I COOKED DINNER TONIGHT!!!!!! ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!!

!~I CAME UP WITH WITH ALL OF THESE IDEAS FOR DINNER TONIGHT~!

I COOKED DINNER TONIGHT!!!!!! ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!!

I COOKED THIS DISH ABOVE ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!!!

THE DISH ABOVE IS RICE PUDDING

                                        WELL MY MOM DID SUPERVISE WHEN I WAS COOKING THE SQUASH BECAUSE IT WAS MY FIRST TIME COOKING SQUASH SO I WASNT REAL CONFIDENT I COULD DO THAT BY MYSELF

THE PORK CHOPS GETTING READY TO GO ON THE GRILL

IT WAS MY IDEA TO THROW A BAG OF FROZEN SQUASH & A CAN OF SLICED CARROTS TOGETHER.

DINNER IS SERVED....... WHAT DO YA'LL THINK ???

DOES IT LOOK DELICIOUS OR WHAT!!!!!!

BelHaven University Spring Commencement Saturday April 28,2012

BelHaven University

Spring Commencement

Saturday April 28,2012

at

Christ United

Methodist Church

Congratulations To

Bradley Thomas

On getting your

Bachelor of science

in management

and

Graduating with Honors

Also

Congratulations To

Kirsten Melody Callahan

on getting your

Bachelor of Fine Arts &

Bachelor of Arts

who I also got to see Graduate today!!!!

YOU GO GIRL!!!!!! SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!

JUST ORDER MY SKYLAR LAINE T-SHIRT FROM MONKEY CHARMS

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST GOT MY SKYLAR LAINE T-SHIRT ORDERED FROM MONKEY CHARMS!!!!!!!!!! I HAD JUST READ ONLINE THAT MONKEY CHARMS SAID THEY WERE SELLING FAST AND IM ABOUT TO GO TO A GRADUATION THIS AFTERNOON SO I ORDERED IT OVER THE PHONE BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WAY I WOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE IT OUT TO THE NEW MONKEY CHARMS LOCATION TIL WAY LATER TODAY.

Project Update

Hey Ya'll,

I wanted to give ya'll an update on the 5th grade Graduation Project I helped out with, the CD of Songs I put together for the baby picture slide show for the 5th Grade Graduation next month. Mom said the teacher who is actually putting together the baby picture slide show put to music LOVED the CD and LOVED ALL OF MY SONG SELECTIONS FOR THE CD. she REALLY APPRICIATED IT!!!!!! she sent ...me a THANK YOU NOTE today and said it was really thoughtful of me and that it will really help her out plus she can enjoy listening to it for years!! She sent my mom a message and said it was making really hard to choose and that she LOVED 5 of the songs and she was getting kind of sad listening to all of em. SO it makes my heart happy and puts a smile on my face that I reached out and touched someone and also helped someone. my note I sent with the CD made her cry LOL!!

Country Weekly Calling Update

Hey Everyone, Friends & Family, I wanted to inform all of you that my picture that was re-schedule for The May 7 issue of Country Weekly which comes out on Monday did not make the issue because of a mistake on their part, it was just a mix ...up, it was suppose to be in the may 7 issue though. So with that being said we are looking at another Delay which now has it bumped for the second time to the 1st of June. Country Weekly does plain to give me some free issues of country weekly due to 2 delays and because I have been so patient with them and because they guareented me that it would be in there and it didn't happen but they still plan it make it happen the first of June. they did opologize for the delay once again.

 

 

 

The Beautiful Rainbow After Yesterdays Brief Storm in Flowood,Ms April 26,2012

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW!!!!!!!!!!!

After Yesterdays Brief Storm in Flowood,Ms

5th Grade Graduation Songs CD Project For Highland Elementry

Hey Ya'll

I wanted to tell ya'll about what I've been working on. Yesterday My Mom called from school during their teachers meeting and wanted to know who sings that song Let Them Be Little. They want to do baby pictures of The 5th Graders put to music for their Graduation coming up next month.They ask me to pick out some good songs and put them on a CD for them to listen. I was so honored to be called to help out with the 5th grade graduation project. I am honored to get to have a hand in picking the song. I Can't Wait to hear this afternoon which song they ended up selecting and I Can't Wait To Hear what they thought about my song selections.

So Heres The CD Song List

Find Your Wings - By: Mark Harris

Let Them Be Little - By: Lonestar

I Believe In You - By: Steven Curtis Chapman

Friends - By: Michael W Smith & Amy Grant

Whenever You Remember - By: Carrie Underwood

My Life Is In Your Hands - By: Kirk Franklin

Friends Forever - By: Vitamin C

Stay The Same - By: Joey McIntyre

My Day Yesterday & Today

Yesterday I went to kroger and cashed in 3 coffee cans of full of coins

 & I went to Dress Barn and got a couple of cute new tops with my money and went to target a cute springy & summer dress while I was waiting on my mom to get her nails done. We went to The Grocery Store and I cleaned up the kitchen and I put away the groceries and I cleaned out the refrigerator and striped my bed and washed the sheets and the pillow cases and the quilt and the comforter. I also Cooked Dinner. Then I got my quilt out of the dryer and put the comforter in the dryer and put a load of clothes in the washing machine.


YEP YOU HEARD ME!!!!! I DID ALL OF THIS YESTERDAY MYSELF!!!!!!!! yep I've been taking care of things around the house while my mom has been concentrating on her school work, she's working on getting her masters. she finished her thursday night class, so now she concentrating on finishing up her online class. I even managed to find time during my busy day to sit down and watch American Idol's Randy Jackson on The TV Show The Talk.

