Its Just a Famliy Tradition

12 year old Jordan walked into his baby sister's room last Saturday. Kaylen looked at him and said, "I wish you'd get the fuck out my room!"

This is the same child that grew up raising the roof from the highchair!

Family life, remember those days? Jordan came home last week and told his mom that he was gonna get hair (down there!) and he may wake up some mornings with wet sheets, but its nothing to be embarassed about...its normal. Kim looked at Jaimie after hearing the story and said, "Wait till you find rolled up tube socks under the mattress."

God they grow up so fast! One minute you're holding them as babies, changing their stinky diapers and heating formula up in the microwave, and singing them to sleep. The next minute they're off to middle school, getting zits and developing extremely huge attitudes.

My father is extremely goofy. When he was a child, he wanted to change his name to Thundercloud. But he couldn't spell it! They were going to a party the other weekend and he pulled out the cologne he wore before he even met Momma! Can you say stale? Momma and Caleb ragged on him, so on the way down the road, he wiped it off with Chlorox wipes! You think its weird, I think...you have no idea!

This is the same man that holds some sort of record for chugging a pitcher of beer in less than a minute....yes, stupid redneck man. He hit a washer on the side of the road back in his drunk driving stage and ran into a pond and got stuck...Momma had to get a hitch and the boys had to come pull him out.

My brother has developed a huge appreciation to cooking shows. He spends hours at a time watching the grilling channels in hopes of one day giving Emerald a run for his money :) He skipped school one day, we got home to find him outside in his underwear...he'd been grilling all day!

Jill hates mice more than anything! She had a heard move into her house a few years back. She had one in her kitchen and called her brother John to come over there to kill it. So she ran to the bedroom gagging, as he's in the kitchen hitting the mice with a baseball bat. You think that's bad? You better be on the phone with PETA because weeks later, one jumped in her trashcan. She tied the bag and hurriedly ran out the house, she laid it on the ground and over the bag a few times with the car!

This guy that aunt b knew when he was a child was at one of the football games drunk as a skunk. I looked at her and whispered, "I cant believe he's going to get behind the wheel after that!" My aunt smiled and her tone was all seriousness, "Why dont you ask him if you can take him home." ....apparantly age is just a number! However, 27 is a little old for me, even if he is on the attractive side.


I listen to music--a lot! The other day I was in the bedroom singing my heart out. Dad and Caleb busted through the door with lighted matches....I looked at them really funny and they claimed, "We're here for the concert!"

Jason let some guy borrow about $40.00 months ago. We went to visit yesterday and he was all riled up about it....all of a sudden he gets a smirk on his face but of all seriousness and claims, "Id go take the bastards lawn mower if he didnt have that huge ass rotwaller!"

Y.O.U C.A.N.T P.I.C.K Y.O.U.R F.A.M.I.L.Y

Music is life <3

I can turn on a sad song and cry for hours. Music is life, Ive fully decided. I think my best thoughts, do my best writing and cry my angry blues according to song. Believe me, I may not know the words, but I'll mumble my heart out.

Ive been through all the stages, (yes, even Gangsta Rap) but always come back to my country roots. I cant resist it.

If I love you, I'll sing to you, so be ready. If Im drunk, you might just get a better show ;) But dont remind me, I know my voice will shatter mirrors.

Its kind of scary but the other day I watched the Heartbreak Kid and you know his nightmarish wife? Well I think Im just like her. Theres a scene where they are traveling and she seriously sings the whole way--every different kind of genre of music...so that's me to a T. So dont worry, I know its annoying.

I cant stand to listen to one station for more than a couple minutes...they run every single song right into the ground, but dont worry, my hands are like the speed of lightening...before you can barely hear the words to the song, I will have turned the dial!

I’m pretty sure that if you took a bigillion pieces of different songs and mixed them up in a big purple bowl, you’d have me fit-to-a-T:

Beautiful Disaster explains my love for Momma’s lemonade and my hate for the sound of goodbyes made..and well John McLaughlin wrote it for me. And then there’s that Country Boys and Girls Getting Down on the Farm…well in our case it’s the Brooking Residence. Haha! Take that line, “Someday maybe somebody will love me like I need, someday I wont have to prove all my worth” from the Wreckers..minus the Cigarettes. There’s that Clay Walker song sharing my heart’s song: me, “putting on my smile again, even though I had a bad day, doin this and doin that, always putting myself last. There’s just a whole lotta give and not enough take”. I agree with Mr. Atkins cause “we’re football flunkies, southern rock junkies crankin up the stereo, singin loud and proud to Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man and Curtis Leow.” And on a different occasion, “honesty, sincerity, tenderness and trust” are pretty important. Okay, so Bohemian Rhapsody, American Pie, and Hold On Loosely are just me cause I think I sing them daily.

The truth is, I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing, Sweet Emotion is a pain at times, and Hey Jude is imprinted in my soul. I’ll let you Catch My Disease, though I’m Lost In A Moment, and I think his Tractor is Sexy! I’m Livin On A Prayer and trying to Make Memories, and I know it’s More Than A Feeling, but I’m trying for Some Piece of Mind. I’m A Single White Female, lookin for some Kiss Kiss, but until then, I’ll just Find Out Who my Friends Are, riding around the Wal-Mart Parking Lot, and then head on Home. Sometimes I Hate Everything About You, cause you cause so much Pain, but we’ll survive in a Gangster’s Paradise! I Will Always Love You, Truly Madly, Deeply but sometimes I Swear that What I Want comes out a little Blurry.

Im a Down Home Girl, just wanting a Pickup Man, wanting nothing more than Just to See You Smile. I want to write a Message In A Bottle and Drive to the beach right now. I always have the Summertime Blues, my anthem might just be Tequila Makes her Clothes Fall Off, cause frankly, sometimes I'm a little Off My Rocker.

Drinking brings out the worse and the best of me. I like the feeling of not really caring what you think. Its nice to breathe that reliefy thought. I may dance crazy, not know exactly when to shut my big mouth and break a few glasses, but you can always bet there will be a smile on my face....."I may hate myself in the mornin, but I'm gonna love you tonight!"

OOh and to go with the drunkness...you might just see my crazy insane dance moves! Arent you in for a real treat ;o) Kind of like The Hamburger Patty! Thats right, you dont know nothin bout the hamburger patty! Maybe I'll bust it out for my birthday <3