Thursday, August 18, 2011

Preparing for Vacation

So my dad and I are going on vacation together this year!! And we are going to HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW exciting!? We are going to the island of Kauai, which I have been to before. I'm SOOO very excited to have my dad go with me, as he has ALWAYS wanted to go somewhere tropical! We caught the flights on sale for SUPER cheap and couldn't pass the trip up.

So I've been trying to prepare for our trip by sort-of semi-scheduling our time to make sure we get to do the things we want to do. The only things we decided to do were go to a Luau and take a helicopter ride. So last week I scheduled our Luau with Smith's Garden Luau .

Colorful Tahitian costumes sway in time to the rhythm

and yesteday I booked our Helicopter tour with Mauna Loa Helicopter Tours!



Is this not GORGEOUS?! I'm so excited that I'm seriously beside myself! We are going on a 'doors-off' ride so I can't wait to share the pictures with you!!

I can't wait to go on vacation, but I surely do NOT want to wish the summer away. Summer is my FAVORITE time of the year and I wish it was summer all year long! :(  Oh well.....at least I have an awesome vacation to look forward!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

I'm still here!

I kinda fell off the blogging train for a bit (even though i had just started). I had so much going on in that noggin' of mine that I had to figure some things out. But all is going well around the Shrum residence. I have several blogs that I now like to follow and it amuses and amazes me to see their daily lives written out on to their blogs. I love it! I wonder where in the world they find the time to write all of that or remember it all, but I do love following along to see their journies in life. I imagine one day I too will have several followers who will read my daily/weekly journey if I ever slow down long enough to post about it. I do think it's so cool that these people can go back to their blog and read about things they did last week/month/year and be reminded of that great time. what a wonderful *memory* that I SO need to take advantage of. :) I'm gonna start working on it. Little by little.

So the memory for today will be this:
Jimmy sold his Pappy's tractor today. His grandfather used this tractor for gardening and since we don't have a garden Jimmy thought his grandfather would want him to put the tractor and money he received from it to better use. A couple from Louisiana that just moved in up the street bought it. I'm sure they will take care of it and hopefully Jimmy will be able to put that money towards a bigger tractor!

Teen Mom comes on tonight. I like that show, even though it is drama. At least it's not my drama. :) It's time for me to warm up my supper and stretch (i'm super sore from weights class last night) and watch TV. Something I really don't do a lot of.....and I like it that way.

Have a great night ya'll!