Sweet Home Alabama

Man, this post has been on my to do list for awhile...Sorry for the crazy delay. (have you been impatiently tapping your toes?) Work is insanely busy, plus I have officially started to dive into the work on my capstone project.  This combination means a lot of my free brain space is full of things nobody else finds interesting, like the planting season of wheat or the developmental benefits of reading to children... Really, you don't want to be in my brain right now.  I don't want to be in my brain right now.  It's down right exhausting.... and it can't be healthy.  That's why I had to distract myself with things like this:

and this:
 
And maybe a little bit of this...

which also prevented the writing of this Alabama post within a reasonable time frame.  But I HAD to do those things.  THEY WERE FOR MY HEALTH

Anyway. Where were we?  Alabama pictures?  Right. Let's do this.

So Nick's grandmother lives in Alabama, which is completely awesome since it is exactly half way to the beach that we go to with my parents.  We always stop and visit, but this time we spent a little longer and visited with some of the extended family as well, which was so amazing!

Henry got the chance to see chickens and get eggs out of the coup!

And they let him drive a tactor, which seems TOTALLY safe!

We got to hang out with Uncle CL, who showed us the replica house he made like the one they grew up in when they were young.  He gave us homemade wine, which may or may not have gotten Nick and I a little drunk... at 10am.  That's how we roll in Alabama

The two room house, modeled after one that held a family of ten.  And I thought our house was small as a family of three...

Great-Grandma with her brother

a little bird house CL made that looks like a barn.  I love it.

Next we went to see Aunt Becky and Uncle Billy's house, which... you all... it is so amazing.  It's one of those places that's tucked in the middle of nowhere and yet it has everything you need.  Like, they grow a ton of food, have deer scouting posts, have a river with a beach, have a golf cart to get you around, they seem to have plenty of guns... basically what I am saying is I know where I am heading in the zombie apocalypse ever happens...

family hanging out on the back porch... I wish I had pictures to do the house or the land justice, but I don't.  Just trust me, it's all amazing.


Aunt Becky and Henry blowing bubbles in the 'back yard'

Jumping on the golf cart to head down to the river

Checking out the fish down by the river...

I want my very own wattering hole in my back yard...

There was no way around it, you get a boy this close to water, you gotta just let them go crazy.

I think he likes it in Alabama...

We all had a great visit.  Can't wait to go back!