Nashville here we come!!

Nana, Pop, and I got up early early Thursday morning and headed to Nashville. The plan was to help my Nana's sister (Aunt Carrie) clean out her barn full of antics (junk). Well needless to say we didn't get the much accomplished. We had such good intentions of getting a lot done, but it just didn't work out that way. Aunt Carrie's birthday was celebrated by going to the Chaffin's Dinner Theater where we saw the comedy "There goes the Bride". We had a great time and overdid ourselves on the complimentary chocolate chip cookies. The next night the whole family and some of Aunt Carrie's friends went out to eat at a mexican restaurant there in town. This is where we really celebrated her 75th birthday! While I was there I was able to spend a little bit of time with each of the kids. They are all so sweet and just so much fun. My cousin Paige really hooked me up with a bunch of goodies for my shabby chic apartment theme. Nana and I were able to go downtown one afternoon and have lunch at Merridee's. We had so much fun just walking around down there window shopping. I love spending time with her. Uncle Alan also took Nana, Pop, and me to the flee market on Saturday. We found a lot of great stuff we would have loved to have brought home with us. We thought . . . why go buy junk when we can just go rummage through the barn and see what we can find! So thats what we did. All in all it was a great trip. I always enjoy seeing that side of the family.

Aunt Carrie and her birthday hat!

Such a cute little barn. . .

Full of sooo much stuff!!!

Dinner Theater for our birthdays! The best part of the whole night was watching my Pop laugh so hard he had tears. He didn't want to go and he laughed harder than any one of us!

Uncle Allen, Aunt Carrie, and Paige
Cheesing it up!
The stage for the play comes down from the ceiling! Sooo neat!

All you can eat!!

Aunt Carrie insisted we all have red roses for her mexican party!!

Georgia and Isabel at the party with their flowers.

Nana and little Carrie Sue

All the little one. . . Samuel, Scotty, Isabel, Ava, Georgia, and Anna

Nana, Kay, and Paige

Just a couple of the attempts to get a good one of me and the boys. . .

Samuel said " hey rachel take a picture of me and my chip!" haha. . . so I did!

I got to go swimming with Gege and Scotty one afternoon. . . I had a good time bucking them on their boogie boards like they were riding bull.

Factory. . . It has a lot of specialty shops. Such a neat place.

My granny smith apple, bacon, and cheese sandwich from Merridee's bakery. Such an awesome combination!

Crab apples. . . Supposedly if you put them in a corner of a room they will scare off spiders!

Little miss carrie sue!

I have a whole lot of catching up to do!!

AFter keeping Macy last week I went home for the weekend. This is what I came home to. . . Dad has Lainey mowing. I think he thinks it going to some how help her with her driving! ha. . . surprisingly she doesn't do too bad! And doesn't she look cute doing it!?!

While I was in Magnolia Dad recruited us to help him in his classroom. . . It was a lot of fun! I just love spending time with my family! :) Needless to say we just did what dad told us to. . . Thats why it looks like a man decorated it!

Lain getting caught in dad net he has hung to cover up the old air conditioner.

Swimming with the fishies!!

A little older and a little wiser. . .

I have spent the week in Little Rock with Gini and her family so she made sure to make my birthday special! She had me a bag full of goodies for me first thing yesterday morning. I couldn't believe that she had time to get something together for me. . . we had been getting things together like crazy for Grantly's party the past few days. Gini, Jim, Laura, Grant, and Macy all took me out to eat at the Villa in Little Rock. Macy slept the entire time and Grant kept us entertained. The food was wonderful and the company was even better! We had a great time. . . The waitress even brought us some chocolate cake. It was amazing. Grant and Gini sang to me and it was beautiful! Thanks again for making my birthday a special one!

Sweet Little Macy!

I am in Little Rock this week keeping my cousins little girl Macy. She will be 4 months on the 28th. She is one of the most happy babies I have ever been around. She talks and talks and will just laugh at you like you are the funniest thing ever!

Just chatting after she woke up this morning!

I laid her down crying. . . I went to make her a bottle and when I returned I found this! She was out. She slept just like this for an hour.

She was just a talking to me and telling me all about it!

I had my friend Catherine make her this TuTu. . . I figured it was going to bother her and she would be upset while i tried to take her picture. She actually loved it! She liked the texture of the material.

We had already done tummy time for the morning and it didn't go so hot. . . I didn't think this was going to go over very well. I was soo wrong! She laid there for at least 5 minutes. . . which is a long time compared to the 3 minutes she was able to go this morning before screaming her head off!

I put on her baby einstein movie and she immediately started talking! She is soo cute! I just love talking to her. . . Over the past couple of days we have solved soo many of the worlds problems! :)

Sugarland and George Straight

Ashley got us tickets for my birthday! Sugarland has become my new favorite group over the past year and Ash has always just "loved" good 'ole George. . . The Finnell's came by and picked us up because they had a parking pass. We weren't about to sit with them, but it kept us from having to walk. . . The traffic was sorta ridiculous, but like I said. . . With the Finnell's its always fun!

Bumper to Bumper

Cramped in the car! Ash was a good sport. . .

The whole group! Including George in the background!

All the way to the top. . . and I mean ALL the way to the top! :)

We were so far up that they offered Binoculars for rent! haha. . . I couldn't help but laugh!

I though this was cute! Its a little H with a cowboy hat and boots. They are randomly placed in the wall in the arena.

The view from our "box" seat!

Outside Reliant Stadium. . . Thank you again Ash for the VIP treatment!