 Then I got my comforter out of the dryer and got my sheets and quilt and comforter back on my bed and pillow cases back on my pillows and took my load of laundry out of the washing machine and put it in the dryer and then I finished watch The Secret Life Of The American Teenager, chatted with my cousin Evelyn over text message for a little bit and chatted with my good friend James Davis on FB.

I finally finished up my last load of laundry and got it all folded up and hung up and put away about 12:30 lastnight. So FINALLY... after that long day it was OFF TO BED for me!!! I was soooooo exhausted and literally sweating from doing all that work around the house.

So As You Can see I've been busy since This Weekend!!

Today was pretty laid back, I've just been blogging today and posting pictures from this weekend and writing about this weekend, Tonight We cooked hamburgers on the grill & I made dessert tonight,

heres a picture of my cake I made tonight!

The Mississippi Delta Lyon,Ms & Clarksdale,Ms & Cleveland,Ms & Drew,Ms April 20-22

The Mississippi Delta

Lyon,Ms & Clarksdale,Ms &

Cleveland,Ms & Drew,Ms

April 20-22

We left Jackson,Ms Late Friday Afternoon when my mom got home from work and headed out to the delta. We got to Lyon and saw Brian & Sara's New House and then we headed out to eat Dinner at Stone Pony in Downtown Clarksdale late friday night and didn't get back to Brian and Sara's House til 9:30pm. we Road around and saw the place where Brian is working now, KBH.


We saw all of the Great Things Happening in Clarksdale and in Downtown Clarksdale such as all these new Restaurant's opening up such as Hey Joe's & Lady On The Levee & Ramone's & Stony Pony & Rust & Yazoo Pass & Ground Zero and all the shops in DownTown Clarksdale are now all nice places to shop. every shop has something in it now. Oh and We saw A Limo sitting at Ground Zero so we Figured Morgan Freeman was probably there. 

SO MUCH HAS CHANGED IN 12 YEARS TIME. CLARKSDALE,MS IS NOW A HAPPENING PLACE!!!!!! SUCH GREAT NEWS TO HEAR ABOUT CLARKSDALE,MS TURN AROUND IN 12 YEARS TIME!!! IT IS GREAT TO SEE CLARKSDALE GROWING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. THIS IS QUIT THE TURN AROUND FOR CLARKSDALE.

When I was living in Clarksdale for 14 Years, the only Restaurant's that exsisted in Clarksdale were Western Sizzlin & Abe's & The Ranchero & Atzimba & Pizza Hut. Western Sizzlin & The Ranchero were the places to eat back then. After Summer Basesball & Softball Games everybody went to Western Sizzlin. The Hang out on Friday Night's was The LeeAcademy Highschool Football Games. For Something to do when there wasn't a football game at LeeAcademy, you went Bowling at The Bowling Alley or you drove an hour to Memphis & Southaven to go to a movie & Go out to eat some where nice & go shopping That's all there was to do back then. Sometimes you would go to Helena to go to Sams. A lot of Times Oakhurst Baptist Church would open the CAC- Christian Activity Center on Friday Night and that kept kids out of trouble, because they could skate and play basketball on the gym floor and play Pool & the kitchen would be open to get something to eat, somebody was always working in the kitchen cooking food. 

On Sunday's everyone was in Church weather they went to Oakhurst Baptist Church or Clarksdale Baptist regardless you were in church, if you were late to church, everyone knew about it. You went to Sunday School & Then Big Church or if you had little ones they went to down front during big church when it was time for the little ones to head over to the nursey. On Wednesday Nights You went to Youth Group & GA's - Girls In Action & RA's & Mission Friends and then you went over to the CAC and waited for your parents to come and get you. If you were apart of Hand Bells you went to practice Hand Bells before Youth Group  Mission Friends & RA's & GA's.


Thing's have changed DRASTICALLY!!!!! Now Everybody hangs out in Downtown Clarksdale eating at the new restaurants. Now One of The Top Places to go eat in Downtown Clarksdale is Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero. I heard this weekend Attendance is Way Down at Oakhurst Baptist church now compared to the attendance 12 years ago and the 14 years that I Lived in Clarksdale & The 14 Years that I attended Oakhurst Baptist Church. Some Scenes from The Movie The Help were filmed in Clarksdale at Wongs FoodLand and there is a Scene that was filmed in Downtown Clarksdale. A Few Months Ago The Show American Pickers was in Downtown Clarksdale Filming at Bubba Okeefe's Museum.


Western Sizzlin is now gone but it's going to come back bigger than ever and it's going to be have a different name and it's going to be a buffett place just like Western Sizzlin was. We saw Mr.Bubba Okeefe's Museum where American Pickers filmed a few months ago. There is also now a SeaFood Restaurant by Walmart now there in Clarksdale. There is an Oriental Rug Store right next door to Rust which is owned by the parents of one of my former classmates at PDS & LeeAcademy.  


We made a day saturday of our delta adventure weekend. We went to mccarties early Saturday morning and then on to the Warehouse in Cleveland for lunch and then shopped in DownTown cleveland and then went to visit my uncle William McDonald in Drew and then came back to Lyon and my uncle William and Gloria came to see my brothers new house and then we went out to eat for dinner at Rust in DownTown Clarksdale. so we had an adventurous day Saturday. We got in from eating in Downtown Clarksdale at Rust with Skeeszie & Gloria about 9:00pm Saturday Night.


We left Sunday heading home to Jackson after lunch, we had Abe's Bar B Que for lunch before we left heading home. We had a FANTASTIC WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian & Sara' New House Outside of Clarksdale in Lyon,Ms Out In The Country

Brian & Sara's New House

Outside of Clarksdale

in Lyon,Ms

Out In The Country