ill  show you the pure amazingness of this trip.


Random Fact:

Shaun-y has never been out of the country... other than canada ( if that counts) so actually he's never been somewhere where they speak another language.  AND, he's never been snorkeling, on a cruise, in a warm ocean (cali= ice water), on an international flight ,or had to deal with a major time change. I'm more excited to experience this with him and see he how much he likes it more than any thing else!


Dumb moment... I actually googled what language they speak in Greece... duh, GREEK! idiot.

WOOT WOOT!

HANNY BOY!

About 2 years ago, I sat in the kitchen of Austin's little apartment as he opened his mission call. We were surprised (as you always are) and excited to hear that he would be heading to Atlanta Georgia!

Little did I know... in a year and a half, so would I!

When I got here I sent him a letter saying I just move to Georgia, and  he called me a few days later. Come to find out I lived in his Area! Whoa!

Anyway, I got to see him at church on sunday and it  was pretty crazy! It was so good to see him after so long, and I realized I actually miss that stinking wexi! He is very much in missionary mode which was hilarious. He's so serious and says the funniest things, with out meaning too! He threw me off so many times because the things he said sounded more think a shrink than the fool that I use to know.   He's doing good though, and you can tell all the missionaries very much look up to him. It was great for him to be able to meet Shaun as well! It was so great to have Kyle at my wedding and it ment so much, I wish wex could have been there too!  We have had so many great times and along with Kybo/kuppy/kyle we have had some fun memories!

Heres a few:

• Stuffing wings in our coats at all you can eat wings
• Deer hazing and getting chased by the cops down the canal bank.
• Sneaking dinner in to Edwards, all stuck in Kyle's coat.
• Horse ride to the Boys camp and both kyle and Austin  making fun of how burnt I got.
• Austin walking over a rattle snake nest... and stopping. fool.
• Austin making fun of me... kyle sticking up for me.. endless cycle.
• Getting lost in the "cliff" because austin took off to follow some deer...i had no idea where i was going and got a bit lost. 
• Hooking up the Xbox the theater and making cadens day
• Trying to scare me with the old man mask.
• Night games
• Kyle and I trying to keep austin from going all scriptorian on our sunday school teacher.
• Laughing when austin would call them out on teaching opinion rather than doctrine
• Making fun of kyle and the girls he was dating :)
• Making fun of austin for dating such girly-girls
• Youth conference, where the names Kibet and Kybo came from.
• Watching the horse take off with Jace, and not being able to stop them
• Watching Kyle's football games.
• Laughing when Kyle was a little out it from all 6 concussions
• Birthday dinners

Love you guys! Best friends a girl could ask for!

All moved in!

We finally bought a vacuum  after a month of not having one... this is a BIG DEAL! Our apartment is FINALLY clean and livable! I just got finished vacuuming and for the first time ever, I enjoyed it! Weird.

Most of the odd random things are organized and put away which makes this place a lot more relaxing. I guess there was a general authority that ounce said "a made bed and clean home brings peace and order to your universe" thats a fact jack!

Here are a few pictures of the new humble abode.

 This is the bed set Shaun made his senior year. Perfect isn't it?  One problem though is that its a stinking heavy sucker. Like 800 lb. heavy. Still love it though

 That quilt is the one Grandma Allred made us for our wedding! It is perfect with the bed set and we absolutely love it! I need to find some pillows to match to complete the look though.

 Notice the mirror. Ya, I hate that stupid wall of mirrors.

 We arn't sure how to set this room up given the stupid fire place.

 This would be my craft room/ storage room/ office. I'm working on a sign for my parents cabin so its even more messy at the moment. Guess this can be my next project to clean and organize.

 This is our spare bathroom. Its HUGE, about double the size of the "Master bath"

 Our porch is quite large too. I really like it! I sit out and do home work here a lot of the time. I wish we weren't facing a bunch of other apartments and it was a bit more private but, its fine.  Also, this is are "garden" Shaun really wanted to plant some tomatos which ended up in us planting Tomatos, Peas, Onions, and Strawberries.  We had a little bit of a rough patch and almost everything died. But were past that and they are doing GREAT!

 This is still the same porch. Big right? We like to roast s'more here on a nightly basis with our little sterno fire.

