eat mor chikin

my love affair with chick-fil-a began in highschool. My good friend, christine introduced me to a restaurant her family operated. I feel in love immediatley. I would drive to chick-fil-a at six am and wait for them to open at 6:30 to grab a chiken biscuit before my seven o clock class in high school.
I had heard in college that if there was a grand opening for a chick-fil-a you could get free chick-fil-a for a year if you camped out. I knew i wanted to add this to my bucket list.
well this past wedensday was my lucky day i found out there was a chick-fil-a opening 30 minutes from our house so i pleaded with taylor to go with me. It did not take much pleading he loves chick-fil-a as much as i do and is always up for anything that involves his tent . we traded days with our lovely co workers packed every blanket we had and planned to arrive at chick-fil-a at five am on wed morning.

When we got there their were probably 200 people... they did a raffle. Taylor was drawn 9th out of 200 he is so lucky, he needs to start buying lottery tickets.  As soon as I knew there was a raffle I knew I would not win. I am not really negative like that but just have known my luck for the last 25 years.  I was not drawn but a few guys from our new church came with us. Only one of them got drawn as well, he happily handed me over his ticket...i will forever be grateful.

So we set up camp at seven am knowing we would spend the next 24 hours in a parking lot.
I had no idea how much fun it would be. The people were amazing . They were friendly,  coupon loving, chickfila eating, life seeking fun people.

so did i mention it was 28 degrees that wed morning brrrrrrrr.... it warmed up when the sun came out but not to much.  so we played trouble, uno, connect four and ate chick-fil -a three meals in a row YUM .

i feel like at some point i will look back and say who were those two crazy kids...but  i always hope this is who we are. im so thankful to have a partner in my life who comes along side me to follow every little crazy dream i have even if one of them was to camp out and be apart of a chick fil a opening :)

dream lake

I have been a little behind on blogging to say the least im ready to catch up so here goes.  A few weeks ago we headed to estes park to fish, experience fall in CO, and spend the day together. The aspens were stunning.

 

no one quite like him :) 

feast your eyes on dream lake ...  pretty dreamy

fishing, something i grew up loving, something i do not love as much in the rockies or maybe its fly fishing. I can see the fish, its crazy the water is so clear I dangle my bait in their face but they just will not bite. The view is extraordinary to say the least but I can not catch anything for the life of me. Maybe its because I do not have the long Tennessee nightcrawlers on the end of my hook instead I have a tiny fly fishing lures. Maybe its because im not sitting on the edge of a dock on norris lake dangling my feet under the light with my little brother as he helps me take the fish off the hook.
 Instead its was a new experience that my love happens to love so im  always on board for trying something new. might not be the next fly fishing pro but i will keep on trying just to swing the monster cool pole and hang out with the one that makes my heart complete.

we meet this little guy on the way to dream lake

I will leave you with this thought from me !!



way up high

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