Waking up on my birthday at 5AM without my family was definitely a bust! I definitely wasn’t starting off my day feeling country-ish… especially being around my Hollywood publicist and her outfit!  But as we were driving on the bus that’s when I started feeling country because we were literally in the country… like… in the middle of nowhere! Pulling up to the first mud bog was scary because I was definitely not ready to get in the mud yet but I knew it was coming at some point, but it was good I had some warm up before the big scene!  The second mud bog we went to was just wrong! LOL!! It was GREEN and looked like it was full of all kinds of crazy disease!  That’s when I started praying.   Then I saw the American flag and that was a breath of fresh air because you can’t get mud on the American flag!  And finally… the finale where we had to get in the mud! I don’t think anyone was actually expecting me to do it, but come on…what’s my name?!! There was a point where I could have taken my tank top off and danced around in my bikini top but I decided not to because I felt like that would have been tooooooo dirty ; ) On the way back from the video shoot what you guys didn’t see is that I forgot to pack my own soap to wash all the mud off with so I had to use hand soap from the bathroom LOL!! But I didn’t care! I was SO desperate to get clean.  I had a fun day but talk about a dirty, cold, lonely feeling being without my family.  I’m on my way to the hotel room, put the key in the door, open it up and guess who’s standing there???  Right there, right in front of me was all I needed in my life.  Everything else was just a bonus, everything that matters was standing right there behind that hotel door. All I needed was my family and I got it. It was the best birthday gift I’ve ever had.