A Day in the life of 5 Dawgs and baby Harrison on the way!: Back to the good ole stomping grounds (for the weekend)

I believe all of my "avid" readers know about my obsession with my hometown. Well.....me and Kolby are leaving Jackson and heading back to C-Town for another fun-filled weekend. I cannot wait to be back in Northeast Mississippi and hopefully sooner than later!

So this is how our weekend is going to go.....

We're leaving Madison after work in hopes of making it there by 9:30ish. If we make it in time, we're going to support a good family friend's (Ben Mathis) band, Nash Street at the annual Slugburger Festival.

So what is Slugburger Festival??? If you've never been, it's a must see. You eat Slugburgers, enjoy rides, great music, people-watching and hanging out with friends from childhood past. I haven't been in several years so I thought that it was appropriate to break go back and break the boyfriend in "true Corinth style."

On Saturday, we're going shopping around town (not that he wants to be is being sweet and coming along) and then I'm going to take him to....

to try his first ever.....

What's this you may ask? The infamous slugburger!!! My mouth literally waters thinking about these delicious things...notices I said things because you have to eat more than one they're THAT good!

Don't really know what else is planned for the day but I do know (that night,) we're going to one of my next favorite Corinth restaurants.....

and can't wait to visit with my best guy friend from home and owner of PG.....

Joshua Bryant (the goofy one on the left.)

The dinner is special because Sunday marks one whole year that I was lucky enough to meet this sweet guy....

who called and bugged the mess out of me for the longest. I finally gave in around October and went out with him. He took me to.....

in Canton and wined and dined me. I somewhat developed a mini-crush and then he told me that he wasn't ready for what I was ready for....which is my luck to start crushing just to have a guy that's been actively persuing me for so long to say, "I'm just not ready for what you're ready for." What exactly was I ready for???? Well....our problem was that he was 24 at the time (yes, I'm robbing the cradle a little) and I was 28; however, I wasn't necessarily looking for marriage but wasn't wanting to play games either. Since he had just graduated college, he was ready to play games. Make a long story short, I told him that was fine and I knew that he would be back. He would talk to another girl, break it off and then call me again. This pattern repeated almost every month until the middle of February. We ended up going out again one night, had a blast, he started calling again, asking me out and I knew that he was back to his old tricks again so I wasn't 100% invested in it. Well....something happened and we've been together ever since the middle of March. I will save all of the sweet gross stuff for later but I will just say this....I have been in several relationships before where I was SO in love with that person and it was never reciprocated the way it should be, I wasn't treated kindly and was hurt 80% of the time. Now, I have finally found someone who truly cares, loves me unconditionally and even in the bad times, does anything and everything he can to make me happy and is happy when he does these sweet things, goes above and beyond in everything that he does and has so many of the same great qualities I see in my dad with my mom (which is SO appealing to me.) I'm not going to lie...it's been a hard transition and actually at first was a huge turn off to me for someone to be this sweet to me but GOD brought this special guy into my life and I love him for it. So there's a little history for all of you that don't know the whole "kid and grown woman relationship" story.