Brad's Parents Visit (Shrimpfest, Montgomery, Open Mic Nights), Baby Dylan, and Halloween

Hey ya'll! As usual, it's been too long between posts, so we're gonna sum it all up in one easy blog!

My parents came to visit on October 9th and spent 10 whole days here! We had a freakin blast!




We only spent a couple days at the beach, but we did so much else!

My Dad totally fixed our back porch screen and doors and we spent every night out there playing Spades.









Victoria and I never won a game, but we got rrrreeeealllly close every time.

We ate at Lamberts, went to Shrimpfest down at the public beach, and David and I played a couple good open mic nights at Floribama and Janna's Market.

Here's some pics to sum all that up.




























Later on in the week Mom, Dad, Victoria, and I all got in the car and went to Montgomery to see Jamey Johnson at the Alabama National Fair. We were able to get my Uncle Dale and Aunt Christine to come with us! Jamey Johnson was amazing. Me and Dale snuck backstage after the show, but were quickly asked to leave... oh well.
















We stayed at Aunt Christine and Uncle Dale's place in Prattville. We had a great time. We met up with my other Aunt and Uncle after the concert and we all went to IHOP, then went back to Dale's to sleep. We had a great time, and Victoria loved meeting my Dad's side of the family!



















The next day, we headed back to Gulf Shores, and had a great couple-few days just hanging around.


When it came time for my folks to leave, I caught a ride back to St. Louis with them so I could try to be there for Brian and Sara to have their baby. My dad helped me fix my truck while I was home so I could drive it back down here. I could only stay a few days, so I missed it, but Dylan Patrick Hart was born weighing 7 lbs, 10 oz on Saturday October 24th. I left on Wednesday! Only missed it by 3 days... He had to stay in the NICU for a couple days but he got to go home healthy and happy on Tuesday! Brian and Sarabell are parents!









He looks like his daddy, God forgive him. haha kidding.



Anyway, on to Halloween! This blog is covering quite the span of time here...

We made this Halloween Gingerbread House! Isn't it the ugliest gingerbread house you've ever seen? We're really proud of it. Haha.





And we carved pumpkins...



Victoria and I were superheroes again! (cheap costumes!)



David and Shelly were too, though we didn't get a good pic of it.


We had alot of fun Halloween night! We didn't really have any money to go out anywhere so we stayed in with David and Shelly and had Victoria's friend Amy over. Her boyfriend's name is Ryan and they're always so fun, although they didn't dress up for Halloween....




We just hung out on the prch and played games and stuff. We didn't get any trick or treaters, so we got to eat all the candy we bought!






The girls throwing it up for Waylon Jennings.


I'm sure we missed a big party back home, but we had fun anyway. It was definitely the most low key halloween we've ever had!

Well, that about catches us up doesn't it? We love and miss all of you. Come visit us! We'll see ya'll at Christmas! BYYYYYYE!


OH! PS: Go to our music page here: BRAD JACKSON MUSIC and listen to the new songs! Alot more to come shortly!

Just a routine update.

Hey guys. Sorry we wait so long between posts!

Just a few little updates:

Victoria and I had a great time visiting St. Louis a couple weeks ago!
I got to sing at Wente's in Chesterfield that Saturday night. It was a blast!

A little news, as well: They asked me to come back to Wentes and sing the day before Thanksgiving! So I'll be back for a few days around then!

Other than that, David and I have been learning alot of new songs and playing all the open mic nights around here! People are LOVING it!

The plan is to spend the winter networking and playing these open mic nights and as many gigs as we can get. We've also found a guy who might record us this winter. So then, when the season rolls back around, we'll be able to sell as many cds as possible, and count on the tourists to take our stuff home with them. Then when it comes time to hit Nashville, we might atleast have some sort of following or atleast some people who know who we are!

So the plan is in motion!

Anyway, everything else is going good. I need to get hired somewhere before I can start training for my CDL, but I'm on the verge of it, so I'm about to be a truck driver! Haha, whodathunk?

Victoria is doing great, working hard, making money. She misses you all very much and says to send her love.

We love you guys! See you all soon!

Seth and the GATOR FARM!!!

Hey ya'll! Sorry we havent posted for a bit! We're just getting settled into routine with the roomates and whatnot.

Plus, Seth came to visit this week!

We went crabbing the first day and attempted to have some blue crab dinner, but everyone except David and Shelly got pretty grossed out. We were watching a video aboout how to pick blue crab and the guy called the crab guts "mustard" and then ate it all..... I was done after that.

Anyway, the next day Seth, Victoria, and I went to ALLIGATOR ALLEY!!!
It's this local gator farm that takes in alligators that have attacked humans or other animals. Kindof like gator jail.

They have 175 or so full size gators and some massive ones! Like 14 feet long!


Also, they have Captain Crunch, who holds the world record for strongest alligator bite at like 2989 lbs of pressure. That's nuts!

They even had some little baby gators that you could feed! I took a video!


Here's their website, if you're interested: GATOR ALLEY FARM

We got to see a feeding and the guy was just in there with like 20 gators, some of them like 800 lbs and 13-14 feet long! They'd hiss and try to bite him and he'd just prod them with a stick and be like, "Get outta here." He was kindof a badass.

Seth and I went to the beach later that day and did some boogie boarding.

Seth, David, and I played some music last night, which was really cool. We recorded a song together that I'm really excited about!

Anyway, he left today, but we had a great time!


Love ya'll!