So….my birthday was yesterday. I turned 32. It didn’t feel much different from turning 31. I still wish I was in my 20s but that’s not gonna happen so I’m just going to be happy being in my 30s. I really don’t feel that old at all ;) . I had gotten Will to buy me tickets to see on of my favorite rock bands that was going to be playing a concert about an hour away. I enjoy rock shows a lot, just not all of the stupid drunk people. I used to hate the smoking but that’s not a problem anymore because Jackson passed an ordinance that there can be no smoking indoors. The venue where the concert was even had a huge projection screen that kept displaying the ordinance. But of course, there are always those few idiots who think that they don’t have to follow the rules and smoked anyway. But it was only two people. One of those idiots was standing right by me though. He was just rude in general though so I just ignored him. I thought about going and telling someone in management but I didn’t want to lose my place at the front of the stage. I got to see 4 bands play and they were all awesome. I would have loved to have stuck around and met some of them but Will had to get up for work at 5 am and the concert wasn’t over until around 12. And also, they always try to talk you into buying merchandise and I just didn’t have the extra money. But I had a really good time and I’m glad that Will took me even though he had to get up early the next day.
I am still hoping that we can go to TN this weekend. We didn’t get any kind of a vacation this year and it would be nice to be able to get out of town just for a few days. We are just going to stay with my mil (not sure how that will work out lol) but we still need money for gas and food. I told Will to just take his vacation day back and we would try to go in October…But he’s really wanting to go now. I can understand though because we were supposed to go this summer but we didn’t have the extra money to go. I was looking the area up online and there are a lot of nice scenic places I would love to visit. And it would give me a chance to get some really great pictures with my Nikon. So I’m hoping and praying that we can get the extra money to go this weekend. Grrr…being broke stinks!

The weather here has finally started cooling down so people can actually go out and enjoy it. I went walking at the track down by the local community college and it was so nice out. It was around 88 with low humidity. So I’m hoping that means that the hottest part of the summer is out of the way. I mean it won’t get really cool here until November but after the hot summer we’ve had (100 degree temps with 110 heat indexes) I am loving these 80 degree temps with 40% humidity. I am wanting to get out and use my camera more now that it’s not so hot.
I was able to get this picture (I think it’s a Black Swallowtail) yesterday

We took another trip to the zoo last weekend and it was sooo hot and humid. But they had some blow up water slides there so at least the kids got to cool off. I didn’t realize they had the water slides there so I didn’t bring their bathing suits. So I just let them slide in their clothes. And the snake exhibit was air conditioned so we got a little relief in there. Anyway, here’s a few pics.
Oh no, the hubby is about to get eaten by a giant spider lol

Trey on the waterslide

Jake

Rhiannon

Jake and Rhiannon