“You know you live in Vestavia Hills...”

1. “When you see a Rebel T-shirt and you don’t automatically think it’s for Ole Miss.”

Michelle Seale

2. “When you say you live on Canyon Road and are immediately asked if you live in ‘the mannequin house’!

Salena Whalen-Staler

3. “When your children had the same teachers in 2008 as you did back in 1978!”

Katherine Conyers Manush

4. “When you can call on your local firemen and police to stop by your child’s birthday party or classroom on request.”

Allyson Bell McLean

5. “You witness proposals from one of the most beautiful outlooks in Birmingham-Sybil Temple.”

Renie Porter Moss

6. “When a ‘hilly’ race course doesn’t scare you at all because all of your training runs have been hill training in your Vestavia Hills neighborhood whether you planned on it or not.” 

Robin Crane White

7. “When a ‘snowstorm’ hits unexpectedly, schools dismiss, cars are everywhere and everyone is either out in ATVs, 4-wheeled drives or walking to get your children home or someplace safe and warm.”

Bridgett Whatley Glasgow

8. “When you get all your recommendations and news from ‘What’s happening in Vestavia’”

Sara M. Nix

9. “When you have brain surgery and the entire community supports and prays for you and your family like no other place in America!”

Tracy Tiberia Thornton

10. “When there’s so much altitude change on your commute that your ears pop.”

Dan Carsen

11. “When you know the end of the saying, ‘When you play one Rebel...’Also, your child went to ‘The Best Middle School in America.’”

Katie O’neal Cecil

12. “When you drive through the city in the spring and the azaleas, dogwoods, cherry trees, tulips, daffodils are all in bloom”

Mary McCullough Berryman