Monday, January 25, 2010

Jessica

I am the luckiest girl ever. All within a months time I was able to spend a week with two of my favorite people ever!!! Right after Jenna left, my sister Jessica came to visit. It really was so much fun. I am soooo blessed to have wonderful sisters who are also my best friends. I absolutely love just being with them. It is hard to say goodbye but I'm so grateful to have been able to spend time together. Here is a little recap of our week together.
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My funnest story involved our attempt at a haunted midnight hike. Those of you who know me know that I love an adventure. Jessica had not had the opportunity to experience some of the wondrous animals we have here in the south. We were on a mission to find some. Most things around here are nocturnal so we figured we would hike around in the dark and find some. We made it all of about 10 feet down the path before we heard something and had to turn around for fear we may run into something like this...............
Perhaps a possum may drop on our head....................
What about running across one of these little cuties.....................Better yet how bout this big guy??? This is not pretend!! This is an actual pig killed in
in Alabama. He'd be a big surprise.
So our hike ended pretty abruptly when the reality of actually running into one of these things became a little scary. Maybe next time.............
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Another adventure was visiting Mikes Zoo Critters. Only in Alabama would you find someone who had a life long dream to start a random zoo and actually do it. It was a little bit back woods but it was really so much fun!!!!! I highly recommend it. You may never get a chance like this again!!!

This little monkey loves Diet Coke and Lays potato chips.

Feeding this little guy some chicken

He actually was not very little at all

Feeding a marshmallow to his grizzly mouth to mouth - YIKES

The boys loved loved loved holding these snakes


I succumbed to the peer pressure and held some little critters. I had to show my boys how cool I was. They were impressed and quite frankly I was impressed that I did not pass out.

This is probably my favorite picture of all time. Jessica was freaking out!!!! She looks like she may burst into tears at any moment. Take a look at her hand and tell me she isn't scared! This is a girl who jumps out of planes. Hard core....... nope.

Jess made a new BFF while staying at our house. Indy was attached to her like glue. It was pretty cute.
Like I said previously I am very blessed. I am a lucky big sister to have these amazing girls in my life. I'm not quite sure what I'd do without them!!!!!


10 comments:

Adam and Sherry said...

OK I have seen that picture of you and it still amazes me that you don't look more like Jessica ;) I am so glad they got to come see you!!! And yes you do have amazing sisters but they have a pretty amazing sister too!!!! LOVE YA!!!! Can't wait till either I get to come or you come home!! (we will work on both right)

The Walkers said...

No child of mine would EVER put a snake around her neck. I really could not even look at the picture. Sherry might have to explain this one becausse I can not even tpe about snakes!!!!!!

This Idaho Girl said...

I'm glad you turned back from that "hike" because those wild boars are mean.

It's a Wonderful Life said...

number one, ibetter be one of your favorite people and two you need to write a whole post just about how much you love me.

Dave and Natalie said...

o.my.heavens. the image of that pig may be the subject of my nightmares...that is freakish!! That does it...I'm not letting sherry ever come visit you...you'll just have to come here where we only have mountain lions, racoons, skunks, and sweet stuff like thst!!

Heather said...

You are one cool Mom!!! That pic of Jessica with the snake is hiliarious!!! I am a little sad though cause the boys already look older.

The Cook Clan said...

Oh My Gosh!! I cannot believe you held and snake and worse put one around your neck!! You are a brave momma!! Great pictures!! Family is the best, huh? =)

Liz said...

that midnight hike story totally reminded me high school. Only I think we would have ventured a little farther before running back in fear :) Hard to believe we used to do that.

Jessica said...

I am hard core. Snakes got nothin on me. I held that bad boy like a champ.

PS I am really missing you

thejencooper said...

Oh, I missed this post with Indy in it! So cute. I always scroll through to see if he shows up in a picture somewhere :)That puppy is such a lover! Your sister is adorable! Y'all are cute girls! Ok, um, I didn't know that there were freakishly huge pigs like that in Alabama...when we come back for captains career course I'm never going for a walk alone again! And I can't believe the SNOW!! That is CRAZY! I grew up in Washington State, and no joke, it took 10 feet of snow and a freak ice storm with freezing rain, that eventually knocked the power out, to finally close school! Even then, we actually went to school with flashlights for 2 days until they gave up and sent us home. Fun times. :) I love how everybody freaks out in the South about a little bit of snow. It's so funny!