Shipped out to Sea!

I am one of those very unlucky few that have never been able to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere, beautiful scenery, and other countries that you get to enjoy when on a cruise. That's not even the slightest case compared to my best friend Leslie! She to this date has been on 2 cruises, and Hawaii. So needless to say when we decided that we wanted to go on a cruise together, it was quite hard to find one that went to places she had never been! Well we looked up a few things last night and got a hit on a cruise that had places she had never been. Although she didn't care if she had been to the same place or not, I didn't want her to have to go to a place or on the same cruise that she had already been on. We found one that goes to Jamaica, and some other places. We still have LOTS of planning to do, but we have a year to plan so I think we are in good shape! So far the ship that we THINK we are going to be on is the Carnival Conquest. We are planning on going to Jamaica and a few other places for a 7-day cruise. I just can not wait to be sitting on the sun deck with my best friend tanning away! We I know we will have so much fun! I just wish I could get a time machine and have it be a year from now!

A painful look into the other side of my life.

The Wikipedia definition of a migraine headache is: a debilitating condition characterized by moderate to severe headache, and nausea. It is about three times more common in women than in men. That last part of that statement couldn't be more true! I am one of the people that suffer from migraine headaches. For as long as I can remember, I have always had these stupid things and they have ruined many things for me from vacations, dates, girls nights, church stuff, and even a bachelorette party! It seems like I have tried everything, every medicine that assures me relief! After talking to my dad one night, when he noticed I had been getting up and getting migraine medicine for the past week, every night like clockwork, he and I decided to cut out caffeine and chocolate and see if that helps at all. At that point I would try anything! Even if it was 2 of my favorite things! Well, its been a little over a week, and I will say this it has help slightly but not like I would like. I was really worried about if I could even cut out the caffeine and the CHOCOLATE, but much to my surprise, it was not as hard as I had thought. I just replaced drinking Dr. Pepper and Diet Coke with Sprite and more lemonade at restaurants. The chocolate is what is going to kill me tho! I messed up Saturday morning and got a Chocolate twist doughnut. Thought nothing about it when I ordered it, then when I actually got it in my hands I was so mad at myself! But I had to eat it. Like I said I am to the point where I would do ANYTHING to make these dern things go away! So much that I would let them do surgery on my head if they have to! 

Bayou Country Superfest!!!

This weekend I will be in Baton Rouge at Bayou Country Superfest!! I have not been this excited for something in a LONG time!! This is my status on facebook: What do Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Sugarland, Zac Brown Band, Trace Adkins, Billy Currington, Luke Bryan, Jason Michael Carroll, Josh Thompson, and Lee Brice allll have in common??? I get to see them this weekend!! Bayou Country Fest here I come!! I have always wanted to go to CMA Fest in Nashville, but, I have never been able to either get the money to go or had the time off from work to spare. So my awesome friend, Doug Hogan, asked me about 4 or 5 months ago if I wanted to go with him and some of his friends to this Bayou Country Superfest. I had never heard of it, but once he told me who all would be there to perform, I was on board IMMEDIATELY!! I love country music so he knew this would be right up my alley. Well today is Thursday and I will be heading to meet everyone in Monroe when I get off work, I will not be taking a lunch so I can leave an hour early! Which means I will get there about 5:30! This is going to be the longest day for sure! I have been looking forward to this trip for the past 5 months!

The plan is to get up and leave early Friday morning then, when we get to Baton Rouge that afternoon, we are going to a water park called Blue Bayou! We will probably stay there until that night and then that night I am sure we will go to New Orleans and go to Bourbon street, a few people are wanting to get tattoo's so that will be fun I think! Then Saturday the concerts don't start until about 4 that afternoon, but tailgating we start at 11 that morning. I am sure Sunday would be the same way. I am just so excited about going to New Orleans and Baton Rouge, I have never been this far South. I love to travel so I can NOT wait! Pictures to come!!!

The Girls and some random guy that jumped in the picture

Me and Webb ready to go out on Bourban Street!

Me and my girl Jennifer!

Crazy amount of people on Bourban!

Me and Jennifer the first day of Bayou Fest

Me and Doug!! 

There are SO many more pictures but I don't think I can upload over 230 pictures on here! I had such a great time! Got to see so many good concerts and hung out with some pretty awesome people! The water park was a lot of fun! We stayed there for hours! Bourban street was CRAZY!! So much fun tho! All the concerts and the performers was the highlight for me tho, I am a big country buff so I was just like a little kid in a candy store! Hope I get to go back next year!  

