Nashville, Tennessee!

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE!

Nashville, Tennessee! Yee- Haw! Got all our western wear packed up and we were off!!! Oh! Nashville you were good to us!!! We did a quick little couples get away with our Bestie Shayla and Cris for Shayla's 40th Birthday!!!! We have talked about getting away as couples for the last year and finally decided that this was all the birthday girl wanted to do for her big birthday!! Birthday girl Shayla picked out our destination and we ran with it!! Omg did we ever run through that town! lol Non stop fun, music and food thanks to our Tour Guide Ken - Honz! lol Honz is the absolute best! Always researches before traveling to new places! Puts in the leg work and time to pull off a successful amazing trip! Thanks honz! We had the time out our life!!!

Thursday evening! Taking flight! and of course our plane was delayed! lol Always with Southwest! But that's ok more time to spend together! lol Honz took that time to Win and extra $300!! Wahoo! Always lucky and always winning! So funny!

We made it!!! We arrived at 1am!! lol  and already snapping pics!!! We were off to a great start! We were down on Broadway already eating as soon as we landed! lol Thanks Cris for picking us up! He was traveling from Kentucky where he was doing training!  The downtown Broadway is a mini Vegas! That's for sure! So many photo opps too! It was amazing! Never stopped clicking the pics too!

Friday- Fit Check! lol Spent most the day finding all the hot spots for eating and shopping! Started with an appetizer and the yummiest donut place! The breakfast before breakfast! lol 

Shopping and eating! lol We shared all our food so we could keep eating all day! We just needed to try all the different places everyone raves we should go too and took a pic at every place too! lol So many cute fun photo opps! We were loving it! Stopped in German town and ended up eating Asian food! That place was delicious too! Random but delicious! lol

More fun photos! and of course more eating delicious amazing food! Weather for the most part was beautiful but on Friday it was cold because of the wind! We walked on shopped! We were on 12th st this day for the shops! 

Friday evening we got tickets to the Grand Ole Opry! Before going we took a small break at our hotel! When we walked in there was live acustic music playing! Only in Nashville! These to men were incredible! We enjoyed the live music for a couple hours! It was so amazing! We loved it!

Grand Ole Opry here we come! This is a must! So historic! We watched a show of several artist and it was amazing! We absolutely loved going to Nashville this time of year! All the amazing Christmas lights was everything! Every store front boutique had a Christmas display! Love it! After the show we walked over to the Gaylord Hotel! Now that was incredible! Prob the biggest Hotel I have walked into! There's a boat inside there that you can ride around in! Say what! lol Totally amazing! We loved walking around and taking it all in! All the Christmas lights and decor! It was beautiful! Before the night had ended we stopped at 10 different food places through out the day and this was only day 1!!! lol

Saturday- Fit check in the morning! We did this everyday in our hotel room! Our kids loved it! lol We got up earlier! We had to get our appetizer! lol Breakfast before breakfast of course! lol Honz had found a crepe place we had to try! We surprised Shayla and Cris with a crepe too! It was delicious! We headed to Franklin! We stopped at a cute little breakfast place and ate again! They had a cute gift shop too! That was fun!

On Saturday we spent the day in Franklin! Tennessee is beautiful! The country side! The rolling green hills! The fall colors of the changing leaves! Never seen red, orange , yellow leaves so bright colored! The southern homes! Huge gorgeous and tons of land! We were in "awe"!! We stopped at the Temple! So beautiful and peaceful! We were so excited to stop to see it! It was lovely! Then right onto shopping and more eating! lol

The main street in  Franklin was adorable! All the shops! The live music as you walked along! The boutiques were like in old house fronts! Shayla even spotted her friend from High Schools daughter just out playing on the street in front of Anthropology! That was so fun to meet the lovely young lady! She had the best personality and sang beautifully! Fun fact her dad is the one that paints the famous pic of Christ that most people have in their homes! His famous painting is reflections of Christ! How cool is that! I have always wanted that gorgeous pic of Christ walking on the beach and now I'm definitely getting it! She even called her dad and we all got to talk to him! lol Such a fun random moment and connection! Super cool!

