Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

1st Annual Mom/Daughter/Aunts/Cousins Weekend

Nashville, TN

03/28/08-03/30/08

Mom, Ashley and I

Mom and Aunt Janet

Mom and I

Kelly and I

The Cousins

From Left to Right:

Julie, Blake, Kelly and Ashley

Sorry it has been so long since my last blog! My oh my a lot has happened since Easter :) Could it be that Easter was only two weeks ago??

Well, I ventured off on my first "girls" trip for two whole nights away from my boys! This was my first real trip since Palmer was born! My Aunt Janet and cousins Kelly, Julie, my mom and Ashley all headed for a weekend in the capital of Country Music, Nashville, TN!!!!

Let's just say that the trip started off a little rocky! Mom's flight got canceled into Louisville on Thursday night so she rode up with my aunt and cousins from Florida on Friday. Ashley and I met them there where we stayed at the posh Lowe's at Vanderbilt Hotel!

We had a wonderful weekend of catching up that included many tears and a lot of laughs! It is so nice to have a close family! Every time we see each other it is has if no time has passed! We really didn't get to experience true Nashville sights due to poor weather, but we didn't care. We shopped, ate, talked and relaxed it was great!!

What wasn't great was the fact that my precious little "angel" was the carrier of the stomach virus!!! Tex took Palmer unknowingly infected to Owensboro to visit the Clark's and the Carts and then on Sunday to the Prather's (that graciously volunteered to watch him in the morning while Tex worked until my mom and I got home). Unfortunately Sunday the virus attacked first with Eric and Cannon then on to Lindsey and proceeded to catch up to Palmer, myself and now my poor mom who spent her whole trip in KY cleaning up after people with the stomach flu and or laying in bed with it herself! What a disaster! My deepest apologies to the trail of sickness that Palmer carried throughout different cities and into different households :) If you want to blame someone it was his best friend Max that started it!

So.... after 4 days of constant sickness we have stripped the sheets, lysoled the bathrooms, scrubbed the floors, and are ready for a fresh start for the weekend!!! Don't they say the first year in daycare is the worse? I am praying for that! We are almost done and I hoping that Palmer has the immune system of steel by the time all is said and done!!!

*** I have to give a shout out to my husband!!! He not only watched Palmer for 2 nights while I had a get away out of tow, which by the way he did a fantastic job!... but he has stayed up with Palmer and I for 3 nights of sickness helping along the way and in the morning drudging to work only to come home and do it all over again! He definitely deserves the husband/father of the month award! Thanks Tex for everything you always do for us with no complaints and the only thing you want in return is Ice Cream!