I'm BAAAAAAA-ACK!!!

     I am officially back in T-Town and officially unpacked! I had a wonderful time in Gulf Shores with my Mom and a few of her sisters.  We stayed at my Mom's brother's family beach house and it was amazing! We laid out on the beach everyday but one day and we didn't see oil until the last day. Gulf Shores this time of year is usually packed out, but because the scare of oil reaching the beaches on the coast it was less crowded than usual. We didn't mind the less than crowded restaurants though!
    Here are a few pictures of laying out and going out to dinner!

If you haven't guessed, that's my momma and me in the picture above! Yes, my hair is naturally curly!

Oh and here is a pic of the best watermelon, yea it's exciting.........

And yes, we ate it all!! and yes I wouldn't be surprised if I gained 15 pounds in  9 days from tons of seafood and eating ice cream almost every night with fried apple/peach pies! When we were not laying out on the beach or stuffing out faces at the many fantastic restaurants we were SHOPPING!!! Gulf Shores offers outlet stores like Ann Taylor, J. Crew, and Polo just to name a few. Needless to say, my wardrobe just expanded and I finally decided the theme of my kitchen while shopping!

here are pictures of the ways my mom spoils me!

That is right, a new beach bag, shorts, jeans, a purse, dresses, house shoes and books!! I may have gotten a lot but I got a GREAT deal on everything! So if anyone out there needs a date to a wedding anytime soon.........I might have to brag a bit and say I don't look half bad in the black dress and the charcoal and white seersucker dress would be great for a rehearsal dinner (wink, wink. ; )    I am also so excited to read all my books, and trust me these are not going out of my sight. Since under-grad I would lend out books to my friends to read and I never get them back! My favorite two from the shopping trip are actually picture books! The two Kennedy ones are pictures of their life, I am fascinated with this family!

I stated earlier that I found the theme for my kitchen and here it is!!

It's all nautical!! I had a guy actually suggest this! He suggested I use the colors Red, White, and Navy. I think he chose right, it's not girly and I can use my Ole Miss platters and Alabama platters too! For a military guy, he has a little taste!! While shopping at the beach, I saw the large bowl and that was the piece that grabbed my attention and made me decide that is what I wanted plus it was the very last one, so I knew it was meant to be, HAHAHA! It's going to take a little while and some cash but i think it will be soooo CUTE! Anchors Away!

Tomorrow I will post pictures I took the last day we were at the beach and the oil. It is so sad to see this happen! I am furious that British Petroleum (B.P.) is letting this leak into OUR oceans! AND, Joran Van Der Sloot is finally behind bars and is behind bars in PERU none the less! The maximum sentence is 35 years, reason being: no person has ever completed serving 35 years, they either are killed by other inmates or die due to living conditions before serving 35 years. B.P. weeks ago tried jamming the oil leak with trash, I think I know of some "human trash" they could have tested with that experiment !

I'm off to the gym to work out! I need to make sure I can still wear my clothes I just bought and make sure I can fit into my other clothes as well, the pictures of me in a swim suit were just plain depressing, it's time to get into gear about this!