Hello blogging world!  Long time no see!!  I'm sad it's been so long since I've posted, but I've been a very busy girl! 

With February came one of the best trips of my life...Viva Las Vegas!!  If you haven never gone here, it is an awesome and reasonably priced trip!  Mama, my Aunt Cathy, and I had a most excellent time.  We stayed at the New York, New York.  It was a very nice, clean hotel & casino. 

The food, casinos, and people were great!  We were there for 5 days and I could have easily stayed another 5!  Also stuff was extremely well priced too!!  I don't think I could pick a favorite casino/hotel...but I was very disappointed in the Paris Hotel, but I guess once you've seen the real thing you don't enjoy the imitation as much!

We also took a day trip to the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam.  The Grand Canyon was probably the most magnificent thing I've ever seen!!  It was God's work of art for sure!  I would love to go back and go rafting down the Colorado River and see it from an even different prospective.

We not me so much took a walk on the Skywalk Bridge.  It was scary for me!  One experience which I do not care to repeat!  This bridge suspends you 4000 ft in the air and it has a glass bottom and you have to wear special slippers over your feet to even walk on it!  I made it about 10 ft out.  I just couldn't look down.  Mama and Cathy made it all the way around!

With March came extreme sadness for our family.  We found out the 7th that my sweet grandmother had liver and pancreatic cancer.  She had a rough couple of weeks at home and then went to be with the Lord on March 26th.  She will forever be in our hearts and extremely missed, but we know that she is happy being back with my grandfather and all of those who went before her.  She had a great attitude about her illness and said, "I'm a winner either way, if I stay or if I go!"

Here we are enjoying our last Christmas with her. 

Well I'm gonna try real hard to not take so long in between posts!!  Hope everyone enjoys their Easter weekend!!  I'll be enjoying church, family, and Titanic in 3D!!

Hunting Seasons Over...Back to Reality

Well hubs is bummed since hunting season is officially over!  He is counting down the days till turkey season starts (March) and so am I...lol!  He had a very busy season!!  I am glad that he will be home more weekends now!!

Well I've gone back to working a "normal" schedule!!  It's taken some getting used to since I very much enjoyed sleeping late, but alas, it has allowed me to get a lot more done at home in the evenings as far as cleaning and schoolwork!!  I'm almost done with school!! Praise the Lord.  I'm enjoying my new position at work as the Insurance Billing Clerk, it is a lot of work, but I've enjoyed it more than my previous position. 

This weekend my mom, Aunt Cathy, Grandma and I went to see Beauty and the Beast 3D.  It was great, just thought it'd be a little more 3D.  It wasn't as "WOW" as seeing A Christmas Carol in 3D.  I had to go see Beauty on the big screen once again however because it is my absolute most favorite Disney movie EVER!  I remember going to see it at Toccoa Triple Cinema with my mom and a friend when I was like 6 I think and it's been my favorite ever since!!

American Idol starts this week woohoo!!  Wednesday and Thursday, so glad.  No singing show is even close to being as good as Idol, not The Voice or X Factor, even if X Factor has the wonderful Simon Cowell.  I read today that this may be Ryan Seacrest's last season, so sad, but they don't want to continue to pay his $15 million dollar salary.  I think he's worth every penny.

Well at least it didn't take me as long to write a post this time!!  lol.  Can't wait for my girls night this Friday, it has been way too long!!

2011 Where did you go?

I feel like 2011 was a blink and it was gone year! It had its ups and downs, but I'm definitely glad the year is OVER! I think it went by so fast because I was so busy! I intend to slow things down this year and just breathe...sigh! I'll be so relieve when school is over! Hopefully in like 2 months! A new year brought a new work schedule...working 9-5...what a way to make a living, as Dolly says! It will take some adjustment since I am not a morning person, but it seems as though it will give me so much more time! Maybe I'll actually get to scrapbook this year or create something I've seen on Pinterest!

