Carter Shane

Tell me that this boy is not adorable!!! This is my cousin's little boy. He's a bit younger than the trips, but bigger than them. Joanna (Andy's wife...oh, Andy's my cous) brought him over for a visit. When Jo comes over, the party begins. She is hilarious! She's a "take-it" or "leave-it" kind of gal. If you don't like something she says, than so be it. She's a Southern gal...maybe that's why she is such a pistol! Just to hear her voice say, "Carter Shane" in that southern accent is awesome! We all thought we had accents, but Joanna's is true southern.

We always talk about disciplining our kids & yadda, yadda, yadda. We talk about how we should all move back down south & just raise our kids the good ol' Southern way...playing outside, running barefoot, catching lightening bugs, eating from the garden and staying out until they hear us yell, "kids...it's time fer supper...get yer butts in here." Way before she or I got pregnant, we always talked about sitting down in the hollar, in the cabin, barefoot & eating ice-cream. Man, that would have been so nice. They will eventually be moving back down to Kentucky & I will be jealous.

While the kids were sitting at the table, we got talking about coffee...I can't remember why. We were talking about how people get woke up. She said, in true Joanna form,

"Screw the coffee...give me my Mountain Dew & Marlboro Ultra Lights" I love that girl!