SEC Championship Game

On Sat. December 6, we went to the SEC Championship Game in Georgia! We had a great time going to the Fan Party and watched the Alabama pep really.  I even got my face painted.  It was a really fun experience that I hope we can do again in the future.  This game was a lot of firsts for us.  It was Andrew's, Cathy's, and Mike's first Bama vs. SEC Team.  2) SEC Championship game 3) First Game in a Dome

Thailand Part 1

We have returned home from Thailand, and I'm already trying to figure out when I can go back.  I had a great time and had some real eyeopeners.  It was a great trip, and I learned about myself and have never been this far out of the country.  I met some amazing people and ate some wonderful food that I cannot wait to share with Andrew.  Many people tried to talk me out of going due to the miscarriage and the government issues that were going on in Thailand.  I was very determined to go on this trip due to all the heartache Andrew had experienced the few weeks before.  We were trying to move to Nashville to be closer to Andrew's bus pick-up.  We finally got an offer accepted on the house we wanted in Nashville with the promise we could selling our home here within a few days.  We had quite a few people interested and were given offers, but nothing like we wanted out of our house.  So we lost our house in Nashville and decided to take ours off the market.   We are not sure as to why we couldn't sell the house and make want we needed to move.  I know we are both heartbroken, but God will use this for His purpose.    Andrew was happy that I could go in this trip and have fun since everything seemed to not be going in the way we wanted it to go.  I also had $500 left on my trip balance the week before.  It was not in our budget for us to pay for it out of pocket.  The whole week before, all I could do was to pray that the money would come in.  I got a phone call from Stephen, our Mission's Pastor, the day before we left telling me that my trip balance had been paid in full.  I owed nothing.  I was in shock for hours because my prayer had been answered.  I kept telling Andrew that if God really wanted me to go on this trip then the money would come, and it did even if it was the day before.  I couldn't cry because I was so shocked.  This made me even more excited to go to Thailand.  The first night there I realized that I'm a very spoiled American due to the size of our room and how it was not extravagant hotel that I like to stay in.  I was not fully prepared for what God had in store for me during this trip.  We left on Sunday, June 8th and flew back on Friday June 20th.  My heart is completely changed for international missions and for the people I met.  I took over 800 photos on this trip and printed over 500.  I can say I got a little picture happy.

 Holly and Stephen.

 This is Maggie my room mate!

 These photos were somewhere over Russia, and the screen showed about where we were on our flight.  It was beautiful!! 

This is in Tokyo!  I can now say I've been to Japan! 

 

The flights were good.  We had a little turbulence on the flight from Tokyo to Bangkok due to the rain storm that we were flying over.  They fed us good on these flights.  I felt like we were eating every two hours! Delta is the way to go if you're going to fly international!

Road Trip Part 2!

This past weekend Andrew and I went to Atlanta since Martina was playing there.  She puts on a great show, and I can't wait to see her perform again.  On Saturday, we spent most of the day at the venue which left Sunday for us to sight see.  We went walked outside our hotel and into the Olympic Park that was built to remember the 1996 Summer games.  It was so beautiful.

The city was having a fundraiser for the local humane society.  It was so sweet seeing all the dogs playing in the park.  It really made me miss my own babies.  We ate lunch at a local restaurant right next to our hotel.  It was so good! 

Then it was off to an adventure that I was really excited about.  I love the show called DoubleDivas which comes on Lifetime on Tuesday nights.  Molly and Cynthia are the craziest and sweetest owners.  I have been dying to go to the shop and just look around.  I was hoping to find some of the ladies from the show there that day.  I didn't get to see Molly and Cynthia but I did met one of the ladies from the show.

I got to meet Loren!! She is just as sweet and funny in person as she is on the show! I was hoping that she would be my sells associate, but she was really busy but didn't mind stopping at all for a quick picture.  The store looks a lot bigger on the show than it does in person.  It's a beautiful shop, and I'm upset with myself that I didn't get more pictures of the shop!

I did however get pictures of my dressing room.  Those are really nice!!

My sells associates:

I had a great time visiting the store and can't wait to go back and for them to get their new website up and going.  They really do care about the ladies that come in their shop.

Molly and Cynthia did a private fitting at a local hotel on Saturday, which was close to the hotel we stayed at.  I wished I would have known!  I would have tried to get a ticket! Oh well! Hopefully next time I will have a chance to meet them! If you are ever in Atlanta, I suggest to go to LiviRae and check out these sweet ladies!