In Love with the Land

I have had the most awesomest friends ever this summer.

One of them being Justin...aka J...aka JSum.

I love it cuz he has a girlfriend who he is in love with and y'all know about my Ryguy...so seriously, we are strictly BFF's.

He lives out in the country, and I am so jealous. Something I love about MO is that you can drive 2 minutes outside of town and it's considered country. It's still so close to everything yet you feel secluded from that city slicker scene and it's just awesome.

I want to live on property like J's family one day. They have the coolest house/land/living place.

You pull up on their gravel driveway with their two outside dogs right there to greet ya.

They have a pond and beautiful rolling hills, and some cows that make sounds I've never heard cows make before.

They have a barn with big old hay bales to climb on, and lots of trees to climb.

They have a beautiful wrap around porch that I love to sit out on, sipping on my diet cherry limeade while watching the sun go down.

His parents are so friendly and greet you with a

"Hey y'all! I'm making some tacos, you've eaten yet?"

everytime I go over.

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Tonight a girlfriend and I headed up to the property to have a 'BONDfire.'

It ended up being us girls sitting on the bench watching the boys try and start a fire for an hour.

After the conversation got dry, we all just laid our heads back and star-gazed.

Truly, there is nothing more summer than that.

For posterity sake....just getting in tuned with my inner lumberjack.

I laughed after I saw this picture above because I remembered this picture below:

and for some reason J is always on his cell phone. What a tool.

Their farm is beautiful...with peach trees, pear trees, apple trees and more. J invited me over one day just to sit outside and pick some peaches. Deeeelish!

Whenever I see these pictures it makes the kid in me go crazy....I just feel so free and open to run around and do as I please when I'm there.

I hope and hope and hope that my husband wants to live on land like this.

It's almost becoming a requirement for my husband, the older I get.

I want my kids to be able to see the beauty in fishin in a pond, getting grass stains, and smelling like campfire by the end of the night.

I'll stand ready with my tweezers to pick off all their ticks.

Gladly.