It was a wonderful day seeing the sights of Franklin but it was time to get back to Nashville for our night life to begin! lol On the way back Honz found us a beautiful stop! Radnor Lake!! Absolutely stunning! We walked around! Took in the fresh falling leaf smell! Took a ton of selfies! and even spotted several deer that would come so close to us! Pure heaven! Just look at that reflection! Gorgeous! Fun stop Honz!

Oh the night life a Nashville!! Broadway was popping all day but at night with the lights all lit up it was definitely a mini Vegas! All the bars and live music in every bar was totally cool! Just lined right up 1 after another after another with some shopping places in between! This little strip was popping! Before we headed out for the night we got all gussied up! lol Live music in out Hotel yet again! Absolutely amazing! The vide is so good in Nashville! The people are so friendly too! We played cards in the lobby every night to enjoy the hotel live music and rest a bit! Then we were off to the dancing night life! My request the Morgan Wallen Bar and let's just say that bar did not disappoint! First walked in with the music blasting Morgan Wallen songs! Yes please! Worked our way to the stage and found ourselves a little table and chairs!

We literally planted our selves at that bar the entire night! Out comes Chris Bullard our live band for the evening! Holy Moly was he incredible! He sang, screamed and performed for a solid 3 hours! He did cover after cover! County songs and Rock n Roll Songs! It was Litty! lol I even had a 21 boy ask to dance with me! hahaha! Still got it Honz! lol We laughed and laughed about that! Of course I danced with him!! You know I'm all about the fun!! Chris crushed it! Hit after hit! This was by far the highlight of our amazing trip! After the incredible concert we walked over to the Assembly food hall! Tons of food places and shopping! Basically a fancy food court with delicious food! Such a variety and it was all so yummy! We would all get different things and just try it all! lol Yum!

Sunday- Happy 40th Birthday Shayla!! Final fit check! Out last day in Nashville! We checked out of our amazing hotel! 10 out of 10! The Fraye was good to us! Or course we had to start off with our appetizer! We went back to out first donut shop! The breakfast before breakfast! The went back to Broadway and walked, shopped and ate! Broadway was already popping! The live music was already going!! Day time fun! lol We stopped and ate Sun Diner restaurant for 2nd breakfast! lol Oh man the flavors here! This was the best! Delicious! 

We had a blast exploring Broadway in the daylight! And we definitely got out shop on! New boots for all! lol We bar hopped for the live music! Amazing! Each band so different but so good too! Loved seeing my Cashy boi name everywhere! For Johnny Cash of course! They had a whole store of just his name! We had to get some souvenirs from the Johnny Cash store just for our Cash!! Fun fact when I was pregnant with Cash and told my dad we were naming our boy Cash he would always make the statement- "Name him Johnny Cash!! or Cash Johnny after me and my favorite artist growing up!"lol My dad loved Johnny Cash! So it was very sentimental to see all the Johnny Cash street signs, museum, bar and gift shop! Thought of my daddy! Love it!

Walked back over to the Assembly Food Hall for more amazing food! We got different foods again to keep trying it all! lol Shopped around! The Christmas vibe was so good! The photo opps were endless! We took a ton of pics as you can see! lol

One last stop before heading back to the airport! Shayla remembered she had a friend from High School that moved to Nashville to pursue her music career and looked her up on Instagram and discovered she was performing at a bar just a mile away! How cool is that! Of course we went to listen to her! It was so fun to meet her! She is an incredible artist! Writes all her music and has an unbelievable voice! That was a fun last minute stop!

All amazing things must come to an end and you know I hate when the party ends! Back to the airport to catch out flight back home! We of course ate again! lol Had to try the famous Hattie B's Hot Chicken! It did not disappoint! It was our last food stop before we boarded the plane! 

Made it home in the middle of the night! lol What an unforgettable and incredible trip together! We had the absolute best time traveling with our besties! It is a must we travel again together! We know the Birthday girl had the most memorable 40th Birthday ever!! Definitely one of the most memorable trip for Honz and I! We love our besties!!!! Nashville, Tennessee you did not disappoint!

The kids loved all their surprises we brought home to them! They were such great kids the whole time we were away! A huge thanks to Chad and Madison for taking such amazing care of our 3 littles! They spoiled them and played non stop! It made being on vacation with my Honz so much easier knowing my kids were with the very best!!! We love you Chad and Madi!

 

November Wk 3!

