Southern Girls....Random Post

I thought I might need to get away from the baby talk for a minute

... so...
you get pure randomness today!

I wanna talk about women. Southern women. Carolina Girls to be exact.

I take a lot of pride in being from the south believe it or not. I have been all over the world and I'm pretty sure people think I'm stupid. I talk slow. And that's OK. I like it that way.

I like knowing that I can tell you the ingredients for the gooey middle of pecan pie off the top of my head and that I chuckle when someone asks how to make chicken stew or sausage gravy.

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I like the fact that I buy pure salted butter every trip to the store and my name isn't Paula Deen.

That I can recite the words to Coal Miner's Daughter just as well as the Apostles creed.

That Stand By Your Man & You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man stays in my player of choice rarin' and ready for blarin' at a moments notice.

That I can put my pearls on and have fun pretending to be fancy not letting people know the first thing I knew how to drive was a John Deere Tractor and can still hook one up to any implement if need be.

That y'all and ain't are true everyday words in my vocabulary & household no matter how right or wrong they are.

That my son will grow up knowing that he has a hard working and hard loving Mama, because that's all she knows.

That my husband knows the same thing and still loves me for it.

That there are a trail of hard loving and hard working women that have taught me well and may God Bless all of them for making me who I have become in my 32 years!

Here are a few...Have a good weekend!

The Makings of a Photo Shoot...

For some odd reason I thought it would be super cute to dress Baby H in his November best and take his picture out in the leaves for his 7 month birthday. MK was already out getting up leaves so I thought it was the perfect thing to do on a Sunday! Well....about 20.6 seconds into it I realized I was up for a challenge. While most of the pictures looked like this...

I was able to get a few decent shots....after my client had a quick nap and his Grandma showed up to help keep his attention! We still had a lot of this...

and this...

a little of this...

some of this...

We had to take a few breaks...

So that we could capture this....

Even though he never was really happy about being in the leaves and he didn't bring his best laughter and smiles out to play I still feel like these are some precious photo memories from the day he turned 7 months old! Hope you had a good day little buddy!

Baby Learns to Fish!

We had a GRAND time in Emerald Isle!

We got in lots of relaxation, fishing, feeding birds, eating and of course family and baby H time! He was such a good baby for our trip, hardly ever cried and loved on everyone.

Such a schmooze, I tell ya!

Here are some of my favorite moments that I captured from our trip!

H and his Ta-Ta feeding the birds. We gave one a cracker and he then called his friends in, literally, before you knew it there were 50 or more squawking, pooping, birds.

H was like....

OHMYGOSH!WHATTHEHAYHAY...MOMISTHISREALLYALLOWED?!?!?!

He LoVEd the birds, we ended up feeding them again with Dad when he was done fishing, that one we got on video.

Speaking of Dad fishing, above is just some of the catch. I think they ended up with around 12 of these bad boys. Something that tastes so yummy sure looks gross. To those who aren't "angler certified" those are flounder. They are bottom feeders that bury themselves in the sand, therefore, that's why they're flat with eyes on only 1 side of their body. They are FUN to catch and it's what most people go for when shore fishing on the Atlantic. Our boys didn't make it "off shore" which is 30 miles or more this trip due to weather conditions but still were able to get in many hours of jigging close to shore each day. OK...enough fish education, I want you to check out that little punkin' head, Daddy's first mate...best a man could ask for!

Here H is spending quality time fishing with Papa...every little boys dream. He is starting early! H loved the beach even though it totally wore him out. Most of you know about his white noise addiction, well, the ocean seemed to calm him so much that a nap was necessary after every trip down to the water no mater how much wake time he was running on!

So...there you have it. Our week in a nutshell.

We are all now back to the grindstone living in rat race hell but yet very thankful we have jobs to return to. Hope you are well!!! Until next time......keep your toes in the sand! :)