Road Trip Day 1 - Crescent City, CA

I'm currently on the road with my husband and Pomeranian driving back to Mississippi for the next ten days! Well, at this exact moment I'm in our hotel in Crescent City, CA trying not to fall asleep at 7pm. I wasn't planning on blogging the entire way but I think I changed my mind. It's so fun to document the trip this way so, each day (or every few days) I'm going to try and post some pictures from my phone and try to keep my mom posted on my whereabouts.

Yes, MOM - I'm alive - the cars are fine -Olive is fine - we ate and I brushed my teeth. 

For those of you who don't know - We have been living in Seattle for over three years now and while we love it - it just wasn't home. Mississippi has pulled us back with it's sweaty hands and surprisingly we are pretty HAPPY about it. I don't want to hear about why Mississippi sucks - it doesn't and if you think it does then move somewhere else. We are SO excited to get back home - plant some roots - and start a business. Anyways, currently we are on an 11 day road trip driving down the Pacific Coast Highway and then across the bottom of the country back to MS. Chad is touring which you can read about here and tomorrow we will be in San Francisco for the weekend! We aren't driving crazy amounts each day but instead taking our time and making a vacation out of it. This drive is something that I've always wanted to do and I'm so excited to get to do it! 

Now, time for some pictures and then I'm going to bed. Getting up at 4am SUCKS. 

I'm too lazy to turn this picture the right way so tilt your head to the left. Chad had the best idea EVER for the road trip: Walkie Talkies!!! We are each driving our cars and Olive is riding with me and these have been AMAZING so far. They are quick, fun, and make it feel like we are riding in the same car. Cell phones are so overrated. 

The drive today was from Kirkland, WA to Crescent City, CA  about 530 miles - it was absolutely beautiful. We left a little after 6AM and got to our hotel right after 3PM. These cell phone pictures are crap but I almost died taking them so you're welcome: 

We had been up since 4am - excuse the hot mess. I have no idea what face I was making... this could have been the moment Olive put my car in Neutral while going 60MPH though. Don't even start with me on the, "Put her in a carrier" debate. Everything was fine... nothing to see here.

 When she's not trying to kill us she's pretty dang cute. 

Once we got to Crescent City we unpacked and headed to the beach to watch the sunset. California has the best sunsets... I can't ever get enough of them.

Completely missed but you get the idea... 

That's a Lighthouse!!! I'm obsessed with Lighthouses in case you didn't know. After that I turned around and someone was enjoying the wind blowing through her hair. She was so stinking cute looking out into the ocean like that and then the next thing I know Chad picked her up and told her that, "Everything the light touches is yours."  

Too bad the Sun was setting. #Burn 

Up next: San Francisco, CA  

Weekend Photo Dump

My husband decided to take a bubble bath so I thought I'd whip up a quick little post showing you my weekend in pictures. Long story short: my last days at work were very bittersweet but lets be honest... being my own boss is a dream come true. It's about to be go time on some pretty exciting things. I can't wait to see what we can do. The movers came and everything went perfectly! I didn't have a meltdown and it took less than 3 hours. I am so THANKFUL for that. We are now "camping out" in our apartment. All of our possessions are gone and we have no TV to watch but strangely it's enjoyable. I never sit with just music playing anymore and I'm finally listening to the Serial podcast so it's been nice. 

My last work selfies,

On Saturday the movers came and picked up all our boxes and drove away.

How many boxes can you fit my life in? 61 Then I went to get my hair done one last time by the beautiful Breyana and on Sunday I had my last massage before the Seahawks game. Now, we have no TV in our house so what's a girl to do? Well, she goes to her apartment gym and eats Mini Reese's while sitting on the medicine ball watching the game. Hey, it was rest day and I had a few candies left from Friday night. The holidays are hard but everything in moderation still isn't that bad.



Oh and YAY for another WIN for the Hawks! #beastmode fa life.

Friday Things

What a crazy exciting week. I have to be honest and say that I think I had one of the BEST Monday mornings I've ever had in my life. We have been putting out some feelers to our friends and family in MS to find a decent two plus bedroom house to rent and last week I got a lead on my DREAM house. After a few phone calls and some praying we started playing the waiting game to hear if we would get this house. This house let me tell you goes BEYOND my wildest dreams. I saw it a year or so ago on the market for sale but we weren't in MS yet or ready to buy a house so, I moved along and prayed that God would lead us in the right direction when the time came. God listens. Oh my word the gratitude and humbleness I feel right now brings me to tears. So, Monday morning I woke up bright eyed at 5AM because I just couldn't wait anymore to find out if we would be getting into this house. I made myself leave the owners alone for the weekend so they would have plenty of time to talk everything out and come to a decision and it almost killed me. Well, not really but I just couldn't stop thinking about it. If we landed this house it would be the perfect match, the perfect timing, and we wouldn't have to live with any of our relatives in January! I admit I was looking forward to living with Chads Grandmother for a few weeks but it always feels better to get your own place and have your own things at your finger tips. Long story short - WE GOT THE HOUSE!

