Fall Festival Weekend!

after having 3 requests asking me to blog this weekend, i think i will do so now. i have a problem though. i run my mouth and can talk about anything until the cows come home but when i sit down to type something i go blank because i can't figure out what to post. i guess i will write about my weekend.

i am currently at home in the big town of granite falls sitting on my parents front porch swing enjoying this beautiful fall morning listening to chase face snore:) and christian music because i didn't go to church this morning. my heart just wasn't wanting to go to my old church. some people may think that is a horrible thing and you should always go to church but i believe i have had more of an awesome morning with God than i would have had at church.

i could sit on this swing all day and never grow tired. i'm listening to the song "mighty to save." one of the lines in the song is "Savior, He can move the mountains." it's so amazing to me as i think back over this past year at how God has completely moved mountains in my life and has transformed me throughout. i cannot give enough thanks and praise!

on to my weekend...
i came home this weekend to visit the family and all my friends because it's that time of year again! what time of year you may ask???? FALL FESTIVALS!!! that's right...the molasses festival out in the small country town of dudley shoals and the oktoberfest in the hkwheezy! chase face and i got in friday around 6:30 pm then my dad, mom, brother, sister and i went to red lobster to celebrate alex's birthday. red lobster has their endless shrimp special right now so we got there around 7ish and stayed for 2 hours! we had a wonderful time. it was so great to be able to spend time with all of them and laugh and cut up like we always do when we get together. i miss them. i would tell you how much shrimp we ate but then that would reveal that we eat a lot so i wont :) after red lobster i went over to where anna is house sitting and i got to hang out with some people that i haven't seen in a while. i was delighted.

i got up saturday morning and helped my dad mow the yard. i didn't ride the lawn mower but i push mowed the yard! that's right. now i am sore and i actually think i pulled a muscle or bruised my hand. all i know is it is tender. i skipped the molasses festival and went shopping with melody and cathi! i said cathi! that's still weird for me. oh well! we went to starbucks to meet melody's dad to give him some books. he didn't have his key to unlock the door. the window was slightly cracked so melody goes searching in her trunk to find something to be able to reach in and unlock the door. sure enough, she found something. i have no clue what it was. it looked like a white piece of metal that goes to some piece of furniture. she's opening up her own business next month. she says she will unlock your doors for 10 bucks. sounds like a good deal to me! after shopping, i came home and took a nap because i was pooped. i think from all that mowing plus i was awake at 7:30 because i'm old now and can't sleep in anymore. after the nap, i went over to anna's then met up with melody, justin, chris, lauren and 15 billion other people that i haven't seen in a decade and we all made our way downtown for oktoberfest! all i have to say about that is good times! it was great seeing everyone. then we ended up going to hams to get some pub chips because melody and i were still hungry. we also were forced to listen to some guy ruin abunch of really good songs. but hey, he's just starting out....in hickory....at hams.....enough said. after hams, i went home and went to bed then got up this morning and enjoyed a fresh cinnamon bun and glass of milk for breakfast. my mom's the best.....not just for making cinnamon buns but because she is making HAM for lunch! my stomach just growled as i said HAM...it did it again! i'll stop teasing myself. so here i am waiting for the p-unit (parentals) to come home from church so we can eat. then alex and i will get on the road and head back to raleigh/cary where i will go straight to huddles. then maybe i can talk my fabulous roommate into going to ihop. i'm really craving some pancakes or an omelette or maybe both:)

also, i would like to add that kevin's cat "gravy" is a witch! she's scary and will randomly attack and claw you for no reason. after seeing everyone provoke her to anger this weekend, no wonder she acts the way she does. no one messes with her in her domain!

until next time....LATA!