Yesterday was a blast.....

    One of my favorite places on this Earth is Medcalf Bottoms. I have so many memories there. We always had our family reunions.I remember going up early in the morning with my papaw and Sandy with his thermos full of coffee and get a spot usually the big pavilion. I would wait till it started getting hot and I would go swimming all day long. I had so much fun. Then once my papaw passed my mamaw would go to the family reunion and she loved it there. When she passed I took some of her ashes and placed them there in the river so she could have the peace that she couldn't get on this Earth. I miss my mamaw more than anything. I took our relationship for granted which as I gotten older and I lost her and my dad I look back and I made a lot of mistakes there. I wished there was something I could do now to make up for it. 

    Yesterday, I took Matt and my mom to Medcalf Bottoms for them to fall in love with the place that I love and they did. We stopped at the IGA and picked up chicken tenders and tater wedges and took a picnic up. We ate and just sat and talked before we went to find a spot to swim. We found the perfect spot to swim well technically some of us didn't swim. Michael did. He swam and met a new friend. He jumped off the rock that was there and swam so much. He was so happy. I jumped off the rock as well. Michael thought that I wasn't going to do it. I did. It was fun and to be honest it made me feel like a kid again...lol. Momma, me, Jamie, and Matt took chairs and sit out in the water and just relaxed. Mom stated she had not been that relaxed since she had been here in TN. I am so glad she enjoyed herself. Here are some pictures I took.

Momma and I just relaxing in the water. It was so pretty and nice yesterday.

Michael jumping off the rock.

We came home and went swimming again here at the house and then had pizza and a bonfire. Kim had brought some pictures down with her. These were pictures dad saved. These were pictures that were important to him. I decided last night it was time to go through them. I am so glad that I did too. I needed that. I needed to see them. To see him. To see my grandpa Johnny that I remember so much. I remember him loving me so much. He had one picture of me when I was around 9 or 10 months old and my Grandpa Johnny. That picture is so precious to me. 

Then as I was looking through one picture came up that I didn't even know he had a camera during my 16th birthday party but he did. I couldn't believe the pictures that he had taken. I was so shocked and I cried. Last year one of my best friends passed away. We had lost contact over the years like people do but I wished we hadn't cause we were the best of friends and she was there for different times in my life more than she ever knew. After my divorce if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have known what to do.