Nashville Flea Market

The Nashville Flea Market is so huge here. Ti introduced us to this big event while she was here last month. It is so huge it takes up the whole fair grounds. They have so much stuff there, from new to old to used. It is a lot of fun to go to and spend a few hours looking and seeing what they get in every month. The flea market happens every 4th weekend of the month and October is supposed to be the biggest one of the year. I love looking at all kinds of different stuff that you can find at normal stores. So here is our fun filled day!

This vendor has some good ol' food. They have all kinds of cookies and sweets and the best ham ever. I'm not a ham fan but I tried their way of cookin it and it is dang good and freakin' tender.

We had been at the flea market for awhile and we got so hungry and they had a restaurant there and had some dang good food. I got a hamburger and that sucker was huge and some fries to go along with it.

My daddy also bought me my very first Tennessee pumpkin at the flea market. Its not one of these in the pictures above. Mine is perfectly round and a big one. They also put food wax on it to make it look all shiny.When Angela saw it she thought it was fake.

We had a blast at the Nashville Flea Market!!!

Feliz Cumpleanos!!!

Because it was Mom's Birthday we just said lets go out to eat. No one wants to cook! We went to our favorite Mexican food restaurant, Cancun. We were walking in and mom and dad followed the waiter to be seated but I told one of the head waiters that it was her birthday. While we were eating I watched the head waiter talk to our waiter and I could tell he was telling him that it was moms birthday because he kept looking at her and trying to not be obvious while he was pointing her out. We had finished eating and I saw a whipped topped dessert and a huge sombrero, at that point I thought "oh no what have I done." Our waiter came out and put the sombrero on moms head and then all of these waiters started singing Feliz Cumpleanos and another waiter dipped the spoon in the whip cream and put it on moms nose. It was so funny. I wish I could of got pictures and video because I would of watched it over and over. Here are a few pictures of the laughs we had tonight.Oh by the way mom really wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse but was afraid we would tell on her and they would make her ride the horse for a big yee haa!! But we still got her when she had to wear the sombrero and the whole restaurant was looking at her. I asked her which one was worse and she said they were about equal.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday Mom. How do I even describe just amazing you are. Well I'm going to try so here it goes. You are one of the strongest women I know and I have strived to be like that just like you. You are sensitive to people's feeling but yet you don't take crap from anyone and everyone knows in that area I am just like you. You creativity astounds me from your pictures to your scrapbooking to even some of your off the wall sayings and I think I got that from you, well I know I got that from you because I sure didn't get it from daddy. Haha. Ok serious again. Ti said it right when she said you are so unselfish and it couldn't be anymore true, and that I can say I am still trying to learn from you. You are not only my mother, my mom, but you are my very very best friend. I cherish your opinion in everything from clothes to food. You are my mom, best friend, leader, example, hero, and now my pastor. I love you so much! Happy Birthday Mom.

Sweet Surprise!

Today my wonderful fiancee surprised me with some zebra dishes that I have been wanting for so long. He said, "Do you know how much I love you?" I said, "No I don't. How much?" He responded with, "Well let me show you?" He took me by the hand and walked me to where he was hiding them. It was so sweet. I have so much stuff I don't have any place to put anymore home items but I can some how I think I will find a way to make some room.

Aren't they so cute? I can't wait to use them. I told Travis now he needs to buy me a house to go along with all the home stuff he has bought for me.

Happy Anniversary

First I would like to say Happy Anniversary to my parents. I know that it was a couple of days ago but I would still like to honor them. Thank you to my parents who have now been married for 22 years. Both of you have laid out an example for what a marriage is supposed to be not only for me but also for my future husband. After Travis met you and saw your marriage he realized that a marriage is supposed to be fun and exciting not just to people who co-exist. Thanks mom and dad for loving each other so much and sticking together. You are both amazing and wonderful people who now have others wanting to mirror not only your marriage but your life. Life is what you make it and you have made life wonderful. Thank you!

Gasoline Madness

Friday was just absolutely crazy!!! Gas stations were running out of gas in just a few hours. Travis was driving home trying to find a gas station to fill up but there were none where he works and even where we live, mind you he works about 25 minutes away. People freaked out and starting filling up their vehicles and then filled up gas cans. Truckers couldn't bring in the gas fast enough. So Travis and I decided we wanted to go out to dinner Friday night before he went out with the guys for a little guy time. We took the Expedition because it had some gas in it but it was going to need some as well. Dad said something about a gas station on highway 70 that had just gotten gas from a trucker so we decided to go see if they still had some left even after it had been a couple hours. We get there and couldn't believe that the line was so long it was backed up to the freeway. Some how we made it into a line of four or five cars. We started waiting at 5:20 and the cars were backed up to the main street. We finally got to a pump at about 6 o'clock. We pumped gas for over an hour. The gas stations slowed the pumps down so slow that it took over an hour to pump 15 gallons of gas. At about 7:15 they shut the pumps down and told everyone that the gas was gone. By that time we had made friends with the people around us. They guy across from us was more than an hour late for a first date because of the wait to pump gas and the guy next to us was just traveling through Tennessee to go back home to Texas. He said, "When I fill up I'm driving as far away as possible." If we would of been one car behind where we were at we wouldn't of gotten any gas at all. It was crazy!!!

I took this picture from the gas station and the over pass was the freeway. Thats how far it was backed up. All the cars to the left were in line to get gas and the ones to the right were just trying to get past the madness.

This picture was when we got to pull into the gas station parking lot. We had already been waiting for awhile.

Gas prices were going up so fast that the gas stations couldn't even put numbers on the board.

Like I said it was just pure madness. Travis did get gas in his truck the next day when a gas station had received some and it was just as bad as this was.

Wildlife

So we were driving around in a residential area and all of a sudden we saw four deers, a momma dear and 3 baby deer. They were so cute. They were right by this house and were so tame. I actually got out of the car and walked a little closer to take video but I am sorry to tell you that it didn't work and all I have is a white screen. Here is what we get in Nashville a lot! The momma looked deathly skinny. You could see her rib cage plan as day.