Thats our place! kinda regretting buying a house now that were finally settled in. Well we havent bought it yet. It's  still gonna be awhile before we hear if we got it. Stupid Short Sales. 

It was memorial day last weekend (well, two weekends ago)  which meant Shaun had monday off, which meant we could go on a little trip!

NASHVILLE!

We decided to leave saturday morning catch the bars that night, then see soem sights Sunday and Monday before heading home.

Were only about a 4 hour drive from nashville so it made for an easy fun trip. Plus i've always wanted to go to Nashville!

On the way up we saw this creepy sign. Of course you cant tell in the picture but the eye moved in circles and the beak was motorized too. It stood taller than most of the  other building so you could see creepy chicken for miles! Good heck. 

When we got to nashville we checked into our hotel then figured where we wanted to go to dinner. We decided we wanted a good steak and headed over to Stoney River. It wasn't the best, so i dont recommend it. I looked up and realized Shaun had his hat on backward, what the heck? Never seen that before. 

After than we headed down town to see the city, We stopped at LP field (where the titans play) and took a picture. Wasn't that cool given its off season and no one was there. But I still liked seeing it! We also say a huge bride that was called korean veteran bridge or something like that.  I obviously dont know the history of why it was called that (heck, i cant even remember the name) but it was HUGE and really cool. And funny to be a memorial to the korean veterans... or what ever it was, I know it was a memorial of some kind to a foreign country!

We saw this funny group, im not sure if they were Amish or what but they were singing their hearts out! 

Then we headed down town and hit up the bars, haha... I love saying that.  The first place we went (picture with eh 3 guys) had THE BEST music. I was shocked. And it was a blast! We kinda just stood around and listend to the music and watched everyone else look like idiots from way to much alcohol in their systems. 

Video:

 This girl was a freaky girl. I think she was only 16-17 cause everyone was making fun of her for being too young to drink or even too young to be in the bars. She was pretty good at the violin, and would do all these weird moves like play behind her back, laying down. upside down, in the bridge stance, and many more. I think i was more in shock that awe at that point.

 Funny "band" outside on the street. The lady on the far left was playing the spoons. Like 2 s dinner spoons. Not sure what you would call the instrument on the right... but, it worked for em. They were pretty fun to listen too.

See, told ya it was cool....

Sunday we decided it probably wasn't good to go down to the bars again so we went to a flea market and experienced that for the first time! It was awesome! I had so many things i wanted to buy! I did talk Shaun into buying this though. LOVE IT!

Then we went to the Parthenon (sp). Big random greek building in the middle of nashville. Again, not sure why its there but it was cool.  

It was Ginormous! 

Then we ran into a Baptist revival and had a blast watching and listening to that. These 4 little girls were quite the divas, walking around with their sunglasses on and holding hands. It was cute. 

 This was a funny man dancing up front at the revival. Notice the hair... WHOA

Monday we decided to head back early and go to the Jack Daniels Distillery on the way home. Really glad we did, so interesting to see how it was made and how it is still made like they did way back when it began! No fancy machines or anything! I can also tell ya that Jack Daniels has the best dang lemonade around... probably because the water was from a natural spring filtered by the lime stone. Awww... heavenly

First and last time holding a bottle of jack!

 The Spring water I wanted to drink SO BAD!!!   I sure miss non-chlorinated water! Screw the whisky.. just give me that water.

So, quick run down of how they they make it! They use 4 ingredients , corn, barley malt, water and rye. They mix that up and it becomes a "sour mash" The sour mash  creates a liquid that is 140 proof ( we had to ask what that ment... and were looked at very sourly) that is pretty much just moon-shine.
then they take the "moon shine" and run it though 10 feet of Sugar Maple charcoal. Thats what gives its color and I guess "mellows" it. Making it the whisky instead of bourbon.  Then they put it in 500 gallon drums made out of White oak that are burnt/ toasted. They sit in these drums for 4-6 years! Sounds like a healthy drink right?  Geesh.



So, after a long post... you no know what we have been up to as of late. I swear we never quit moving. PARTY ANIMALS! This weekend... I think we're going camping. I'll let you know how it goes. Pray I dont see any possums. They really really scare me! Stupid rodents.

Cheers folk! Happy Reading!