Another resolution is to lose weight! Maybe this will be my year! Shane's even fixed up my old bike and bought him one so hopefully we can ride together! Should be interesting considering I havent rode in a while um or maybe 10 years! But it'll be a good couple thing for us to do together! Along with more golfing and shooting our guns at the gun range...one might say we have too many hobbies, but maybe this will be our year to get to do most of them! Also, The Biggest Loser def inspired me to get my butt back into shape and I'm so excited for the premiere tomorrow night! And thanks to my MIL for getting me the two Biggest Loser cookbooks I had on my wish list! So glad that Shane and I will now be able to eat dinner together since I am working 9-5!

Well this blog has been random, but I'm hoping now my blogging will happen a lot more often! I've got a lot of hopes on my to-do list! LoL!

Well it's off to Bed to read The Help! Any of my blogger friends reading that? The movie was awesome!! Night y'all!

Baby it's cold outside!!

What happened to fall.  I think we went from the HOTT summer heat to the COLD winter wind.  Can't believe August was the last time I blogged!  I wish I was better about it, like my friend Chelsea who is so good about keeping up with her blog!! 

So not too much has happened in the interim of me not blogging!!  I feel like all Shane and I do is work, work, work!  But hey, we're blessed to have good jobs and money in the bank, so I suppose I can't complain!!  I'm close to being done with getting my Medical Coding and Billing diploma, that work is sending me to school for.  I'm doing it all online, which is nice, but I also think if I had a physical place to go to I might get it done quicker...lol.

Well hunting season started in September, so hubs has been hunting A LOT!  He did get a buck last week, which he was very happy about and we will soon have yet another animal in the house!  I can't wait for him to have a "GAME" room when we build a house so he can house all his animals!!  And maybe I won't have to look at them on a daily basis!  lol.  And luckily we save so much money when he does kill a deer because I've actually learned to eat it and so Shane mixed ground deer meat and ground beef and it doesn't taste gamey at all!!

Last night, Shane and I went to see the movie Courageous!  It is awesome and a must see for everyone!!  I know it has touched many peoples hearts!!

This weekend I'll be seeing Reba McIntyre at Gwinnett Arena with my best friend Kel!!  We'll also be seeing Steel Magnolias and The Band Perry so I am so excited!!!  Going to concerts are one of my favorite things to do!  Thanks for my awesome birthday present Kel!! 

Well I can't believe that Thanksgiving and Christmas is upon us!  It is coming fast this year!!  Thankfully I'm over half done with my Christmas shopping, because I don't know when I will have a lot of time to shop more!!

Well I won't let it be another three months before blogging again!!!  Surely, maybe...

Is it really August already??

Wow, where has the year gone?  I feel like I'm gonna blink and it's going to be December, luckily I'm proactive and am half done with my Christmas shopping (I know, be jealous)! 

Can ya'll believe this long, hot summer?  I for one, cannot.  It's been BRUTAL!  I'm definately ready for another snowstorm!!  I won't complain this time, maybe.  I'm in definate need of a few days off!!  I'm dying to go to the beach, Nashville, or anywhere really for that matter, can ya'll have a chat with Shane for me PLEASE!  Before I go insane!!  He's says I've already been on one vacay this year, but I feel like I need four or five, maybe when we're rich!

Well in February, I began another trip into the wonderful world of school, hey, I'd be a career student if I could!  My work is sending me for Medical Coding & Billing.  Lucky for me, it's online and work at your own pace!  I'm proud to say I've gone from 40 exams down to the final 10!!  Woohoo!!  Can't wait to have one more thing under my belt!!

Tonight, our favorite guilty pleasure began, Jersey Shore, I ask myself, why am I watching this, but it just sucks you in, as reality tv usually does!  I really don't know what we did before reality tv.  I'd say it's about 80% of what we watch!!  I know, crazy!! 

Not much else is going on in our lives lately!!  The girls came up last weekend and stayed.  We had lots of fun, ate, shopped, went to Chateau Elan and did a winery tour.  I'm so lucky to have such amazing girls in my life!!  I don't know what I'd do with out them!!  And I'm so excited for seeing Keith Urban and Jake Owen tomorrow with my bestie!

