"Catching Up"

I realize it has been January since I have written an entry, so it's time to update! Much has gone on within the last few months: Spring Break, , New dog, A-Day, Spring semester classes are over, and Summer classes have begun. That sums up most of it!

Spring Break which was in March, Nikki, Breonna,my aunt and I went to Panama City. It was fun, but cold!

Eating at Margaritaville











I finally got a new dog! If you know me you know I love dogs! His name is Bear, and he is close to a year old. He is the sweetest thing, and loves any attention you give him!

Blake, Nikki, and I attended this years Annual A-Day game at Alabama this year, it was beautiful weather. I cannot wait until football season begins!

Lately...

Here are some random photos that I have had on my camera, and thought I would post a few!

Julio(Blake's moms dog) will start us off! He was actually still enough for me to capture this photo of him!

Our church started a church volleyball league last week,and here are some photos from last weeks game, mine and Blake's friends Tyler and Danielle were playing this particular night. My class plays Thursday night, and trust me there will be a post about that,because bless my heart when Jesus was giving the gift of athleticism he skipped me!

I thought this was cute of Ty and Danielle! Don't they look like they are just having the best time! lol

This would be one of Tyler and Danielle's children their youngest Kate! She is the cutest thing! I could just kiss those little chubby cheeks all day! I thought I also took a pic of Kohl their oldest that night, but I must not have. He is also a doll!

My cousin Breonna, and I have started working out on her Wii she got for Christmas to the game Your Shape by Jenny McCarthy. It is so fun! You have a camera that puts you on the screen, then you follow the instructor on the t.v. as she does the exercises. While Breonna, and I work out this is what Blake and Maggie (Breonna's dog) did!

Mmmm...

The other day I was looking around on Facebook and came across this Restaurant's fan page called The Rock House Eatery. It had some great feedback, looked like a cute little place to try, and the food looked yummy! After Blake came home for the weekend this past Friday he and I decided to try it for dinner. They serve sandwiches during the week for lunch, and that's what we were expecting, but after we arrived I felt a little under dressed because at night they serve dinner foods no sandwiches, but oh well we will know next time to be a little more "spiffy" ha! Onto the food now, we ordered and they brought us out some bread with some roasted garlic butter. I could have eaten the butter by the spoonfuls it was delish! I am also ashamed to say that of the four pieces of breads we were brought I ate all four! What can I say I'm a carb girl all the way! The bread and butter were great,but our food was really good! Blake ordered a rib eye with sauteed spinach and sweet potato slices, and I ordered the pecan crusted chicken breast with sauteed spinach and baby carrots. My chicken was great, but Blake's steak was pretty amazing(he graciously shared a bite with me)! I did not take any pictures inside, because I frankly didn't want people to think I was crazy although I did take some outside which are the last two posted below. The pics of the food and inside below are their photos from their fan page on Facebook not ones I took. I have to go back for lunch one day so I can try one of their delicious sandwiches, can't forget the homemade fries!

Rock House Cheeseburger and fries.

Blake and I did not get a salad, but the couple beside us did and on top of it being gigantic it also looked really good.

Goat Salad with Chicken

Chicken and Dressing

And.... these would be my two measly little photos I took that night! lol

The only criticism I have is that the dove on their sign with the green leaf in its mouth looks like the hospice symbol for Marshall County...

Friday night Chase, Ashley, and I rode together and met Blake at Bridgestreet for dinner and a movie. I haven't mentioned on here that Blake is now living in Madison with his brother and working in Huntsville for the Arsenal. He comes home on Fridays and stays through Sunday, so I always look forward to the weekends because I know that means I get to see his little face! Anyway back to the story... this past summer we all four went to Bridgestreet and tried P.F. Chang's so we decided to go back and try a different place. We hope to try and eat at a new place at Bridgestreet periodically until we have eaten at every place there. This visit we met Blake at this new restaurant that had recently opened called The Smokehouse.

It is a more upscale BBQ restaurant. We each got something different and all enjoyed our food. Chase got the ribs, and I have always heard people say "ribs fall off the bone" well his literally did! After our meal we shopped at some of the stores until our movie began. After shopping around for a while we decided on some ice cream from The Orange Tree. It is what I call "healthy ice cream" meaning it doesn't have much flavor and isn't really that good, but it was still ice cream so we satisfied our sweet tooth!
After our ice cream rendezvous it was time for our movie. Monaco Pictures is the movie theatre at Bridegestreet and is supposedly one of the nicest in the Southeast. Something we liked about it was that when you purchase your tickets from one of the machines before hand you it shows a diagram of the theatre seating, and you choose what seat you want. I like that because, you don't have to arrive really early to get great seats. We saw Avatar in 3-D, and I was thinking 3-D oh how neat, but after two hours I was looking at my watch saying when is this gonna be over? I'm not a big fan of Sci-fi type movies anyway, I'm more for the comedies and love stories. We had a great time, and can't wait until we can go back again!

Christmas Time

So I am waaaaayyyyy behind on my blogging! I will start at Christmas and let the photos do the talking instead of me!

Blake's Christmas tree we decorated

He got me my UGG's that I am in love with!

Me and Bree

All the grandchildren and great-grandchildren on the Greer side with my grandmother

My three sisters Kelli, Jolie, me and Wendy

A few days after Christmas me, Blake, my two nephews Colten and Clay and my cousin Breonna decided to sleep outside on the trampoline in 27* degree weather! Fun night!

Me and Bree all bundled up!

