Chloe's 1st T-Ball Game & My Birthday

This year Chloe is a Gator

Notice her pink bat {not my idea}
Like mammy, like granddaughter
Running to 1st
And {not so happily} getting tagged out

After the game is over they all get to run the bases one last time

{then get a sucker}After the game, we celebrated my birthday

{with my favorite BR Pralines N Cream Ice Cream Cake}

Levi's Visit

Levi's puppy, Mika-

she has really pretty eyes, but they showed up red and when I tried to correct them they changed colors.

Miya and Mika trying to figure out what that large thing was... {it was Amos!}
Levi posing with Mika
Notice the time! We got in bed at 12:30 and got up at 5:30 to get ready for the air show!

Miya- I tried to get more pictures of her, but she is quick!

Not taking her eyes off Amos!

Watching and watchign and watching...

Amos started barking at them!

Amos really did enjoy the pups! We let them all play in the kitchen for a little while, but Amos thougth they were "toys" so we separated them for a bit. I was scared my 170lb dog would hurt the 20lb pups! They were walking and running and jumping and sniffing every inch of the kitchen and Amos would prance over to his bed and lay down like "this is MY bed". As soon as he would get up, the pups would run over there and jump on his bed. Then he would run them off and it would start all over again! I got a few minutes of video, but can't get it posted.

Columbus Air Show 2010

Saturday morning {early}, Brad, Levi and I loaded up and headed South to Columbus Air Force Base to watch the Air Show and see the Thunderbirds!
We got there a little after 9 and walked around the display of jets, fighter planes, helicopters and everything else that was there!

After walking a while in the heat, we took a break in the shade!

The opening "act" was the Pitts plane. The pilot is a retired attorney. She started flying when she was 50 years old!! She does the nose-diving, zig-zagging, up & down moves. Hate I couldn't get any better shots!

Air Force Thunderbirds! That's the bottom of the planes...

Tops of the planes...

Signifying the ones that don't make it back

The show was over about 4:00 and traffic getting off base was terrible! We finally made it onto the highway around 5:15 (?) We treated ourselves to Outback afterwards. I'm sure people thought we were crazy! We were all sun-burnt and redfaced, but we deserved a good meal. We spent Sunday recovering! I couldn't even put on makeup or use a hair-dryer on my hair from the sunburn I got!

Brad loved it and said we would be well prepared for next year {umbrellas to block the sun, less clothing, more money, etc} It was hot as blazes out there and I'm not used to being outdoors for 8 hours!

2010 Flood

This is going down Hwy 72 in front of Russell's

One of our shopping centers: Belk, JcPenney, Maurices, Bookland, etc... and our friend Chad's Allstate business
Another shot of Allstate and Belk
Inside KMart- notice things floating down the aisle!

Another shopping center

This water was filled with snakes!

The water actually got higher- high enough to go over the hoods of the trucks. See the lights on the trucks? They were shorting out. People could see lights flashing and hear the horn!

McDonald's drive-thru! Residential area- that's someone's deep freeze floating down their driveway.

Another Hodge Podge

My sweet "little" Amos under my kitchen table!

Brad posing with his new "toy"

I left off last week talking about my weekend plans. Well, none of it came through! After work I had errands to run then made it home just in time to pick Brad up and take him to the after hours clinic. He has strep! Then we met Pug, Tyler (age 10) and Haley (age 8) at Cafe Mike's.

Saturday the weather was terrible. It rained all.day.long plus we had tornado watches and warnings for our area. It finally cleared out in the afternoon long enough for us to go to town, eat and then rent a movie. We took them to Geisha {the new Japanese restaurant} and they loved it. Haley will eat anything and try anything Tyler is more like me-- very picky about food! He enjoyed his shrimp, but wouldn't touch the sushi {cooked!}. We rented 2012 and went back to the house just in time for more rain and more bad weather. The movie was pretty good, but long. We called it a night about 11pm!

Sunday morning we woke up to even worse weather! More rain and wind and rain and rain and rain. I had already showered for church then decided I couldn't drive myself in that mess and then I received a text telling me church was cancelled due to flooding roads! The rain finally slacked off enough for Pug and the kids to leave and head back toward Arkansas. He had a terrible time finding a way to town due to water on the roads. I've got pictures of town flooding and I'll post those later.

Monday was my 26th birthday! Some of the people I work with had me a small birthday party. The cake was YUM. After work, I went grocery shopping {how grown up of myself...} then home to help Brad load the tractor and return it to his grandfather. We visited with them a bit then hit up Waffle House {yes, I know you're jealous of my birthday celebration!}.

Tuesday Brad's parents, sister and grandparents took us out for my birthday. We went to Taylor's. Due to all of the flooding, a lot of places were closed!

Yesterday I went to Lowe's and Wal-Mart to do a little shopping. I ended up with a new American flag, two ferns and some Miracle Grow soil (I'll need all the help I can get). I hope to finish this project this weekend if I can find the time!

Today {Thursday} is Chloe's first t-ball game! I can't wait to see how much she's changed since last year. Afterwards I'll get to spend a little time with my family for my birthday! :)

I think Levi is coming in this weekend and I have plans to go to Tupelo with my sister and mom. Sunday is Mother's Day so I'll have even more family time! My family plans on having lunch together at Chapman's then we're going to Collierville with Brad's family Sunday afternoon. What a busy weekend?!