Back to the "Real World"

Well we are finally back from the mountains...Wow, we had a blast ! Keira Ann was sick a few days and ran a low grade fever, but once we got some motrin in her she was fine...Now that we are home (you guessed it, NO FEVER) so anyways, we enjoyed our much needed vacation with Darrin's brother Brian, and his family...Heather is one of my best friends so its always nice to get away and spend some time with her. 

There was so much to do but one of our favorite things to do was to go to cades cove, BUT they were closed due to construction... Im figuring they are fixing the road though there...who knows, so we didnt get to go there. We did how ever go to Gatlinburg, we shopped and stopped in to visit the Ripley's Aquarium...it was gonna cost over 50 bucks  for all 4 of us to go, BUT since Darrin and I had our Military ID's we got in for 3.99 and the girls got in for 1.99....I mean how awesome was that. So that way i didnt feel guilty about  getting something "over prised" in the gift shop for the kids...

Lets see, we also Hiked up a mountain and We are still feeling the pain today from it... the Water Fall was beautiful. There was a sign that said " DANGER Falling deaths have occured, closely control children..High vertical drop offs ahead along trail at falls area."  haha, I had to take a photo of the kids hanging all over that sign...but for real~ There were area's that there was no slant down, it was literally a DROP OFF... i took pictures but you cant even tell..so im not gonna share them.. All 8 of us headed up for a photo op, then back down...

When we were leaving we saw a momma bear and her baby...YES!  I was hoping to see some kind of wild life, even if it was just a snake or something, LOL... These guys were just hanging out right off the road so we pulled over along with everyone else and broke the camera back out and started shooting... they were not very close to each other, so I dont have any photos of them together. Oh well maybe next time ill see more. We also went to one of the mini golf courses to play, and Drove ALLLLL the way to cherokee to eat at a burger king, only to decide it wasnt that great, Cherokee, NOT the burgerking....LOL... so we headed back....

Oh and there was this Biker that would NOT get out of the middle of the road. I called him lance, and I seriously thought darrin was gonna run him over. there were times that I couldnt see his back tire cause darrin got so close to him, and instead of riding on the white line he was all over the road...FYI:  IF YOUR A BIKE RIDER... YOU DONT OWN THE ROAD... GET OVER, dang...

Oh yeah, we also took my nephew to where his cross country friends were staying. It was a Pent house for sure, on the TOP of a mountain. the view was amazing. We had to dive zig zag up the mountain and actually spun a tire at one point..you could see the strip in Pigion Forge, The house has windows allll the way around it and EVERY bedroom faced the sun rise, Oh and let me add that it slept 24 and had 7 bathrooms, a HUGE living room, with bar, kitchen, fireplace, pool table, and lounge area, flat pannel TV above the fire place. it was Heaven !!!

Bottom line, our vacation couldnt have been more perfect (EXCEPT for the Well  water we had to bathe in) EKKKKK....I took Well over 1000 photos not including the ones darrin and clara belle took... Ill have to share them with ya some time soon !!!  Back to the real world... I hate unpacking, putting away, washing clothes, and spring cleaning... good thing clara is on her spring break...she can intertain Keira Ann while I try and get some of this done.....Bye for now !!!

Project is Up to date...FINALLY ~ And here's whats new !

Some New things.... Keira Got to dye Easter Eggs for the first time that she remembers, lol... they turned out great, Darrin and I dyed a few too...aint they beautimous ?!?!?!

 Ok so Keira Ann informed me the other day that she was in my belly and clara was in Darrins belly when they were babies, and thats how they became sisters! She is growing up fast and will argue with you on ALL her many theories...and both clara and Keira are supper excited about their caterpillars forming cacoons and all their sea monkies have hatched ~ They love the out door life and enjoy looking for bugs and BRINGING THEM INSIDE FOR ME TO SEE..... EEEKKKK !

Darrin works, works, and works some more, The Lord is transforming him into an AWESOME man of God. The latest Dr's apmt we went to last month was very encouraging. Dr Okor looked at Darrin's X-ray's for what seemed like an hour only to come back and say " you see this area here is already fusing, it normaly takes a good year" What can we say except THANK YOU ALL for your many prayers, God Heard every one of them and is healing him! Praise the Lord ~ He is one stubborn individual as some of you may know, but Im sure thats why he is determined to prove to himself that he can do ANYTHING...with in reason of course, LOL. There are some things we never thought he would do again, so there is alot of trial and error going on with all these "firsts" ...like mowing the grass, carrying a 30lb bad of dog food on his sholders in walmart..riding his four wheeler (in the above pic) I cant ever steer that thing, i cant imagine how he does.. but he did !  baby steps though right yall...

OH guess what, My best friend, since middle school got accepted into AU Vet school... She has been working toward this day for as long as I have known here and we are sooo proud of her. Everything she has done and sacrificed during this whole process...She has become a wonderful young lady and Im truly at a lost for words when I try to explain  how inspiring she is because of her dedication ! Lydia,  Im proud to call you my friend, We love you girl. Oh and Dont let that acceptance letter turn you into an Auburn Fan...We wouldnt want that now would we... ***ROLL TIDE ROLL***

As for ME...

I have enjoyed moving back into our first Home together and we have had a few of our very best friends come to visit. There were alot of toxic relationships I had to rid myself of but it was for the best. We look forward to having some cook outs and get togethers this summer so we hope to see yall ALL here...(there are more of you out therethat promise to come, and you know who you are)

........  JC FOTOGRAPHY ........

Now that everything is starting to settle down I have more time to start marketing JC Fotography. I had such a great customer base in birmingham, and It grew so fast by word of mouth and Im hoping that is how this time around witll work as well...keep your fingers crossed for me !

ALSO... I know some of you have a Facebook page and you can see updates on my progect "365 days of 2010" , but There are some of you that steer clear of the social networking sites, so for those of you who want to see the up to date images take for this project, go check it out Here . Comments are always welcome and I would love to have some followers of my blog IF you can figure out how to become one, LOL...

We are all looking forward to spring break next week, and cant wiat to head to the mountains tomorrow for a much needed vacation, Darrin had to go and mess the last one up for us....falling out of that tree and all... Way to go babe....LOL

Until Next time...