New Years and Birthday celebration

Blake and I hung out and celebrated the New Year with some of our friends on New Years Eve, then we went out to eat with some friends to Red Lobster for my birthday! I turned 23 on Dec 30th and I have not been very excited about it. I just feel like after you pass 21 it's all down hill from there it just means your aging, so I am going to officially be 23 the rest of my life or at least that's what I'll pretend! lol Ashley, Meredith, Nikki, Anna and Danielle all surprised me with gifts. I in no way intended for them to get me presents,but they did. It was very thoughtful of them and I really appreciated it! I have come to conclusion that I have some pretty amazing friends! Now I'm just going to leave you with pictures!

My Cake

The whole group

Me and Meredith

Nikki's a mean rook player!

Nikki, Danielle me, and Jessica on New Year's Eve

Pretty Danielle and Nikki

Cupcakes and Painting=Anna's Birthday Celebration!

Last night was Anna's birthday celebration! Me, Blake, Nikki, Justin, Danielle, and Tyler decorated and waited for Anna and Noah to arrive. I baked her some birthday cupcakes with pink icing and sprinkles! We had a crown, birthday card and beads waiting for her. After she blew out her 23 candles we girls started painting. We all were doing great until Danielle decided she did not have to patience to sit and finish her picture so she took the black paint and wrote a bible verse! Ha! It actually looked like an abstract painting! The guys would periodically walk by to check our our masterpieces or more like critique them! I thought we all did a great job on them, and I have to say Nikki's artistic skills were much improved from last weeks! Tonight were all eight going to be at the Pumpkin Jam, so check back for pictures from that tomorrow! This Wednesday is Danielle's birthday so next Friday another celebration will take place!

finished masterpieces

love these girls!


Anna's birthday cupcakes!

The crown and card (and yes she wore her crown all night)

Sunday morning started out a little scary for my family. My aunt called my mom and told her to hurry to my "nanny's" house that something was wrong with her. My nanny and aunt live right down the road so if anything ever happens my nanny can get help quickly. My parents left me getting ready for church and rushed over to my Nanny's house. My nanny told my mom and aunt that she remembered passing out and when she came to she crawled to the phone to call my aunt. That broke my heart, because she lives alone. They went ahead and called the ambulance because all signs were pointing to a stroke. I went ahead and went to church and afterwards drove to Gadsden Regional to check on her. They still had her in a temporary room in the E.R. Now as you will notice from the photo below, I found myself a mask to wear. I may look silly, but let me just tell you, there were some sick looking people in the E.R. waiting room, and I do not have time to get the swine flu! I also used about a gallon of hand sanitizer they provided at every elevator and door at the hospital. My grandmother ended up having to stay two days in the hospital while they ran tests, but thankfully every test they ran came back great! The conclusion the doctors came to was that she might have had a really bad migraine that made her pass out and get sick afterwards,which can have stroke like symptoms. She is back home and resting for a speedy recovery!

Today I had lunch with Miss Meredith who I had a summer class with. She is super sweet! We have been meaning to schedule a lunch date for months and finally settled on one for today! We were able to catch up on so much before my class. She graduated in May and got a job soon after working for JSU as Admissions Counselor. Go Meredith! We ate at Casa Fiesta! Now I love me some Mexican and thought that Villa was all there was until......I was introduced Casa last year. When I eat Mexican I always get Chicken Fajitas and they have the BEST by far! I had planned on taking a photo but we got so busy catching up I forgot! Oh well there will definitely be another lunch date so next time!

I first have to say a big.....ROLL TIDE!! Whew what a first half that game was, I was soo nervous. Thankfully they kicked in gear and started rolling! Friday night Blake and I went to our friends Nikki and Justin Terrell's house. Originally the (Fab Four) Nikki, me, Danielle and Anna were supposed to go to Sip'n' Strokes to paint and out to eat for Anna's birthday and our monthly Girl's Night, but Danielle came down with the flu so we hated to leave her out of the fun and canceled for a later date. Nikki picked she and I up two canvas' at Hobby Lobby on her way home from school. The boys did their own thing while we painted and we had the best time just us two working to our hearts desire on those masterpieces! ha

Look at little macey at the bottom of the photo! She wanted her photo made also! lol

my painting

both of us working diligently

nikki's painting

Rammer Jammer

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to go to the Alabama-North Texas game with my friend Nikki. She and her husband Justin have season tickets to the home games and Justin was on call that Saturday and couldn't go. I was so excited for "girl time!" We had a safe trip down to T-town despite some the heavy rain and traffic jams we encountered. We both were expecting rain for the whole game because that is what the forecast was giving, so we had our ponchos and umbrellas ready. Amazingly right when we parked our car and got out the sun decided to make her appearance! Once we got into the stadium the humidity decided to hit 100%! I am not kidding you when I say this, I have NEVER been so hot in my whole life! We both got plenty of sun! I could have been mistaken for one of the Cullen's(vampire family from Twilight) with my pale skin that had not seen the sun in a while! It was a great game because we won! I made Nikki stay until the very end so I could do "Rammer Jammer" lol! After the game we stopped in Trussville at the Pinnacle to grab something to eat and shop/look at Wet Seal. Nikki bought two really cute scarves for a dollar something! I was very impressed with her shopping skills! We then decided to eat at Five Guys Burger and Fries. I had never eaten at one and I must say the burger was great and the gallon of fries they give you were great also! She dropped me off at home and I immediately got a shower then picked Blake up and we went to our others friends house Danielle and Tyler Holland to watch the Auburn game/pull for West Virginia! Justin and Nikki were there also and we had a great time!