10 Things to Smile About June

Man this summer is flying by way to fast. It makes me sad really! So I couldn’t decide if I wanted to do this blog post or if I wanted to blog about Abug’s birthday. I’m not going to lie, Abug’s birthday still has me a little distraught. I can’t believe I have a 1 year old now… So because of that… Here’s 10 Things to Smile About June Mem with EmmyMom.

So in no particular order…

3. My baby turned 1 year old. I’m still in denial about this… How do I have a toddler?

5. We finally got some new family photos. I was excited and LOVE them. Yes I took them. I put my mom behind the camera to help get Addison to look at the camera and smile… we got the look at least.

9. Tbug participated in the Underwater Safari Hunt. She found an animal too!!

1. Father’s Day! Any day to celebrate dad’s is a good day in my book!

4. Taco Tuesday. That’s all 🙂

2. I had fun answering questions with song titles. I’m not going to lie, some didn’t make sense but some cracked me up for the way they actually answered the question.

10. This picture although it really has nothing to do with anything other than I had my sleeping baby in my arms. She was sure lovey that night.

6. So I might as well put my bad luck of hitting red stoplights to find fun things!

8. I made it through my blog crisis.

7. I finally had time to sit down with my dad and find out why our family had Santa Gertrudis cattle.

Have a Snickers

So I’m going through the multiple photos I took of baby girls birthday… trying to keep myself together that I have a 1 year old! I plan on writing a post about it… and maybe, just maybe I won’t cry while writing it… but today… today let’s talk about Snickers. Yes as in the candy bars…

During Memorial Weekend this became our slogan and it just stuck…

One of the mornings I hopped out of the truck after annoying hubby by pointing out that his mirrors were going to bump into Grady’s mirrors. He grumbled at me and I told him fine leave it that way. Dan asked me how I was and I said that someone was grumpy and it wasn’t me. Dan asked if he needed a hug and I said he needed something alright.

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Underwater Safari Hunt 2015

So in 2013 we experienced our first Underwater Safari Hunt. And by that I mean we stayed on dry land and watched as those who found animals came up to claim their prize. Sadly hubby and I weren’t certified Scuba Divers at that point in our life. We didn’t get certified until a little less than a month later.

Jump forward to 2014 and I was 38-39ish weeks pregnant and banned from coming down to the lake because they didn’t want to have to duct tape my legs together and drive like a bat out of hell to get me to a hospital if I went in to labor.

So now it is 2015. Plans were to either dive with the divers who were hiding the animals so I could get pictures, or else dive with Tbug when she competed. Enter in what may have been the flu… I’m not really sure. I was out of commission and couldn’t/shouldn’t/didn’t dive. But, that didn’t stop Tbug from diving! She either has to dive with a parent or a dive instructor so we asked Doug if he’d be willing to dive with her so she could compete. He was happy to. Hubby would have dove with her but he volunteered to help with cooking food.

That morning we headed down to the swim beach around 8am because they were having open water check out dives for current students that morning. Also the water levels are up so much that we were afraid there wouldn’t be enough room for people so we had to stake out our spots early on.

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Father’s Day

My Father’s Day started out with me spouting off something about hubby could just snore by himself… or something like that. He woke me up snoring but if he hadn’t… I wouldn’t have seen this beautiful sunrise! This last weekend we spent at the lake, but got up early Sunday morning to head home. This was about 6am. Now if you remember Sunday was the Summer Solstice so that means the longest day of the year. I played on the swings down on the playground for about an hour and then wandered back to camp to converse with friends before going in and waking Tbug, Abug and then hubby at 7:30 to open Father’s Day presents.

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Lost in This Moment

Someone had a little to much fun at the lake this weekend. I had to pick her up so we could make the bed and I tried to keep her as much in the sleeping position as she was in as to not disturb her. So while I sit here and go through the 347.2566 pictures I took this weekend, I’ll leave you with this fun gem.

rules:

  1. Put your iPod on shuffle
  2. Put the song titles to answer the questions.

Some of these were hilarious! And now I have a baby clawing at my sunburn so I’m outtie….

IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Can’t Help Falling in Love – Michael Bublé

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
The Cricket Song – Rich O’Toole

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Hello Yum!

Some friends of ours that we dive with own this little fast food restaurant. It must be stated it’s the Original and they only own this one… it’s not the same as some of the other’s that are around the area.
And every once in a while we just have to have Gringos.

Their tacos are out of this world YUM! I prefer a crunchy taco. They fry their own taco shells. That right there makes it all worth it.

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Stoplights

If you’ve never ridden in a vehicle with me, I’d highly advise that you not… Why you ask? It’s not because I’m a terrible driver… anyway I don’t think I am… No it’s because somewhere along the way I pissed off the traffic light gods and so I pretty well hit every stoplight on my way ANYWHERE.

