Memorial Weekend Fun

What a wonderful, joy-filled, memory making, noisy, tiring, family spent weekend we are having. The joys of having friends who are really more like family. 

From kids all piled up in one bedroom (& fighting over whose turn it is to sleep on the floor), to waiting FOREVER on the men to "grill" our hamburgers, to laughing until my sides hurt when the kids played a mean game of "king of the hill" using the inner tube. 

These are the memories I cherish. I love every stinky, whiny, sleepy, happy, sappy moment. 

Before we know it, the kids will be grown up and living on their own. I pray that they look back on these days with the same fondness that I have. 

Here's to the first weekend of summer 2014, and all the memories that will be made. 

A Day in the Life ......

So, here is a conversation with my 12 year old from dinner the other night:

IE: (returning from the bathroom with her 4 year-old brother) "Mom, I can't stop laughing!

ME: "Why?" 

IE: "I was holding Grish up so he could wash his hands. His hair was close to my nose. I told him he smelled like a dog!" 

ME: "What?!" 

IE: " Mom, his hair smelled clean, but like a dog just home from the groomer! I asked him what he used to wash his hair ------ He told me the bottle with the picture of the DOG on it!" 

Yep. Dog shampoo. He cleaned his hair with dog shampoo. 

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Sassy's Sayings . . .

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill

Wow! What a great saying. It makes you stop and think, doesn't it? What has been an obstacle for you? Do you see it as an opportunity, or a difficulty? 

I challenge you to take those nagging thoughts captive and Carpe Diem!

A Moment in Time . . .

My oldest child has an eye for photography. 

And I don't mean that she just likes taking selfies on her iPhone,

I mean she loves a real camera. 

Digital, old-school with 35 mm film, instant . . . you name it, she will shoot it.

Last year, she heard of a local competition (Walker 24/7 Photography Contest) that was going on in our community, and chose to enter. 

She won in her age division. 

This year, the competition(Walker 24/7 Photography Contest) was being held again, and she entered again. 

She placed 2nd and 3rd in her age division, and they also displayed 2 other photographs that she submitted. 

I am so proud of her!

She is saving the money from the competitions and babysitting jobs to buy a nice camera.

And I don't mean a couple hundred dollar camera, I mean a super-duper, huge lens, does all sorts of fancy things type of camera. She really wants a Nikon. Anyway . . . I sure hope she is able to save up for it! 

I am posting the pictures that won, as well as the pictures they chose to display this year. 

Walker County was founded in 1823

Jasper Post Office

Half-Time Devotional

Upward Basketball/Jasper's First Baptist Church

6th grade English

Maddox Middle School

Practice Makes Perfect

Maddox Middle School 6th grade band practice

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