Little Thing 51

Waking up and rolling over to this sight...

Really, when you start a day like this, it's gonna be a good one.

Waking up 2 Hours Earlier...

is sometimes quite worth it.

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday Morning

((My Poopsie, Ollie))

Y'all - this is exactly how I'm feelin' this morning.

I'm beyond exhausted and it's only Wednesday.

Come back tonight for today's realllll post.

A Gift to Myself...

Hope everyone had a safe holiday filled with lots of family and friends.

I'm still getting back into the swing of things after having a bit of time off, but I wanted to share a little gift that I got myself...

I ordered this a few weeks ago and I got it right before the holidays...

It's a custom laptop skin from SkinIt all decked out with two of my favorite iPhone photos from Lake Fausse Point!

Now, even my laptop screams "Dixie Lust"

I Got Swamped...

...at Magees Landing.

Yep... after our deep fried delicious lunch at Magee's, walking around the gift shop lasted about 3 minutes before we decided it was time for an impromptu swamp tour.

The tour itself was a teesnie bit painful (sorry!) but I blame it on actually being Cajun and the fact that tourist humor makes me cringe (even when I ammmm a tourist.)

The sights on the other hand...

((ps. the bridge? Interstate 10.))



















































































((photos via iPhone))

Little Thing 36

Watching my dad take 7 minutes to figure out my iPhone camera, all in the sake of getting a photo of me & my brother, Michael.

Magee's Landing

Remember how I escaped away to Lake Fausse Point for Thanksgiving? Well as the days went on, my family of 60 or so (you think I'm kidding... I'm not.) dwindled down to a few of my favorite ladies - my mum, her two sisters, and her brothers wife. They always joke that I'm allowed to hang out with them because I don't have any baggage like my cousins *cough*kids*cough* But in all seriousness, I adore the time I spend with them.

Best part? They're not ones to just sit around and do nothing.

Case in point: The Saturday after Thanksgiving, my mum, Aunt Debi, & I got up early and walked almost 4 & 1/2 miles in nature trails, and still weren't wiped out. So we went back to the cabin, rounded up the last two girls and set out for the boat landing.

We made our way up the Levee towards Henderson, and found our selves doing lunch at one of my favorite places - Magee's Landing!

Here's a few photos from our impromptu lunch date:

Kayaks out in front of the landing


I just love their bright hand painted signage.


Lookie a little crawfish to match Gaston up on my header!


This one is my favorite.... I can still feel the sunshine

I had to tell me aunts to keep their clothes on!


Yes. Dead Alligator. On the coffee bar. Inside the restaurant.


View from our table


What to get.... What to get...Decisions!


You can't tell, but like the vultures we are, we noticed those people were having boiled crawfish (and we wondered if they were big...and easy to peel...and well seasoned)


Another view...couldn't help myself


Yes mon chere'.... those are alligator shaped french fries. Supposedly copyrighted - Magee's is the only place you can get them!


Kind of dark - Trucks backed up on the levee


Back it uppppp


A teaser as to what came next.....