Mule Days

On the 4th(?) weekend of each September Benson NC closes as the mules roll into town. Its Mule Days and has been a part of my life since who knows when. Brandon has had his fair share of Mule Days events as well in the years since we've been together. Its the place to go for all the horses, mules, John Deere stuff you could ever imagine. People come in from all over the country to this little town and celebrate, mules? Yeah, I'm not sure what they are celebrating actually. We hope to get in on the festivities by going to the parade on Saturday morning, full of horses, firetrucks/ambulances, clowns, high school bands, Americal Legion Commissioners, and more horses. It's pretty fun, atleast I think so... and I think Brandon likes it for the most part too! Any questions about it just ask. Maybe we'll see you there?

Cold Stone

Tonight is the world's largest ice cream social at Cold Stone. refer to the link for details: http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/ Its from 5-8pm and you get 3 oz of either Jack's (Oreo) or Emily's (Nutter Butter) creation for free!! The Pearsons will be taking part in this fun, yummy event and everyone else should too!!

Fun weekend

The Third Day/Switchfoot/Jars of Clay concert Friday night was awesome. We had super close seats (used ear plugs) and even though we didn't get there in time for the "Meet and Greet" we still had a great time. We had never seen Switchfoot before and wow, they put on an amazing show. Saturday was filled with the STATE game/win. Tony and Kelly, our neighbors, had extra tickets at the last minute and gave them to us. We had a blast and really appreciated their support of the Wolfpack. (they are UNC fans!) Sunday we went to Dunn for lunch (fried chicken and the fixins) and dessert was chocolate chip pizzert from Pizza Inn. Yes Christy, it was wonderful! We hung out with my family and played with my niece, Haydyn. She will be 6 in a month from today, a little unbelieveable if you ask me since she was born the first semester I was in college. Our weekend was just want it should be, restful and relaxing to get us ready for the week ahead. Oh, I forgot I wanted to mention that we, along with John Sorrell, will be presenting about our Africa trip/stories to our Sunday School class on Sunday morning. Hopefully pics will arrive on here soon so get excited!! Or maybe we are the ones so excited... Keep an eye out for the pics.

Not forgotten

Alas, another post. I am trying to get the hang of remembering to post on the blog. For now it will be pictureless posts because I have decided that posting pictureless is better than not posting... all agree? (Don't worry we will post Zimbabwe pics, we can't wait to actually.) Things at the Pearson house are great. Brandon is out working hard on finishing up the shed "we" (mostly Brandon) are building. It is looking like it will be finised before too long. After building the fence in our backyard and then starting up on the shed its good to see a light at the end of the tunnel. (After the shed is done we have to stain the fence, but we won't think about that for now.) Lily is still playing football with us, so much fun. The other night I heard on TV about a man that did a study with dogs responding to yawns from humans. I think it was 21 out of 30 dogs yawned back when he yawned at them. Of course we have to put his study to the test and sure enough, she yawned. We could not believe it... we laughed so hard and I think she was thinking we were crazy. I suppose us making her do that was a little crazy but amazing nonetheless. Tonight our most cool friends, Christy and Jon, invited us to a Third Day, Switchfoot, and Jars of Clay concert. They have the hookup and we have pretty good seats as well as backstage passes!! This should be really awesome. More to come about how it was. Enjoy your Friday!!

Back at it

Well everyone, we know its been a couple weeks now but we are back at it and everything is going great. We still want to thank everyone for their prayers while we were gone and also for everyone that came over and played with Lily while we are gone. She really was in great shape when we got back and hasn't missed a beat. So thank you again. We taught her a new trick this past week in honor of football season being here. She will make a great defensive lineman(or woman) one day. Her and I line up right across from each other, I say "down", she puts her front down and butt up, and then I say "set" and she pauses. And then "hut hut" and she takes off right at me, but she has this great move and she gets by me every time. It is really funny. Well have to post a video of it sometime. Anyways, we have been back at work, getting all of our laundry done, getting the lawn back in shape, building our shed, and really just hanging out. We will try and post all of our pictures soon, we promise. Take care and have a great one everyone.