NASCAR, the Hogs, & Me » Birthday

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Tara — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:00:29 +0000

Happy Birthday, Daddy! I love you!

Shelby’s 17

Tara — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:50:52 +0000

Happy Birthday, Shelby!

I know I’m a week late with this post but it isn’t the only birthday wish I’ve given you so I figure you’ll forgive me.

I hope your 17th year is a great one!

80 Years Young

Tara — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:29:09 +0000

Happy 80th Birthday, Nana Thelma!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Tara — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:02:54 +0000

Happy Birthday, Mother Dear!

What’s Happening?

Tara — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:31:30 +0000

I feel busy lately. I’m not really sure why. I don’t have a big social life, in the respect that I have somewhere to go & people to see every night (or even most nights). I still feel busy, though. I think it is that I know I have several thing big things I’m attending throughout Winter and Spring.

I’m heading to a birthday party for a good friend this afternoon who turned 30 on Friday. Happy Birthday, Megan!

For Christmas, I signed Shelby up to take a sewing class. Because I haven’t sewn since junior high, I decided to sign up & go too. Our first class was supposed to be last Thursday but snow put a wrinkle in those plans. The class should start this Thursday and then be every Thursday evening for the next 6 weeks. I’m pretty excited about it. I’m not sure that I’m interested in learning how to sew clothing. I’d love to know how to make curtains and quilts, though.

Next weekend, I’m heading to Tulsa for a little girls’ weekend. My sister Lindsey, Hayley, Kelly, & I are heading to Tulsa to see Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, & Darius Rucker in concert. I’ve seen Dierks twice before but have the opinion that one can never see Dierks too much. I haven’t ever seen Brad or Darius and am really excited about both of them. Although, I do need to listen to Darius’ country CD a few times this week because I’m afraid he won’t really be playing anything Hootie. (Although, he might surprise me.)

Kelly & I are thinking of taking a road trip somewhere south in late February (assuming the weather cooperates with us). Right now, we’re actually considering heading down to San Antonio for a few days. We’re still in the early stages of figuring out where and when but it has me excited nonetheless.

April will find me in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, specifically Texas Motor Speedway, for NASCAR. We’ll be taking our annual trip to the Sprint Cup series race on April 5th. After the trip to TMS Penni & I had in November, it definitely won’t be as interesting. I keep telling Shelby that I’m counting down to her 18th birthday when she will be old enough for pit passes. I will get to see Brad Keselowski in the Cup race, though, which I’m excited about.

As of right now, I’m heading to Charlotte, NC for the Coca-Cola 600 in late May. I don’t have plane tickets or race tickets but I’m pretty sure everything is headed in this direction. Penni loves going to this race, and I decided this would be a good non-Texas NASCAR race to attend in 2009. It looks like we are going to have several friends attending with us so that will be cool. If anyone else wants to go, let us know. The more, the merrier! It’ll be cool to meet some new people and enjoy a lot of NASCAR at the same time.

On This Day 28 Years Ago…

Tara — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:17:13 +0000

I want to thank everyone for the birthday wishes and gifts I received today. I appreciated and loved each and every one of them.

I am always sharing photos that I take with you. I thought I’d turn the tables a little bit and share some photos of me as a baby and toddler. Enjoy!

Me at 2 days old

Me & Dad - January 1981

Me & Mom - December 1981

My cousin Devin & I - December 1981

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Tara — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:07:12 +0000

Happy Birthday, Daddy! I love you!

Shelby is 16

Tara — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:33:31 +0000

I posted a birthday post last Friday for Shelby for her 16th birthday. Our tradition for our birthdays is that we go out to eat as a family & the birthday person gets to pick where. Shelby chose Marketplace Grill. After dinner, we went back to mom & dad’s house to open presents and have cake (which the birthday person gets to pick as well). Shelby got a strawberry filled cake from Shelby Lynn’s with zebra print icing. It was so cute and very good. Here are several pictures from Shelby’s birthday.

It’s Party Time!

Tara — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:51:12 +0000

My sister Shelby turns 16 next week. My cousin Rachel turned 21 last week. My cousin Logan turns 18 in November. Given that we have 3 milestone birthdays within about a month of what another, we are having a birthday party tonight at my grandparents’ house. Shelby & Rachel decided it should be a costume party so it is. I’m pretty sure my costume won’t win any contest (if there are any). The costumes I’ve seen of some of my family members are pretty neat. I’m, of course, taking my camera and will share the pictures of everyone with you tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Update 10/11/08 3pm:

The party was fun. I ate way too much food but the homemade ice cream was worth it. Here is a link to a slideshow of some of the pictures I took. Sorry, there isn’t one of me. I went as a NASCAR fan (original, I know). I had my t-shirt, ballcap, radio/headphones, lanyard, and all. It made me wish I was headed to a race last night instead of a party. Haha!