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friday night (as in 2 fridays ago)

Two Fridays ago (has it really been that long?), I flew into RDU and was greeted by my sweet sister and her best friend (and my most loyal blog reader), Sterling!  It was so precious, they were waiting for me as I came down the escalator with a sign to greet me!  Then we all screamed and hugged like idiots and scared those around us.  I loved it :)  After that we all went out for Mexican because we are all equally obsessed with Mexican food and hung out the rest of the night around Katie's apartment.  A wonderful time was had by all, thanks y'all!!

in the car before we left the airport!

me and Katie at dinner

Sterling and his date at dinner :)

the only one that looks good in this pic is Katie but I don't have any others to document the time at her apartment (sorry Sterling)

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the time my fam went to lynyrd skynyrd

For Father's Day we got my dad tickets to go see Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers.  It just so happened to work out that we were going to be in NC at the time so the whole family got tickets.  Unfortunately, John wasn't able to make the trip with me so he gave his ticket to Abby and although I'm sad he couldn't make it, I'm really happy she was able to come!  We did do a shout out for John during Simple Man (his favorite Skynyrd song).  Y'all, this concert was amazing!  The people tailgating were a show in and of themselves!  But really, the music was incredible.  I thought I was going to enjoy the Allman Bros more (mostly because of their jam band type music) but I actually had a blast during Lynyrd Skynyrd and mellowed out during Allman Bros (and maybe dozed off a little, not for lack of excitement but more for the lulling sounds of their jams and extreme exhaustion).  It was even more special because of the people I was with!  Let me tell you, my family is a fun concert crowd (as long as we all like the artists)!  I would do it all over again in a heartbeat!  Here's some pics :)

family tailgating

the spread, thanks Mom!

we. are. family!

we had to pose with a rebel flag, i mean it IS lynyrd skynyrd

kinda dark, but the whole group :)

me and the birthday boy (well, it was his birthday eve)

Mom and her girls

cousins!

sister sister

fam at the beginning of the concert

to Dad!!

At the end of the night.  We were pretty exhausted...and stinky.

summer breeeeeze

Makes me feel nice.  Ugh, I hate that summer is wrapping up soon.  It's definitely my favorite season of all time.  Like if you could just put Christmas in summer then my life would be complete and I'd be happy forever and always...as long as it was summer.  Anyway, I've been a traveling girl, y'all.  I went on down to NC for over a week and I'm back now and getting into the groove of things.  John just got back tonight from a TN visit and man, was I missing that husband of mine.  Coming home to an empty house is real sad so I'm glad he's home again.  I have a ton more to post.  I'll break down the vacation in a few posts because there's like a million pics (I know, I was a little shocked too!  But like half of them are from Katie's iPhone so don't think I've started documenting absolutely everything.)  I also have some book reviews, movie reviews and just stuff going on in life so stay posted.  Just get ready for some binge blogging (probably starting tomorrow night).  But for now I'll leave you with this pic: 

The fam rocking out at Lynyrd Skynyrd/Allman Brothers.  Yeah, it was pretty awesome.

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The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

Winston Churchill

your daily quote

Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more.

Nicholas Sparks

(I'm about to be with some of the ones I love so, yay!!)