The Wks are flying by and we are already half way through November! Here's Wk 3 of November! Little Miss Piper!!!! She had a busy fun wk at school! She saved up all her dojo points to turn in to read to the class! How cute she wanted to spend her points on reading! Love her! She did a fabulous job too and she's already saving points to read again to the class! She loved it! Hang outs with little besties and even started a gymnastics class with her favorite little bestie from cheer, Charlee!!! They had such a blast tumbling together! It's Piper's new favorite thing of the wk! Piper is always eating! lol Love that about her! She is a foody girl and loves to try anything at least once! My 2 oldest are not like this! lol She also did a fun activity in class for the Thanksgiving Parade! She got to design her own Balloon!  Can you guess her design!!! It's Me! Her mama! Love it so much! The glasses! The blonde hair! The cheetah heart shirt! I'm also very tan! Clearly its my self tanning look she made! lol Love her inspo! lol Too funny! Love my baby so much! Made my whole day to see this!  

Cashy Boi! We finally celebreated him for getting his Great American! We let him pick where he wanted to go to dinner! He picked Saparo the revolving sushi place! It was delcious! We also gave him $200 for all his hard work  and determination! It's tough getting everything passed off and her did it under 2mons! He was also the 1st one to pass off in his 2 rotations of students and the #5 in the entire 5th grade of students! Wahoo! Way to go Cashy Boi!!! We are all so excited for you!! 

My Lucky Penny! She's always moving and shaking! She had a ton of stuco this wk! Several activities after school the entire weekend! She loved it! She loves being so involved at her school! Pizookie Tuesday is always a hit! She had missed the last 2 wks so she was happy to get with her friends and go again! So grateful for Maddie and Sadie! She loves when they come and pick her up and take her out to shop and hang out! These 2 girls' are so sweet to her! She 100% looks up to them! I'm so grateful they are such great amazing examples to my Penny! Lot's of hang outs and fun always for Penny!

 

November Wk 2!

 

This is by far our most packed week of them all! lol Started with  Monday off for Veteran's day! and If you know me when we get a day off we play!!! lol That's just what we did! Played with  my bestie Shayla and her kids! Had lunch together! Then tried to go bowling but it was a league day and couldn't' get lanes! Such a bust! So we decided to go play at Sky Zone! They had a blast! Oh we have also begun watching all the Christmas movies too! Love this time of year!

Veteran's day continue! More pics from the Sky Zone! Dinner with Shayla too back at her house! Penny ended her night hanging with Brigham and friends by the fire! Just chilling! Such a great day off!

We were back at it at the school! Piper had her Cheer Banquette the next evening! Yay! Congrats Piper to an amazing Flag Football season! She loved getting her award and seeing her cutest little friends! After the banquette Daddy took them for ice cream! Spoiled them! lol Now we are onto Basketball Season! Go Eagles!

While Honz was finishing up at the Cheer banquet and taking the kids to ice cream I was throwing a Surprise 40th Birthday Celebration with Lyndsey for my Bestie Shayla! We never pull off a surprise on her! lol and boy did we get her! The whole evening was so much fun! Owe it all to Lynsey! I'm just the added helper! Lyndsey did it all! We loved celebrating our girl! She is 1 in a million and I' so lucky to have her in my life and to have her as my bestie! She is everything amazing and then some! Happy 4oth Shayla! We love you!

and then these 2 were loving all the photo prop backdrops and had a mini photoshoot! lol l\Love my girls!

Penny with her bestie Lizzie! These 2 have been inseparable for a few wks now and I'm loving it! We are so grateful that Lizzie came into Penny's  life! She is so awesome! Little selfie with Penny and Cris at the youth activity! and Brigham and I! We had to take a selfie together to send it to Penny! She loved her mid day pic of Brigham! :) 

Oh Man my cutest Cashy had a huge wk!!! He had his Flag Football Banquette! He loved getting his medal and award! So proud!!! Drum Roll Please!!!!!!! You are looking at our newest Great American at our school! Yes you read that right! He passed off all the crazy requirements in less then 2 mons! There's 6 different requirements that all require lots of memorization!  Wahoo! He's #5 out of all the 5th grade students to get it! He's #1 in her 2 class rotation to get it! Wahoo! Man is he dedicate and determined once her gets his mind to it! Fun Fact when he received the Great American packet at the beginning of the school year he told me he wasn't doing it! Then the school started a Great American club where you go and practice learning the different requirements! I signed him up with out telling him until the club started! lol He went and had a blast! He loved going and practicing and it totally motivated him! He quickly began to pass each thing off 1 by 1! We are extremely proud of him! He is the Greatest American we know! We love you Cashy! Another fun fact: see the belt? He put that on on the day he passed off the last requirement for good luck! It's her red white and blue belt with flag and eagle! It was the best good luck charm! You did it!!! #5!