Hunting season is vastly approaching!  Which for me means, I will be a hunting widow from the second weekend in Sept to Jan. 15th, but hey at least the freezer will get stocked and I get some peace and quiet!!  HaHa!!

Hope everyone is doing good!!!

Where has the year gone??

Can ya'll believe how fast this year is going by??  I for one cannot.  It amazes me everyday when I look at the calendar, that another day has flew by!  Who besides me is over this heat!!  It is awful, and I don't remember it ever being this hot.  I'm so thankful that I work in side!!  Saturday, I went and played a round of golf, sounds so strange saying that, and the heat about killed me and I seriously thought Shane was going to have a heat stroke!! 

Well I thought I'd continue my bucket list #31-#60...

31.  Sew a dress...I have a sweing machine, just not the time to make a dress!
32.  Get caught up on my reading...currently reading The Girl Who Played with Fire...so good...
33.  Visit the "Jesus" statue in Brazil
34.  Visit the Taj Mahal
35.  Go on an African safari!!  Lions, and Tigers, and Bears OH MY!
36.  Own a Dodge Challengeror a 1966 Ford Mustang
37.  Own a piece of Tiffany jewelry
38.  Take a cake decorating class
39.  Take a jewelry making class
40.  Go to the Grand Canyon
41.  Go Rafting down the Colorado River
42.  Go to Australia (if only I could have gone w/ Oprah)
43.  Go to a major awards shows!!  Preferably the Grammy's!
44.  Go back to The Brooklyn Tabernacle (amazing church in NYC)
45.  See Bon Jovi in Concert!!  Who wants to go next time their in Atlanta??
46.  See Rock of Ages!  Saw this at the Fox on Sunday!!  It was great!!
47.  Own a children's consignment store
48.  Own a king size bed
49.  Birth an athletic superstar, preferably one who plays football or golf!
50.  Make a goumet meal
51.  Cook w/ Paula Deen
52.  Eat @ Lady and Sons in Savannah
53.  Have gerber daisies growing in our yard!
54.  Be debt FREE!  I am definately working towards this!
55.  Be able to help put our children through college
56.  Work on a presidential campaign
57.  Beat Shane @ Guitar Hero!
58.  Visit Georgetown Cupcakes in DC
59.  Be a wedding planner
60.  Drive Route 66

I'll continue the rest of my list later!!  Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!!

My Partial Bucket List

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted! Life has kept me super busy. I've decided my blog today will be about my partial bucket list, I feel so blessed to have done things that I would have put on my bucket list had I not already done them, like visit Europe four different times and visiting 8 different countries! And meeting Third Day!

Well here's my partial list :)

1. Go on a Sandals vacation.
2. Raise a healthy, happy child, just not at the moment! This is not an announcement!
3. Visit Joel Osteen's church in TX.
4. Go to the Kentucky derby and wear a fancy hat!
5. Go to a real movie premier.
6. Become a Golf Pro, or at least better at it, or beat Shane!
7. Shoot a buffalo and mount it.
8. Visit a Dude Ranch.
9. Own a pair of Tony Lamas.
10. Take Shane to NYC at Christmas
11. Own an IPAD
12. Meet Third Day!
13. Read through the Bible in it's entirety
14. Go on a mission trip
15. Take Mama to Vegas
16. Attend a Royal Wedding
17. Own a pair of Christian Loubatin shoes
18. Own a Hermes Birkin bag
19. Be a mentor
20. Win the Lottery
21. Stick to a fitness routine
22. Meet my tv boyfriend -- the Silver Fox -- Anderson Cooper
23. Go w/o coke or sweet tea for a week -- SERIOUSLY!
24. Go to the Vera Bradley wearhouse sail in Fort Wayne, Indiana
25. Have a house w/ a big kitchen and big closet
26. Have a big garden with a bumper crop
27. Become a better housekeeper or at lease have enough money for one!
28. Visit Kleinfields in NYC (Say Yes to the Dress).  Maybe one of my friends will get married and we can go!
29. Meet Oprah
30. Go to a Falcon's Game

I will post more later!  Hope everyone has had a wonderful day!