Happy Birthday To Me!!!! Berry College Style.

What a beautiful day!!!! In SO many ways!

It began with James wishing me Happy Birthday right at midnight :) And not long after, we drove by the bar where we know we will be going on James' and Zach's birthday!!! (They have the SAME birthday! Crazy!) And we are playing at the Georgia Fair again in October, and ALL the performers go to the same hotel bar to hang out and wind down after the day. :)

We arrived in Rome, Georgia this morning around 6am. We checked into a hotel, and they let us stay late until 1, which was amazing. I slept so hard for the first time in a long time! It was excellent. And then we got up and headed to Berry College for our show. When we walked into the dressing room, the student had these in there for my birthday!!!


They said they got me a birthday cake, but they were really embarrassed because the cake lady misspelled my name: "Natlie"
(What the kids didn't realize was that I don't really care WHAT was written on the cake. I would have been JUST as happy eating a misspelled birthday cake as a correctly spelled cake! Actually.... it's funnier misspelled!)

The weather was GORGEOUS!!! Along with the campus at Berry. Berry College has the largest Campus in the World - 26,000 beautiful acres. And they have an 8 to 1 deer to student population!! :) I was so excited to get to wear a short sleeve shirt! But as the sun went down... our audience keep migrating backwards to try to STAY in the sun. It was a pretty funny site - we were right next to a big building that was blocking the sun as it went down... and it was REALLY chilly when you were in the shade.



These sweet kiddos grew up in Alaska! So they like "Even Alaska".
Dawson and Kyndall


"Those Awesome Guys" That's what I called this group of guys. They opened for us, but they haven't exactly decided on a band name yet... but they were really good! So they are just "Those Awesome Guys" to me.


And here's the awesome students that put on this event! They REALLY took good care of us, and were just so sweet. They went above and beyond to make sure we had everything we needed. Just the best. We love you guys!


After the show, we loaded up and were gonna go to LongHorn Steakhouse... but there was such a long wait that we decided to just try the Mexican Restaurant across the parking lot. It was another excellent choice!! And they sang to me!!! Brought me free Sopapillas, and put the sombrero on me! David just sent me this picture:


SO YAY!!! Great birthday!!! I haven't even gotten to look at my facebook page, yet. But I have already gotten so many sweet messages, text messages, cards, and even an entire audience sang to me today! The guys pushed me out of the way right before we started the last song... I was really confused why they weren't letting me sing the vocal part... but it was because they told EVERYONE it was my birthday and had the entire audience sing to me. It was pretty awesome.

I am one happy and thankful girl. I feel so loved.
Thank you to EVERYONE for making today such a special one.

Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie