Sunday Hike

    Jared had a great idea to go up the Natchez Trace on Sunday and look for a fun place to picnic and hike for our anniversary weekend. 

    We may never agree on how to pronounce the trace, so ya'll can call it what you want. I say Natchez as if the "a" was the same in gnat. So Gnat-chez. Jared says the "a" as knot. So Knot-chez. We've both agreed to just let the other person say it how they want :)

    Even though we didn't find a waterfall or creek or anything, we had a fun time driving part of the trace and we even stopped for a little hike! 

    There was a rest stop that had "creek" in it's name so we thought we'd check it out and saw a sign giving directions to a look out area that was only a half mile hike. We thought we'd check it out and began our journey. 

    Our outfits: I was in jeans, a tank top and a little sweater thingy. Jared was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, so he was more prepared. But we both wore flip flops, not thinking we would actually go hiking. Hahaha next time we'll be more prepared!

    The hike was pretty fun. Not too bad, but I was happy to have brought a water bottle with me! The lookout wasn't anything too impressive because some big trees were growing and blocked most of the view. 

What you see behind us is pretty much all we could see :)

    We took a couple pictures on the way back because it is just BEAUTIFUL back there in the woods. 

 Jared is such cute stuff and the blue shirt looks nice amidst all the green :)

 Just beautiful scenery!

By the end I was dying! (And if I didn't know 100% that I was sticking out my stomach, I'd think I was gaining weight!)

    We had a great time and think it'll be great when we go hiking in in the fall. Hopefully it'll cool down so we can enjoy hiking more! I'll start working out a little bit so I can get back into shape! Thinking back to BYU days and having to climb the stairs on the south side of campus and the RB stairs of pain, I have no idea how I did it!

My Reviews

    So with Netflix, Jared and I are able to watch lots of TV shows from the first season to determine if we even like them. 

    We've watched shows like Parks and Recreation, Bones, 24 and many more. My mom came for the fourth of July weekend and introduced us to a new show, which we know love. 

    Flashpoint - this is a cool show about a team of people who respond to situations that involve negotiating. Like hostage situations. Jared and I really enjoy watching it, even though it is sometimes sad/depressing at the end. There is not a happy ending every time. But my Mom got us into it and we think we'll keep watching. 

    Parks and Recreation - we finished the seasons on Netflix and can't wait for the next season to be put up! We absolutely love it and will sometimes watch re-runs or talk about episodes we thought were so funny. 

    24 - it was a fun show, but we kept getting in trouble of staying up too late watching it. The hours always seem so short, so you want to watch the next episode as soon as one ends. Jack Bauer pretty much rocks. There are always a few characters though that we greatly dislike and often told Jack to just shoot the person...

    Bones - I love Bones, Jared doesn't really care for it. I think it is funny and entertaining and I learn things sometimes. I finished the seasons way faster than I wanted and I want the latest one to be put up so I can watch the first few episodes. 

    Monk - Jared has gotten into Monk and he really likes it. It's fun watching it from the beginning, but I've already seen some of the later season episodes, so I just watch to learn more about Monk. 

    American Pickers - This is about two guys who travel all over an area pretty much looking for other people's junk to sell. They find antique items in garages in backyards and buy them from the owners. It's fun to see what they find. Sometimes they buy something they think will be worth a lot when they sell it, but it ends up just being junk! That's fun.

    Arrested Development - What a funny show! Such a crazy family and their drama just cracks Jared and I up (well, I mostly crack up). 

    Lie To Me - We pretty much finished all we could with this show, as far as Netflix goes. It's about a guy who can tell by your face and mannerisms if you are lying or not. Human lie detector pretty much. He is hired to solve cases because he can get the whole truth from people, whether they like it or not. 

    These are all the shows I can think of. If I missed something, I'm sure Jared will tell me and I can put it in another post later on.

    We love our TV shows! Netflix is great for us!

Fourth of July! (recap)

    My mom came out for the weekend and it was AWESOME!!

    She got me the greatest present!! I have a strange love for gnomes that started in high school and I am working on collecting them...somehow...

We haven't named him yet. But if you can't tell, he's holding a football! We thought about naming him Jimmer, but that won't work with the wrong sport's ball...

    Saturday we went out to eat at Martin's BBQ Joint and it was soooo yummy! Jared and I had been before, but it was just as yummy the second time. I got the pulled pork, Jared got the ribs and Mom got the smoked turkey.

    Sunday was fun at church and the cookout we had went well! It was picnic style. We cut up half the delicious watermelon, got chips, defrosted the hamburger and got the cooler full of stuff to take to Pinkerton Park.

 This was our table. From the left over, there is a jug of water, ketchup, bbq sauce, container of corn, bowl of watermelon, my half eaten cob of corn, salt, pepper, butter for the corn. At the right, just out of the photo is a bag of lay chips.

    Jared made the best burgers! It was his first time grilling them outside and he did such a great job!

    The rest of the night was relaxing and we just had a good time together. We were full from dinner and decided to take a fun walk around the agricultural center to work off the food.

    On the fourth, we made an amazing breakfast! We had waffles, bacon and eggs. But the toppings for the waffles was what made it great! We had whipped cream, blue berries and strawberries! So they were red, white, and blue!

 This was my delicious blob :)

Jared made a flag. What a cutie!

    After a trip to Walmart to fill our cupboards and fridge and freezer and build our food storage and get a home improvement gift, we went to the mall!

Hooray a full fridge!!

Mom got us a table! Now we can have our cooler in storage. The table matches our other furniture perfectly and it looks great!!

    The Mall at Green Hills was pretty fun, not much I could afford, but there were some fun sales. Mom got some stuff for James because she's great.

    It was such a fun weekend. I absolutely love my Mom and I can't wait for her to come back again. It'll be even more fun if she can get the rest of the fam to come! James would have fun chillin by the pool and we would have fun eating out at cool places.