1/1/07

new logo! Thank you to reader Melissa (Melissa, don’t you have a site? Shoot me the url, please, so I can link you!), who created it a few months ago! While I’m talking about logos, I desperately need one for February. I’d like a hearts-and-flowers type logo, but really anything will do! Help a sister out? And include your link, so I can link you!

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So yes, I’m home again. In fact, I was having such a good time that I ended up staying ’til Saturday morning instead of coming home on Friday as I’d originally planned. Fred was happy to “let” me stay, so he could finish up the master bedroom, which he’d done as a surprise to me (the surprise being the color, that is), and I LOVE IT, especially the fact that I need to buy a new comforter to go with it (along, maybe, with new sheets!). I ended up eating more crappy, sugary foods than I should have… and lost three pounds! I think the three-pound loss might be due more to the phenomenal amount of walking we did, rather than what I ate. We shopped our asses off, and thank god I drove there, because I filled the entire trunk area up with the stuff I bought. Just about everything was on sale, which made for some good shopping. The day I got there – Christmas day, and you’d expect there wouldn’t be much traffic on the roads on Christmas day, but you’d be wrong – we had dinner at a buffet place, which was pretty good, and then my mother, sister, and I walked along the main drag in Pigeon Forge, walking off some of the food we’d eaten. The day after Christmas, we went to use one of the gifts I’d given Brian for Christmas – a gift certificate to Flyaway Indoor Skydiving. Part of the gift was that I’d do it with him – and I did! It wasn’t quite what I expected, but it was pretty cool all the same. Brian brought up the idea of doing it again, and now I’m wishing we had, because it was definitely worth doing a second – and third – time. We also talked about bungee jumping (there’s a place on the main drag in Pigeon Forge), but first Brian chickened out, and then I did. Now I’m wishing we’d done it, just so I could brag about it, but oh well. Maybe we can find a place in Maine, and we can go this summer when I visit. We spent a day in Gatlinburg without my father (who was dealing with some stomach issues; something he’d eaten didn’t agree with him), and I drove since I’d been there before (but hadn’t driven!), and at one point we were on a hilly area with a steep dropoff on one side, and I pulled into someone’s driveway to turn around, and Debbie got a little overwhelmed and threw a fit, and at one point she said “I scared!” I thought she was just kind of making fun of herself, but a few minutes later (after we got turned around WITHOUT dying, might I add), she said she didn’t remember saying that at all, and I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pass out. It was fun, vacationing as a family, and we came up with several inside jokes that will most likely live on for years. It was very enjoyable. Annnnd… I could do a day-by-day recap of the trip, but rather than doing that, I’m going to post some pictures, and call it good enough.
Brian in his new t-shirt, which cracked me UP. I call this one “Bitchypoo and her wattle.” We visited Rainforest Adventures, and it was VERY cool. They put on a good show, let you touch some of the animals (here I am, about to hold a TARANTULA. And I didn’t die from the fright!), and are very entertaining. I highly recommend it. And with a ball python around my neck. Fred about died from the jealousy. Brian avec ball python. I call this one “Bitchypoo, confused.” Me and my bebbe sistah. Getting ready to do some indoor skydiving. Lemur, at Rainforest Adventures. Brian bought a cowboy hat while in Gatlinburg. That boy is just so cute I could squeeze him to death. Complete and utter asshole on 75S. Georgians, beware! Thrilled beyond belief that their Momma is home.
There’ll be more pictures in upcoming days – there’ll be a series called “Animals of Gatlinburg” as well as one called “What I Didn’t Buy”, plus Debbie took a ton of pictures she’s going to burn to a cd and send to me, and I know there’ll be a lot of good ones in there – but that’s it for now. Y’all have a good day! (Today’s uploaded pictures are hither)
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Previously 2006: No entry. 2005: Happy New Year! 2004: Happy New Year! 2003: Happy New Year! 2002: Happy New Year! 2001: No entry. 2000: Happy New Year.]]>

25 thoughts on “1/1/07”

  2. Happy New Year, Robyn & Family. Who took care of the feline population while you were away? If you said, I probably forgot. My brain is sprouting holes these last years! You look fabulous, and losing 3 lbs whilst eating sweets is something you should put in a book and sell! To people like me.

