Busy, Busy, Busy Day. Wonderful Day!!!

Well today was another very busy and jam packed Saturday. We started the day with a Bible Bowl cookout and study/competition. Mary did well. She was excited about getting to go do the Bible Bowl work and I hope she stays this excited about learning the Bible since it is the most important part of life. We had a good turn out and great fellowship. Thanks Don and Sandra for your hard work with these children.
Tonight we had Corners 3rd-6th grade CES Pageant. Mary's group(3rd grade) had 12 girls in it. We had to be at Beville State at 4-4:30 this afternoon for pictures. We go there around 4:30 and got her into her dress and shoes. By that time the curls had almost completely fallen out of her hair. Her hair does not hold curl very well. It was still cute. Then the pageant started at 6PM. She won Miss Photogenic (judges choice) then she won People's Choice Photogenic. She didn't place in the other part, but she was so excited to get another 2 trophies and a tiara. She was beautiful. She kept saying I got another one(trophie) to go with hers from last year. She says she wants to do it again next year. My friend Tammy took the photogenic picture. She has a great record with the picture taking. She has taken several shots for different people this year for different school pageants and everyone she has taken has won the photogenic title. So I told her she is hired for next year as well, if Mary still says she wants to do it. We will see. I am the proud momma, but I would be just as proud if she had not won anything. She is a beautiful little girl without some judge saying so. Thanks Tammy.

ME's Photo Shoot

Here is the pictures for Mary's photo shoot today with a friend of mine and her daughter. We had a great time. They were taken downtown on Morris Avenue. The girls have been good friends since k-4 at DFBK. These were taken to get a good one for Mary's photogenic contest on the 28th for her pageant. Anyone who would like to see her in the pageant is welcome to come. It is March 28th at 6PM at Bevill State in Sumiton. The first shot is the one we chose to enter. Thanks Tammy.

Weight Loss, Speech/Song Practice and Helping Someone else

This has been a busy day, but a wonderful day. It started out this morning with going to my weigh in. I wasn't expecting to lose much, but when I weighed it said I lost 1.4 pound. I asked was she sure. She said I could get back on there and see and I did. It was right. Yeah! So now I a up to a loss of 110.8 or something close to that.
Then we went to Carla's for the girls to practice there speeches and song for Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes. Our girls are doing so well. I am so proud of Mary Elizabeth. She has done alot better than I thought she would. Since she doesn't like to speak to people or in front of alot of people, I thought she woud either not do it or speak really low. No! She didn't. She got up there and said it loud enough for everyone to hear her and she lead her song and did her speech. Now all we have to do is try to memorize her speech and work on doing two verses of her song. I think she will do great. I tell her all the time it doesn't matter if she wins or not as long as she gets up there and does her best. It is just for the fun and spreading of God's word. She agrees with me. Also in two weeks she will be in her schools pageant and she is doing it as well for the fun and hopefully both of these events will help her come out of her shyness. I sure hope so, since I am still like that and don't like to talk in front of alot of people.
Then the girls met up at our house with the guys and went to a family from Corner who about 2 weeks ago lost their home to fire. We all went as a group to deliver alot of items our boys and girls and other members of the congregation collected for them. They sure seemed to really appreciate it since they lost everything and are now looking for a new place to live.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this wonderful effort to help someone who really needs the help. Also thank you to all the kids for putting in the effort to do their best when we go to L2L in Nashville.

Def Leopard/Poison/Cheap Trick

WOW!!! Three of my all time favorite bands are coming in concert together in August. Lauren and I are going and not sure who else. I absolutely cannot wait. Laruen and I both really like these bands. I grew up in the 80's listening to them and many others like them and Lauren grew up with her dad listening to them and loves them too. I cannot wait.

MIssissippi Baby Shower

I had a hard time getting Mary to be able to be checked out early on Friday so we could leave for Mississippi. I had to send a note to the teacher about checking her out. The teacher sent me a note home Wednesday saying the assistant Principal said she could check out unexcused and take 2 math tests and a spelling test on Monday, instead of Friday afternoon, for 1/2 credit. Which means that if she were to make a 100 on all 3 then she would be credited with on a 50 on all 3. Which means she will not have on a in math or a b in Language. Not going to happen. So I sent another detailed note quoting the handbook about the halfcredit business to the teacher and asked her to send it to the principal. I did not receive a note back on Thursday so I called. I asked for the teacher and she said she gave it to the assistant principal, so she tranfered me to her. She told me that she didn't have time to respond and that she has decided to excuse Mary and she could take the test Monday with full credit. I guess those handbooks do come in handy.

So off me and the kiddos went. Barry had to work and try to paint the mustang, so he didn't get to go. We went to my best friend Danaile's house for the night. We had a good time catching up. Then Saturday morning we went to our other friends house to hostess the baby shower for her. It was a long day, but it went well. Other than the several times Mary and Darlene's daughter Shelby getting into arguments. They remind me of me and Darlene when we were young. We couldn't get around each other for long without arguing with one another. SO I guess like mom's like daughter's. Dar lene has a set of twin girls 2 months younger than Mary and now she will be having another girl late March to early April.
After the shower we went to visit some other people who were like family to me when I grew up there. I spent more time at there house than planned. I had planned to get on the road before dark so it would not be too late getting home. Well I left from their house right at dusk. So off I go through the dark. We didn't get home until 10PM and I had to clean stuff up before getting to go to bed. Barry didn't do dishes or clean up after himself or clean out the litter box while I was gone. SO the house stunk. I cleaned the litter box, kicked his dirty wet clothes out of my room for him to clean up. Then he did the dishes. I got in the bed about 12.
It was a great trip just way too short. Next time it will be for several days, maybe this summer.

SNOW!!! What in Alabama.

Well we woke up to a beautiful snow fall this morning. It was coming down pretty hard and looked like we were going to get something that may last a while. We got ready to go to church and went to church thinking when we got home it would still be around. Well we were wrong. By the time we got home it was gone, not a single trace in our yard. So I didn't get to get any pics of the kiddos playing in our yard. But Joan got some in her yard. So I will try to get some from her to post. Barry hit me in the back with a snow ball when we were headed into church this morning. I got him back when we came out. I hit him in the face(not expected, just turned at the right time) with a large one. The kiddos played a little in Joan's yard. Christopher was having a blast trowing snowballs at all of us and hittting us. He has a good aim. The kiddos were just in awe on the way to church just looking at everything with snow covering it. So pretty. But no it is all gone. So sad.