Happy Birthday Trish.  Hope you have a wonderful day.  Love ya Teresa and Steve

Vonda we are so sorry about Brett, our thoughts and prayers are with the entire family.  Love you all

Brett passed away this morning at around 11o clock.

Just to let everyone know, they have taken every thing off of Brett and  just keeping him comfortable and pain free now and Sandy and Kelli and their dad and his family are there with him. will let you all know more when I know. Just keep every one in your prayers.

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It was so foggy here today, the birds were walkin'!

White elephant gift

Thanks for reminding me Rita, everyone please, please please bring your white elephant gift when you come in for the New Years celebration.  Put it on your calendars: December 29th at 12:00!!!!!!!

Apparently I have missed something...what is wrong with Brett?  Did he have some kind of surgery?  We will be praying for him and Trina.  Teresa, glad to hear your Aunt is home.  I take it things are going well for her.  We should be in for New Year's.  I might can bring some biscuits with me :)  We have been doing some cleaning out the last week so we have our White Elephant gifts lol. 

We need to pray for Trina (Dwayne's daughter)...she had gall bladder surgery a couple of months ago and she is having complications (don't know the details) from the surgery. Teresa, As far as I know, we wouldn't miss it. You forgot to mention the White Elephant game, if you want to have it. You will have to mention it several times...seems they love to play it but have trouble remembering to bring the gift.

New Years get together!

We are going to have our New Years get together the Saturday after Christmas which will be Dec. 29th if I figured correctly.  I was thinking around 12:00 for those of you that can come.  We are going to keep things really simple so that everyone can enjoy our time together.  I will be fixing BBQ weenies, chicken salad with crescent rolls, and some kind of dessert.  I am recommending that people make finger foods or something simple.  Ideas: cheese balls with crackers, salsas with chips, quiches, pinwheels of different kinds, cookies , candies, salads, etc.  bring whatever you wish but I was just trying to make it easy on everyone and of course if you don't mind bring your own drinks(it's just to hard for me to buy what everyone likes).  Monica those biscuits you made during our reunion were delicious (hint, hint), I would like the recipe for those.
Vonda- I am so sorry to hear about Brett, we will be praying for him and all the family.
Alice-I pray you are doing well and you are always in our prayers
David-so glad everything is working out for you also, we will continue to pray that everything is good from here on out.
For those of you who may know my Aunt Judy Leo had a heart attack last Monday.  They found the blockage and put a stint in and she was released Thanksgiving day, she is thankfully in Florida with her daughter April and her family recouping.
For everyone else- I can't wait to see you all on the 29th and please be praying for good weather for those that live away, that they may make it in.  Love you all!

Please pray for Brett ,It Looks as though he's not going to make it.Every thing is not working, his kidneys and his immune system, and they have done all they can do at the hospital, they are going to send him to a nursing home in Thomasville NC.

Addy, you make me tired just readying about all your accomplishments.  You are quite the story teller too!  I can just smell that venison . . . frying up in the pan!

As her dad would say, "What A Woman!!"

Addy , Paul better thank you every day for a woman like you . When is he going to buy you , your CROWN???? :)

Addy, you are a good wife indeed!!  lol

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Hey Everybody!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I don't think I have any pictures to share right now, but I will soon enough. Paul and I had a pretty busy week but it was just nice to be able to spend time together and not have to worry about grading papers and all that junk! 
Alice, it's so good to hear from you! Paul asks about you all the time and says "Hello!" 
Trish, I keep checking the postings for you and will let you know if anything good comes up!
We had dinner at Mom's on Monday since everybody had other places to be on Thursday. So we had turkey all week long. Paul and I went hunting for a few hours Thursday morning and didn't see anything. Then Paul went hunting again Friday for a few hours and got a 3-point. He hasn't been hunting in at least 15 years he said, and this is only the 2nd deer he's ever killed. Paul said when he worked for the railroad he never had enough seniority to take vacation days during hunting season so he just gave up on it. 
Well, he was hunting on his dad's property right across the road from our house. There are some logging roads that lead all the way to the bottom of the hill but they zigzag and are pretty grown up. He actually texted me to let me know he killed a deer and I knew he was going to need help getting it out of there. I decided to be a good wife and put my coveralls on!  Little did I know that he shot the stupid deer at the extreme depths of his dad's property. The whole time I was walking down through the briars and across the rocks I kept thinking "I did not sign up for this." Finally, we reached the deer and since it was only the 2nd one Paul had ever killed, I had to field dress it for him. Again, I did not sign up for this. But I did let him know that he is one lucky man because I am a woman of much knowledge and many talents! It only took us about an hour to drag it out and we had some for breakfast this morning, mmm mmm good! 
We also got our Christmas tree put up and we baked a lot this week too. I'm getting ready to go back to school tomorrow and have been working on lesson plans all day. Ohhhh, I'm so ready for Christmas break! Talk to you all soon! I'm already excited for New Year's with everybody! Love you guys!