Kale, my oldest, lives a couple of hours away in Fayetteville where he goes to college and works. Every chance I get to go visit , I jump on it!! He has a nice little apartment and is always gracious enough to put up his mama for the night. We usually eat big and have a grand time. This weekend was lots of fun because not only did I get to go see Kale (and his girlfriend, Kayla), but Tyler went with me. Our plan was to go looking for a new car with LOTS of gas mileage. I've been driving my Pathfinder, which only gets about 15 mpg. We started on Friday evening testing cars - and car dealers - ugh! We got up Saturday morning and went to Bentonville and ended up at a Nissan dealer. We got there around 10:00 AM and left around 5:30 PM! We were worn out... but here's my grocery-getter!!
Before we left the lot, Kale traded in his SWEET Mazda CX-7 ...
for this...
We did our best to help put food on that poor car dealer's table.
My good friend, Melody, lives in Bentonville, so we decided to make a stop by her house before heading for home. She recently bought a beautiful historic home built in 1887... she's about done doing her renovations, so we got the grand tour. It's simply amazing. The architecture is so detailed and beautiful. I don't know how they did such detailed work way back then. I don't have any pictures of the inside of the house, but it's 5,000 square feet of loveliness!! Here's a shot from the outside...
Her neighborhood is filled with old historic homes. I'd love to go through the neighborhood knocking on doors asking for tours of their homes! I doubt they'd appreciate that!
5 comments:
Love you new car...what is it? Can't believe Kale bought a new car too! Wow! They were happy to see you guys come in, weren't they?
Congrats to the both of you...nothing smells better than a new car!! But it only lasts a little while!
It's a Nissan Sentra (like Austin's and Katherine's). You're right... it only lasts a while... that's why I'm not paying for a Lexus! Ha!
I love all of those old homes too and I REALLY want to knock on the doors and ask for tours. Mom told me about your friend's house so I looked it up and I LOVE it! It is so neat! I would love to see the inside! She needs to get on the Christmas tour of homes!
Love the new cars!!!
Still can't believe sometimes that little Kale that I babysat as a TODDLER has an apartment and a car and a soon to be job! I'm so old!
Kelly, she was on the tour of homes in her homes in Harrison. I have no doubt she'll do it again in Bentonville. She has quite a gift of decorating, too. I told your Mom that sometime when all three of us are in/around Bentonville, I'll take you in to her house. (Mel approved as well)
And, little Kale has an engineering job at Southwest Energy and LOVES it!
Oh my goodness...like Kelly, I cannot believe that's Kale that I babysat!?! That seems like MAYBE 5 years ago...where did all those years go?? I'm sure that was a wonderful time together this weekend!
Your friend's home is beautiful. I'd love to see the inside of it.
I did not know you had a blog until tonight (I linked to it from Judy M), but I'm excited to be able to read about your family!
P.S. Love the heading photo!
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