Archive for Weekend

Reunion Weekend!

{ September 4, 2008 @ 9:26 pm } · { Friends, Hometown, Reunion, Travel, Weekend }
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I am SOOOOO excited – tomorrow Barry and I head out of town to my 20th HIGH SCHOOL CLASS REUNION.  I have been helping plan this big shin-dig for the past couple of months and have been hearing from and talking to friends that I haven’t seen or kept in touch with for YEARS.  I feel like this weekend will be a huge mix of what we did back then and where we are and what we’re doing now.  I hope that we will stay closer now that technology allows such wonderful means of communication.  I hope to post some pics by early next week……..maybe even a pic of me in 1988 and now.  Scary!!

I will let you in on a funny, sort of embarrasing secret about me.  I often took on the role of mother figure to many of my guy friends.  You know, sort of guiding them through how they should act and what they should and shouldn’t do so that led to a really crazy nickname:  McGruff.  Does anyone remember “McGruff the Crime Dog”??  His motto was “take a bit out of crime”.  Hilarious, I know!!

Does anyone have an embarrassing or funny nickname?  I would LOVE to know about it!

A Few Random Friday Thoughts/Updates

{ August 8, 2008 @ 10:24 am } · { Birthday, Church, Family, Friends, Kiddos, MediSpa, Prayer Request, School, Weekend }
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Today’s post is all over the board but had lots of updates and thoughts to share……….

I want to update everyone on my family friend, Teresa, who is still at Vanderbilt.  I think this is something like day 39 of her stay there.  She is still improving, slowly but surely.  She still has to have a breathing tube due to the damage to her lungs.  She is desperately trying to talk and communicate but the tube is definitely hindering it.  She still has to have her colon “washed out” from all of the toxins in her system.  Overall, things are going MUCH better in her recovery.  Just this week, she mouthed that she wants to go home and also smiled at several friends who came to visit from home.  Her oldest son became engaged and she mouthed “wonderful”.  Thanks again for the many thoughts and prayers.  The whole family has felt them.

So, school started today for Bailey.  She is now going to Nashville Christian and is super excited about it.  Her grade (5th), only has a total of 40 students.  With such a small class, she is sure to get a lot of individual attention and instruction which is wonderful.  On the other hand, I think of the size of the classes that I had in school.  They were much larger and I had a very diverse group of friends as a result.

Sam starts school on Monday and is also pretty excited about his second year at Meigs Magnet Middle.  He’s still not finished with his summer project which has to be turned in next Friday.  The assignment required him to read 3 books and then create a newspaper from characters, events, etc in the books.  He had to write an editorial, a cartoon, a review, 3 ads and a character sketch.  Talk about a lot of work for a summer project in 6th grade!

We have had a great week at the MediSpa – maybe one of our busiest ever.  We are in Clipper Magazine and are about to be in CouponMint.  It sure was hard to part with the $$ that it costs to advertise in these, but we have already broken even and we still have people calling to book consults and appointments.  Thank you, Lord!!

Last, but certainly not least, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my best cuz, Whitney.  Her birthday is actually Sunday but I believe she’s been celebrating “Birthday Week” which is something we strongly believe in!!  We will celebrate with her on Sunday with a special birthday lunch after church.  Have a great one, Whit….love you bunches!!

What does your weekend look like?  Doing anything special?  Do tell!

FUN WEEK

{ August 1, 2008 @ 1:14 pm } · { Friends, Lake, Sports, Travel, Vacation, Weekend }
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Sam and I just returned (last evening) from our mom/son trip to ATL.  We had a really good time, despite the heat and rain!  We saw two Braves games (they lost both), went to World of Coke, Georgia Aquarium and the Atlanta Zoo.  We had never been to World of Coke or GA Aquarium and let me just say that BOTH were really great.  I took some great pics and will try to post them soon.  There are so many other attractions in ATL, it is definitely a great place to spend a few days having fun.

