A Special Trip

Sometimes you just need a change of scenery...or atleast I do.

Since hubby is still gone I decided to go to Kentucky and

spend the day with my older brother, Brian and his son Ashton...

who stayed home from school so he could visit who was very

sick and just couldn't make it to school. ;o}

It was a rare treat, since usually the only time I get to see Brian

is when someone either gets married, a funeral, or Holidays...

It's sad really...the kids just adore him and so do I...he works

way too much and our schedules never seem to match up.

He took us to Land Between the Lakes and we spent the day

sight seeing, and catching up....we even went to an old cemetery.

I love to walk through old cemeteries...is that wierd?

Here are Kayla and Brian posing behind an Ox...well, not actually

posing...because Brian absolutely HATES his picture being

made (must run in the fam~I make absolutely the worst

pictures ever) I took these with my phone, but I think

they actually turned out pretty good!

I Just couldn't resist...this picture. I wish there was such a thing

as a camera that captured smell...ha HA! (P U)
Did you know that if you twist a pig's ear really hard it will squeal?
~Duh~I would too! Not gonna tell ya who exactly did the ear
twisting...but it wasn't me...or one of my kids...or my nephew. ;o}

Okay...let me tell you..there are 3 things that scare me to

death...I mean really, really scare me.

#1 Spiders #2 choking #3 Heights...in no particular order.

My brother wanted to show me the old fire tower that the kids

have climbed every summer when they are with uncle Brian.

(I really should have seen what was coming)

I'm proud to say....I climbed it! ALL of it...to the very top!
This picture doesn't really do it justice...(it starts at the bottom
of the photo...it's just too dark to see.)

Okay...maybe it took me forever...and maybe my legs are

absolutely killing me today from walking so far up while

every muscle in my body was tensed to the max....and maybe

I yelled at the kids (and Brian) all the way up and down

to stop shaking the tower...(yeah, it wiggled -
all of it - every time someone moved or when the

wind blew!) Plus, he forgot to mention that it was really
OLD and some of the boards were missing AND the ones
 that were still there were all loose! 

But hey, I did it!

I guess your wondering why...I don't really know. What I
do know, is that I will never, ever do it again! I guess part
of me still wants to prove to my big, strong, older brother
that I'm not a sissy.

This is on the way home...I'm so happy not to be splattered

all over Land Between Lakes state park.

I didn't get any pictures of the boys...but they had a great time.

They tried to provoke the ox into chasing them...(I won't tell you
how) ;o} They chased the roosters...tried to scare me to death on the
fire tower (it worked)...AND tried to talk Uncle Brian into walking
across the access cable under the bridge...(which Brian has done
before and I can't believe we didn't do) So, I guess I spent most
of my time around them praying they wouldn't get killed ;o}

BOYS! I could write a book!

We had a great day! I hope to do it again really soon!

(~just not the fire tower part~)