Smithville

Yesterday, Isaac had a rare day without any appointments to go to, so we decided to have a Dream Day. I recommend this to anyone! We drove around with our camera and took pictures of anything we hope to accomplish some day. We didn't get as many pictures as I'd like, since Joslynn and Phoenix were not big fans of riding in the car for hours, but we did get a great picture of a farm house on lots of land (like what we have only much more land and the house had a wrap-around porch). We also took photos of horses.

Our little road trip lasted all day and we encountered some interesting things along the way. On one of our stops, there was a head on collision accident (praise God, nobody was hurt). That was very exciting for Phoenix because there was a tow truck and he loves big trucks. He and Isaac stood by watching that scene for 15 minutes. We ended up in a town called Smithville (must say, I love the name). This is the town where one of my favorite movies was filmed, "Hope Floats." So we got to see all of the locations where the movie was filmed and that was neat. Check that off my Bucket List! Smithville is a very cute town, and it used to be a railroad town so the little Visitor's Center there was full of train pictures and toy trains that Phoenix just loved to play with. They also had some old, original trains out on the tracks that he got to climb around on. He loved it. Also, a new movie is coming out soon called "Tree of Life" starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt (comes out June 3rd). It looks like a good movie and it, too, was filmed in Smithville. If it isn't rated R, I will be sure to check it out.

It was a lot of fun to visit a small, country town that they say is a town still stuck in the 1950's, meaning it is a safe community with great family values and a faith-based population. We really loved it there and had a lot of fun. I was raised a city girl, but I must say that the combination of being married to Isaac and living in Texas has brought me to love the small town country life.