Day 3: Clouds

Anchors Away...

I loved this song when I was little.  I think because my dad was in the Navy and he would sing it to me.  I still love to hear it and they played it the first night we were on our cruise for the "Welcome Aboard" show.  Here are some of our favorite pictures from the trip.

St Thomas

Barbados

St Lucia

St Kitts

St Maarten

Day 2:  What I Wore

What I wore today and everyday.





30 Day Challenge

My friend Mollie sent me this link for a 30 day challenge.  I thought it looked fun and maybe not too time consuming.  Here's the link for all the specific days.   

http://wildolive.blogspot.com/2011/08/30-days-30-photos.html

I'm going to attempt to really post one picture a day so when you see all this you will know what it's about.  Let me know if anyone else out there wants to try because I would love to see your pics!

Day 1: Self Portrait

Tired and ready for bed!  I feel this way alot lately.

This and That

Here are our new (well, a couple months old now) appliances that I love!  They all are sooo much better than what we had and they look pretty too :)

This is a block of the countertops that we want to install against the backsplash we already have.  After this project our kitchen renovation will be complete.



On a totally different note, these are pics from the awesome Martina McBride concert that Tommy and I took my parents too.  Mom and Tommy (both reluctant to go since Dad and I are the country fans) both really enjoyed the concert.  She always has such a strong beautiful voice and she pushed through with the humidity.  It was sooo humid that night because it had rained ALL day (literally all but the two hours she played in the amphitheater) and after "Broken Wing" she was said "Shew, I didn't think I would ever catch a breath!  I've never been in such humidity".  Welcome to South Alabama! lol

I realized just tonight while talking to my MIL why I have been such a slacker with posting.  Here's my excuse, I always blogged last spring or tried to be crafty/creative while Tommy was in class on Mon and Tues nights.... well, he hasn't had class since May so I haven't been taking much me time.  Classes start back next Tuesday so we will hopefully be back on track for the blogging world (maybe... no promises!)

Summer??

Where has the summer gone?  I never promised when I started this blog that I would be very consistent at posting on a regular basis but July has just flown by without me knowing it! 

Coming soon.... hydrangea update (for those who read that post), kitchen pictures that I promised to post a while back and never did and Martina McBride concert pics. 

In the near future... we are leaving for a 7 day cruise with my parents Saturday (yay!!!)  so lots of pics and stories from vacation, then on Aug 10 we find out what Baby Candler will be :)  Lots of things to keep me busy posting if I will just sit down and do it. 

Hope everyone else has had a wonderful summer!

Sara Evans!

Yay for summertime!  This past weekend we drove to Monroeville to celebrate my dad's bday (June 7) and Father's day (this coming weekend).  While we were there Saturday night we all rode over to Atmore to Wind Creek Casino (none of us had been before).  Tommy had given me Sara Evans tickets for my birthday so he and I went over for the concert and Mom and Dad just spent some time trying to figure out bingo slot machines - WAY more confusing than it has to be!  After the concert, Tommy and I played a little but we all left without losing too much and just enjoyed getting out for the night.  The amphitheater there was great!  We felt like we were right there at the stage but actually were in the back section.  I'm now trying to order Martina McBride tickets for July :)  Here are pictures of the casino/hotel and the concert.  So much fun!!

Alabaster Cityfest

Saturday my parents drove to Alabaster and surprised me by coming to visit.  Tommy knew but kept the secret... so we went to pick up some lunch and there they were, yay!  We had so much to get done this weekend and it was so good to have their help.  Last weekend we ordered new appliances to be delivered this weekend and there was alot of work in installing these, if it were left up to Tommy and me we would have strangled each other by the end I'm sure of it!  I'll post pictures soon of the new appliances and the kitchen updates.  Saturday night though we took a break, had dinner and walked over to Cityfest.  Vertical Horizon played first (I knew a couple of their songs but not many) and then Craig Morgan played.  He did such an awesome job, I LOVE me some country music so I knew just about every song that he sang.  We had a busy but great weekend.  Tommy took a couple of pics during the concert but didn't tell us he was taking them (obviously).