It's officially popsicle season!!!

You may be asking, "What's popsicle season?" Well, I will tell you! It is when my allergies start acting up and I eat a LOT of popsicles because they make me feel better. A lot of people don't believe me that they actually make me feel better.... but they do!! I am miserable during a lot of the spring.... watery, itchy eyes and lots of sneezing. Most times it is hard for me to even breathe..... when I am hot, it makes everything worse. Popsicles just cool me down and most of the time, cure my symptoms (while I am eating the popsicle).

Don't worry.... most of the popsicles I buy are sugar free. I usually buy the real fruit ones, firecrackers, banana, ice pops and the regular popsicle brand (with the cherry, grape and orange flavors). I am so excited about it getting warm but so sad about my allergies! But since I consider it popsicle season, that does cheer me up quite a bit! :-)

Weaverville, NC - Part 1

As I mentioned the other day, the entire family of my mom's side went to the mountains. It was the 1 year anniversary of my aunt's death and we decided to do this trip in honor of her. We went to Weaverville, NC, about 10 minutes outside of Asheville. We stayed in a big cabin and had JUST enough sleeping places. I slept in a room with my cousins Josie, Jordan and Eli. Friday night we just hung out at the house and had a campfire. Saturday, it took forever for everyone to get showers so we ate lunch and then half of us ventured to Asheville for a few hours. There was a lot of ping pong games going on. We played a lot of other games too and just hung out. We were all going to get lunch together on Sunday out somewhere but that was cancelled when the bad weather started coming. The weekend went by way too fast but it was so much fun! I think we are going to start doing this every year..... or at least I hope so!

Above, is Josie and I.

Me, Jordan and Eli.

Me and Eli.

My cousin Jordan.... this was when we were shopping on Saturday.

Megan and Jason.... so cute!!

My mom and Josie.

Tyler, my cousin's son, in front of the gas fire.

The hallway upstairs.

The living room.

My cousin Matthew.

My cousin Jaosn and my mom playing ping pong.

Natalie and my Aunt Bianca.

Part 2

These pictures are so funny to me because with each picture taken there are more people! Above is Josie, Alison and I.

And now Natalie and Jordan hop in.... Eli was debating it. And I am not sure what we are all laughing at but I think that is funny!

And now Eli and Jason are in it! Awww.

And now tyler jumps in. Matthew is the only one not here... he was playing ping pong and didn't want to stop! But I love this picture! It is my favorite one from the trip!

Part 3

This was my cousin Matthew's way of playing ping pong. Quite clever.

Me and Jason's girlfriend, Megan

Me and my cousin Alison

The front porch

The other cabins

Me and my cousins.... minus Jason. I tell ya, it is almost impossible to get a picture of all of us together!

John and Eva

I just wanted to share some cute pictures of John and Eva from our last playgroup. I love the age he is at so much right now. We told them to give each other a hug and a kiss..... and they did!!!!

We started hanging out with Eva when they were both 6 months.... they are only 2 weeks apart so it has been fun watching them grow together over the past year. They can finally really play with each other and enjoy it!

Vinegar

This is a very random post, I am sure, but I wanted to share something exciting.... or at least something I find exciting.....................



I like vinegar!



I have hated it my entire life. For the past year, I have had more things that have vinegar in it but still thought it was a little gross. Well, something happened almost overnight. I woke up one day and just kept craving it. And now, I love salt and vinegar chips..... something that used to be on my exremely nasty foods list. Loving these chips is probably a bad thing, sure, but I still get excited for my taste buds when they decide to like something that I have never and thought I would never like.



Way to go taste buds!!! Maybe next try pickles?

Mountain Preview

I have a bunch of pictures I want to upload but I just don't feel up to it right now. I am still exhausted from the weekend. But for now, here is a picture of the cabin I stayed in this weekend. I went up there with my entire side of my mom's family. It was so fun because everyone was there! We went to celebrate my Aunt Ilona's life. This past weekend was the 1 year anniversary of her death. Friday night, we all gathered around a fire outside and played her cd from her funeral, shared memories of her and simply just spent time honoring and remembering her. We also did a bunch of other stuff which I will share soon! Stay tuned!