A Picture Tag

Y0nca at Yonca is Cooking has tagged me in a fun picture tag!  It is much easier than the meme (although you won’t get as much dirt on me this way).

Simple Rules:

• Open your first photo folder (I took this to mean oldest digital pictures folder).
• Scroll down to the 10th photo.
• Post that photo and story on your blog.
• Tag five others (or more) friends to do the same

Here is the aforementioned picture of a slightly drunk Brittany (me) and her boyfriend of less than 1 year Ross, who is now her husband.  It actually was not a digital picture but was in my “first” folder because I scanned a bunch of pictures for my mom after Ross and I got engaged for the engagement party she threw for us at her house.  It was a wonderful jolt to look at this “first folder” because it is a whole folder of pics leading up to Ross and my engagement and wedding.

Bahamas Spring Break 1998

This is a picture of my only “real” spring break.  It was my sophomore year in college.  All of the other years I worked, but this year my boyfriend (hee hee) and a bunch of our friends decided to rent a bunch of sailboats in Miami and sail to the Bahamas, stopping at little islands but always sleeping on the boat.   If you think this sounds cheap, it was.  That is how I could afford to go.  This is a picture of me, slightly drunk and very in love.  Still new in love.  That means, if you can’t tell from my smile, that I was still in complete lust as well.  It is also a picture of Ross’ last spring break and the longest vacation he had (tied with our honeymoon) until he lost his job in April and had 3 months off.  It is a picture of me, sunburnt, which never happens except that my SPF 50 combined with a lot of alcohol could not beat the sun in the middle of the ocean.  It is a picture on a little tiny island (around other little islands) with no name that I can remember that only has a little shack restaurant with fabulous food and a bunch of chickens and a main house where the owners live.  You take your dinghy from the sailboat to the shore.  It was a great meal, it was a great night.  And it turns out that more than 10 years later I am still in love (and lust) with this man.  He is my heart and the father of my beautiful children and if I could, I would love to have a few glasses of wine with him tonight, remembering these beautiful days and planning our next trip to the beach.

I am tagging…

1.  Amy from Amy Musings.  Amy is funny and sarcastic and just an all around hoot to read!

2.  Existential Waitress.  Mommy of 2 cuties from Las Vegas baby!  Hoping I can befriend her and hang out with her the next time my husband feels the urge to play craps into the middle of the night and then wake up to breakfast and blackjack.

3.  Metropolitan Mama.  Great blog and great posts up right now on eco-friendly fashion and nursing fashion in honor of the end of World Breastfeeding week.  She’s in sunny Arizona so I will be eagerly befriending her too!

4.  Pink Green Chick – Another fab eco-friendly mama with a giveaway right now for an AWESOME organic bug spray Brittanie’s Thyme.  Thinking about the mosquito bite on my eye right now, I really need this!  She does her posts on all things eco-friendly, but maybe she can dig out a pic for us.  If not – enter the giveaway!

5.  Gina at Signals from the Mothership.   Gina is so cute and funny and crafty and I just found her so I thought I would share her with you.  I love to share you know!

Thanks for the memories.  TAG.  You’re It!