Guess what time it is

Pool Time!!! We found out yesterday that Mrs. Kathy's pool was ready. About 25 min later, we were jumping in. No lie! I have never shaved my legs that quickly before! It was heaven!!! She has a new float that I have officially claimed for myself and threatened the boys that if they kill it by using it in some of their trick jumps off of the driving board, I will be VERY unhappy! I could not believe how warm the water is already. We only stayed for a couple hours and then had to come home. Hope to go back soon. I wanted to go today, but Stephen had too much school work to do tonight. Boo! So its just me, the laptop, and the TV. At least I have control of the remote!

I am no Anna Kournikova...

And Stephen is no Andre Agassi...

But we still had a blast playing tennis today. Amanda Shelton read on my blog a couple months ago that we were thinking about playing some tennis. She had recently bought a racket and decided tennis was not for her so she gave it to me one day. We went to Walmart and picked one up for Stephen and got some tennis balls too. We finally decided to give it a try today. Now, you must understand, I had hours and hours of tennis lessons as a child. Mom is all about learning "lifetime" sports that you can play into your 80s. Unfortunately, those lessons never really stuck. We went down to the park today and started out not doing so well. I remembered how to serve but was not really into running after the ball when Stephen would hit it back. Plus it was sooooo hot out there today. We did get better the longer we stayed out there and I did find the energy to hustle after the ball a few times. We had a ton of fun laughing at each other. Don't worry we are not giving up biking at all! We just wanted to do something active today that did not require loading up the bikes and driving somewhere that was safe to ride. We finished just in time too. It started raining as we pulled back into the driveway.

We decided to have a date night at home tonight and grill some steaks. Stephen did such a good job! They were so tasty! And way cheaper than if we had gone out.

Stephen wanted me to take an "after"shot of his plate. He definitely got his money's worth of that steak!

Memorial Day

My mom had some friends that are trying to adopt a little boy. They have tshirts that they have for sale to raise money for the adoption. If you take a picture while wearing the shirt, they will post it on their blog. Click here to see their blog. While Mom was in town we headed down the block for a mini photo session so Mom could send in a couple pictures:

Had to get the flags in the picture for Memorial Day

Mom and Me

In Front of the Lamar Democrat office

This is my favorite. In front of the Backstreet Opry, a local landmark

Then I took this one too while we were out there. Think I like it better with the red showing though. I have just found Picnik.com and have been playing around editing pictures on there. I have alot to learn but did all of these photos on that site and liked how they came out.

Tracy comes to town

Mom came for a visit this weekend. Dad is gone on a mission trip and she is making the rounds visiting some of her peps. She started the tour in Alabama. We had no plans for this weekend and just hung out. Saturday we all slept in and then woke up and put together a pancake breakfast. Then Mom and I headed to Columbus for some shopping. I went to Old Navy to hit up the Memorial Day sale and got several things I have been hunting for. Last night, Stephen grilled and his parents came over for supper. (Sorry, no food pics. We ate everything up too quickly). This morning, we let Mom experience our typical Sunday. We headed to church and then went to lunch with the Blakes. Then we loaded up and went for a bike ride down to the river and around downtown Columbus. While we were on the MUW campus, we walked around the new gym. It was amazing! I was so jealous that we did not have that when I was there on campus. Then we watched the SEC baseball championship. LSU beat Bama in the 11 inning! Then more eating and now home to chill in front of the tv and computer. Mom is heading back to Louisiana tomorrow and we are going to spend time with the Richards then head to T-town for a little more shopping!

Riding the Riverwalk:

Taking a tour of MUW:

We took photos here at my graduation so we stopped for another quick photo:

Taste of Home

(Photo from Deep South Dish)

So tonight I made Natchitoches meat pies for supper. I found a new food blog that I love!! I pretty much want to make every single recipe on it. I have looked at it dozens of times and still have not read them all yet. But dont worry, I will get through them soon. I know! I am weird! I read recipes like some people read books.
I forget that people not from Lousisiana don't know what Natchitoches meat pies are. I guess its like nabs. We got into that discussion Sunday when our resident Yankee looked totally confused when we were talking about eating nabs for lunch. Ha ha! Anyway, I have had this recipe bookmarked for a couple weeks and decided to make it tonight. My mom always made corn on the cob to go with it but I wanted to change it up so I also made the corn salad from this blog. I loved it! But Stephen was not a huge fan. Well, back to the meat pies. These are from a place called Natchitoches, La which is famous for three things- Christmas lights, the movie Steel Magnolias, and of course meat pies! Stephen had never had them before but I knew he would love them. And guess what, he did! I did not take a picture because the process took longer than I had thought and we were STARVING!! We usually eat about 5:30 and it was 7 before we sat down tonight. But the pictures above looked just like mine so you get the idea. If you would like to give them a try and have a little taste of Louisiana just click here and get to cookin'

Our weekend

So we actually had no plans this weekend. I know that is shocking. Stephen was so excited to stay home! I was totally bored after 2 hours. Friday night we stayed at home. It rained ALL day and I was soaking wet when I got off work. No fun! I was so ready for a shower and my pjs. We cooked supper and watched some movies. Saturday I made a cake, last minute, for Tara's grandmother:

After I finished the cake. I pulled out all the many colors of buttercream that were in the freezer and made a ton of cupcakes. Our lifegroup got to eat them last night. After I cleaned up all my mess, we actually got out of our pjs and got dressed and headed to the Vernon City Celebration. Its our spring festival. My cousin's band was supposed to be playing so we went to listen for awhile. Must have missed them though. It took about 15 minutes to walk from our house, walk around the whole festival, get some snowcones and walk back to our house. Ha ha! Not exactly like when we went to Market Street a couple weeks ago.
We spent yesterday in Columbus-church, lunch, shopping, and lifegroup. We made the mistake of wasting time in Walmart and there went $100. The highlight for me was finding one of the new Dr. Scholl's foot mapping machines. I was soooo excited. I hopped on and then made my wonderful husband try it out too. I was going to get a picture of him on there for the blog but realized I had embarrassed him enough already since he was standing in the feminine products areas watching my purse while I played on the machine. Ha ha! That is his least favorite aisle in the whole store. I did get the recommended insoles. Ill have to let you know if they are worth it. So far, I really like them. I have 30 day so to decide or get my money back. So stay posted!
We also got to go see Jim's sister's new house that is almost finished. They had just gotten a new puppy. Stephen and I both fell in love with it and wanted to take it home. Meet Lady Belle:

I guess we were pretty busy for two people with no plans. Haha! This week, Stephen starts back to school. One more year left! Yea! I am working as usual. Mom is coming to visit us this weekend. Guess we should start clearing a path to the guest bed sometime soon. That room as become our junk room. Our bikes are even parked in there right now. Oops!

Goo Goo Cluster

Setting the scene: Wearing my bright red scrubs, pink/blue/green/orange rain boots and navy rain coat.

C: I look like a goo goo cluster

S: (looking totally confused) What did you say?

C: I said I look like a goo goo cluster!

S: Is that another one of those Pourciau made up words?

C: I guess. It means I don't match.

S: How have we been married 3 years and I'm still learning things like this?

Got to keep a little mystery :)