Our Visit to Missouri and Arkansas

This summer we had the opportunity to travel back to Arkansas, my place of birth and were both of my grandparents live. For all of our years of marriage, we have had school year round, so taking long vacations were hard to do. This was our first full summer and we thought that we would go to visit. My sister and her new husband were planning the same trip, so we thought it would be fun for all of us to go together and to show our husbands all of the childhood memories that we have in Arkansas and Missouri.

Here are some of the highlights of our trip:

#1 Bass Pro Headquarters--the camping, hunting fishing mecca ---


#2 Shooting off fireworks---
Our husbands had a blast buying fireworks and shooting them off. Definitely something we can't really do here in AZ. Let's just say that there were a few close calls with fireworks misfiring, but thankfully no one got hurt!

#3 Visiting the College where my parents met and the church that they were married in.


#4 Visiting with all of the family and friends. I wish that we lived closer to every single one of these people...




#5 Fishing, canoeing and admiring the green scenery





#6 Seeing the sights:
A beautiful resort in Branson, MO

Lambert's Restaurant "home of the throwed rolls" ---they literally throw hot rolls at you!

The Branson Landing--an outdoor shopping center that is right on the water.

#7 Walmart.
Why is it that when you visit small towns you shop at Walmart almost everyday?


These were just the highlights, there were so many other fun memories from the trip. We had a blast with my sister and her husband and I hope that we are able to go back soon.

June 9- Our Anniversary

We celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary this summer. On that thursday we went to dinner at Hillstone by the Biltmore. It was DELISH! I loved the atmosphere and the food was good as well. I had the Thai Steak and Noodle Salad and Shaun had the French Dip. Yum!


Over the weekend we stayed the night at the Hyatt Gainey Ranch. We had stayed there for our second anniversary and really loved it! We laid out by the pool, ordered Pei Wei and had dinner on our porch, got up and had a wonderful brunch at the one of the resort's restaurants, and then laid out by the pool some more. It was so relaxing!

May 2011

Let's start with an recap with what happened in May....

My brother Philip graduated high school. It was fun to have family in town to celebrate his graduation from Pinnacle. Below is a photo from one of his graduation dinners where we had a low country boil. YUM! The reason I don't have a photo of him in his cap and gown is because he actually got the flu a couple hours before the graduation ceremony and he didn't get to go :(



My littlest sister, Hope, graduated from 8th grade. This marked the end of the Dickison kids attending Paradise Valley Christian Prepatory. I stared PVCS in 3rd grade, that means that there have been Dickison's there for the last 14 years! We all thought it would be fun to get a group photo with our principle....

It's about time I updated this blog.....

There have been some MAJOR changes around the Palmer house. If you bear with me I will update the blog over the next few days.


I think I just got tired of blogging for the last few months... but I will fill you all in shortly.