It's almost 2010!

This blogging thing was so much more fun when more people did it. Not that I don't love to ramble, but I can only do it for so long before I get the same kind of feeling that I get when I talk to a brick wall...or my mother when Raelee is around, haha. ;)

I hope all of you had a fabulous Christmas. Mine was wonderful, lots of family time, which was great.

I can't believe it's already almost 2010. It seems like just yesterday everyone was freaking out about Y2K. Anyway, 2009 was a pretty good year. I did a lot of traveling, just me and Holly which was cool because up until this year we were always going with someone like the gparents or parents. We traveled to KS, IA, TN, MO and TX.

I guess I'll do a pretty quick re-cap of 2009 highlights:

1.) The Iowa trip- My first Hailey Faith show. :) & it was worth the 10hr drive...I got to see two of my best friends Hai and Em for about 3hrs...and see my 1st HF show...and learn that beer has a higher pt percentage in IA then OK. sheesh. I'd do it again IN A HEARTBEAT. :)

2.)Country Stampede - With my music sistah and bff (Amy and Mike. :) ). They "won" us tickets and invited us to their good ole' KS home. We saw some great music, drank some great wine, picked some geetar and made memories that will last a lifetime. :)

3.) Back to Back...to Back Eric Church shows - simply put: "pretty boys actin tough, rascal flatts, give it up..." EC, plus lots of Emily time = a fav memory of '09.

4.)Nick's Bday -I've been friends with Nick for 4 yrs and I FINALLY got to celebrate his bday with him! :) Dinner + PLAY with my favorite guy ever = fabulous!

5.)6 HR trip to see BS with Jettica - trip was longer than we calculated, but it was worth it. A re-cap: drinking a whole bottle of blake's bacardi, trying to walk the 4 miles back to our hotel at 2 am, trying to learn guitar from Jess and forever being nicknamed "pukey" by BS. That's really all I remember. ;)

6.) My 22nd birthday in Nashville. :) - Being surrounded by sooo many of my great friends just meant the world to me. Amy came in from MO, Casey and Kyle came from Okie, then I had my Nashville loves, Emily, Lauren, and Nick and I got to see Blakie while I was in town. Soooo blessed to have such a good circle of friends. love you all. xoxoxo

7.) Honeyyy (Randy Rogers :) ) - "Ya'll we can't leave yet....Randy Rogers is in here". I love all of the nights at Losers I shared w/ a few of my friends, but this one was my favorite. Running into Randy with Holly, Emmy and Blake and watching them try to impress him by doing shots was hilarious. & it can't go w/o mentioning that I had to drive my deliriously happy/drunk friend home, but not before a way to loud radio blaring RRB and a homeless trying to reach into our car. Oh boyyy.

8.)Arkansas with Casey & Holz to see our favorite Ashley Ray. It was a great show and we loved getting to all chat with her. Plus the roadtrip up there was fun...I love my smalltown bff!! Casey remember what happened when we sent Holly to look for A Ray? She came back we asked her if she saw her and she said no, but she got a beer. ha classic!

9.)Traveling to Arkansas once again to see Charlie Robison and Sunny Sweeney with Jenni from the Block! Seriously anywhere we go w/ Jennifer shooo i be tellin you what, it's a good ole time. Arkansas boys, ghetto talk, and hellooo SUNNY SWEENEY! Let the good times roll...(come back to OKIE Sunny...like soon. :) )

10.) The TX trip! Ok, so after the driving around for hours looking for a bar that we literally passed 900 bazillion times, and showing my cranky side to Jessica, we had fun. haha Thanks to our Texassss derby girls for letting us crash with them. Finally I see Hailey when we're both on vaca. & of course, lunch with my favorite Texas girl, and fellow fried pickle fan, Meredith. :)

11.)Nashville...where a stayed a day too long. haha - My most relaxing "feels like home" Nashville trip. Late night conversations, wine nights, songwriting fun and snuggle time = soo much fun w/ my little Hailey bug. + Hiking with Em and shopping with Nick. & me, hoz, hai and Kacey thinking very seriously about all simutaneously snapping a pic of of the Asian lady who just did not want her picture taken at Cafe Coco. Oh crazy, memorable moments. Oh yeah and staying one extra night and getting pulled over in Memphis eaaaaaarly in the morning for going 71 in a 70. Oh Nashville, the things I do for you.

Ok, so that really just touches the sruface for my most favorite traveling memories of '09. I had sooooo much fun with all of you and can't wait for 2010. Which ps for those of you who don't know is the year that I um...MOVE TO NASHVILLE. :)

OKIE love
-Lyssa