Death to the Gator

If you know me at all, you know that I am a die hard UGA fan. When Shane and I were dating last summer he brought Chloe 2 gator's. (He is a die hard UF fan.) Well she and Hershey have done justice to the gator!

Oh, and if you come to my house and see those little puffs of white of my carpet, please forgive me. I can vacuum 100 times a day but these crazy puppies of mine LOVE tearing their toys apart!

Back to Back State Champ

I think this picture says just how proud we all are of Petey! Preston won his 2nd State Championship in his weight class this past Saturday. Way to go Petey, way to go!

Winter Wonderland

This past Friday we had a good amount of snow here in Georgia! FINALLY! I truly thought that the weathermen were lying to us again but they finally were correct! Here are a few pictures of Blizzard 2010! (HA!)

This was at work as I was getting ready to head home...the snow had been falling for about 3 1/2 hours at this point...

Our tax dollars at work....

You can really tell the visibility was bad at 4:30pm and how bad traffic was!

This is what my house looked like!

This is the backyard!

Happy 100th Birthday Poppa!

I believe that this picture is of my grandfather when he was a baby. And today would have been his 100th birthday! He went by many names: Roy, Daddy, Big Pop for example. But, he was always my Poppa. I remember sitting on the top of his chair (sort of on his shoulder's) playing beauty shop while watching wrestling on Saturday night. This was of course after we had eaten breakfast for dinner. And, by the way, my mother played beauty shop with Poppa as well when she was a little girl. He got me hooked on soft peppermint sticks from Cracker Barrel. What did we ever get him for Christmas after he quit chewing his Red Man tobacco? Oh and the love of Little Debbie Zebra Cakes can be traced back to him! I remember eating his meals on wheels lunch as a snack in the afternoons...no, I didn't take the mans food. He didn't like them and to fool my mother he gave them to me to eat. (This was after he was caught putting them outside for the squirrels to eat.) I only saw him cry 1 time and that is when Dad (Don) proposed to Mom. I can still hear his chuckle...he never really laughed...just a smirk and a chuckle. He taught me 2 extremely important lessons in life...1) No one can take your education away from you. 2) Tithe your first 10%, save your second 10%, and live off the rest and you wont have to worry about expenses. He was the only man that I know of that has successfully remove a low-jack off of a steering wheel without the key to it. You remember the low-jack...the long bar that was supposed to lock your steering column in place so it could not be stolen. To this day, we are not sure how he did it...we think he took the steering column off of his truck and reassembled it! What a man he was and what an incredibly legacy he left! What I wouldn't give to spend this day with him as he told us what he thought of the world today! I miss you Poppa! I hope you had an extra special 100th birthday celebration with Mammer by your side!

Heavy Heart

My heart is heavy. Each year as this time approaches it becomes easier to internalize my sadness but tonight my heart is very heavy. You see, as Valentines Day approaches for many it is filled with joy and laughter and love. For me, unfortunately, it is filled with loss and sadness. My father passed away on February 14, 1997. 13 years have gone by and while it has gotten easier I still miss him.


Tonight the pain crept up and flooded its way back into my heart. I found out that one of my dear friends lost her grandmother last week. While it was expected that she would not recover from a fall it is still a raw emotion of loss and sorrow.


Add to that I read another friends status tonight to find out that his sweet mother had passed away after a long battle with breast cancer. I have to post his status because what he said was simply beautiful : 'Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just as someone at my side says: "There, she is gone." There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout "Here she comes!"'

Tears just came pouring out when I read this because the image I have of the angels and of Jesus being excited that Ms. Martha has joined them is just overwhelming and yet I know the sadness that my friend is experiencing all to well.

And to add to this, I just read where a girl I went to high school with has a 14 month old son with SMA and they have decided to let him go. He has been in the hospital for about a week sedated and on a vent. This is not the first time she and her husband have had to make this agonizing decision. They had another son who passed away when he was 4 months old from the same disease.

Please pray for all of these people as they deal with the grief and sorrow of losing someone they love so dearly.

I don't mean to write a depressing blog....