We're Baaaaack!!!

Did you know we left? Maybe the lack of blogging lately was a sign we were gone? Come on, weren't you curious? I think this is the longest I've ever gone without a visit to the Blogger site! I'm so excited to be sitting here, I just can hardly stand it!!

(Sarcasm. I'd rather be folding that big pile of laundry on the bed that is keeping me from sleeping.) (More sarcasm.) (Maybe I'll sleep on the floor.)

So we went to Ohio. Nana, Mommy, Hailey, and Keelyn. We drove the ever-so-familiar 10 hour drive.

Long, long, loooonng drive. I'm pretty sure there was lots of sleeping, so that helped. There was also a long break for dinner in the mountains...and as illustrated above, dancing in the parking lot while wearing hot new shades.

We had a blast. We got time to love with Grandma, time to play with our new baby cousin Caddis, time to run in the big open yard, and around Hailey's "favorite tree" in front of the house. We ate lots of chocolate and cheese, slept peacefully together, and caught up with family.

It only could have been better if Daddy had come.

So, a quick update on other things, and then I'll be back with more pictures and stories soon...

Since coming home:

Kitchen sink broke.

Weird cursing plumber came to fix it, while cursing and knocking things off walls and cursing more. Weird. He had such a potty mouth. HA! Haha! Ha! (Still laughing.) Ha!

Water heater broke when my dear husband was trying to fix the broken sink. (To be fair, he fixes EVERYTHING around here, so the inability to fix the sink, combined with the newly found ability to break the water heater is a new gig for him.)

Funny things Hailey said in the car:

When looking at cows in pastures in Ohio..."Mommy, but are those cows real?"

After hearing us mention the possibility of a skunk...EVERY FIVE MINUTES BETWEEN 11:00pm and 12:00am..."Mommy, what's that smell?" "Do you smell that?" "I think I might smell a skunk." Repeat.

While listening to a Taylor Swift CD..."Mommy, are you singing this song?"..."Yes."..."I can't really hear you. You sound the same." THANK YOU very much, dear child. I know now that I birthed you simply so that I would always have someone along for a ride who could remind me of my fabulousness. Particularly fabulousness that comes with the kind of reverb you get in a closed car with the speakers turned up.

She's a genius. And the cows could have been fake, you never know. And we did smell a skunk.

Pictures and stories to come...