Guess what! I get to go on a DATE tonight!!! Yippeeeeee!!!! Jim and I and my mom and dad are going to a German restaurant in downtown Glendale. Birthday celebration a week late:). Grandma is watching the boys. Hope SHE is excited! LOL. She will be going back to Chicago soon so she has to fit in every opportunity she can.<\/p>\n
Speaking of my birthday (and this is mostly for Heidi’s interest), guess what I wanted? I made an EIGHT disc set of all my old country favorites! Heidi is that too fun or what? I have 160 songs in this collection so far. When I was young, country was my all time favorite and I had so many country cassette tapes. Who in the world wants to go through cassettes and burn to cd’s though and I never get to listen to them anymore. Sooooo I downloaded old favorites off walmarts site and burned favorites from all my other country albums. Wayyyyyyy tooo fun! Speaking of country, I can’t wait to get back into wrangler sizes:). I didn’t even own a pair of levi’s until I was married LOL. And yes I will too wear them.<\/p>\n
Jim is teasing me about my reunion with my past and he can’t believe that I would have downloaded Marie Osmond songs. (All in Love, Meet Me in Montanna, Your Still New To Me….) He just doesn’t understand my love for old classics. He is being totally unfair about this in my opinion. His exposure to country was pretty limited because he was too absorbed in Metallica…shhheeesh. Therefore, his opinion on these matters does not count a lick. So there. Heidi would agree I am sure.<\/p>\n
It is my job though to raise a new generation of country lovers. The cutest cutest thing in the world happened in regards to this a few days ago. One of my very favorite country groups of all time is Restless Heart. Heidi sang “I’ll Still Be Loving You” at our wedding. Anyhow, I was playing “Hummingbird”. Anyone remember that song? It grooves big time! Ty loves music and loves to dance with mommy so he was happy as could be. Tanner is so shy that when I start dancing he gets embarrassed. Is that for his sake or mine? LOL. When I played Hummingbird though something incredible happened! Tanner started yelling for me from the other room. I ran in to see what the crisis was and with wide eyes he said “LOOK MOMMY!”<\/p>\n
When I looked down, his little foot was tapping away to the rhythm! He couldn’t help himself! The beat began to bubble out of him and he just could not control it LOL! His astounded look was unforgettable. Not even Tanner could believe he was on the verge of dancin’.<\/p>\n
I also have had to play Josh Turner’s “Long Black Train” about 2000 times and Tanner now calls him “our guy”. Does he have the most awesome low country voice EVER or what?<\/p>\n
And since Heidi will want to know this….here is a list of some of the artists on my collection:<\/p>\n
Shania, Garth, Clint, Diamond Rio, Exile, LeAnn Rimes, LeAnn Womack, Marie Osmand, Dan Seals, Vince Gill, John Berry, Josh Turner, Martina McBride, Rascall Flatts, George Strait, Randy Travis, Alison Kraus, Laurie White, Trisha Yearwood, Paul Overstreet, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Judds, Wynonna, Restless Heart, Keith Urban, Susan Ashton, Wilkinsons, Kinleys, Kenny Rogers (who Jim say’s is NOT country), John Michael Montgomery, Billy Dean, Collin Raye, Billy Ray Cyrus, Little Texas, Jo Dee Messina, Chris LeDoux, Doug Stone, Lonestar, and yes even a few Willie Nelson:) Oooohhhh….just remembered… can’t forget Charlie Daniels! “Devil Went Down to Georgia” is definitely a classic!<\/p>\n
Singing XXX and OOO’s right now – <\/p>\n
Off to a night on the town!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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