Snow Day

Thursday night and Friday we had our second snow of the winter!!  We had a ton of beautiful snow this time.  Alec wasn't so sure about it at first, but after he saw Riley and Drew, our neighbors, having fun he decided he would give it a try!

Snow Day at our house in Sumrall!

Dustin, Alec and I trying to stay warm!

Our neighbors, Andy, Anna, Riley and Drew Davis

Riley making a snow angel!

Drew loved the snow!!

Snow bunny!

Drew throwing snow balls at Alec!

It took a while but Alec finally got brave enough to play in the snow!

Riley teaching Alec how to make a snow angel!

And no, he did not volunteer to do this!!  She just plopped him down in the snow!

Having more fun the day after the snow, while it's not so cold!

Dustin trying to get in trouble!

Alec's not so sure of the snow man, as I was making it, he was screaming!!

I think he thought I was making huge snowballs to throw at him!

This is our second snow this winter and third in Alec's lifetime!!  It even snowed while I was pregnant with Alec.  I can't remember it ever snowing this much when I was a child!!  I hope we get some more snow next year when Alec is a little older and can enjoy it more!

Flashback Friday – Dixie National Rodeo

The Dixie National Rodeo was an annual family trip for my family every year for the majority of my childhood. I have many fun memories from there. Although, we haven’t gone in many years, this is rodeo week in Jackson and I thought my memories of the rodeo would be perfect for a Flashback Friday post!! My mom’s entire family would meet up at the Cabot Lodge on County Line Road in Jackson on Friday before the rodeo. We’d all go down to the Lobby for Happy Hour. It would be packed, but I’d always have my Shirley Temple and back of popcorn. Dana Knight made most of the rodeo trips with us, and sometimes I even got to take more than one friend. We always thought we were such grown ups with our Shirley Temples and Cowboy Hats!!

Dana and I having our annual Shirley Temples with my mom and dad.

Cocktail Hour at the Cabot Lodge

More pictures from Cocktail Hour.  For some reason, all I could find was pictures from cocktail hour and none from the actual rodeo.  Guess the adults had a few too many cocktails and forgot to take pictures at the rodeo!!

My birthday is February 19th, and every year, my family would have a “Surprise” birthday party for me in Jackson. Somehow it was always a surprise….. Art would take Dana and I to the golf store shopping or some other activity and the women would set up my party. I remember one year walking into the hotel lobby and seeing all of the pink birthday decorations and saying, “Look it’s someone’s birthday.” Even after years of the birthday tradition, somehow, I was always surprised.

"Look, New Kids on the Block Tickets for Dana and I!"

Another party, still surprised....

After cocktail hour on Friday at the Cabot Lodge, we’d all go over to the Coliseum for the rodeo. We’d walk through the livestock stables and look at all of the animals and then go find our seats for the rodeo. Somehow, we always ended up in the nose bleed section!! Intermission at the rodeo always featured a country singer and that was one of my favorite parts. We’ve seen Brooks and Dunn, Confederate Railroad, Rhett Aikens and many others over the years at the rodeo. Another favorite event at the rodeo was the bull fighting clown, Lecile Harris. He always told funny jokes!! The calf roping was not one of my favorites, the ladies and us girls, always secretly cheered for the calves and hoped they would get away!!

I remember one year after happy hour, my entire family was on the elevator together. The doors opened and I hopped off. Wrong floor!! Whoops!! “Someone” in the family closed the doors before I could get on and mashed all of the buttons on the elevator so it would take a while to get back to me. I remember my sweet daddy being very aggravated when they finally got back to my floor!

Crazy Cowgirls playing on the luggage cart!  Miki, Where's your hat?!?

Those are such great memories of the rodeo, in the comments section, please feel free to share a memory of our fun times together at the rodeo!!

Superbowl Champs!!

Last night, the New Orleans Saints won their first Superbowl beating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17!!! 

GEAUX SAINTS!!

Alec loves to watch the games!!!  He's even saying "Who Dat" now!!

Alec telling Coach Payton what play to call next!!

Cheering on his favorite team!!

Alec and Daddy

Alec with Mandi and Adam

Superbowl 44!!

Of course, Alec wanted some of Mandi's Lemon Cake!!  Yummy!!

Tracy Porter running for the End Zone!!

And the Party begins on Bourbon Street!!!

Friday Night Play Date

Dustin had drill this weekend so he spent the night in Jackson on Friday while Alec and I stayed home and had a very fun mommy and me night.  As soon as we got home from school, Alec ran next door to "Ra Ra" Riley's house and grabbed their "pop toy" off of their front porch.  (Anna, if you were wondering where it went, it is still at our house, we'll bring it home soon!!)

"Mom, look what I found next door!"

Running around with his new found toy!

Alec loves to play outside!!

After we played with the pop toy for a while, we brought the little slide inside and had fun playing jungle gym in the living room!

Whee, Look at me!!!

Of course, we had to include Harley in on the fun, so Harley and Alec played with some of their favorites!!  Balloons and Balls!!

Tug of war!!

Chasing each other around the kitchen!!

Our night did not go as well as our afternoon.  Alec was up from 2am to 5am crying that his ears were hurting.  So first thing Saturday, we went to the doctor.  He's got his third ear infection since the middle of January, so we'll be going to the ENT doctor next week to talk about getting tubes in his ears.  He got an antibiotic shot and will have to get two more next week.  Needless to say, he's felt fine and been in a great mood the rest of the weekend.

Dustin and Alec are napping now, but as soon as they get up, we're off to Adam and Mandi's to watch the Superbowl!!

GEAUX SAINTS!!

We love the Colts too, but we've got to pull for the Saints this time!!

Weekend Update

This weekend started out GREAT!! Alec spent the night with Nana Friday night and Dustin and I went to dinner and a movie with our best friends, Mandi and Adam.


Although, my Saturday morning grocery run wasn’t nearly as fun as Friday night… After I put my groceries in the truck and closed it I realized I’d locked my keys in the truck. Uh Oh, What am I going to do? I’ve still got my purse, so I figure I’ll just call Dustin to bring me the spare key. Whoops, I’ve forgotten my cell phone at home. Then I realized I’d already unlocked the car and I was like a woman on a mission!! Of course, I had the best plan figured out already!! My back seats fold down, so I can get in the truck that way and find my keys. So, after moving all of Alec’s toys off of the seat, unhooking the car seat and getting it out of the way and then digging through mountains of groceries, I finally find my keys!! Yeah, I’d gotten myself out of this mess, even if I had made a huge mess in the backseat!! Then I get home and Dustin says, “Why didn’t you just use the button on the door to pop the trunk?”  Humm, guess I didn’t think of that one…. Maybe that would have been a little quicker, but my way worked just as well. Ha!!


On the way home Sunday, I turn around to see this in the backseat. Thankfully it wasn’t stuck, but I wasn’t so sure at first. He always plays with balls in his car seat but hasn’t ever done this before!!