Happy 13th Birthday to my Rylee!!!

Rylee, I am so proud of the young woman that you are becoming. Always keep God first in your life as you have always done. I love you!

Love,

Mama

Sips N Strokes

And below is my finished painting.

Me n Joy and Linda n Heather went tonight and it was SOOOO much fun!!! I definately want to go back again. We had a good time and we didn't do too bad for our first time. If you get a chance, you need to go.

My Rylee

Tonight was the Jr. Miss Vallarata

Whew!

I went to Zumba again tonight and it whooped me!! I have to say that it was easier to follow tonight though and still alot of fun. I'm lovin it and am definately going to keep going. Joy~I told all my peeps @ work about you lookin all cutie pa too tee in ya down east basics dress with ya lil wrap~ sportin your mis matched boots to Church and then to lunch @ the country club and then to walmart, when you finally noticed a lil glich in ya step and realized what you had done! One boot on WITH a heel and one boot on WITHOUT a heel. All I can say is...work it girl!. They all fell OUT laughing!!! And I myself can't stop laughing about it. I think that's the funniest thing I've had to laugh @ lately! Oh MY!!! Hilarious!!! I mean how does somebody go all those places like in a 3 hour span without ANYBODY noticing that, which I might add was absolutely very noticable! Haha!!!! And you not being able to tell it yourself. Hahahahahah~ Oh Gah!!! I just can't stop laughin about it! Just please~ when you and Jennalee come up for Rylee's pageant this weekend, please make sure that you bring boots with matching heels!!! LOL

Ok, well thank you for the laugh...even if it was at your own expense. I love you much!!!

Love,

Sister

The Blindside

Me and Rylee went to the movies today to see this movie and it was awesome. I want to watch it again. Oh if you can, you need to go see this one. It's a true story. It was so, so good. We had a good day today. I was so glad to be off. We have a really, really busy weekend coming up, so I better get rested up this week :) We are going to Zumb tomorrow night. I'm gonna be sore all over again. But I'm looking forward to it and I can't wait. Ok, well ya'll have a great night. I love ya'll loads!

Love,
Aunt Jenn

A Rainy Saturday

YUK!!! It is so dang dreary outside. I have done NOTHING today. It's one of those Blah kinda days. Sometimes we need those do nothing kinda days though. It's so sad to think about what has happened in Haiti. Everytime I get on the internet, I see the pictures of all those people that are injured or looking for their loved ones and have no food or water or anything for that matter. It's so, so sad...all those children... and I even read a little while ago that there are countless numbers of people who are still alive and trapped in the rubble that they can't get too. It just breaks my heart. Like everyone else, I wish there was something I could do. I pray that God will be with those people. I'm so thankful for my many blessings.

Zumba!!!!

Kicked my boot-a tonight!!! It was alot of fun though and I will be going back on Tuesday night. Me, Mama, Leslie, & Sherry all met out at the community center for the class. Mama didn't even attempt it and I sho didn't realize how un coordinated I was. LOL!!!! I'm so glad we went. I think when I get use to it, it hopefully will be a little easier. Anyway you can pull it up on You Tube and watch a class and see what all ya have to do. It looks easy, but when you're doing it, it's not as easy as they make it look.

Well, I'm off to bed, lol! I probably won't be able to get up outta the bed in the morning.
Ya'll have a good night. I love ya'll!!!

Love~
Aunt Jenn :~)

It's been a while....

I just haven't had time to post lately. I can't believe that Christmas has come and gone and we are in 2010. UN-REAL! First of all, it didn't even seem like it was Christmas time. It's going to be Spring time before we know it, which is fine with me....I'm ready for Spring! I'm sick of this COLD,COLD weather! It's ok, but enuff is enuff and too much stinks.....and I've had enuff!!! I'm ready for the beach!!! We have alot coming up in the next few weeks. The 21st is Mama's birthday and Les & Bleu's Anniversery. The 22nd is the Jr. Vallarata Pageant. We have something goin on the next night, the 23rd, and then my Rylee will be 13 on Jan. 31st. I can't believe that she is going to be a teenager. It tares me UP! and then Jaxen's birthday is 2 days after Rylee's... Whew! We are really gonna be wore out when all this is over with. This is just typical though for us. I think that's everything...maybe I didn't miss anything. I better rest up before next week. LOL

Oh~ and Jennalee~ I'm glad you got ya wits back. LOL That "gas" will mess ya up girl. It use to make me feel like my feet were flippin over my head. LOL It still does sometimes. One time I had a night dream too, but it wasn't about horses...it was about that little alien on the Flintstones name CaZoo or GaZoo or whatever his lil name was. Haha!!! He was talking to me in my "night dream" that I had in the dentist chair on "gas". TRIP!!!! At least we don't see tara-dac-tals flying around outside the windows thought like "uncle Dana" did. Whoo Hoo!!!!

Well, ya'll have a great night! I love ya'll with all my heart!

Love,
Auntie Jenn

Snow Alert-Snow Alert! LOL

Did you get your snow supplies Aunt Joy??? I haven't seen not even one flake @ my house tonight! It did snow @ work today...pretty hard, for about 5 minutes! HA! We all had to go look at it real quick. They for real are saying that it's going to be the ice that we are going to have to worry about...not snow...and it is raining @ my house and what's on the ground will freeze. It's suppose to be 18 degrees tonight. But anyway....we will see. I guess Uncle Jim is about as happy as Papa is right now. Bama is playing a good ballgame right now. Don't tell my husband that I said this, but I hope Alabama wins this one. Ok well ya'll stay warm and stay in if ya'll have a big freeze tonight and in the morning! I love ya'll bunches!!!

Love~
Auntie Jenn :)

Happy Anniversery Aunt Joy & Uncle Jim!!!!

11 years is a long time. Congratulations! Ya'll have a great trip tomorrow and win big so I can quit work. big lol!!! I love you both!!!

Love,
my bunch- kjrda

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!!

Fun @ the Merry Go Round

Nothing puts ya in the Christmas Spirit like going to the Merry Go Round. Here are a few pictures that we took tonight. This is always a fun Christmas tradition that we look forward to every year. Unfortunately, we didn't get to go to the "manger scene" like we do every year, because it has rained so durn much that it flooded and the sewage backed up where it's set up and you can't go down there.... YUK!!!! I'm surely not walking down there to it this year! Anyway, we will have to just carry on our other traditions.

Ok, well ya'll have a fantabulous night!!!! I love ya'll bunches!!!!

The week of Christmas

I can't believe that it's already the week of Christmas!!! It flies up on me every year. I think that it's because I work right up until Christmas Eve. If I was off the whole week of Christmas, it would probably be better, but I unfortunately never have enough vacation days left @ the end of the year to do that. We had our big family Christmas gathering @ our house last night and that really put me in the Christmas spirit, finally!!! I just couldn't get the Christmas spirit this year for some reason....and I'm not sure why. Maybe that comes with age, I don't know. Anyway, we had a really good time last night. We had a house full. It was alot of fun....it always is. There was about 30 people here. We ate, opened gifts, played dirty santa, sang Christmas Carols, and finished off the night going to the Merry Go Round. I love having our family all together. We will do my side of the family with my Mama, Daddy, sister, brother and their families on Christmas Eve morning and then we will go to Kyle's Mama's and Granny's on Christmas Eve around lunch time or a little after and then we will get ready for Santa to come. I can't wait! I hope ya'll have a good week!!! Merry Christmas!!! I love ya'll.

A little of our Christmas Decor

I'm not sure if I'm satisfied with the fireplace....I still think it's missing something, but I'm not sure what. I've re arranged it a million times trying to get it "right". Kyle told me that if I re arrange it again, he is going to arrange it him self...I figured I had better leave it alone. LOL I did add some more candles in the fireplace just to fill it in a little more, but I still think it needs something else. I just can't put my finger on what it is though. Maybe it'll come to me. I tried to get a close up of a few of the ornaments that are on our tree, but they didn't turn out too good, so there won't be a tour of ornaments this year. Oh and Mama still hasn't decked her halls yet.... she has put some stuff on the mantel, and it's really pretty, but she still hasn't put her tree up yet. Haha!!! Maybe before Christmas Eve, Mama?????? You know I'm just jankin on ya Mama. You deck your halls when you are good and ready.Ok, well ya'll have a wonderful night! I love ya'll bunches!!!

