hey y'all!

I bet you thought I was blogging away last week, typing up those Etsy features...not even close :)

My crew and I took a much needed vacation to an island getaway.

Probably not the island you're thinking of...

I read about this place called the Outer Banks in North Carolina about a year ago in my Family Fun magazine.

It looked like so much fun and had sooo much history there that applied to what we were studying in school.

I knew we HAD to take a kick-butt field trip to the Outer Banks.

And did we ever have a great time!

We did so much in seven days, I thought I might just fall over.

It was the good kind of busy, where you can't wait till you get to the next thing.

We spent every afternoon (but one) on the beach and found some pretty interesting things.

We brought home a PILE of seashells and PILES of memories.

I have a ton of photos to go through and a ton more loads of laundry to get to.

I cannot wait to tell y'all all about it.

Ya...I heard a lot of y'all in the past week.

I decided I like it and might just keep it. Y'all is a great word.

Here in South Dakota, we usually just say "you guys"...referring to both guys and gals.

But y'all covers both sexes and takes less effort than "you guys" so I think it should hang on for a while.

I've missed y'all so much!
I feel like we have so much catching up to do.

On the plane today, I made a list of all the posts I have in my head and...well, I have a lot of writing to do.

Ok, see you tomorrow, y'all.

xo,

{alicia}