I am still in shock really at how quickly this happened and how perfectly it all lined up. It gives me the same feeling I had when we moved up to Seattle - things just fell into place and everything felt RIGHT. It's moments like that when I know that God is driving our life and all of our choices. Only He could smooth out a path like this and bless us with everything we have worked and prayed for. I know that we are making the right move; I know we are doing what He is calling us to do and I will keep putting all my faith into Him for the rest of my life. I am so thankful - all the glory goes to God!

In other news this week (which so isn't as important as the above) I worked out a lot - had my last work Happy Hour with my amazing team - went out with my kickboxing family to say the dreaded goodbye (more on that Monday) - and mailed off our Christmas cards! It's been busy and this weekend is going to be crazy too. *More on that next week.

It's our last two weeks in Washington and we are going to make the most of it.

Now, some interesting things to look at:

1. 17 Badass Women You Probably Didn't Hear About in 2014

2.  I basically do Adriana Lima’s diet - Well not the Victoria Secret runway show prep part but the normal diet part. Low-Carb lovers unite!



She likes boxing too! We are twins.
 
3.  20 Nutrition Facts That Should Be Common Sense but they aren't READ IT!

I hate it when people tell me not to eat eggs.... #eatalltheeggs ! 

4. 39 Renaissance Babies Who JUST CAN'T EVEN!

* Articles 2 & 3 I saw because of my friend Theresa's page. If you're on Facebook you should LIKE her wellness page where she shares all kinds of GOOD info. She is a Registered Dietitian at Lifetime Fitness in Arizona and I trust what she puts out. She's also beautiful and sweet so if you're looking for advice about nutrition from someone that went to school for it contact her.

Baaa-Nanas!

I've been watching a marathon of my favorite nutcase today in order to catch up for the Finale tonight!

I absolutely love this woman even though she is wayyyyy too tiny in my opinion but I think her having the baby really helped her. She has never looked more beautiful and let us not forget that I Love Love Love her fashion style and her husband is the cutest thing ever. Even though he makes a fuss that she wants to dress the baby in matching outfits to him once a week, haha SO CUTE!

Look at that stink face, and those diapers are probably vintage.

 Damn babies.

I think Rachel Zoe would approve of my outfit for unpacking the apartment after the movers left last week. My dear friend Kerri got married a few years ago and I found this Gem of a bridesmaid dress in one of the first boxes I unpacked and had to put it on.

Granted its been 4 years almost and it is now to big (yay!) but never the less fabulous:

Haley also found an old Halloween wig... We look Baa-Nanas right Rach?!

The next morning CK wasn't feeling well so Haley, my mom, and me went out on the town to see the sights. It was pretty fun realizing that I was showing them my town now...I'm a less that 48 hour local didn't ya know!?

B-Boppin around has Haley would say

Love this fountain CK & I saw it the first time we came to town years ago and little kids were running down into the water then running out. Should be quite a fun place this summer.

Such a pretty day

Spending time with those two ladies makes me very happy.

Now I'm sad looking back on these pictures realizing they are gone. Wahhhh!

PS. Aren't we lovely when we shower and put makeup on!

Later that night we headed to the grocery store and couldn't decide what we wanted for dinner. We eventually made up our minds and the first "meal" that I cooked in our new apartment was grill cheese and soup! Campbell's of course because I was still to tired/lazy to make anything from scratch - vegetable for them and chicken noodle for me.

It was just what the doctor ordered.

Now, Shut it down.

Welcome Home

Getting to Seattle at 5am has its perks.

The city is absolutely beautiful early in the morning and even though I was still passing in and out I was excited when I was awake to be in my new home with my cars. It's just crazy to think that we drove our cars across the country and they were not going back to Mississippi.

 We rolled up to J's apartment and I'm sure he questioned himself as to who were these ugly, exhausted, scary looking people? Surely they weren't the friends that he once knew. Oh J, it's us in all of our 24 hour driving glory! We went upstairs and promptly all tried to go to bed but the Road Dog Olive was wide awake and ready to play. She was such and amazing road dog the whole trip and basically slept the entire time so of course when we got out of the car she was ready to run a marathon. My response to this was 3 hours of TRYING to sleep and then finally giving up and getting up to get ready and head to our new apartment. We basically got NO sleep but we were running off of excitement and headed off to get all of the paperwork finished so we could get in our new apartment. After all of that was said and done we had arrived and then they told me that we could paint our walls. Really? I can PAINT. Seriously? Okay I haven't slept in 35 hours but this sounds fabulous-Mom, GPS the nearest home depot right now! I am such a evil and sick person to make them paint a few accent walls in my new apartment after no one has had any sleep. I still can't believe no one refused; everyone just went along with it... and then in the middle of the painting I crumbled and fell apart crying asking WHY did I do this to us... WHY!?