I’m off to Center Hill Lake this afternoon with around 10-15 sorority sisters (ADPis from our days at MTSU).  We will relax, eat, sleep, boat, swim and maybe do some water sports.  Mostly we’ll just enjoy hanging out together without any real responsibilities for 48 hours.

Hope everyone will try to have a little bit of FUN this weekend!!

Weekend and Water

{ June 25, 2008 @ 2:19 pm } · { Family, Fishing, Hometown, Kiddos, Lake, Weekend }
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I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything since the 12th – I guess you could say that we’ve been BUSY!

Sam and I visited my family back home this weekend.  We had a great time seeing my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. We ended up doing a lot of water-based activities.  Here are a few highlights:

Sam finally caught “Big Willy” the catfish.  He has gotten away several times, taken many worms and crickets and broken many lines.  Nice catch, Sambo!!  Many thanks to all of our friends who let us invade their ponds in search of the “big one”!!

 

Sam and Reed caught big air on the tubes at Pickwick Lake.  Reed is my first cousin (his parents are Molly and Jack and Whitney is his big sis).  He is Sam’s best friend.  They are all the coolest!!  Molly and Jack have a great boat and are great hosts.  I’ve been going to the lake with them since I was a kid.  Good times!

We had a fun family cook-out and swimming party at my Aunt Lisa and Uncle Benny’s house.  We were celebrating their daughter, my cousin, Jessica’s son Reagan’s 2nd Birthday.  We were also welcoming Reagan’s little brother, Grayson, into the fam.  He was born May 27th.  Precious boys – SO CUTE!

I caught up on some R & R and discovered that I have a new favorite author, Karen Kingsbury.  I finished her book, Between Sundays, in a record 3 days!!  :)   Can’t wait to start one of her other books!

Weekend and SYNC

{ June 2, 2008 @ 9:25 am } · { Church, Friends, Pets, Vacation, Weekend }
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Many, many thanks to our friends and neighbors, Mark and Cindy, for our fun weekend at their place on the Duck River. It’s about an hour down the road from our house so it’s the perfect “get-away” that’s still relatively close to home.

Cindy and I headed out late Friday afternoon to meet up with the guys who had been fortunate enough to leave the evening before. We had a great time just hanging out, EATING, telling funny stories, did I mention EATING, kayaking and watching our dogs chase each other around (they have a large hound mix puppy and we have a Yorkie – they were absolutely hilarious playing together – one BIG puppy and one SMALL puppy).

The guys spent most of Friday fishing with some pretty nice catches. Small and large mouth bass, I think. No “fish” stories – I saw the evidence and was impressed. Cindy and I were going to spend Saturday just chilling out, fishing, EATING, but we decided to be a little more adventurous and go kayaking with the guys. It was a lot of fun! When I think of a kayak, I think of this little bitty boat that flips over really easily. I almost have a phobia of them………however, these kayaks are not quite so intimidating – they have a really large opening for your body so that your legs can even stretch all the way out. We spent 4-5 hours on this beautiful little tributary to the Duck River. We only saw one snake (hate them!) and it was far enough away that I couldn’t tell if it was poisonous or not. Of course, those of you who know my husband, know that he cannot pass up an opportunity to “get a better look” so off he headed to see what kind of snake it was. COPPERHEAD! I remained on the bank, frozen, until it headed off to the other side. Barry took his diving gear and was able to see lots of big fish and cool things around some of the banks and rock ledges. I watched from the comfort of either the bank or my boat. ;)

We were up at the crack of dawn on Sunday morning so we could head back for church at Crosspoint. We have a new series, SYNC, which really hits home about the addiction that many of us have to noise, chaos, technology, etc. As Pat mentioned in his comment about our TV dilemma, the timing of this series is perfect. The service was amazing – awesome video by Matt, amazing music by Jarrod and Miranda and of course, Pete never lets us down with his gift of delivering the best messages. I got to hang out with Whit and Linds for a while in the Cafe so we could catch up on everything Then, I worked in the 1 yr old class with Mrs. Wax, aka Brandi Wilson, during the 11 service. She is a lot of fun!! It was an awesome morning!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!