Category Archives: The Ins and Outs of Us

It is 2010 isn’t it? And, we are in America, aren’t we?

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True story.

Scene: Mississippi in May at Sonic. Took the nieces there at 9pm for ice cream. Parked in our car like most people usually do. An African American police officer kept walking in front of car over and over again every 5-10 minutes or so.

Shana: “Okay, this guy is really starting to give me the creeps.”

Heather: “Aunt Shana, we did park on the black side, ya know.”

Shana: “????!!!!”

Segregation is truly alive and well. Very sad. We asked the girls if we should move and park on the other side but they said no because there were no other cars there.

This goes right along with the general rule of needing to wait for at least “10 miles or so” until you have last seen bars on the gas station windows before you can stop at a gas station to use the restroom. Several times Adam has made me “hold it”!

Sad.

The most purchased car of all time is:

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the little tykes “cozy coupe”. NOT kidding. I read this a long long time ago and told Adam about it and we thought it was hilarious. It just came back to me because I read that it is it’s 30th Anniversary. Amazing. Truly amazing, yes?  Sad thing is, the thing is probably better looking than a lot of cars most of us have driven over the years! It’s at least happier anyways.

In 9 days…

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…these two cuties will be with us for AT LEAST two weeks!!! And, we are going to have sooo much fun just being together plus some other fun things Uncle Adam and Aunt Shana have planned like Worlds & Oceans of Fun, Henry Doorly Zoo, Painting pottery, chinese fire drills, shopping, getting facials, swimming, pedicures, and more and more and more….Hurry up nine days!!!

Our nieces: Brienna & Heather

Women….ya’ just never know what we are up to…

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While in Mississippi Adam and I got to spend an entire day with his Pawpaw. We decided to go to the Carter cemetery to start with to Mawmaw’s grave~we just lost her in 2009 just like we lost my Nana. We drove 350 miles with Pawpaw that day and learned all about Adam’s family history. We knew Adam has some Native American in him but are not sure to which extent. We know there is Cherokee and Chaqueta but his mother has been working on the family genealogy and has hit a road block beyond that. He has some English and German in him. He is kind of a mutt….like we all are I suppose. Don’t worry~he finds this funny when I say that!

Everyone always is amazed at how much Adam and his Dad look a like, well throw Pawpaw in there and you can pretty much tell how these guys are gonna look as they age:

Son

Father

Pawpaw

Anyway, Pawpaw had some amazing stories to tell us and we learned so so much that I think we will need to spend an entire day with him again to re-hear these stories to be able to remember them to pass them down in the family.

One last thing that we learned from Pawpaw about Women (I’m laughing already before I even have this typed!!!!)….he looked at Adam in the most serious face ever and said (in a southern drawl with each word long and drawn out), “Adam, did you know that there are women now that own their own farms?!!!”.

Thanks for the amazing day, Pawpaw. We love you.

Chinese Fire Drill….Gone Wrong

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Adam and I love chinese fire drills. We do them all the time with my sister’s kids…just to make them laugh. When we do them with my little brother it is for pure competition. I’m talkin’ who can run around the car more times and even who can run around the most cars (yeah, you read right….other people’s cars!) at a red light.

While in Mississippi we pulled up to a red light and Adam’s sister’s girls were with us and I nudged Adam like I do normally as the “it’s a go for the drill” type of warning. He about tackled me in the car right there. I guess running around your car and maybe other people’s cars in the delta might get me shot….or so Adam says.

His sister’s girls are coming in less than two weeks to stay with us for at least a couple of weeks. Yay!!!! We are counting down the hours. I, personally, cannot wait. Adam, unfortunately does not have the vacation time but I get to take off and be with them! Double Yay! And, guess what we are going to do…a chinese fire drill.

Anyways, last weekend my little brother was in town for some wedding planning and he was in the car in front of us with some of his friends and we were at a red light and he decided to do a drill. Out he comes and at the same time the light goes a’ green. In hindsight he says he heard his friend say as he was getting out of the car “hey, this is a really short light!”. Jesse decided to make this particular drill a double and was heading back to also run around our car and I was pointing at the light saying it’s green, it’s green~so what does he do? Opens my door and decided to squish in with me. All 6’4 ” 250lbs of him folding up into some odd contortion on top of me. And, imagine Adam just happened to have his camera: