Photo Contest

Hayden is in a photo contest with a photographer. We need you to vote for him at http://jeniajohnsonphotographyblog.com/2008/11/22/cast-your-vote/ You can vote every day. He is in a tie for first right now, and it's almost over.

Family Day

I know I haven't written in a while so I have to catch up on a couple of things, lets go back to last Sunday.

Sunday was a GREAT day, after filling up the church row with 15 Prevosts and family we had a great sermon on Phillipians 4 about God supplying all of our needs, and He will take care of us as long as we rely on Him. How we shouldn't chase material, worldly things and but spiritual things, how we should still give or not stop giving in this time of economic crisis and depend on God, because there are so many people out there in this world right now that have MUCH less than we do. To not complain about what we don't have, but thank God for what we do have! After this message, it made me want to open up my closets and give away everything I don't use, and that's a lot of stuff!

So after church we made our way to my parent's house where all of the same family from church met up for lunch. It was a good thing that we bought the 25 lbs. turkey at the Case Lot Sale at the base, because we sure did need it with all of those people. After a lunch of Turkey, Ham, Crockpot Dressing, Broccolli Casserole, butterbeans, stuffed celery, deviled eggs, rolls, fruit salad, and 2 desserts we were all stuffed and ready to take a nap. But that didn't happen except for with Little Kinsey, poor thing was wiped out after that long day, so she passed out in Granny's lap while all of the lady's sat around talking and the men played football outside after their lunches settled. Oh, yeah and a quick photo opt with some of the family. This in my opinion, was a great day! I love my family!!!

Mistletoe, Round 2

Friday afternoon I went to the Sit, Eat and Be pretty luncheon at Mistletoe, and I had a change of heart on Mistletoe Marketplace. The Junior Auxilary and Baptist, hosted this luncheon where Bon Ami provided a lite lunch of Spinach Salad, Chicken Salad, honeydew melon and the best part, a chocolate pudding with cream on top (yummy!). Deanna Farve (Brett Farve's wife) was the keynote speaker and spoke on her battle with breast cancer as well as many other struggles in her life being married to a famous football player. She was truly an inspiration, and she probably didn't even realize it, she said she was shy, but you would have never known it, she was great! After she spoke there was a fashion show where the models wore clothes from The Rogue and Coattails, very cute, but expensive. I took a lot of pictures in hopes to find the same items at cheaper places. I know, smart right?!?!? All the while, I was getting to sit with some of the best women that I know, Clarion Ledger's Momslikeme.com gang!!! I left here feeling better about Mistletoe Market place without such a negative outlook, although, when I did go "shopping" (what little I did, I hit up all of the food booths, go figure) I found the GREATEST honey butter. Cowboy Country's Amaretto Pecan Honey Butter, this was the best stuff I have put in my mouth in a long time. As a fellow mom squad member put it, this stuff can make any carbohydrate taste wonderful (not exactly it Nicole, but pretty close) and she's right!!! If you haven't bought any of this in the past, don't plan on getting any in Ms this year, they are from Texas and have done their rounds at Mistletoe for the year so you will have to wait until next year, or hit Nicole up for one of her 15 jars.

Christmas already?

That's right... Christmas is right around the corner but we first have to pass through Thanksgiving! Obviously, the people who set up Mistletoe Marketplace didn't get the same memo as I. This morning after I ran out of gas (read the other post for that story) and dropped Hayden off at MMO I headed to work the momslikeme.com/Clarion Ledger booth. We have T'shirts and books of Marshall Ramsey's (that he is signing) that we are selling. However, if you have ever been to Mistletoe you know they have a ton of Handmade products that are way over priced (in my opinion), very cute and holidayish, but not in my catagory of fun. We were sitting at our booth, myself, Marshall, and another momslikeme.com volunteer, and we were people watching. Yep, that' probably one of my favorite past times, that's also probably why Jeff and I get along so well because we are both people watchers and that means we really don't have to talk to each other (haha, just kidding, or am I?). Anyway, so we are sitting there with our shirts and books, not handmade and not over priced, meaning that people were not really interested at the time so we got to watch and talk... about everyone. When I first arrived, they hadn't let the cattle gates open yet so there were people who wanted to pay EXTRA to get in before the crowd. Mind you, I have never been to Misteltoe Marketplace so I had never seen the "crowd" that comes to this event, and it is truly an event!!! As I'm sitting there watching the first "crowd" I'm thinking, "man this is a lot of people to sit and watch and talk about". There is a girl that walks by with her mom (uh-huh her mom, meaning she needed to be in school) decked out in her winter attire, okay, how cold was it today? It wasn't, that's right, especially at 10:00 in the morning when they were there. Then we see people who are dressed to the nines to go shop, no way would you catch me in some of the garb they had one just to shop, especially on concrete floors, very uncomfortable. I just wish I could've gone to the Gala on opening night last night to see all of that, I'm sure everyone had fun and ate well. After all of this, 11:00 roles around and the REAL crowd comes in. Ain't no way on this earth are you gonna catch me shopping in that. Once I took a break and walked around for a minute I walked straight back to my booth. In that 2 or 3 minutes I had taken maybe 2 or 3 steps away from where I was and ran back for cover. When they asked why I was back so soon, I told them I would take my break at the booth, I can't stand crowds, they really drives me crazy! And they really do, there was no breathing room in that place once everyone else was let in. Needless to say, I am going back tonight to work from 6-9 so if you want to pay $10 to get into a madhouse come see me at the Clarion Ledger booth, otherwise, I'm sure I'll see you soon enough.

