Back to School

Going back to school time is always a sad time for me! Austin and Beau headed back to Starkville with the excitement of moving into a townhouse and Ashton headed back to high school with the excitement of being a Senior! Boo Hoo! What will I do next year???

Also in August, Mark and I took our good friends Trey and Courtney to Port Gibson. It was the weekend of the member guest at Moss Wood, so Mark and Trey played lots of golf and Courtney and I did our own thing. Courtney likes true life ghost stories on t.v. and was very disappointed when Momma and John did not come out to greet her. She mentioned a house in St. Francisville, LA that was known as the most haunted house in America; so I googled it and found out it's only and hour and a half away from Port Gibson. We took the tour and walked the grounds in hopes of seeing a ghost or two and I took lots of pictures hoping there would be a ghost in one. These two pictures are of Courtney holding the hand of her imaginary ghost friend and the other one is of the front of the house and if you blow it up really big and look in the front door ( the one with lights on either side) you can see the ghost of the two children that were killed there. They were killed after eating birthday cake laced with oleander! Look close; I'm not kidding! The girl is very clear on the left and the boy is not as clear on the right!!

Mark's Birthday

Ashton made Mark a fabulous cake for his birthday. We had a party at home with Austin, Ashton and Ellen. After having Mark's favorite meal (hamburgers)and opening presents, we surprised him with a bag of candy with movie tickets inside for a late movie.

Our 25th Wedding Anniversary

Mark and I celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary on July 23rd. It's hard to believe we have been married that long. Time goes by so fast....but what a wonderful ride it has been so far! I'm looking forward to many more wonderful years! We celebrated with Austin and Ashton and Ellen at Shapley's Restaurant.

Happy Birthday to Me!

This year for my birthday Mark surprised me with a new truck...I named him Cowboy! We had planned a trip to Memphis with the kids so we loaded up in Cowboy. We were so comfortable...it's so nice having a vehicle we can all ride in comfortably! For our trip everyone picked something they wanted to do while in Memphis....Ashton picked going to the opening night of Momma Mia...Austin picked a really nice store that sold men's clothes and the Vineyard Vines Store....Mark picked eating at a BBQ restaurant that served barbeque spaghetti...and I picked the Memphis Flea Market! It was all lots of fun. We also had a great time on Beale Street at night! When we got home Mom and Tom had a dinner for me for my birthday! Mom used her headvase collection with flowers in them for the table centerpiece. Ashton made me the beautiful cake!

Corn Pickin' in Port Gibson

Everytime we drive the trace on our way to Port Gibson and the corn is in bloom I have wanted to stop and pick some, but Mark has not let me! SO....When Ashton, Amber and I went in July we did just that! We didn't know that corn has a short window of time to be picked for human eating vs. for the cows! ha-ha... It was a bit ( a lot) hard, but we ate it and enjoyed it. We did worry about awakening to explosive diarhea, but thankfully that did not happen.

Another great time in Port Gibson!

Visit to Mountain Home

Sister said the weather was cool and beautiful for June in Mountain Home, so Ashton and I decided to leave the heat of Madison and make a road trip to Mountain Home. For lunch on the way there we stopped at a gas station, that is now our favorite, and got great deli sandwiches and could not resist the T-Shirts!! We arrived in Mountain Home to the same Hot Weather that we left behind, but we had a great visit. We shopped and scrapped and went to the movie!!

Father's Day

For Father's Day this year we got Mark a bike. After trying it out, Mark and Austin decided we all needed to ride to the tennis courts and play some tennis. Ashton however, didn't have a racquet so we headed off to Academy Sports. After the kids were through clowning around with a see saw we headed inside.

We really got carried away shopping, we ended up with new racquets and MATCHING OUTFITS for teams. ha-ha After playing several games...rounds...?? we decided we LOOKED much better than we played! We had a great time.