Love,

Auntie Jenn

Just taking it easy tonight....

Today has been busy... me and Mama went to Tiger Town this morning for her to get a couple of gifts bought and I just browsed hobby lobby cause I'm broke! I hate, hate, hate being broke and not being able to get something that I see....not that I do that all the time, but I've been looking for a candelabara to go in my fireplace and I found one today at a store that we went into and couldn't get it. That took alot of restraint on my part....and that's something that I'm not real good at. But I was proud of myself that I didn't buy it. I bet I'll go back on payday though. Hee Hee! I've still been trying to get my Christmas decorations "right".... I'm not having much luck with it this year though....I just can't get satisfied with where I have stuff. I know that sounds stupid, but I'm just not satisfied with everything this year. I'll try to snap some pictures tomorrow and get em on here of my decorations and maybe some suggestions from ya'll will help. Ok, well I'm of to clean up the kitchen. Ya'll have a great night!

I love ya'll loads!
& Merry Christmas!!!

Love,
Auntie Jenn

So Excited About the Holidays

I've been decking the halls the past 2 days and I'm still not finished!! This is my favorite time of year and I love, love, love decorating for Christmas. My husband decided right in the middle of my decorating that he was going to paint the fireplace, which I'm glad of, but I wanted it done 2 months ago...Ha! not right in the middle of my Christmas decorating. LOL I don't care though really...I'm just glad it's getting painted. That's one thing I can say about my Kyle now, he gets it done. Joy calls him Handy Manny. Ha! Hopefully he will be finished with it by tomorrow so that I can get my mantel decorated. Anyway, I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving! I know we did. It was so good!!! I ate til I couldn't breathe. I always do! I've been trying to figure out facebook, but I guess I'm just dumb or something. I'm going to go on there and fool with it a little more and get it figured out.

Ya'll have a good night.
Love~
Auntie Jenn

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!

My Sweet Gavin

Is he not the cuteset baby!?!?!?!? I could just eat him up. I love him with all my heart.

He is the absolute sweetest baby on the planet. He is always happy and hardly ever cries. He is so dang smart and takes everything in. He is just absorbs everything like a sponge...he is going to be really smart when he grows up....at least his Auntie Jenn thinks so anyway. We love spending time with him and Abby wants to hold him all the time. She ask a million times...Les,can I hold him, can I hold him, can I hold him, can I hold him....she drives me nuts about it and I know she drives Leslie in sane with it. But Les never shows it. She has always had a special relationship with both my girls. They love their Leslie. Anyway, Gavin loves Abby's Toby dog. You can see part of him in the picture below. He's one of her build a bears and Gavin loves to play with him. He thinks Toby is so funny. He gut laughs at him and then we all start laughin at him, because he is laughing @ Toby. It's so funny. I think I posted a video of him on here not long ago gut laughing at Toby. Gavin definately needs a Toby dog. We will have to tell Santa Claus to see if he can find him one.

Well, I'm off to bed...ya'll have a fantabulous night!

Love~

Auntie Jenn

Yesterday

We went to the Troy game and we had a blast. It was the first time that Rylee and Abby has ever been to a college game and they loved it. Mr. Jimmy is always so kind to get us tickets whenever we say that we want to come to a game...and I must say that they are always awesome seats and club level. They buy season tickets @ club level every year, but he always manages to come up with enough for us too when we come for a game. The clublevel seats always include a free meal, which is really good, and at the beginning of the 3rd quarter they serve ice cream and you get to choose what kind you want. I always get a drumstick. The kids loved that! Joy you have the best father in law in the world. He is so sweet and he always has Dylan a Troy cap everytime we come. Dylan and Connor went down last year and went to a game. The girls usually go during the summer and the boys usually go during football season. Anyway, we had a really good time. It was alot of fun. We took alot of pictures and I've put them into a slide show above.

I can't believe it's already Thanksgiving this week!!! Time really flies by. I will be putting my tree up this week. It would've already been up, but I haven't had the time. I can't wait to get all my decorations out. I'm excited!!!

I'm about to call it...I'm tired. Ya'll have a great night and I love ya'll loads!

Love~
Auntie Jenn