Alabama raised and proud!

A friend posted this on her facebook page tonight and it really made me sit back and think...hmmmm...I wasn't born in Alabama...but people think I was....I wasn't raised in Alabama but people always think I was! I'm so very glad they think that!! simply because I'm proud of Alabama!!! I was born in Memphis...and raised in Mississippi!! ( sounds like a Sugarland song! ) Born in Mississippi and Up to no Good! Anyway...that's my life! Born in Memphis...raised in Memphis/Mississippi..you see...we lived on the county line...in fact my grandfather's law office was on State Line Road in Southaven, MS and one set of grandparents lived in Whitehaven, TN and one lived in Southaven, MS....sort of like Hoover/Vestavia if you are familiar with Birmingham. The best part of that was the fact that Elvis' house was right smack dab in the middle!!! and you better believe we are all Elvis fans! So don't go  making fun! I will show you...my mom and I were actually on a cover of a magazine with Elvis when I was four! and my uncle was best friends with Elvis' stepbrother and in his wedding... my mom and her friends used to sneak over the fence at Graceland and watch Elvis and Priscilla by the pool....my dad studied under Elvis' Dr. who later got them front row seats when he saw them in line for a Las Vegas show....which is all true...and then I could go on and on!! But I don't need too! I will put pictures up when I can convescate them from my mother!! Even her ring tone is "Hearbreak Hotel!" It's so embarrassing!!!!

The point of all of this is that the South has risen again!!! There isn't anyplace like it in the USA!! When I was 6 we moved to Denver, CO for my dad's residency training in GI....(gastroenterology...) and then on to California for a two year stint.....which was fabulous in my young mind! Such fun memories...
Why I'm even telling you all of this is beyond me!! I think I'm just waiting up on Miller to get home and when Teresa posted this thing about being raised in Alabama it just got the memories stirring!!!!
When we finally moved back to the south for my dad to open his own GI practice I remember distinctly thinking that I wished I had ALWAYS grown up here just like all of my new best friends had! And that i REALLY wanted it for my children! Thankfully...I married a man that was born and raised here and more than that...loved his family, his heritage and his Lord above all else!!! God was faithful!!! and i'm very blessed to be living in the State of Alabama!!
and really, really, really grateful that we all are Auburn fans in the State of Alabama!!! need I say more??