It's about time I got back on here...

So I know I haven't blogged in about 4 months and I don't have an excuse for it. Anyway let me think back to my last post and see what has been going on. Savannah and Jared moved their wedding date to March...and nothing else really has happened...except me going to Ireland...but I will get to that later. So my dad has been having a major problem...his kidneys have started to fail...at the end of last year he went to the hospital for it, but they got it fixed...or so they said...but now he is having problems again...and he has been waiting for about a month to go see the doctor and I believe he finally gets to go see him either this week or next, so please pray for him. My mom has had this problem with food. She can't really eat anything because it tastes nasty to her, only certain foods taste okay to her and she has lost weight so fast...she is smaller than I am now...she looks really good but it is sad the way she is losing weight. She has gone to a lot of doctors trying to find out what is wrong, but so far they haven't been able to tell what it is and on top of all of that she is having nerve problems pretty bad lately from when she had bells palsy and shingles a couple years ago. So my parents really need prayers for their health.

Jessica is pregnant again!!! Colby and this one will be 7 months apart...the same age between Skip and Savannah, so I am excited...I think Jess was a little nerve wracked about it...but since she is breastfeeding she can't take birth control and surprise surprise...

I started writing a book about two or three weeks ago...and I am almost done...I have 101 pages...so that is exciting!!! I'm kind of at a wall right now though because I'm not sure what to do next...so that is kind of frustrating...like I know where I want to go with it I just can't seem to form it onto paper (yes I write it all out by hand and then type it up)...darn you writer's block....but I kind of have my own personal editor...lol...not really but I've been emailing it all to him and he reads over it and critiques it for me and lets me know where it was confusing but so far I've gotten a lot of positive feedback...so that's a good sign...I've let Savannah read it also...Scarlett and Skip haven't read it although I told them they could but Skip said he wants to wait until it's done to read it...although I don't know if he really will since he's not much of a reader and I'm not really sure why Scarlett hasn't read it...I plan on emailing it to Jess one of these days to see what she thinks...I haven't shown my parents...I don't even know if they know I'm writing a book, but I want it to be a surprise to them.

So Ireland...was AMAZING. I will start from the very beginning and go through my trip...sorry if some words are missing a letter but my 'm' button isn't being very cooperative today...anyway so...It ended up only being me, Sam and Scarlett that went...this trip was one full of firsts, first time on a plane, first time out of the country, first time over seas, first time to Ireland, first time to taste nutella (I'm not a fan), first time to taste plum jelly (i'm a fan)...and so on. So I got back to Arkansas on the 4th in the afternoon and then I unpacked then repacked, I had done my laundry at home in Missouri so Scarlett could do her laundry here(AR), and then Sam got here on the 5th and we could not sleep that night. We had to get up at 6 so we could leave no later than 7, but we were up until about 2 that morning because we could not sleep (excitements is at fault for this of course). So we get up and Skip takes us to the airport in LR and all of the things we had read about flights had said to get there 3 hours early because of a recent flight scare...so we get there at 8 and they end up giving us an early flight. But we fly to Houston, still not sure why because it is back tracking...then we flew to Boston...our flight was late so we were literally running through the airport to catch our flight to Ireland...we get to the gate and we are told (by a red tinted brown haired Irish guy) that our flight has been cancelled and to come back the next day at noon to try and catch a different flight...he was very nice and set us up in a hotel and gave us each a $25 allowance on the hotel's restaurant for supper and then the breakfast the next morning was free. At first I was a little upset until I realized that HEY I GET A SHOWER!!! So we are trying to figure out why it was cancelled cause he never mentioned why and we didn't think to ask...so there was this girl on the shuttle bus to the hotel that we asked cause she was going there also and she said it was because Ireland was hit by pretty much a blizzard...and we were stunned...if you didn't know...it NEVER snows in Ireland...like if they ever get any it's just a light dusting...so we were shocked because we had been keep an eye on the weather and it had been in the high 40's and 50's so we were a little shocked as was everyone else....so we get there and sleep and the next morning we are up and ready to head to the airport at 9...and we get there and the line has already started forming...luckily there were only about 15 people in line ahead of us...including this old man that road over on the shuttle bus with us who was from Ireland and, unbeknown to him, is now my adopted grandpa since I don't have one...they ended up opening the ticket counter early since there was such an abundance of people in line awaiting...the majority of them were from Dublin and only handful were from Shannon and only about 4 people (not including us girls) were from America...so we wait for our flight which doesn't take off until 5 that night, so now we have lost two entire days in Ireland...so here is how the flights are supposed to work...they fly to Shannon and then on to Dublin, but since the majority of the people on our flight were from Dublin they flew to Dublin first, so when we get there at about 5:30 in the morning their time(which is 11:30p.m. our time) and we don't take off again until around 1:30 (from now on unless stated otherwise all time is Ireland time which is 6 hrs ahead of us) so we end up in Shannon at about 2 or 3 that afternoon and we still have to drive to the cottage....we end up getting there at around 5 that night so Mrs. Mcdonald is like oh there you are...your mom is so worried about you get in here and email her before you do anything else I was even starting to get worried about you...my mom had been emailing her to make sure we made it there and stuff...anyway so we email her then they feed us supper...which was really nice of them because they didn't have to...it was an amazing soup not even sure what it was but it was really good...anyway so we are snowed in for the first few days and so for my birthday and Sam's we run to the local food store and get some steaks, which are way cheaper than in America and more tender, and Scarlett makes us a cake and we play Scrabble...which I find a very good way to spend my 21st birthday...which (side note here) I didn't really think anything of me going to Ireland for my 21st until Skip said something about it looking really "good" turning 21 in Ireland...but I totally wasn't even thinking about drinking or anything and when he said that I realized how bad that looked...anyway back to Ireland we were invited earlier that day to go to a pub with the McDonald's daughter and her fiance but we declined since they said something about not getting back until 3 the next morning and as we were planning on gong to church it wouldn't have been a good idea to be out that late...and since we weren't going to drink there really was no reason to go when the roads were iced over I mean sure we could have listened to some traditional music but it wasn't worth the risk of driving in that weather...anyway so we go to bed and wake up the next morning at around 11...too late to go to church but we had watched the weather the night before and it was supposed to have snowed more, but it didn't as of yet so we decided to venture out to a town only about 5 miles away named Birr, (the church was an hour away in Nenagh) since we figured it wouldn't be too far...and we got to see a castle in Tullamore, another 5 to 10 miles away...and that was fun...but we didn't really do anything else the rest of the day...but on Monday we went to Birr and Tullamore again to do some shopping but didn't really find anything...then on Tuesday we decided to go to Athalone since Marian (Mrs. Mcdonald) told us that there was better shopping there, but the road was closed....so we decided to just drive around and we headed towards Kinitty which is where the mountain part is and we were almost there and it started to rain, which meant that at the mountains it would be snow and ice, not easy to drive in...so we headed back and wasn't really sure what to do but this time the road to Athalone was open so we went ahead and headed there and again we didn't find much, although we did find a goodwill type of store...but on the way there I had spotted some little stores that we ended up stopping in and found all kinds of stuff...and then we went back to the cottage...the Ashtree cottage, and we packed up and payed Marian the rest of the money since we were going to be leaving early for the airport....anyway so that is pretty much all that went down...we are going to go back again one day but this time in the summer so there is no chance of a freak snowstorm...and I didn't find Mr. Right but I did see him...lol jk but there was this red headed guy whose facial features were perfect...according to my standards which are pretty harsh...and yeah but maybe one day...