Monday, October 17, 2011

WE ARE MOVING

to a new blog!

You can find the new blog here . . .
http://themayofamily.wordpress.com/

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Fabulously Fun Fall Break!

This past week we had Monday and Tuesday off from school for fall break. I decided to take those days off from work also so that we could have some much needed family time together! This time of year is always busy and hard as Jim spends most weekends doing band stuff and the boys and I are left in our own.

Monday we spent the afternoon at the zoo. We have never really gone at that time of the day before but we went at 1 and stayed until almost closing and it was wonderful!

This is Drew with the Dino! They have a dinosaur exhibit coming in the spring and this is out there to advertise it.


JC checking out the elephants. I think he was making the elephant sound for me in this one.


This is Drew's very good friend, Caleb and his younger sister Lilly. Drew and Caleb do not get to see each other too often but when they do it is like they have never been apart! It is very sweet!


Here is the whole gang! They are quite a bunch!


They looked so excited! They get pretty tired of us moms taking their pictures.


JC, this was about the 4th try and I finally got him to look at me!


Watching the sea lion show together





And, I got JC to pose for a fall pictures while Drew was in the bat house.



Now, for a video I have been quite anxious to get posted! JC LOVES football! He will watch on tv whenever we find it on. Well, we got a video of him watching it the other day . . .

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Big Wins and Payoffs

ANNOUNCEMENT:
We are now officially car note free!!!! YeeeeeHaaaaaw! For the first time in our married life (and the first time in 14 years for me) we no longer have a car note. This is a most exciting thing to us. We are praying that God will help us to care for both vehicles well and to get a few more years out of each.

And then, as if paying the car off was not enough, the same day, the OB Quistors beat the South Panola Tigers! Oh yeah, that is the team they like to refer to as The University of South Panola! And we did it on their home turf! And we didn't just like barely win, we dominated the game people! Final score: 24 OB 6 South Panola. This was an awesome thing for our team. I just hate I was not there to see it. The boys and I do not go to the away games yet, JC needs to be a bit older before we start trying that.

Last night was homecoming at OB. We played Desoto Central, which was not a very fun game. I am not even sure what the final score was but when we left it was about 40 to nothing. It was a fun week though. The schools had spirit week and got to dress in different themes all week long. Monday was sports day, wear a team shirt or jersey. Tuesday, was crazy hat day. Wednesday was silly sock day. Thursday was tacky day. Friday, of course, was blue and gold day! They had the homecoming parade during the day and all the kids got to come outside their schools to watch it. We had a really fun time last night at the game. The boys really enjoyed it. We stayed with Jim throughout the game because he will not see the kids much for the remainder of the weekend.

Today is State Marching Festival in Tupelo. My sister is keeping the kids and I will be riding on the bus with Jim. It will be a long day. We probably will not get home until about midnight. I always enjoy this day though. They have a great stadium for spectating. It will be nice when I can just take the kids with me, only a few more years.

Well I better run and finish up the laundry before it is time to take them to Southaven!





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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Goofy Fun

It has been crazy busy the past couple of weeks. It is our busy time of year anyway but there are weeks in there that always end up extra busy. It is hard to find time to just unwind and relax when it is like this because it seems that the only time we stop is when it is bed time! So, it was really a treat this past week to just have some down time on Monday evening and to be able to just laugh!

On my iPad I have an app called Photo Booth, which allows you to take pictures with some interesting and often funny effects! I several pics of my nephews while I was over there that afternoon and then again at home that night with the kids. So here they are:

My nephew Ben







My nephew Nathan










Double take of JC






Drew, of course he loved getting his picture taken! He is always a big ham and more than willing to pose!









This one is from today, just me and JC having fun together!


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