Archive for the ‘Alabama’ Category

Alabama Is House, Texas Is Home

VS. We’ve made it back to Alabama! We got home around 10 last night and we are just exhausted! We were having a conversation in the car, however, that just had to be blogged! Someone said something about our ‘getting home’. And Patrick said, “Alabama is not home, what’s in Alabama is our house – [...]

Yolanda Denise King dies (at such a young age)

So sad, ya’ll – Yolanda Denise King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died late Tuesday night of undetermined causes. The family suspects it was heart failure. She was only 51 years old. So terribly sad. I just saw the famous church where her father preached his message of peace, hope, and above all, [...]

Drunk driving, Alabama style!

Did you hear the latest drunk ‘driving’ fiasco in news lately? Hahaha! Well, the woman was ‘driving’ a horse! Yep, a horse! The woman was riding through town and was visibly not ‘herself’ – it was easy to tell she was on something other than just the horse! When officers tried to stop her, she [...]

Yellow snow in Alabama

Yellow snow?! Ewwww! Ok, so it’s not exactly snow, but, that is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of trying to describe what’s floating around in our air and blanketing our cars right now!It’s pollen! Massive, massive amounts of pollen! It’s allergy central around here! It’s unbelievable! I have never seen anything [...]

My new, sweet little town

I really like our new, little town in which we live. I have wanted to live in a small town pretty much my whole life and now I finally get to, and I love it! We run into the city librarians at the grocery store, teachers at WalMart, and we even ran into teachers out [...]

Songs in the trees

That is another good thing about living out here. You know the cricket songs in the trees in the summer time? There is some type of ‘tree-singer’ all year round here! I know at my mother-in-law’s place – there are frogs in the trees. Tree frogs. And they sing and sing loudly all summer. I [...]