Alabama

Alabama 32 - Florida 13

University of Alabama Crimson Tide - 2009 SEC Champions

This guy really proved last night that he's a great quarterback!

And if # 22 Mark Ingram doesn't win the Heisman, well he really should!

I have sat back and listened to people bad mouth Alabama not just before this game but the whole season, I have heard Tim Tebow's name until I am sick of hearing it, I will be a nice fan and just say this victory was great and I'm so proud of the Crimson Tide !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Final Stop

Our final stop while in Blount Co., AL is somewhere I have wanted to visit for years but never wanted to make that 3 hour drive just to go there. I was really excited when I found out where the repelling trip was because I knew now I'd have my chance ...

We got to visit the Hays Cemetery in Hayden, AL where grave sites of my 5th great grandparents are located, Stanwick W. Hays and Catherine Counts Hays. Stanwick was born in the year 1786 in South Carolina and died in 1878 in Blount County. Catherine was born in the year 1790 in South Carolina and died in 1834 in Blount Co.

After Catherine's death Stanwick married Elizabeth Mullings. In all Stanwick fathered at least 20 children. Shewwwwwwww, can you imagine that many children?

For those of you who know me, you know we spell Hayes different, it was with my 4th great grandfather, David C. Hayes that the "E" was added to Hayes and that is how my family continues to spell it today.

Below is a cute old house located on Hays Cemetery Rd. that we passed going to the cemetery. Don't you just wonder about the families that once lived in this house, what life must have been like for them. I can just picture in my mind children outside playing underneath that big tree.

An Old Covered Bridge

While in Oneonta, Alabama on our trip Saturday we passed a sign on the road that said Covered Bridge. We turned around and went back, here's what we found.

This is the Easley Bridge, built in 1927. It is the oldest of the 3 remaining bridges in Blount County. The bridge spans the Dub Branch.

The other two bridges in Blount County are: The Horton Mill Bridge, built in 1935, it is the highest covered bridge built over water in the U.S., it towers over a deep gorge cut by the Warrior River. And the Swann-Joy Bridge, built in 1933. It is the longest surviving covered bridge in Alabama (324 ft). It spans Locust Fork on the Warrior River.

I wish we had taken the time to visit these two bridges but we were running out of daylight and I still had one more place I wanted to visit, which I'll post about tomorrow.

Just so you know each Autumn there is a Blount County Covered Bridge Festival, I would love to go next year and visit all 3 bridges.

Rock Repelling

This past Saturday Steve, Molly and I went with the Venturing and Boy Scout group to Oneonta, AL to Palisades Park to do some rock repelling. Well, call me chicken if you want to but I didn't do it, Steve and Molly did though. Molly chickened out on her first attempt, she just couldn't do it. There were a few who got geared up and once they got to the edge ready to take that first step they couldn't. I don't blame them one bit though. Of course Steve did it with no problem, he made it look easy.
I wish I didn't have such a fear of heights but I do, really bad!

Here are a few shots from our fun day.

Molly & Penni

Thank goodness Molly had a nice guy (Micah)

to repel down beside her, if not for him she

wouldn't have made it, a couple of times she

started crying and froze but he did a great

job getting her going again.

Parent's Anniversary

Today is my parent's 42 wedding anniversary so a big Happy Anniversary to them. :-)
Don't think I'll get to see them today, getting ready to take Molly to Birmingham for her doctor visit. (ughhh) I did hear my mom got a pretty nice gift though, a new ring.

Dreamin' Of The Beach

I love the beach so today I decided to make me a little seashell Christmas tree. I may add more to it but for now this it.

Just so you know

I haven't left the country or kicked the bucket, I'm still here. :-)


Tracy