Thanksgiving vaction

I hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving and you all didn't eat to much (hehe wishful thinking). My family and I traveled from our little home in Mississippi to the children's grandparents house in Beaumont, TX and feasted with some of the best people on earth. I have never seen so much food in all my life and it was all good!! You guys know I'm not going to turn down good food no matter what.

We left on Wednesday early in the morning and drove straight thru 8 hours across some bridges that made my knuckles turn white because they were so high up in the air. Most bridges don't bother me but this one scared the you know what out of me. We arrived there about 3:00 Wednesday afternoon ready to eat. Jessie had made her homemade burritos and boy they were good. Then of course Thursday was thanksgiving. Besides all the food the wine was flowing like a river around there. It was really warm out like almost 80 degrees and the wine and the heat wasn't mixing with me really well so I went in the house and cooled off watching a really cool program. Later after it had cooled off outside I went back out and joined everyone again talking and drinking more wine. By this time a couple of others showed up, Jessie's niece and her children, who by the way I have heard about since I was pregnant with Cody. I finally got to meet her after all these years. She is so sweet. So, Jessie's sisters and niece and myself all sat around and drank wine. We laughed and giggled so much that we all hurt. I haven't had that much fun in a long while.
Friday we went to the mall and later that evening we went out to eat together. Saturday morning was the day that we were suppose to drive back home, so I get all the kids up and start taking showers and getting everything together. I look up and I have my kids standing around me crying begging me to talk to daddy about staying another day. They didn't want to leave their grandpa so then they got me to crying along with them. I talked to Gary and we decided to stay another day. I am very glad we did. Gary decided to make crab burgers for everyone so Jessie and I went to the local grocery store. This was the biggest grocery store I have ever been in so big in fact that Gary and I went back just to look around and see what we could see.
Gary cooked the crab burgers and Grandpa Billy cooked the JoJo fries and we all sat down and ate together. Sunday it was time to go home and the tears started up again. The kids and I could barely get thru hugging Grandpa and Grandma. We all had such a good time and really love them both.
Billy is the only link that the kids have to their real fathers side of the family. Their real dad has a drug problem and lives on the street. The only time they see him is if we are riding down the street and hes out walking or panhandling. Yes I know this is sad but he chose his path. I think it is very important that the kids have a relationship with their grandfather to know about their background. And Billy is the only grandfather that they have ever known.
We had a great time and look forward to the time that we can go again, hopefully sometime in the Spring.

Happy Birthday Cody

Today is my oldest childs 16th birthday. I can not believe that that much time has gone by already. It seems like yesterday that I had him and he was just a little baby in my arms. Cody has had his ups and downs but he is turning out to be a fine young man. I have boohoo'd all evening because I know in a couple of years that he will be going to college, getting married and having children of his own. Where the heck has the time gone.

Cody at 3 weeks old

Cody at 15 1/2.

Happy Birthday Cody I love you!!!!

Finished

I finished the baby blanket that I made using Deneen's pattern. I added a bit of a edge to it and I think it turned out pretty well but am anxious to hear Deneen's opinion.

Day 8

I know what the heck is day 8? Well today is day 8, the eighth day that I have been doing weight watchers again. I'm attempting to do it on my own because I just can't afford to go back to the meetings right now. So far so good. I was about starving by the time I got home this evening. Tori was trying out for another band at church and we didn't get finished to around 8pm then I drove her and her friend to the friends house for the night, (no school tomorrow for election day, makes no sense to me but thats what they do down here). I did good, for all the hunger pains that I was feeling I didn't stop at any of the fast food places that surround the area. One would think that since I was able to stop smoking with minimal effort that loosing some weight wouldn't be that hard. But it is.

I told you guys a couple of days ago that I would post some pictures of the Cairo that sunk during the Civil war. So here ya go:

The outer view.

Inside the Cairo

A view of the cannons facing the battleground.

I told you guys that I would post a couple of pictures of Vicksburg Military Park so here is a few.

As you can tell we had a beautiful day there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

This is the entrance to the park. A very impressive site upon entering.

This is the monument to the Illinois troops. The park was celebrating it's 100th anniversary and had re-en actors there. They fired off a cannon that about scared the crap out of us, the ground rocked. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see it because we were around the corner at the battlefield.

A picture of one of the monument from across one of the fields.

This the monument of Grant. It is positioned way up on a hill looking down on the road.

These are just a few I will post more tomorrow. I have some really good ones of one of the iron clad boats that carried cannons. It's called the Cairo.

Today has been the longest day in court I have ever sat thru. Not so much the hours of court but the fact that it has been a cluster f***. From the moment we stepped in the door of the court room anything that could go wrong did. To the point one of the defendants threw up all over the third and fourth rows of the court room. The paramedics got called in and checked him out. The worst of it is this happened around 1:30 and it is now after 3:00 and no one has come to clean it up. This is stupid. This guy probably has a stomach flu and now everyone in the court room has come down with it too. We probably will not get out of court till 6 or 7 tonight and Shelby has soccer practice. That reminds me I need to call Gary and see if he can take him tonight. I won't be out of here to do it. Last night was Cody's last football practice for the season till spring and Tori's soccer is only on Saturdays and Tuesdays weather permitting. I am so glad that it is slowing down some, it is time for a break.

I want to stay home and knit, crochet or play on my computer, I'm tired of running kids all over the state for right now. I haven't gotten any Christmas projects done, last year at this time I had about all of them done. I'm still working on the baby blanket of Deneen's design and hope to finish it soon. Deneen it is turning out so very cute!! It would be so cute with the baby pompadour yarn also. The whole time I have been working on this I was wishing that I had that type of yarn. I think I am going to make another one for "in case" and I'm going to use that type.
*As of the time I left work 6:00pm it still hadn't been cleaned up, talk about bio hazard*

Who'd a thunk it....

I am from the South, born and bred Southern belle, the only good reason I can think that I would have a Midland accent would be that I was a vocal major who had to learn diction, enunciation and pronunciation correctly. I love these quizzes they are fun. Thanks Deneen for finding this one.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The Inland North
The South
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The West
Boston
North Central
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