Betty's Blog: March 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

one more

just in case there is someone missing the dogs...

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Ryan has talked about Toyota Supras since he was 12 years old. I met him and Aaron for lunch yesterday (they treated me!!) and he mentioned that his stomach was all a flutter but he didn't tell me why and I didn't think too much about it. Then later I was trying to call Brad with my new phone and accidentally dialed Ben (Ryan's other roommate), I quickly hit "end" and tried again. Well, after not getting Brad, Ben called and asked if I had tried to call. I told him what I had done and asked him how his day was going. He said "Well, I'm working, while Ryan is out buying his dream car", I said "What did you say?", and he realized that I didn't know. So, I quickly hung up from him and called Ryan. He didn't tell me anything but said he was coming over in about 20 minutes. So, about an hour and a half later he pulls in with a 1994 RED Toyota Supra. He was so excited and I was so excited for him. He had bought the car exactly the way his daddy would have. Every question I asked had the right answer. Right down to the fact that he and Chris (his resident Supra expert) had pulled up the carpet to check for water damage from the targa (sp?) top. These pictures were taken with my camera phone and I have to say I am quite impressed, they look pretty darn good! Actually Aaron took two of them cause I couldn't figure out my new phone - still working on that!!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Wordless Wednesdays

Friday, March 12, 2010

Bell Buckle Walk

I walked downtown by myself and took some pictures around sunset our last evening there. The lighting was beautiful and it was nice to just wander around by myself. There are also two pictures of Miller's Grocery too - that is in Christiana.

Bell Buckle First Baptist Church - the church where Brad and I got married

Home again,

Well, I am back home and now have oodles of photographs to go through and edit. I also have Marianna's engagement pictures to edit - some teaser photos can be found by clicking here. I am going to upload just a few more family pictures today and then I probably will put the rest in my Shutterfly album. I have a wedding this weekend and then several portrait sittings so I will be plumb busy with work. Here are a few more though and then I have to get to work!

Kate discovered that small piece of sucker on her bib (that orange blob on her bib) after a little bit and was so excited that she had more sucker! It was so funny!

Claire had just won a game of Crazy 8s from Lance and Savanna

Sam and Roxie

Granny and her first "great"

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Wordless Wednesdays

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Nashville

Jennifer, Lance, Savanna and I drove down to Nashville this morning and spent the day being tourists. We started out at the Ryman Auditorium and walked down Broadway looking in a few of the shops and stopping briefly at Tootsies to hear some live music. We also stopped briefly at the Country Music Hall of Fame and checked out Printer's Alley. We then went to the Opryland Hotel and walked around their atriums. The weather was supposed to be rainy but we only got rained on a little and then we actually had some blue skies. It was another good, but tiring day.

Sculpture of Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl crafted by Russ Faxon an artist that lives in Bell Buckle. It sits in the main lobby of the Ryman.

Tootsies

Printer's Alley

Opryland Hotel

Rutledge Falls

Monday was a beautiful day, we decided to hike down to Rutledge Falls. Granny took care of Kate at home and Jennifer, Sam and Claire came with us. We had a great time and got to do much more hiking than normal because the water was low. I was a little worried about Sam and Claire with the climbing around on the rocks. I shouldn't have worried about Claire at all, she did great on the rocks and in fact led the way in some areas. Sam isn't quite as adventurous as his sister but I believe he had a good time. While we were climbing around Claire looked at me and said "this is more fun than I thought it would be" Too cute!