Off To School

Yep! I think they will fit right in....

Halloween Love

Off to a Halloween Party with my date! That is if he doesn't kill me first!

Bell Peppers in October!

Wow!!!  My garden is still going!!!  I am still getting bell peppers in October!!!

I love this picture of my Dad!  First, it shows how simple my Dad is.  He and my little brother Monte are leaving on a Father Son camp out trip.  Yep, everything they need is packed on a Harley.  The perks of going out in the wild with a Marine; you really can survive with the bare minimum.   Second, this picture shows my Dad's two favorite vehicles which happened to be my least favorites growing up!  I always dreaded my Dad picking me up from school.  I never knew if he would show up in the black hearse or the kill my hair Harley.  (I was an 80's girl, big hair! Even though i had a pretty blue sparkly helmet it still was NOT nice to my hair!)  It was a happy day when i got to go to the orthodontist, birthday party, etc. in the Volvo or the VW Bug!  I was impartial to his truck that he used to haul his Harley around at times, but the Hearse, was just dreadful, except for when going to to the beach!  Then it was perfect!  All the boards fit as well as friends and you could just sweep out the sand afterwards.  But still, it just always looked like there should be a dead body in the back....but i still loved my Daddy no matter what he showed up driving because, hey, he's my Dad, and they are just the coolest no matter what they roll up in.....even if it means looking like you might have dead bodies rolling around in the back or have a helmet head when you are dropped back off at  school or that cool party where that cute boy is going to be!  I'm just glad my Dad taught me how to enjoy life and giggle at an early age so i was ready for all his crazy antics in my teenage years! 

     

But, my favorite memories of my Dad will be the laughter...

I'm a Statue

I was having fun posing like a statue.......

Peek-a-Boo!

Grandma Mik and i having fun at Tryon Palace.  So many great places for photos! We were just having a lot of fun!

Please Don't Move!!!

We were driving home from football practice and all of a sudden Vicki and I saw the cutest little fur ball of a creature in the middle of our lane looking up at us into our headlights.  We were on the two lane ice cream road.  There was literally no place to go unless you want to crash your vehicle…..Soooo, while I gripped the steering wheel really tight and closed my eyes for a split second waiting for the bleb blump of the smoosh while the two of us screached in a really high octave at the same time that the boys were nonchalantly discussing their never ending building strategies of their minecraft game on their ipods, well until their ears were pierced by our high decimal squeals……we were pleasantly surprised to not feel the blump plump of squish, mess, and death of the I have no idea what that cute furry creature even was, although I am leaning towards a racoon!    It’s nice to know that even the smallest of prayers were answered!  Even the itty bitty ones of ‘please don’t move, please don’t move, please don’t move!!!’  However, I would not be surprised if the adorable bundle of fur might have been sending up its own pleas of ‘please don’t swerve, please don’t swerve, please don’t swerve!!!!’  Oh the joys of driving the dark animal inhabited roads of the South!!!