Breanne Came To Visit!

Is this an oil painting? NOPE just the beautiful Arkansas countryside! 

Some of these photos were taken with Breanne's phone so they aren't the best quality but I was super impressed by the quality of the camera on her phone!

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Breanne came to visit! It was SO nice having her here! Especially because Trevor has been going to Alabama every weekend for training! I was pretty excited when I found out she was coming! She wanted to surprise me, but Trevor kind of dropped the ball on that one. ;) Unfortunately she came Thursday night and left Sunday morning so we only had 2 full days but we made the best of it!

I took her to Eureka Springs for her first day and she absolutely loved it! More than I thought she would! I seriously am going to take anyone there who comes here because it's so cool! My brother took me there the first time I came! It's just a quaint little town and I love it. So we explored around until the late afternoon (because I can't drive at night very well! My eyes are going SO bad!). When we got back into town we went to the amazing outlet mall we have here. I love it!

The next day we went to another mall and Breanne got some really cool stuff! I was slightly jealous! Then we went to Crystal Bridges which is an amazing art museum! This rich lady built this museum and bought all this art and made sure that it was free for the public! So nice! There are a lot of Norman Rockwell paintings there like "Rosie The Riveter"! Then we went back to the outlet mall (We like shopping, okay?). Then went out to eat and hung out! It was so nice just to hang out with a friend!! I'm super grateful for Breanne and glad she still likes to hang out with me and likes me enough to fly all the way to Arkansas!!! So any friends who want to come visit me you are certainly welcome to! Ask Breanne - Arkansas is cooler than you'd think!

Eureka Springs

About an hour away from where we live is this awesome town called Eureka Springs! Its so beautiful. Except the weekend we went there was an event called "Bikers, Blues, & Barbecue" so there were soooooo many motorcycles everywhere! Ughhh it was so hard to get anywhere. The first time I came to Arkansas about 2 years ago my brother took my mom and I here and I fell in love!
As we got there I had to use the bathroom so we found the quickest place we could and we were so lost and in some random neighborhood and I had been telling Trevor about these really old hotels that are supposedly "haunted" and we accidentally drove right to the biggest one! So we roamed around the hotel and below this hotel is this Catholic church so we went and roamed around that also.
There are trolleys running the streets showing cool places around Eureka Springs and when we left the hotel we went down this random street and it was just a quiet little neighborhood and we saw a trolley parked so we stopped to see what they were looking at as they were leaving. It was this wall of ivy hanging down and a deep staircase and a small little cave! It was so incredibly beautiful outside of the cave and down inside the cave it was so cold! It was actually really creepy. Inside in the very back was a candle and a little statue. It was freaky.
After exploring we got a bite to eat and headed to "Christ of the Ozarks". It's a huge Christus. The first time I saw it was 2 years ago when I first came and we were driving and I saw a HUGE statue of Christ off in the distance in between the trees and I was like "What the heck was that!?" So we went and checked it out! It felt like we were in Brazil! Its big but not as big as Brazil's. It was so fun exploring except for all the bikers!

Arkansas

This last weekend my dad sent my mom and I to Arkansas for our birthdays! My brother Mike and his family live there. It was a blast! Here are some pictures of the weekend!