Smells like...

Home.

It was so nice to get away. Get some old school (that means from my old school) football and friends to visit.

They lost, but Shad played great....

and Ethan stood so good on the sidelines (he is a freshman so doesn't play much on Varsity, but he is the QB for JV, and Shad is the center.)

Lad lost some teeth. Brad asked him how he was eating an apple. He said, "On the side." Then he calmly continued to chew his apple on the side of his mouth. Totally normal for teeth losing peoples.

Hannah came up for her 10th year! HOly Smokes! My five year is next year. Its crazy to think that I am so old, but yet Hannah is older and still feels like she is young.

Halle learned the ways of relaxing in Standrod quite quickly. She didn't mess around.

I said, "Hey Brad let's go check out the garden."
He said, "Okay."
Then we lost each other.

I found some bunnies in the carrots. 

The carrot rows were bigger than my house. Actually three of my houses.

My dad picked me an entire huge box of carrots, and I said, "Well I didn't want a whole row."

Then he said, "Does it look like I gave you a whole row?"

And I said, "No it looks like you did not pick any from this mass of carrots."

Faith lost her bag of M and Ms like eight times in this garden. 

I also watched our kitty catch a mouse and eat it alive.

Gross.

We left home with our tires saggin due to the weight of veggies.

If you are in need of anything in this category....

squash

zucchini

carrots

cabbage bigger than your body

tomatoes

potatoes

broccoli

peppers of many kind

garlic chives

and other random things that you may need...

let me know I will give them to you for free. In any quantity. 

Life size cabbages

Brad found himself here.

Bikes, fourwheelers, puppies, horses, and unlimited steak and scones.

His true home.

Only if we could make a living there. Apparently Standrod has no plans for a med school. 

Stupid I think.

Teaching is going well. Sometimes I wish I was superwoman, but I'm not so I have to go home not having everything done that I wanted to. I'm about ready to hire my own aid so that I can do everything that I want to. But, I'll figure it out and I am so happy doing it! 

Brad is doing well in school. He is shadowing a surgeon, which he loves, volunteering at a clinic, going to school full time, and working part time. Also, somehow he manages to play his guitar non-stop and practice the song he wrote me for my birthday. I love him to death. But you all know that, and I get annoyed when wives tell their blog readers they love their husband ninety million times a day. You know that duh! And if you are single its just like I rub it in your face even more.

But I do love him to death. Today he said to me, "Brit, I love you."

I said, "Yep, I know."

He said, "No really, you are everything to me."

I said, "Yep I know, love u too baby face lover cake."

I wish I was always that confident about stuff....maybe its just today.

OH! He is playin my song right now. I love it. Someday he will let me record him singing it, but probably never. 

"So let's lay in bed all day long, maybe I'll write you another song." 

Just trying to give you a piece of it's literary genius. 

I have some really great

Nieces...
They are so great and man are they ever cute!

You see we had Mad Mad's party, and I took some shots of their faces. Cute faces. SO cute faces.

Maddie, she is the oldest of my sister's children, she is also the first grandchild on both sides!!!! It was her birthday, and she has a lisp, just like Hannah. We don't make fun of it though, we embrace it. Or embrath it....Get it? Embrace with a th....like I have a lisp. Ya, okay, moving on.

Then there is Molly, she doesn't have this weird underbite in real life, she just was a little confused at my desire to shove a camera in her face. Her swim suit was to die for cute, it had that ruffle factor going on, makes you wanna squeeze cheeks and cuddle with the cute baby wearing it. She is a doll and we love her, she gets attached to people and never leaves their side.

And this doll is Halle. No way you can't pick her up and kiss her and shake her making sure she is real, because she is so cute. No stinkin way. Especially when she does this..

Goodness, look at those teeth, and those cheeks, and those eyes....I need a baby to stare at. Because this is unreal. If you are a mom out there, did you crave babies before you had one? And after you had one?

I'm an addicted craver. Then I look at my bank account, years left in school for Brad, and say...there will be plenty of time for babies. But I still crave them, addictively.

Mother Hannah, I just hope I look as good as she does after three girls.

Father Jeremy. He's a dentist. So they all have picture perfect teeth. Brad and I can't afford the dentist, so its been awhile.....new topic.

You know, I have lots of nieces, and don't feel I love these nieces more than the others, by no means do I. I love them all the same.

This is Sophia. She is Tanner's baby. I love her, and so does Brad apparently, because when she fell in I said. BRAD! She fell in! GRAB HER!! And she was grabbed immediately by Brad. Amanda is her mama.

So, I promise my nieces are the greatest thing. You just have to experience them, but don't think I left out my favorite toddler...

Faith, my sister. She's 3 now. And thinks she owns the world.

But this is about my nieces, so get your own blog post Faith. 

Oh, and my other needy friend.

Brad. Can't you see him? With that adorable tube that makes him nerdy? Well there he is.