An update and Spring Break

Yes, it has been a while since I have posted. Many things have happened since then. A recap - Laura had an emergency appendectomy, so I went for a week to Mississippi to help them while she was in the hospital and recovering. It was nice to see where she lived and to be of some help with Carter while Josh took care of Laura. That was the first full week of February. Then there was Valentine's day, and my sweet husband sent me flowers and the nicest card that was ever written. Then there was my birthday and turning 51. I managed to be sick again, like I was last year. But it was nice to have my family around and visit with them. Next was Atrion's ultrasound, where is was wonderful to see him kicking and poking and proudly displaying his gender. Not a doubt that this baby is a boy. Then we had Nate's birthday (28) and Halle's birthday (4) and Jake's first high school track meet and then we had Spring Break.

Wow, so many things I could have blogged about but didn't. :(

So, Spring Break...Casey and Cody came to Twin Falls on Wednesday and we all looked after Halle because her Mom and Dad went to Las Vegas for a mini-break. We played and watched movies. She went to Jake's track meet on Thursday, which was chilly. Jake threw a personal best and so is off to a good start. Then, Cody took Halle back to Pocatello and dropped her off with Maddie (Meg's sister) and Casey, Jake, Curt and I went to Layton and spent the night. We got up the morning of Friday, the 13th, and headed to the SLC airport. Casey was catching a later flight and had to wait until 4 hours before her flight time before she could check her bag, so we left her at 10:30 to go through security and get to our flight. Poor Casey, had to wait around the airport for an eternity. We flew from SLC to Dallas and from Dallas to Nashville. We picked up our rental car and found the hotel after many, many off course, turn arounds and finding our way back in a new city. We did OK without GPS and some choice swear words. We checked in and got something to eat and then waited around until it was time to pick up Casey. Then we came back to the hotel and crashed. The next morning we drove to Hernando. It took about 3 hours. We stopped a few times to stretch and get something to eat. It was nice to finaly get to Laura's and out of the car. Laura and Curt went and got crawfish and potatoes and corn. Yum! the crawfish were cooked just right. There just was not enough of them. :(( This is a picture of Curt and Carter celebrating the Crawfish. This is one of Jake.

I think later on that evening, everyone was hungry again, so the guys went and got Popeye's chicken. Sunday and Monday we rested and visited and then Tuesday we went out to Tunica to see the river and go shopping at the outlet malls. We got some really good deals on baby clothes. Here is a picture of us sitting on the veranda of the River Museum in rocking chairs.

We headed to Memphis and Beale St. to find some world famous bbq. The place we chose is called Pig on Beale and they are the grand champion bbqrs. And they don't lie, because even though I am not a great fan of bbq, the food was really, really good. Here is a few pics of the place and the food. Get the ribs. :))




On Thursday, we went by Graceland and said hello to the King. We didn't do the tour because although we like Elvis, we are not huge fans. We headed to the zoo to meet up with Laura, Josh, Carter and Casey. The zoo was fun. Curt and I took the trolley ride around the park and so sometimes we were with the crowd and sometimes we weren't. Here are some pics from the day.








We were pretty worn out after the zoo so we went to another bbq place, but no one ordered bbq. We had catfish - yum.

Friday, Curt, Jake and I headed back to Nashville and then caught our plane early Saturday morning and made it home around 6pm. It is always nice to be home. We came home to find that our furnace wasn't working and had to pay a weekend rate to change a relay switch. :( but, we are warm :). I love my family. Nate, Meg and Halle came over to see us after we got home. Halle had received lots of new shirts via Aunt Laura and me and the good deals at the outlet shops. Halle put on a little modeling show and tried on all of her new clothes. We had pizza and played scene it and visited on skype with Laura and it was nice. I will be glad when we don't have to travel so far to be together.

Tomorrow...back to work. And I am grateful that I have a job.