Isn't Jax the Cutest Thing!?!!

Trunk or Treat Fun & Honors All Around

Holly as the Cat in the Hat with Thunder the sweet pony, aka Horton the Who

        Amy as  Cindy Lou Who and Savannah as Sleeping Beauty (in her moms Junior Prom dress) at Jeana's Petting Zoo at Trunk or Treat

                    Savannah checking out some make-up at 'The Cosmetic Market'

 Congratulations Savannah on being inducted into the National Honor Society!!! You Rock!

                                     (And congrats to Katie too!)

Home is the True Wife's Kingdom

"Home is the true wife's kingdom.  There, first of all  places, she must be strong and beautiful.  She may touch life outside in many ways, if she can do it without slighting the duties that are hers within her own doors.  But if any calls for her service must be declined, they should not be the  duties of the home.  These are hers, and no ones's.

Very largely does the wife hold in her hands, as a sacred trust, the happiness and the highest good of the hearts that nestle there.  The best husband-the truest, the noblest, the gentlest, the richest-hearted--cannot make his home happy if his wife be not, in every reasonable sense, a helpmate to him.  In the last analysis, home happiness does depend on the wife.  Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere.  Her hands fashion its beauty.  Her heart makes its love. And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be the light, the joy, the blessing, the inspiration of the home.  

Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall sing themselves into the ears and hearts of men.  But the woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies."

                                                               -J.R. Miller

Leslie's Stir Me Up

Sometimes when Leslie comes up she likes to see what music Savannah and I have been listening to.  Savannah does the I-tunes thing and has lots of neat things.  I still tend to like to have the CD in my hand.

Anywho, Les had heard this song on the radio and kept trying to sing it for Savannah so it would help to find it.  

Les said it had 'Stir me up' in the words and kept singing that over and over.  I was downstairs while they were up on her computer.  That night after the kids had gone to bed, Les, DH and I were trying to decide what movie we would watch and a commercial comes on.  It's Rhianna with her hit song 'Disturbia'.  Les starts yelling 'That's it! That's it!  

Well, the next morning Les told Savannah that it was 'Disturbia', not 'Stir Me up' and Savannah thought that was hilarious too. Cool song with a 'senior' moment.

Elizabeth

Mom called Liz and Don said she was on the porch.  Liz got on the phone and mom said, "ARE YOU DOING WHAT I THINK YOU ARE DOING?" (Liz only smokes on the porch)  Liz answers calmly, "Yes." Mom just laughs, she is so blown away. (Liz is in her last stages of lung cancer) What can you say?  They talked for hours. 

Liz says she is going to do whatever she wants.  Mom says Liz has said that all her life.  Liz is moms first cousin, best friend, partner in crime growing up and an incredible mother. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi and has the MOST fabulous Southern accent! When mom wanted to have some fun, it was always with Liz.  I KNOW they have some great stories!

My mom gave me my middle name because of Liz and her daughters middle name is my moms name. Julie Elizabeth and Shelly Joanne

Liz is the one who has cooked every recipe in the Southern Living magazine, keeps an immaculate house, and loves her children and grandchildren more than anything in the world, all the while with a cigarette close in hand.  That's just who she is.

But everyone knows there has never been anything wrong with Liz's heart.  She is an original. Thank you Liz for giving my mom wonderful, wonderful memories.  

You are beautiful!

Pumpkinfest & the Farmer's Market

                       Keith Urban, Nicole & their baby were there! My sister-in-law saw them and said everybody was letting them enjoy the day too.  Love that!
                                            Yummy Meridee's for lunch

               Doesn't this scarecrow look like the real one from the 'Wizard of Oz?'

         Clicked these guys picture in the parking garage.  Every mother dreams that their grown child will grow up and be a Star Wars storm trooper!  Love it!