Unloading the cars

Why yes, those are the same clothes and the same dirty faces.

And then I made everyone paint:

This was when I started crying and my mother thought she would cheer me up by painting "Baby making room" on the wall. I just cried harder...I'm not ready for kids Sharon!

 I love how I'm crying like a baby and everyone writes sweet I love you's to me on the wall.. really people I've torchered you all day long, all week long, and you are trying to cheer me up!? My family and friends spoil me.

Later that night we went back to J's to let the paint dry,to sleep in beds, and of course hang out with the coolest guy ever! After a fun night at J's the next morning our movers came and unloaded all of our shit -also, let me just state that these guys were AMAZING! I can't even begin to explain how awesome they are and if they read this  I LOVE YOU! (Hey, It's possible we are Facebook friends now)

Sharon Supervising

Greg unloading my 100lb boxes in to the apartment.

Bedroom

We are all just praising Jesus that we didn't have to carry everything upstairs and looking fabulous.

"We did it!"

Whoops the lotion exploded in the bag. No problem we will just make a lotion cup.

And then came Haley's whole reason for coming.

Making sure that we are properly protected and that if a killer tries to get us we can Mace him!

The Knights are Home!

Until Next time....



A Road Trip to Remember

I'm Back!!!

Road Trip Picture Recap:

I'm a little to lazy to type up a huge story that consisted of our Road trip across America so I'm going to picture blog your minds off and hope that it satisfactory. If not...tough tacos. 

After our Taco Johns night we woke up the next morning and went to the gym then got ready for our next day on the road. Haley and I decided that we would dress like weirdos for this leg of the trip so that meant leg warmers and Batch Tshirts that have the most horrendous picture of my husband (before I met him) on the back with a caption that says, "Would YOU Marry this guy?!" Total Class

Good Morning Nebraska!

Then we drove into our next state:

and proceeded to drive past this sign about half a mile and then stopped and walked down the interstate to get these pictures. A cop also pulled up and asked us if we were okay...maybe it was the outfits?

Our attempt at a JUMP picture!

Walking back to the car....

Then Haley made me hold her hand haha

Our next stop was an upscale little joint known as "Cowboy Town"



Were they had the creepiest anomatronic things..this gigantic monkey played piano and sang. We all thought we were about to end up in a horror movie and get murdered so we decided to leave asap.

Group shot with the self portrait option on my camera...

The next random adventure we had in SD was at The Corn Palace!

Check out their website HERE for all the cool info on this building Made of corn...for real.

We were way to excited about everything CORN that day.

 After that we headed to Rapid City, SD for the night and stayed in the cutest little hotel ever. I didn't take any pictures of it sadly but they had heat lights in the bathroom and they were RED. I felt like I was at a night club and had intentions of doing a photo shoot in those red lights...alas that never happened.

However, we did wake up the next morning and went to the hotel gym (SCORE working out while driving across the country) and then got ready for our day exploring Mt. Rushmore and driving out to see Devils Tower. *Notice: Who the hell in their right mind works out before going to Mt. Rushmore!? I'm an IDIOT. I only ran 1 mile and did some arms, abs, and legs but then we climbed a damn Mountain. I was cursing myself the whole way up but my ass got a GREAT stair workout let me tell you.*

They were HUGE.... insert "that's what she said joke"

We decided to do FULL makeup this day. (well not CK)

Lovely ladies

We did a little rock climbing too

We climbed the Mountain and they were all over it. lol

Then it was onward to Devils Tower and another State sign picture opportunity!

Hello Wyoming

Hello double chin... bitch.

The wind was blowing like CRAZY so Haley had to help a sista out.

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Now back to Devils Tower:

If you don't know what it is I'm ashamed of you.

Remember a little movie classic "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Olive was just excited to get out of the car for this one.

My Momma really wanted to see this even though Aliens FREAK me out.

What's one of my biggest fears?

 Get ready to judge me but I am terrified of getting abducted.

Scares the beegeezus out of me just thinking about it.

It was really fun to see it in person though... I remember watching that movie with my mom and dad when I was little never thinking one day I'd get the chance to see it in person. Let alone I had no idea where it was until last week haha.

Now cue the Holy Crap we see UFO'S photo shoot with Momma.

Hahah I love this woman.

I guess it runs in the family.

That's all for tonight! I'll catch you up on HELL DAY tomorrow. Let me just say I'm an idiot and made us drive 1030 Miles in one 24 hour day. Up a snowing/ice covered Mountain, through Yellowstone National Park, and then ALL the way to Seattle, WA. They should have killed me.