Excitement and Anticipation Abound

I am sitting here in my hotel room in the Great Smoky Mountains while my guys are about 30 minutes away at a football camp in North Carolina with Tyler's Uncle Marty's (Roger's brother) team. I just heard from Tyler and he just finished their first 4 hour practice, had an unlimited pizza feast and was ready for bed. Their next practice is at 6 AM tomorrow and 3 more will follow that day. I am drving back down there to watch their scrimmage at 2 PM.

As I sit here alone except for the company of my sweet dog, Biscuit , my anticipation and excitement is building toward our trip from North Carolina on to Florida on Sunday.

The end of May, Laurie and I went to meet Laurie Ann, my 1st meeting of a bloggy sister and now, I've been bitten by the "meet your bloggy sister bug". LOL!

Now, I am going to meet my 2nd ever bloggy sister, Kim from Homesteaders Heart who has so generously offered us a place to stay at the beach. While we are there, Debra from Clothed With Scarlet will come down for a day at the beach as well. So, that means meeting bloggy sister #3.

We will be staying with them from Sunday evening until mid-day on Thursday. We are planning on just relaxing, enjoying the beach, sun, sand and making memories as a family but also with new friends.

Kim...just a word of warning...we are from Arkansas and I know, I sound "country". That is why I have put off calling but type instead. LOL! *sigh* It's ok if you laugh at our southern drawl.

Then, it is off to Orlando where we will stay for 2 1/2 days. We have to check in the hotel, so my sweet doggy will have a cool place to stay while we hit 3 parks in 2 1/2 days. We are going to Wet 'n Wild on Thursday evening. I figured that after several days at the beach, we wouldn't mind going to a water park at night...they stay open till 9 PM. Then it will be off to Universal Studios on Friday and Sea World on Saturday before getting up early Sunday morning for a nearly 12+ hour drive home. Ughhh...I dread that part of the trip :-(

Friday morning, is another bonus to the already memory making trip. I am meeting Lisa with Sharing Life with Lisa. She is picking me up at our hotel Friday morning for breakfast and a time of fellowshipping together.

If you had asked me over a year ago if I would ever be willing to go meet ladies that I have "talked" to online...I would have said "no way!" There are a few friends that don't write blogs, read blogs or follow blogs that thinks this is very "brave" of me/us to do this. But, after following these ladies blogs, being their friends on Facebook and emailing...I feel like I already know these ladies just haven't met them face to face.

Ladies, I am so excited that all the planning is over and that we are going to be meeting in just a few short days. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to meet me and my family on this memorable trip to the Sunshine State.

Have a wonderfully blessed day!