Lists Lists and more Lists

If you had to make a list of things that would make your life, in your eyes, "perfect", what would that list look like? My list would prolly be quite lengthy. Assuming I will still be living in Magnolia, my list would probably look like this:

~* I always say if Magnolia had a Chick-Fil-A, Coldstone, and Chili's I would be set for LIFE!

~* If I had a robot machine like on the Jetsons that would dress me, do my makeup, and hair that would be great too! I could wake up and be ready to walk out the door in less that 15 minuets!

~* I would love to be able to play the guitar! Since I LOVE to sing, I have always wanted to learn how to play the guitar and be able to just "pick and grin" as they say. 

~* If you never had any malfunctions with your electronic devices! It seems I am always having technical difficulties with all of my electronic stuff weather its an ipod, cell phone, camera, or computer. 

~* Another thing that would be great would be if you didn't have to worry about getting speeding tickets! I hate that every time I see a cop car weather i am going the speed limit or not I automatically press on my breaks. I hate living in fear! 

~* I wish someone would invent a teleporter so I can go wherever I want in the world in the blink of an eye! 

~* I wish that you didn't have to wait FOREVER for a new movie to come out! I also wish that you could just press a button and the movie you want will just appear!

Im sure there will be more to add to this list! Be looking!

Rain Rain GO AWAY!!

So the past week has been absolutely CRAZY! On Monday and Tuesday the tornado sirens when off in Magnolia. If you know me, you know that I HATE tornado's, even worse than that I hate the siren! Well every Monday night I have a girls night at Leslie's so we can watch our show (Secretlife of an American Teenager). Well the show had just gone off and we were all just hanging around like we always do when the sirens start going off! We really didn't think it was for real because we looked outside and it wasn't raining or anything! Well we all start getting a little scared so Momma Kathy told all 4 of us to get into Allison's TINY bathroom! To get our minds off of us being totally scared we took pictures and again if you know me, you know that I love to take pictures so of course that was gonna get my mind off things! Well long story short, nothing ended up happening but many of sheets of rain!

Tuesday night I was at home and dad told us to get ready cause we are about to go to the football stadium for safety because its just a big concrete block so we were in one of the locker rooms waiting out the storm. There was a TV in there so we were watching Pirates of the Carribbean. It was my Dad, Mom, little Sister and I there plus another coaches family. We stayed there for about an hour and a half and then we got the all clear from dad. Yet again nothing happened! Although nothing happened here in Magnolia, a lot happened in other places in Arkansas. According to Yahoo, places like Vilonia, a town of some 3,000 people north of Little Rock, one death was confirmed and between 50 to 80 houses were destroyed by the tornado, according to Faulkner County emergency management. Police reported a path of destruction half a mile wide. I think we all need to take time and think about the families and communities that have been affected by these storms. Also if we were not effected by the storms except for rain we really need to take a time to be thankful that we were so lucky! Keep all those effected in your prayers!

My new addiction!

So I have totally become addicted to Brantley Gilbert! I havent heard a song of his that I don't like yet! Here are my 2 favorite songs. I'm sure you will soon feel the same way! He seems like a pretty awesome guy. Before a show he will go out and meet some of the fans and sign autographs. It would be awesome to meet him I think!

How will YOU make a difference?



At church last night we were confronted with a challenge to find ways to bring Christ on SAU's campus. We were made up in groups about about 4 or 5 people. In my group it was me and 4 other girls, Katie, Kate, Amanda and Sydney. First we were to put our paper in 3 columns and told to brainstorm ideas on how to bring Christ to campus, then we in the next column we were to brainstorm ideas to be able to do if money was infinite. Then in the 3rd column we were to brainstorm about what we could do with $25. Little did we know that we were actually going to be given $25 and told to spend it however we needed in order to bring one of out ideas to life. My group chose an idea that we think would just be perfect! Our idea was to get a bunch of just cheapo sunglasses and then we were going to write with a paint pen on the ear piece of them the verse 2 Cor. 5:7 which is walk by faith not by sight. We plan to hand them out to everyone at school or however many we can get for 25 dollars which will probably be about 25. I will be taking pictures of the out come and let you know how our idea came out. Hopefully it will be a hit! Until then! :)

The sunglasses turned out GREAT!

 All of them were gone within like 2 hours and at church everyone was wanting us to make them some. We may have started something new! I love my group and the ladies did an awesome job. I didn't get to help as much as I liked because I was at work when they did a lot of the work but I helped out when I could!