Crazy Cats!!!

Have YOU been to Crazy Cat's Bakery in Highland Village? It was my first time and it was fabulous! Or maybe it was who I was with that made it so good:) I had the privilege of eating and visiting with Melissa Abraham and Janet House.

Then it was off to Freedom Ridge Park in Ridgeland to watch my dear friend CoCo (Coach Caton) and the Lady Patriot fast-pitch softball team play. They advanced to Saturday's semi-finals...YAAAAAY! CoCo's parent's are here from Canada, so I got to hang out with them and TayTay during the games.

Tonight's Prep JV football at Parklane Academy in McComb...I'm hoping I'll get to take a little detour to BrookHAVEN!!!

Yaaaay, Fall Is Here!

Don't you just love this weather!! At night it's just awesome

This week started with a Bang...I received a phone call from one of my very favorite people on this planet... Donna Nations Clayton from Tupelo. I enjoyed catching up with her, she always knows the best "scoop"! Also on Monday I had lunch with Betsy @ Aladdin... as you can see, Aladdin has become my favorite "hang-out"!

Yesterday was John Mark Darden Baird's birthday! We celebrated by going to the Prep vs JA 8th Grade football game. It was a "nail biter"-HA! The final score was a tie...0-0! No braggin' rights for 8th grade this year! What made it GREAT was that my parents came...it always makes my day to get to see them! Just before we left for the game I had a surprise...my sweet niece Jamie came by to see me with a delicious-looking Creme Cake in hand & balloons. Lee said with all the cakes, he and I are going to GAIN 40 lbs before my birthday:) It will be a delicious 40 lbs, though!

What a Weekend!

My Friday started with Bon Ami...my sis-in-laws Cheryl and Gloria were taking our cousin Em (from Austin, TX) to lunch. Since I had plans to have a picnic with my precious neice Betsy at Prep, I just popped in and enjoyed a glass of delicious raspberry tea!

Then it was off to Prep where I had the best picnic ever with Betsy and a crew of her friends. It was so fun to be with all of them. Friday was "Super Hero" day, so they were all dressed up...I asked BB why she didn't dress up like me?! HA!

Friday night I had the pleasure of being with my boys! Lee, Sam & I had dinner at Aladdin...I love their yummy Gyros and Hummus!

Saturday Lee & I had planned to work in the yard, but, due to the rain, we opted to go to a couple of nurseries & pick out trees for our yard. My sweet niece Macey called me several times & sent me an e-card. I'm sooo excited that she's coming home this weekend! It seems like forever since I've gotten to see her!

Saturday night the Ozier clan met @ Charles & Linda's for dinner to celebrated our beloved Aunt Sarah's 90th Birthday! She came to visit this weekend from Austin. We had 26 family members there! It was so good to be with her. She has always been so fun! We also found out that our precious niece Stephanie is engaged!!!

Sunday was another great sermon @ Pinelake. Chip talked about how God is "looking to & fro" for His children to obey Him so that He can bless them...just like we earthy parents do for our children. It's so easy to go through day after day not thinking about our responsibilities as Christians. We are to be "in this world but not of it"...we are supposed to be different!

Sunday night we had our small group @ Tara & Keys's. That "Sugar Sweet" Joyce Miskelly baked an incredible chocolate chip cake that I got to bring home half!! You comin' Bev...it sho was good for breakfast this mornin'!

Let's Get Ready for Some Football!

Last night was a perfect football night! Prep JV played Lamar and won 35-7...wooooohooooo!!! And the weather was so nice. It was just the thing I needed to lift my spirits...you see, developers have been cutting down all of the trees behind our house to prepare for building:( So sad! So, yesterday I spent much of the day watching the trees fall and invisioning what I can do to create a barrier...any ideas are welcomed! I did call Lee and warn him before he came home.

Sweet Mary Daniels was another bright spot in my day:) along with the humming birds and butterflies that visited me!

The Days are Flyin'

The Chocolate cake is officially gone...and I can tell you that it was definitely good to the last crumb! Now I know when I want my friends to come see me, all I need to do is bake a cake!

This week has already been full of phone calls. Monday was from "My Best Friend" in BrookHAVEN!

I picked up the phone yesterday to her my sweet 96 year old grandmother's voice!!! Now that just made my day! It was my daddy's birthday, so she reminisced about how she delivered him in the home where she still lives! "I remember that day...right there in that bedroom." She tells how she cried the day she found out she was pregnant with him because she already had 4 children, but goes on to say, "but he has been such a blessing from the moment he was born!" AMEN SISTA!

Finally, my precious niece Betsy called and invited me to have a "picnic" with her at Prep on Friday...awwww!

Days 37 and 36

Yesterday, day 37 was a really good day. Sunday is absolutely my favorite day of the week! This Sunday was even more special because Caleb Miskelly was baptized! I am so proud of him and excited for him. Please join me in praying for all of our kids, and especially for Caleb this week. Those teenage years almost did me in, so I really feel for our kids today and what they are facing.
Chip preached about being discouraged and how to continue to press on. As usual, he got so much out of the OLD testament! I feel so blessed to be under his leadership right now. God has truly anointed him for this time.

Sunday afternoons are usually "nap time" for me. I dozed in and out while watching the football games with my "boys". And woke up just in time to get ready to go to small group at Marty and Shannon Mays. Since our group is made up of mostly "Dawgs", you can imagine what some of our conversations were about! We did, however, discuss the chaplain of our beloved bulldogs and things that he is doing to reach our guys for Christ. He is a very positive influence and seems to also be very effective. So, we find comfort in knowing that victories are great, but the real victory is the "end game"!
After we got home, Lee gave me an envelope that my sister Robyn had given him. So sweet! She found 40 promises of God and printed them out for me.

Today, my sister Rhonda's mother-in-love, Mama Jane came over and gave me a sweet book about sisters and a beautiful chocolate cake! She said that it freezes well and I said, "I don't think we're going to have to worry about it being frozen!" You coming over Bev?!
My precious friend Brittany and her family are giving each other a "bug"... YUCK. Please pray for them to be healed quickly!!!
Oh, and I talked to my sweet niece Jamie and we are going to get together Wednesday morning...I'm so excited...we hardly ever get to spend time together.

I'm thinking I may go into withdrawals after these 40 days:)

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