PINK!!!

Ok...so what would a PINK blog be....without a little PINK!!

While we were at the beach I got to have a very special treat....Dunkin Donuts!! We really don't have those in Birmingham...so I got a special treat for our "first day at the beach breakfast"!! Nothing says vacation like an iced coffee and a PINK donut :D

Back Home!!

I'm finally back home! After a very long....8 hour drive back....we are home! We had a really great trip. The weather was wonderful. Our resort was full of fun things to do. We found really great places to eat dinner each night. Yup....it was a great trip! Too bad I was sick as a dog the entire time :( My head cold felt like it was trying to get the best of me....even my steroids..antibiotics...and heavy duty decongestant were no match for this bug! I was still determined not to let it ruin my vacation! I still went every place I wanted to see....and managed to kick Mark's booty in put~put golf....all with my handy box of kleenex in tow :) I could imagine that it was Mark's favorite trip....because on day two....I lost my voice!! That has to be every mans dream! You go on vacation and your very talkative wife loses the ability to gab..lol!!

I guess we did re~connect on this trip...just in a very different way. Since I was so sick Mark really had to kinda pick up the slack on his "being nice skills". He had to carry all of our stuff down to the beach..set it up..and bring it all back in each day....because I was really working hard just to get myself down there. He really had to kinda slow things down..and kick things up a notch. That part in the vows when it says "in sickness and in health"....this was that part!!! I can't remember being that sick the entire time we have been married. It kinda helped show that THIS was really what "forever" was about. It's not always about those good times that make you laugh or smile...it's how you treat each other..and take care of each other when times are not so good! Our trip did bring us closer....just not at all in the way I had imagined!

I did not manage to get that many pics. All my medicine kinda kept me in a fog....but I will share the ones I have! We are going back next year....and I just know it will be a better trip (for me anyway) :D

Vacation!!!!!

WooHoo....we are finally going on a vacation!! Mine and my hubby's lives are so fast paced and chaotic most days...it's sometimes hard to tell if we are coming or going. Well early Monday am we are setting out for five wonderful and relaxing days in Myrtle Beach! We so need this time to just slow down...unwind...and have fun just being a couple again :)

I have all my outfits laid out and ready for the seven hour drive (yack). Our neighbor was kind enough to keep our fuzzy pup while we are away for the week. Everything is set to go....so of course I woke up yesterday with a head cold :( Oh well....I can either be sick at home....or I can be sick on the beach. I chose beach..lol! I am hoping that being in that humid salty air will help dry my sinuses up a bit. If not...I will still have a good time...Kleenex in tote..lol :) Please say a prayer for a safe trip...and I will post pics when we get back!!

Closing A Chapter In My Life!

This weekend I closed a huge chapter in my life! The church I was raised in held it's last service on Sunday morning. My mom had brought my brother and I to that little church since I was a child...and I think my little bro might have only been 3 or so years old! That little old church would be my spiritual home until I was working my way through college in my late teens! It was just like a second home for most of my life....the small congregation like my own family. I remember our precious pastor baptizing me there when I was only 10 years old :)

So much time has passed....and people have moved on to different churches (myself included)...but I will always hold onto those memories! Oh how I would love to be 10 years old again (for just a moment)...chasing my little brother around the tables in the basement, and picking blackberries in the woods that surround the little brick building! I did get to take one of the old hymnals with me! One day I can teach my own children those old sweet songs I still know by heart :)