Friday Night lights for our Varsity Arbor View boys!!! Of course Penny was there for stuco and always has a blast with all her stuco friends and besties! I love sitting in the stands with my bestie too! lol Arbor took the WIN and became the Public school Champions in their division! We are off to Allegiant Stadium for the State Championship Varsity Football Game! We can't freakn wait! Go Aggies Go!

Yes our business went into the weekend! lol On Saturday this little beautiful angel had her Baptism pics taken! This is just a sneak peek! lol Oh little Piper! Cant' believe she will be 8 so soon and be baptized! Wow times flies! She's absolutely perfection!

We had a wonderful peaceful morning walking the temple grounds with beautiful Piper all dressed in white! It was a bit chilly but thankfully no wind! She stuck it through! We can't wait to get the professional pics from the Amazing Amy Rhodes! We sure love out little Piper! 

Last but certainly not least the bff Decker's hosted a Friends-giving! We had so much fun! We laughed until we were crying! Ate delicious food and laughed into the late night playing games! My sisters Auntie Eryn and Auntie Joanna surprised us at the house! It was a fun quick little visit! The kids loved seeing her! I finally got Ruby into the groomers! lol She was way past due! lol And the groomer place sent me the cutest pic of Ruby posing! lol Such a fun text surprise! Oh and can't forget Sunday Funday! lol Alright Nov Wk 2 that's a warp! Such a busy eventful week! lol It's only going to get busier here on out through this Holiday Season! 

Wk 1 of November!

Election Day! As you can see the highlight of the week was the Election! We were definitely ready to make America Great Again! Go MAGA! We are incredibly thrilled with the results! Go Trump Go! #47! So proud of our new President! God Bless America! So grateful to live in this beautiful country! I was decked out head to toe to go to work! Everything but the hat of course! lol Penny surprised me with a Trump bracelet she made! Cash had his Trump bracelet he made last time Trump was in office! :) and I even had my little besties surprise me with another Trump bracelet! They know me too well! It was a spectacular day! 

We bought a new Christmas tree! White Flocked one this time! Over the weekend I had put up all my Christmas and sadly there were several strands out in my tree! It was time! The tree was as old as Penny! So it got wonderful use and time for a new one! So excited for my new flocked tree! 

Penny making bracelets and hanging with friends! While The littles and I had work  on election day Penny had no school! She had so much fun with her friends! Played all day! Gpa Jeff stayed with us all week while his house in Cedar was finishing up and closing! We had such a fun week spending time with Gramps! And do u see the hamper pic? That's Piper sitting in the hamper watching her shows! lol We were looking all over for her in the house and stubbled across her just chilling in the hamper! She is the funniest! She has alwasy done silly things like her whole life! Love it! 

Pick up selfies of Penny! Still doing this everyday! Love her little high school face! Still can't believe she's a freshmen! I seriously get spoiled by students at school! So remember my trump besties in the first collage! The next day they brought me an early Christmas gift! Christmas earrings! They know just what I love! Earrings! These are candy cane hearts! They spoiled me and totally made my day!

Firday night lights!! Arbor is in the football playoffs! Wahoo! So here is Penny having a blast working the game with stuco friends and her besties! I also enjoyed the game with my bestie Shayla! Her son -my favorite Ethan got moved up from freshman team to Varsity to play in the playoffs! Way to go Ethan! He even got some playing time! We were so hyped for him! Arbor took the Win and we are moving on! 

Then after the game Penny got invited to see the speedway lights with her besties! Girls night out to see Christmas lights! Since it's so early there was no one there so they were able to stop the car and get out and take pics! They had a photoshoot! So cute! She had a blast! The pics are so adorable! 

