A Day with the Pigg's!

Russell, Leslie and the boys came to town for Russell to have meetings and I was blessed with some precious time with them! It started off this morning at a fun place I had never been called....

Bring your kids to Monkey Joe's fun-filled inflatable play center! Our wall-to-wall inflatable slides, jumps, and obstacle courses will keep your kids active, happy, and healthy. Our play center is suitable for kids 12 years-old and younger. Our Mini Monkey Zone is a separate toddler play area that will keep your little ones safe and secure.

Cord's outfit was the perfect attire for Monkey Joe's and if you know his mother, you know that this was not an accident! The boys had so much fun running and climbing and jumping and playing games! They are such good children and they have the best time everyday of their life! I am so thankful that Corinne does not mind sharing her time with me. Leslie carries on a full conversation all the while she knows where the boys are and what they are doing. We had lunch at Backyard Burgers in Indian Lake and the boys had fun at the inside tree house there. Then we put them to the real test, Corinne needed to pick up something at a little shop called Initial This and we all went with her.

This is the cutest little store and it was right down my alley! Corinne knows the owner, Julie Gammon and wanted us all to meet her! She is precious and I know we are going to be big buds!

~201 N.Anderson Lane, Suite 200~ Hendersonville, TN 37075~
I could have stayed in there all day! If you are local, you have to stop in and meet Julie and pick out something to have monogrammed. She has the cutest things you ever saw!

What a fun day! Thanks Corinne and Leslie for including me!

I love being an Aunt and a Great-Aunt!

Long Valentine Post....

My Dyersburg Valentines!!! Cannon, Cord and Connor Pigg!

This post is going backwards because when I put the pictures up, that's how they landed so just keep reading! I am starting with Sunday, February 14, 2010, actually Valentine's Day. Chris, Ashley, Christopher, John Ed and Mary Hollis came up for the long weekend. A birthday party was planned for three of the cousins to share but had to be changed due to the Father daughter sock hop at CPA and also illness in Drew's family.

John Ed Maddux's birthday was Feb. 6, 2010 and he turned 3 years old! Maddux loves it when Christopher and John Ed come to town so he has someone to wrestle with and scream and shoot at each other!

Next we have Anni Routh pictured above. Her birthday was Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 and she turned 7 years old. Her DD and G gave her a new dance outfit for her American Girl doll that even has tap shoes! Anni was so excited telling us that her parents are taking "just her" to Chicago in March and going to the American Girl Store! She is so animated when she tells anything that it is like watching a performance. She loves to pretend and perform as you can see she changed into dress up clothes while we were there. (This happens to be an old dance costume of Ashley's when she was a child).

Mom and I captured the smallest ones, Mary Hollis and Will Carter for a quick picture. Mary Hollis will be one next month!

I fixed a Valentine Lunch for Brad, Patrick and Mom. We had Chicken Elegante, Gourmet mashed potatoes, Roasted, herb carrots, green bean casserole, and miniature cream cheese biscuits and sweet tea. It was so fancy, I had to pull out Leslie's recipe's! We ate off of heart shaped plates and really enjoyed being together. We gave Patrick some cute T-shirts and some candy. Baby got some new hair bows that she loved! For Mom, we gave her the "You are Special Plate". My cousin Cheryl, had a luncheon in my honor and served me with this plate. I had never seen it before or heard of the sweet tradition behind it. You write on the back of the plate, the date and the occasion and the person you are celebrating, eats their food from this plate.

I had told Mom not too long ago that Starr carried a real handkerchief in her purse and had given me one for my purse. It reminded me of an old Designing Women show where Suzanne Sugarbaker ( one my hero's) said that a woman that carried a nice handkerchief, showed a sign of good breading. For my Valentine, Mom gave me 6 of the most beautiful handkerchiefs I have ever seen. They were my Grandmothers and Aunt Ree's. They have such detailed tiny embroidery on them that they did. I will cherish these always and if and when the good Lord sends a wife for Patrick, I will pass on to her.

Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 Drew took his oldest girls Ava on the left and Emma on the right to the annual CPA Father daughter dance. This was the first year for Ava to go.

Brad took me to dinner Saturday night at September's. It was a really beautiful restaurant and the food was good. We thought it was expensive for what you got. We were glad to try it out since we had not been there before. I gave Brad a Blu-Ray DVD and we swapped our cards. As always we kept the tradition of one serious and one funny. I had already opened and worn my Valentine gift from Brad........ Oh I could

live in these cute boots from Bodens! Well that catches up the past few days if anyone is even still reading!!!!

I have a new BFF!!!!

Today Beth Moore was at Lifeway in Franklin, TN signing her new book that just came out. Mom and I got there and the line was already around the store but, it went fast and we met the cutest girl in line so it was OK. When we got up to Beth it was just almost overwhelming. For some reason, I feel like I know her. Like in real life know her. Through all the years of taking her Bible Studies, reading her blog everyday and reading Amanda's, I know way too much about their family!!! She did not rush us, she looked us in the eye as if she had all day. I told her how much I had prayed for her when she was sick and she said "girl, you just can't imagine what it is like waiting to find out if you have cancer". I responded with "yes I can, I was diagnosed in May, had surgery, chemo and radiation and in January was declared cancer free". She grabbed me again and hugged even tighter and she said "yes I can see you are cancer free! I see God all over your face, yes I can, bless you dear friend"! It was just precious is all I can say and I am so glad that we went.

Of course there was a lunch outing! Everything in our family seems to revolve around eating. We went to Puffy Muffin, Hot Pink, dashed through Katy's Hallmark, looked for Mom's house on Greerland Drive where she lived with Daddy before all of us, ran by Aunt Nita's to see the new paint job on Auntie's house and still made it to physical therapy for me at Vanderbilt 30 minutes early! It's all in your organizational skills!