Team Casey Jo: Beautiful Places

This past weekend I went with my family to Pioneer Days in Elizabeth, WV. Casey Jo & I too our car to the Pioneer Days car show.

Casey Jo, our Mom & Myself

Sister Car!!!! Our 1959 Dodge Coronet

Elizabeth is where our roots are from. Our Dad's side of the family is from there, and many of them still live there. After the car show we went to my Dad's cousins house for a cook out. It was really nice. We all had a blast!

Court house

The old historic Little Kanawha Hotel

Elizabeth is an extremely small town. (I pretty much gave you the whole tour through these photos)

Have you ever been there? Or know where it is?

They had a reenactment going on during the day.

Since we were going to be gone most of the day Saturday, I decided to bring Lily with me so she wouldn't be in her crate all day. Big mistake y'all! Big mistake!!! For one, it is freaking fall and it was probably the hottest day of the year!!!! Lily was so hot and freaked she stayed on my lap the whole time until the end....and then she peed on my lap. Not a little bit, but like a whole flippin gallon! I had no idea how one little Chihuahua could retain so much water!!! Luckily, I had an extra set of clothes...which I NEVER do! (Thank goodness!) So lucky me, I had to go commando the rest of the day because Lily peed though my underwear too. That's just my awesome luck! lol! ...And we didn't win at the car show. Casey was livid and said it was rigged, as usual...we WILL win someday!

Anyone else have an exciting weekend?

Sundays I usually do My Fab 5 of the Week, but since I didn't do anything but study my butt of this week, I had nothing! I tried to get most of the things done this week so I could have time to spend with my friend S from back home. She came up to visit me this weekend.

Thank goodness she did!

If anyone knows me, they know how terrified I am of mice. I used to be a nursing assistant, and let me tell you, I can clean up dead bodies all day.... but don't EVER expect me to dispose of a dead mouse!!!!! My husband happened to be out of town this past week. (Just my luck!) He set mouse traps about six months ago. We used the squeeze cheese in a can on the traps. The cheese on it didn't mold. Since it was squeeze cheese, it had petrified. So I figured we probably wouldn't catch anymore mice. I kept forgetting to throw the trap away since it was the one in my basement.

Monday, I went to put a box in the basement and FREAKED OUT when I saw it!!! Long story short, thank goodness S came up! I turned off my heat because I was afraid of that stupid dead mouse would make my house stink. S properly disposed of it for me (while I dry heaved.) Not only did she take care of the mouse fiasco, but she pulled a MacGyver and broke into my house less than 5 minutes flat when I locked us out. (Still not sure if I should be impressed, or question how she got to be so good at that!)

The next day, we decided to go into the Mountains. If you have never been to the Laurel Highlands, you should. They are so beautiful!