Well the week is still moving and shaking! on Saturday we ran up to Cedar to see Gramps new house and help him move in! We are so excited for his new adventure! He's going to love in Cedar! Too cold for me but such a beautiful place! It was so fun to have some cousin time too! Just a quick day trip up to help and  back! Such a fun day with Gramps! He loved us there! 

Sunday Funday!! Cash has been taking gold lessons and coach moved him up to a more advanced team! Way to go son! Today Cash played the course for the first time with his new team! He loved it! He was on fire too! Cranking and cracking that ball! Daddy had a blast out there with Cashy too! They had a great afternoon together! Love my family! Such a great wk! 

 

The Happiest Halloween!!

It was a Halloween success!!! The whole day was spectacular! Here's this year costumes from our home! Penny's 1st up!! You can Fly! You can Fly! You can fly! The Beautiful Wendy with her perfect Peter Pan Brigham! We are all obsessed with these two in these costumes! They are so dang cute! I had to do a mini photoshoot! lol They are both such good sports to put up with me and all my pics! lol We even looked up inspo poses online for the pics! lol This is their 3rd year in a row dressing up together for Halloween! They are just the best! They had the best time as Wendy and Peter Pan! These 2 make me so happy!

You got a friend in me! The gang's all here!!! My Cashy was the best Woody and his friend group were the rest of the characters from  Toy Story!! Like I can't!! How freakn adorable are they! I must say my Cashy was a freakn good Woody! lol He had been so excited all month to dress up as Woody and be in  a group costume with his friends! Absolutely love this friend group!!! We couldn't stop taking pics of all them! Jessie was Pilar! Slinky dog was Janie and Ellsie! Buz was Noah!

Who's the baddest of them all! My little Piper was Mal from Descendants! She is so dang cute! Spunky and sassy! Fit this character perfectly! lol She loved that purple wig! Penny even gave the wig the perfect cut and shape to make her look more like Mal! Great job Penny the fresh cut looks  great!

Can you guess what I was!!! lol That's right! A Minion! lol Our whole SPED team dressed up as Despicable Me! We had Gru! Vector! Banana! and even Dr. Nefario! and all the rest were Minions! It was such a fun day! Vector was everything!!!! Michelle was next level with  the Vector costume! So freakn awesome! 

Love my people! Such a fun busy day at the school! Halloween is so much fun!

Parade time! Love the cute school parade! The elementary kids come parade around in the Halloween costumes for admin, teachers, middles school and high school students! The Tory Story Gang was a hit! Everybody loved them! I just could not stop taking pics of them! lol

Parties and Parade for Piper too! She had the best day as Mal! I could spot that purple wig a mile away! lol It was electrifying! She had such a fun  day! 

As soon as school was out it was time to get all ready again and head out for the night!!! Brigham tagged a long with us for the night and we all loved it! He is such a good time! Super chill and just goes with the flow! Fits right in with all our craziness! lol

We went some where new  this year to trick or treat and had a freakn blast! Cash made the plan to be with his Toy Story friend group to trick or treat! So we just joined in with him! lol Thank you Andera and family for an Incredible night!  Delicious food and yummy treats! Full  size candy bars too! We all had a blast! 

These little Toy Story friends had a blast! They tore the streets up getting all the candy! Then Woody and Jessie ran off to the haunted house on whispering sands and loved it! It scared them so bad but loved the thrill! lol They had the best time! Then went back up with the rest of the toy story gang and hung out! Cash had non stop fun! Living his best life!

Piper trick or treated Andrea's entire community! Oh my! She collected the most candy out of her siblings! lol She had a blast walking around with her friend Brooks and all the rest of the kids! There was even a vending machine at one house that you got your candy from! She loved it! Full size candy bars over here people! lol Then got back to the house and began sorting it all out! She even shared quite a bit with Cashy! She such a sweet girl!

After eating and trick or treating with the littles I took Wendy and Peter Pan to meet up with their friends! The teens!!! and they know how to have good clean fun! Penny always has so much fun with her Brigham and friends! Crammed into Ava's golf cart and hit the streets up trick or treating! She had a blast! So much laughter and screaming as they took off in the golf cart! lol Then chilled at Ava's house to complete the night! 

Now that's a wrap! One extra busy Halloween day and night! More Halloween memories in the books! It was a such a great day!