Gas... What's that for?

This morning as I am on my way to work at Mistletoe Marketplace I am driving down Liberty Rd/Flowood Dr. and I run out of gas for the first time in my life. Yes, I said I ran out of gas this morning, and yes it was in the middle of the a super busy street, luckily I know how to put my car in Neutral and coast to the Capital Body shop parking lot. Another good thing was that Jeff took off of work today (little did he know it would be to be there to help me out). God knew what he was doing when he had Jeff take off of work, but he failed to remind me that I needed to get gas in the car. So he did remind me I suppose, when the light came on Tuesday night and the lady in my car said, "Low Fuel... STUPID!" Ok, she didn't call me stupid, but she may as well have when I ignored her and kept driving. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that I have a fairly new car, larger than the little "rice burner" Honda that I used to drive. You could drive for days with the light on in that thing, but not the HHR. We kept going on Tuesday night when the warning came on, driving around trying to find a place under $2 trying to get lucky. We didn't find anytihng, so I continued driving saying that I would wait until Wednesday to get gas because as fast as it was going down I'm sure it would be down past $2. Well.... no, it wasn't!!! So the only place I drove yesterday was my mamaw's house and then back home, never thinking to get gas on my way home. So, like I said, this was the ONLY place I drove yesterday, then woke up this morning to take Hayden to Mother's Morning Out with full intensions of getting gas, but before I made it to a gas station I started putting down the road. With my foot on the gas to the floor board I wasn't going anywhere but straight to humility!!! Luckily I was close to Capital Body Shop parking lot so I put it in Neutral and coasted my way in. Embarassed as anything to call Jeff and tell him to come bring me some gas! Being the sweetheart that he is, he did and I was on my merry way! For future reference, don't ever compair a Honda Civic's gas tank to a Chevy HHR's! Although, the Honda would have made it for sure!

I'm over it!

So it all ended (or should I say, it had just begun) on my birthday of all days! On November 4, 2008 I woke up to a wonderful birthday surprise from my mama, a card, candy, MONEY (always a plus), and a bear (later found it wasn't for me) left on my door step, with a wake up call telling me to go outside. After this, Hayden and I went and voted, okay, so I voted Hayden just went. The perfect start to a great birthday! Through out the day I recieved several calls, text, emails and so forth telling me (and singing to me) happy birthday. Jeff came home from work and called Hayden outside, a few minutes later they both come inside and Hayden is dragging a bag behind him, hands it to me and says, "Happy birfay mama" absolutely precious, that kids melts my heart with every word these days. I open the bag up to find a Nintendo DS Lite (I'm such a kid I know, but I know the only way I got it was because my husband is a kid also and will play on it just as much as me), after opening my gift and reading my sweet card from my sweet husband with a personal signature from my 2 year old, Jeff tells me we are going to Biaggi's for dinner. This is a new Italian Restaraunt in Renaissance that I have been waiting to eat at for a while! It was AMAZING!!!!!!! The people, the service, the atmosphere, the food all superb and not expensive at all (in my opinion)! They served homemade bread made with mashed potatoes (probably why I liked them so much) that you could dip in olive oil with cracked black pepper and parmesean cheese mixed in. Then we moved on to an appetizer of crab, shrimp and spinach dip, this is like an artichoke and spinach dip, also to die for! As if we were not already full we still had our entree to go, Jeff ordered Veal Parmesean which he said was great, I couldn't try it just knowing what it was (I have a hard enough time eating red meat sometimes). I ordered Black Fettucine and Lobster! This was great, it had HUGE chunks of lobster in with the pasta and the cream sauce, this was also amazing. Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE food, so I will pretty much try and eat anything, but this was one of the best meals that I've had in a really long time (besides my own of course). Well... the night ended with having to watch the turn out of the elections! We all pretty much knew the outcome I believe, but hoped and PRAYED for the best. God works miracles everyday and I truly believe he has a plan for us, I just hope that everyone is prayed up and knows Jesus as their Lord and Savior because I think there are plenty of hard times to come and that is the only way to get through them. So that was the end to my night after a wonderful day, and then I had to wake up and hear about it all over the news, peoples blogs, the daily paper, and everywhere else. I'm so over hearing and reading about the "CHANGE". I'm sorry, but when I am having to support someone elses child and the child's mama and daddy out of our hard earned money I will not strive for the "American Dream" (as my husband says) anymore. I will probably be just as content to live in my middle class ways and let someone support me if I can get it out of them, since everyone else is going to be doing the same. Okay, enough of being on the soap box, I'll step down now. But like I said before, I'm so over it!