Miss Arkansas 2012

Last week I traveled down to central Arkansas to hang out with my family and help them during the moving/new house ready-ing process. 

But, one of my main reasons of visiting was to attend the annual Miss Arkansas pageant with my mom.  My mom, Mrs. Sherri Phelps, her daughter Blair, and I have made it an annual get-together. I think this is our 5th year to attend together. It is so much fun and I have had friends in the pageant every year. PLUS, the OBU girls always make me proud! 

My mom and Mrs. Sherri have been life-long friends. They were young married-couple friends in college and they have stayed close friends throughout the years. My dad and Mr. Billy are basically "brothers from another mother" as it goes. They are two peas in a pod, cut from the same cloth....the jokes go on and on! When I first visited OBU (my senior. yr of high school) for an event for incoming students, my parents arranged me to stay with Blair (who was a freshman) and ever since we have become great friends. She and her husband Eric are some of our favorite couple friends and Blair is one of my best friends. 

I had two pledge sisters in the pageant and both did a great job and made Top Ten! There were 8 OBU girls in the pageant and SEVEN of them were EEE's! Blair and I were such proud OBU/EEE alumni! 

Night 1.

me & Blair

Night 2

(after) Night 3. 

Clark had his finger over the flash.

Night 4.

I have such a cute mom :)

Blair & I.

mom & Mrs. Sherri

I had such a great week with my family and seeing my friends! The new Miss AR 2012 is Sloane Roberts. She has been in the pageant before and was also Miss Teen AR one year. She is adorable and will do a great job. My friend/pledge sister Bethany got in the top ten and was 2nd runner-up. My other pledge sister Abby made top ten as well. All of the OBU girls won different awards! I was proud to know them! 

The other purpose of my trip was to help my family move and ready their new house in Conway. We moved boxes, furniture, appliances and were road warriors all week. My grandparents helped us take some things over on Friday while my mom got up at 4:30am and drove to get Joshua at camp in MO. She got home at 4pm and still got all cute for the pageant. What a trooper. But, back to my grandparents...We loaded up the trailer with a bunch of different pieces, random pieces LIKE A SKEET SHOOTER (lawd) while their truck bed held the refrigerator, washer, and dryer. 

I FELT SO REDNECK!

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, stared at us barreling down the highway at 7 in the morning. :/ 

Talk about being mortified. 

Here's some proof:

YES. This happened. 

I love my family despite the fact that I wanted to wear a paper bag over my head during that seemingly LONG drive to Conway from Bryant. I am thankful that they will show up at the door at 6am willing and wanting to help my parents move.

They sure do keep my life entertaining. 

:)

-HOLLY

Playing Catch-Up

OH.MY.WORD.

I reeeeallly need to post more. I feel like we have been going and going lately and so when I have time to relax, I don't want to do ANYTHING, including post about my life on le blog. 

Let's play some catch-up, shall we?

Aaron got us tickets to Lady Antebellum in LR for a "belated" anniversary present. SO SWEET. It was so much fun even though we were in "The Pit" and had to stand the whole time. It was a great night!

Thompson Square

Darius Rucker

Lady A

hot & sweaty but we had a blast!

some great friends/old college roomies.

love these girls!

It was a great concert! We had a blast despite having to deal with all the redneck drunks making fools of themselves (which is as to be expected at a country concert)! 

Also, I ended up staying a few extra days in Bryant/Conway helping my mom paint and take stuff over to the new house. I will post pictures of that later because I really want to post pictures after they "officially" move in.

I am so excited for my family. They finally found a house in Conway and I believe that when it is finished (painted/decorated/etc) that they will LOVE it. I am pretty sure they have already gotten their money's worth out of the pool. Hopefully one day when Aaron and I get a house, we will be able to afford a pool because: 1) Aaron is a huge kid at heart and loves the water and 2) Marley LOVES pools now. ;) Whoopsies.

We also spent 4th of July with my family in Conway at the new house. Although it was just a day trip, it was so fun. I didn't take my camera, but I got some cool shots of the boys doing "tricks" on the trampoline, diving board, and off the trampoline into the pool. It was nerve-wracking but they were being safe and having a blast. 

One last thing, Aaron's grandfather had a minor heart attack last weekend.  He went in to the hospital for some testing and they found 4 blockages. He will have to have bypass surgery in about a month. If anyone is reading this, please pray for his family and especially that his grandfather (we call him "Poppa") will get lots of rest and be strong enough to go through with the surgery. 

Hopefully I will have more exciting news in the near future....

like about a potential move. 

BUT

we will just have to wait and see.

:)

lovelovelove,

Holly