Some days I catch a break but typically I’m stuck at every red light from my starting point to my destination. It’s kind of become a very comical thing.

On my way to and from school I go through 5 stoplights. 9 times out of 10 I’ll hit all 5 lights on red both directions. It’s that bad.

One night I was taking Tbug home to her mom’s and we were running a bit late. I told her to start praying to the light gods that they be nice to me.

Now one time I told her about the “light gods” and she informed me that there is only one God and I told her yes I know this but somewhere I’ve upset someone because I hit every red light. Then I proceeded to hit every red light that particular night. Now the night I told her to start telling the light gods to be nice, I hit 1 out of 10. See that was my off night. We were already running late so luckily I only hit that one. whew. Then I had to go meet hubby and I hit everyone on my way to meet him. I just started laughing.

So whatever I did, it’s just become a comical thing between me and everyone and no one wants me to drive or to ride with them. I can be asleep in the backseat and we’ll hit every red light. I’m not sure what I did.

The other day… we were driving and what do you know, the light turned red. I started giggling and then something caught my attention on the road. We were the first ones to pull up to the stop and there was a screw driver on the ground. The vehicle beside me pulled up so I knew I wouldn’t get run over, then I jumped out and grabbed the screw driver.

And that is how the “light gods” found me a screw driver. Had we not been stuck at the red light, I wouldn’t have ventured out to get it. And I’m sure the guy next to me thought I was nuts.

I should mention I knew I had enough time to get out and get it, especially because it was right below my door.

Some days life gives you lemons and some days life gives you a screwdriver

(haha play on words, it’s an alcoholic drink but I have absolutely NO idea what is in it. I’ve never had one nor have I seen one made….)

Flooding

So it seems like every time I get on any kind of social media, including the tv, people have been talking about rain and flooding these last few weeks and even months.

Last month (May 30) we went driving around looking at the flooding that was going on around at home. Now I live 6 miles outside of town if you use the state hwy to get there. But there are back roads that a lot of people in my neck of the woods use to get to the south end of town or we use to get to my parents house. When we start having flooding though, those routes are off limits. The major river that runs through our area runs through our back roads. But a lot of times what gets us is flat agriculture lands that get flooded.

This is actually ag land over on another state highway. There again some of it could be due to the river, but some could be due to over flow on flat lands. This guys corn field was flooded. And it covers the roadway.

I would not suggest doing what this guy did. As you can see the water levels were about 2.5 feet deep. Now it wasn’t flowing water so he went ahead through, that and he was in a truck but I still wouldn’t recommend it. Never know if the road is washed out.

When he saw us, we were in my car and he suggested we didn’t try it. We weren’t even planning on it, we were just out gawking and taking pictures of the flooding. This gal though… She went through it in that car. I definitely wouldn’t recommend it. The water was up over her hood at one point.

Even if your roads aren’t washed out, look at all the junk the flooding left on the roadway. Who knows what you’d be driving over.

We accidentally wound up on a dead end and look what we found. How pretty is this barn?

This is the bridge we take a lot of photos on. They actually removed the bars so you could cross the river here. The bridge is in such bad condition though I’m not sure you’d want to….

And all this flooding brought up this snapper.

But this… this is the reason you don’t drive across flooded roadways. The trees took out this road. There was nothing left of it.

I’m not sure if they have gotten it fixed yet or not. I need to drive back down there and see… After this, we took off to go eat dinner with my parents and see my dad’s newest purchase.

Dad, Why Gerts?: Our Families Cattle Story

Growing up I just knew we had red cows. As I got older I knew they were Santa Gertrudis cattle. But from there I got to wondering how my family decided upon this breed. There are lots of breeds of cows out there, the most popular that most people know is Angus because you’ll see a lot of restaurants and fast food joints promoting 100% Angus Beef.

But we have Santa Gertrudis. The other night dad and I were sitting in the truck waiting for hubby to finish up baling the last row of hay up so we could move on to the next pasture and I thought, I wonder why Gerts. In fact, the fields we were baling, the guy is trying to get in the Gert business so it was a good opportunity to strike up a conversation on why we had Gerts. So this is my dad’s response to my question, Why Gerts (Santa Gertrudis)?

In 7th grade our family was going on a trip to Gulf Port, MS and we stopped in Morrilton, AR at Winthrop Rockerfeller’s house. He was the governor of Arkansas at the time and owned quite a few acres of land (read quite a few as A LOT). He had Santa Gertrudis cattle from the actual King Ranch line in Texas and grandma had read an article that they were going to be on exhibit.

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