Lilly loves the 4Runner

This is how she rides in the 4Runner. She loves just looking out the back window with the wind blowing in her hair. So strange.

Southern Miss Baseball.....CWS

I am cheering on the Golden Eagles today in their second game in their first EVER trip to the COLLEGE WORLD SERIES!!! WOO HOOOOOOO!!!

Happy Birthday Big Brother

Yesterday was my big brother's birthday, so I thought I would share one of my favorite pics ever! Happy Birthday Brandon, I love you!

Pizza with the Morgans

Like I said I am way behind on blogging so here is another old one. Thursday 2 weeks ago, I met the Morgans at Dave's pizza to enjoy the patio. I rarely get to see them, so it was great to catch up. I had never met Myles, and I really wanted to adopt him. Here are a few pics.

Shay and me

Myles was looking for some $ to play in the game room, and I was a TOTAL sucker! I would have given him every dime I had.

Shay and Steve

I was seriously considering taking him home to live with us. We are best friends. It was a GREAT Thursday, with great friends, food, and weather. I LOVE SUMMER!

*REMEMBER THEY OWN SHAY'S JEWELRY IN HOOVER, SO GO CHECK THEM OUT!!!

Mobile with Joe

Memorial Day weekend, I went to meet my dear friend Joe (who lives in San Fran) in Mobile for our friend Russell's rehearsal dinner. Joe ALWAYS makes for an entertaining night, and this was no different. Here we are at the dinner.

I also got to spend some time with one of my favorite families, the Millettes.
I also got to see my friend Scott from high school.

And catch up with a friend from college, Laurie.

Saturday morning we had lunch with Joe's parents and we ran into the groom and pretty much everyone in town for the wedding.

Joe's parents just crack me up. That was one of the funniest lunches I have ever had. Non stop laughs. It was great to see this crew.

Happy Birthday Gannon

I am WAY behind on blogging, and trying to get back in to normal life, so......

A few weeks ago a few of us went to Hacienda Mexican Restaurant to celebrate Brad Gannon's birthday and I wanted to share a few pics. Here is Gannon with everyone singing to him, and clapping while he wore the fancy cowboy hat. He seems thrilled!

And here are he and Kat (his fiance') after the song, but still in the hat.

We had a great time, HAPPY BIRTHDAY GANNON!

I am SO BLESSED!!!

This past week has been very bittersweet for me. Thursday before last my dad went into the hospital and that Friday night he passed away. I have learned so much in the aftermath of this, most important is that EVERYONE deals with grief differently. My brothers and I have each handled this loss in completely different ways and this has made it all so much worse. I loved my dad VERY much and I am finding a little peace knowing that now I have a guardian angel watching over me. I have also gained so much strength from all the support I have had from friends and family over the past week. Half the flowers at the service were from friends of mine, and since I have been back in Bham, the flowers just keep coming. Not to mention all the cards in the mail, the text, phone calls, facebook messages, emails, everything has been SO AMAZING!!! If anything could make this all easier, all of the above support has made it possible. I feel so loved and blessed to know that so many people care about me, and my family, it means more to me than you will ever know. Your prayers are working, so THANK YOU! Most of all I need to thank Rick. He has been so wonderful through all of this. I would not have made it through with out him, NOT AT ALL! I have heard people show their true character in the worst of times, and Rick has shown what a WONDERFUL man I have in my life. I am SO LUCKY!! With all that said, I wanted to share all the flowers everyone sent to my family and me. It is hard to be sad around here with so many beautiful flowers, and kind cards around. I will be so sad when they are all gone. Also see that Rick even planted some of the flowers in the backyard so I could see them every day. I am such a BLESSED PERSON!

DAVE MATTHEWS GPS

My DAD....

Roy Bennett Dunn

December 20, 1949 - May 29, 2009

McKibbin kido time

The past month we have spend a good bit of time with Rick's niece and nephew. I missed Claire's dance recital (which I was really sad about), so I went to her last dance class where and they wore their costumes. Each class was a country and Claire's class was Germany.

Another night we went to their house to eat pizza, and play. Here are Lilly and Lucy trying to be friends.
And Aunt Kat taught Claire to make a necklace out of flowers in the yard.

We also went to Andrew's last soccer game.

Fun times with the McKibbin kids.

Thirsty Thursday

I am just catching up since my computer has been sick, and now she is all better. A couple Thursday's ago, we went to Thirsty Thursday at the Birmingham Barons baseball game. The weather was perfect, at least for that one night. We had a blast! Here are a few pics:

Matthew & me
The guys were thirsty.

Michelle and I were too!

After the game we all went to a new place in the Colonnade, Black Market. Really nice place. Great Thursday night with friends.

Lilly and her bone

This is what happens when we give Lilly a real bone, and try to get it away from her. Notice how she extends her neck to cover the bone when we try to take it. This is really fun for us!

American Idol: Kris Allen

BTW, I voted for Kris 50 times last night!!! I was a HUGE ANOOP fan, but since Kris is from Arkansas, and I have some roots in Little Rock, I am all for Kris now. I can't believe I let myself get SO involved in Idol this year. Still LOVE ANOOP!

Local Shihtzu Rep...

