Southern Comfort: 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Britt's 5th Grade Field Trip

For their 5th grade field trip we took off for The Mobile Explorium and The Dolphin Island Sea Lab. It was a very fun filled day with lots of clowning around!

Ballerina?? Maybe not so much! :)

In front of the GIANT heart.

Horse Shoe Crab in the touch pool

I think she caught something here... not too sure!

Cheese!

Some of the 5th graders enjoying the outdoor section of the Sea Lab.

Hard to believe that my first born is going to middle school next year! Just doesn't seem like it should be so soon. However, as each day goes by and I look at the beautiful young person she is turning into, I do realize that this is just part of life! Robert calls her butterfly... I can't think of a better name for her!

Citizenship!

Singing "There You'll Be"-- Faith Hill. Yes, I cried like a baby!

Mamaw, Me, Justin, Britt and PawPaw John after the ceremony.

Britt-Britt and Tay-Tay... soul sista's!

Ta and Britt getting ready for the Luah

5th grade Talent Show. Singing "Baby"-- Justin Beiber

Relay for life... Spiderman with the silly string! LOL!

Christmas party... nobody likes to have their picture taken with their mom in front of their friends... but she did it... reluctantly! LOL!

She played 2nd base this year. This was her 1st year of softball. She went from T-Ball to Minor League Baseball and then took a year or two off!

5th grade walk was emotional for her as she leaves to go to middle school because she knows that the kids are not all going to the same schools. This picture was on North Escambia's website and it made Robert and I both cry when we saw it from out of town.

God bless my child and guide her through these years and into adulthood. Help me to be what she needs me to be, in order for her to grow into the beautiful person you have called her to be! Amen.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Ashleigh's 1st Grade Year at a glance

Time sure does fly! It feels like she just started Kindergarten and here she is finishing up her 1st grade year. God has blessed me with some sweet sweet babies!

Ashleigh getting her 1st grade awards

Relay for Life

Making water globes and end of the year crafts!

Singing at Church for Easter

Christmas Party

Ashleigh's Grandparents Breakfast with Mamaw and Gran Cindy

Trying to win candy out of Gran Cindy's machine

@ the skating rink with the other Hannah R.

She was a Vampire Queen for Halloween

Cheerleading (she was crying in this picture because they didn't win 1st place! LOL!)

At our school Carnival with the Fire Dog

Hannah's Kindergarten year at a glance

My baby is getting so big! I can't believe that she is graduating Kindergarten! Seems like just yesterday I walked her to class!

I was there to see my Hannah graduate from Kindergarten! She's so excited!!

But missed water play day! They had a blast!

Yummy water melon!

Getting ready for the Relay for Life Parade. Underdogs

Grandparents Breakfast With Gran Cindy and Mamaw

3 of a Kind play. She was one of the 3 Billy Goat's Gruff

@ her Christmas Party together!

@ the Corn Maze

Of course she was Tinkerbell for Halloween!

My little Cheerleader

I had the privilege to coach this group of girls and they are amazing! We took 2nd place!

Monday, July 26, 2010

Anniversary Time

We met over lunch with a mutual friend, Michael, in July 9 years ago and have been together ever since.

We married July 26th, 2004.... but they screwed up our license so it says our anniversary is the 23rd! We were broke and couldn't afford anything more expensive than Ramon Noodles at the time so I wore a HUGE CZ wedding ring from Target that cost $19.99! LOL! And I wore it with pride. (I did tell him that I would wear it until he could afford the ring that I wanted... so that made it easier to wear it!)

We renewed our vows July 12th, 2008 with a wedding. After all that we went through with the fire and rebuilding our house and our life, we decided that life is too short and this was our way of rededicating ourselves to each other and our family.

(We have 3 anniversary dates to choose from and wouldn't you know that we missed all 3 this year! I literally jumped up at 11:30pm 7/26/10 to do this! And of course it won't be done by midnight... but it's the thought that counts and since we both forgot... 3 times this year! Neither gets to be upset with the other!)

As you can see above, it was raining on our wedding day. I don't mean a little sprinkle... I mean torrential downpour! (Or yes honey, it was raining spiders!) And it lasted until about 30 minutes before our scheduled time!

My wedding planner, who was awesome, was frantically trying to figure out how to accommodate 150-200 people in my house for the ceremony when I told her I was not changing my plans! She probably thought I had gone crazy! I was determined that I had waited years to have this wedding and that I WAS going down that isle come you know what or High Waters and I was getting served high waters with the flood in my front yard! LOL! I had groomsman on stand by offering to carry me down to the alter! LOL!

But our prayers were answered 30 minutes before the ceremony and every towel I owned got put to work drying all the benches!

Decorations were ready...

Grooms cake was a duck pond. Wedding cake was Camo to match the guys mossy oak tuxedos

Here are some pics of everyone getting ready:

The men in my life are so handsome!

Time to go down the Isle:

Brittanie hated her dress, of course, but isn't she beautiful! She actually stuck her tongue out at the photographer as she walked by. But he was laughing and didn't get that pic!