  3. You are a “crazy woman”!!!!! I can’t believe you had a ssssnake around your neck. Horrors Horrors…I could never do that. Let me near that spider and I would kill him pretty fast! You are a brave girl. I love the pretty pictures. happy New Year to you and Fred and the Spud!!!

  5. Yes, add me to the Happy New Year group! You look fabulous, darling girl! Brian has grown into his body and also looks great…especially in that hat.
    Love the colors Fred picked out for your master bedroom. You’ll have a great time decorating…a new quilt or spread. The possibilities are endless…except maybe red.
    I just know that 2007 will be an exciting year for the And3rson’s!

  7. Happy New Year, Robyn! Sounds like you all had a great time – boy, you sure can tell Brian and the Spud are related. Is it just the photos, or do they look enough alike to be brother and sister?

  9. Happy New Year, Robyn! I can’t wait to see what comforter and sheets you pick out; the colors in that room are so pretty. How cute is it that Fred was nervous you’d hate it?
    I cracked up at your “wattle” caption because it reminded me of that guy on “Ally McBeal” (Greg Germaine, I think?). 🙂

  11. Happy New Year Robyn!! It’s really nice to see YOU in more pictures these days. 🙂
    And that’s a great logo!

  12. Happy New Year & welcome home! Can’t wait to see the rest of the Gatlinburg Safari pics. And I’m so glad you are happy with your new master bedroom – Fred did an amazing job, and how brave to step out on the color like that!
    Now call me crazy, as I have never “met” you, but as I was perusing bed-in-a-bag sets on http://www.overstock.com, I ran across this, and wished I had a purple or green room so I could buy it! And then I thought, “Hey, ROBYN AND FRED have a purple bedroom now!” Check it out. Lots of great deals over there, especially on high-end comforter sets & high thread count sheets. OK my work here is done. Wishing yall the best of everything for 2007!

  13. I got a little queasy inside looking at that picture and knowing he was about to put that tarantula in your hand. I think I need to go lie down now.

  14. I completely agree with Leslie – Brian and the Spud could definitely pass for brother and sister. They look so much alike!

  17. Happy New Year to you! Brian did look very cute in his hat 🙂 And you are still looking great too, despite your snarky comments about yourself. Twelve pounds to your goal, you go, girl!

  18. Oooh, I’m so jealous. Aren’t tarantuals just the quoolest?!? I love the shot of you grinning with the boa, too. 🙂 I think it’s pretty amazing to watch you transform not just physically, but also in how you’re living your life. Can you imagine yourself a year ago even thinking about bungee jumping??? If nothing else, last week in Gatlinburg proved that your WLS was a life-altering experience. If I weren’t so happy for you’d I’d be jealous! 🙂 (j/k)

  19. Indoor sky diving?! Holding big hairy spiders?? Letting a snake drape itself around your neck?? But most of all, the scariest of things.. letting your husband choose paint colors?!! Gasp, you are one brave woman my dear 😉
    (The room looks fab btw.) Happy New Year to you and yours and happy to have you back!

  20. Happy new year!
    Your holiday looks very intoresting! I don’t think i could hold a turantula. I don’t mind spiders in their place, but i don’t want one any where near me!
    And yes your son does look great in that. I don’t think i want my daughter to see that pic lol

  23. You… touched a… spider! Ick!!! I can handle the snake. Used to have pet snakes, but spiders, no freaking way!
    Glad you are home and that you had a good time. Boring around here without you to read.

  24. just looking at the picture of you about to hold that spider squicked me out. no way.
    did the spud not go with you?

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