Meet Emma, she has recently found a home with a family friend of ours. A few weeks ago when Lilly and I were in Destin, a family friend of ours came to stay with us, and just LOVED little Lilly. The week after the trip, she went home and found miss Emma. This is the 2nd Shihtzu that has found a home because of my baby Lilly. I know I am a little partial, but Lilly is a VERY laid back dog, eats when she feels like it, lets you know when she needs to go out, doesn't chew on anything, doesn't bark much, and is so cute it hurts, what more could you ask for? So I have decided she is the local marketing rep for the shihtzu breed.

Coming soon....

New updates are coming soon, I promise. My computer should be here this week, and I have lots to share. Thanks for your patience!

A VERY MUDDY Steeplechase

This past weekend we headed to Nashville for the Iroquois Steeplechase! I was super excited, and love any event where you get to wear a big hat. Walker & Matt's friend from college, Brad, really was a great host. He owns 4 bard on Broadway, and also has 4 tents at the actual race. He was the best! Our hotel was one block off of Broadway, so this worked out great! Friday we went to one of the 4 bars, The Stage, and this place was packed, I loved it. Saturday was an early day, so we tried not to stay out too late the night before. Race day started out interesting, the weather was not ideal, so we waited it out a little while, then headed to the park. Let me tell you, the walk into Steeplechase was a DISASTER!!!!! MUD, MUD, and MORE MUD!!! /cars were getting stuck just pulling into the parking lot. We all had to take our shoes off for the walk, and had mud past our ankles. I DO NOT do barefoot, and there was no other option. Half way to the tent, I was over it and wanted to go home. I had my entire outfit coordinated, and planned out, and this mud was really throwing me for a loop. Mud splattered on my dress, mud in my pedicure, mud, mud, mud. Finally we made it to the setup, after a short detour from Walker, and I could not have been happier. The setup was perfect, and once we cleaned the mud off. Brad's tent was directly on the racetrack. We bet on horses, drank, ate, wore shrimp boots to go to the restroom, what more could you ask for? Saturday night we went to another of Brad's bars, Crossroads, but Rick and I couldn't hang too long, and were in bed by 11. It was a GREAT weekend, and I see many Steeplechases in my future.

Destin in May

Once or twice a year my mom and her girlfriends (which are usually my friends moms) and me and my girlfriends (Traci & Marcia this year) go to our beach house on 30-A just past Destin. This trip was one of the best. My friend Liz just so happened to be down there with her family the fist 2 days we were there, so she played with us, as was my dear friend from high school Martin. We all went to Baytowne Wed. night and Thursday Martin took us out on the boat. By the way, being on a boat in the gulf is one of my favorite things ever!!!! The boat trip was FABULOUS!!! Then Friday my fabulous girlfriend from high school Jacquie and Ashley were in town so I went to spend the night with them and catch up. Let me just say I have the best group of friends from high school, we can not talk for a day, a month, a year, and it is like nothing has changed. Saturday, mom, her crew, my crew, we all did a little shopping at Seaside, then after shopping drinks @ Bud & Ally's. Saturday night, I got to meet up with another fabulous friend Khara, from college. Sunday it was time to head home, after a LOT of stress trying to pack the car. What a GREAT TRIP!!! Got to play with friends from all over, at my favorite place, THE BEACH!!! Thanks everyone for one of the best trips ever. Here are the pics:

Little Rock Wedding Weekend

Sorry for the lack of post, but my computer is still sick, and Rick's computer is SUPER slow. But I couldn't take it anymore so here I go. The past 3 weekends have been VERY VERY busy. I will start with the first of the 3 weekends. Rick and I headed to Little Rock, AR for my 10 th go at being a bridesmaid, in my step-sister Carrie & her boyfriend of 10yrs Justin's wedding. WE had a great time, and everything was just perfect. Everyone just LOVED Rick. My family really gave him star treatment, including a tour of the city in a fully stocked limo. I really enjoyed spending such a special weekend with my family and introducing Rick into the entire crew. Here are the pics from the weekend.

RED couch for sale

I am selling my RED couch if anyone is interested or knows anyone who may be interested. I love this couch, but it doesn't "go" in our house. It is a great couch and has a chaise lounge attachment. Just wanted to put it out there. THANKS!

I LOVE Dave Matthews Band

So as I said before DMB is my favorite band of ALL TIME!!! I just love them. Well I thought I couldn't love them more than I do already then I got this email from LG. She forwarded it from one of her friends, here is what the email reads:

So true story. Getting my haircut today. Another client was there, her husband is some big shot in Nashville (owns a restaurant or something). Anyway, we were talking about the DMB concert, and she said that her husband's company had granted this boy from Franklin, TN last wish...like the Make a Wish thing. His wish was to go to NYC and see the DMB concert and meet the band. Well, so he goes to the concert, but at the end the band is running late and can't do the normal meet and greet. But they tell him to come to the concert in Nashville, and he can meet them there, etc. Well, he was too sick Saturday night to go.

Sad, right?

No. The lady in the salon said the boy's mother called and told her that the whole band came to their house after the concert. Stayed in that little boy's room until 1 am. How amazing is that? They kept their word to him. And now the sad part...he passed away this week. But, he got his last wish twice over...his parents told the lady that he was soooo happy and it was the first time in a long time that he hadn't been down and out.
I love DMB.

OMG! Is that not the BEST thing ever?!?! I love hearing stories like this. Reminds me there are good people out there still.