Family comes to visit and Sophie does her first scrapbook page

Jimmy,Jaden, and Jerry

Sophie, James, and LeAnna
Jacob and Jaden too much food and fun!
Uncle Jim and Sophie having a moment

Uncle Jim looking at Jadens latest find.
Barlar hug sandwich!Sophie working on her birthday pictures for her scrapbook.

Fun on Friday

Jaden helping Dad mow the yard Sweet friends
We were so excited that our friend LeAnna came over to play for a little while today. They had a ball just laughing and being together.
I thought this was precious-they are holding hands. My Sophie is a hand holder.
Fun at our favorite eating spot!
"Do not keep the alabaster boxes

of your love

and tenderness sealed

up until your friends are not here.

Fill their lives with sweetness.

Speak approving, cheering words

while their ears can hear them

and while their hearts can

be thrilled by them."

- Henry Ward Beecher

YATS! cajun.creole.crazy. I say YUMMY!

We love YATS in Indy but found out there were 5 and we thought there were 2. We put YATS in the Garmin (who we call Susan) wanting the one downtown. We ended up in uptown Indy. We decided to stay at the one uptown and eat at the one downtown the next day. Worked for all of us!
Chili Cheese Etoufee with Crawfish-What they are famous for. #1 in Indy for several years.
Quite!
Downtown YATS

The Menu...It changed while we were standing there. Okay this guy...Andrea and I both wanted his shirt. He would not sell it to us. We even threatened him but still he loved his shirt so much he would not part with it. They don't sell them...they should they would have sold some that day.Yats backwards:)Stay.Happy customers happily waiting for their order.Artichoke & Parmisan with shrimp and mushroomsJust liked this shot:)Yes it was at YATS.

Trip to Indy last week

So this is it the moment we went to Indy for. To see Farrah direct the choir in singing the song she wrote.The song is awesome and she did a great job directing it. She had to hold her hands way above her head because she is so short they had trouble seeing her:).

Mom and Andrea outside Calvary Tab Farrah, Gabe, Mom, Andrea, and Me at Music Conference

Okay we are cruising along Indy and see this picture...of course we yell stop the car and jump out and do this.Farrah was laughing so hard we barely got this shot. Right after we finished taking the picture someone pulled in and gave us very dirty looks. We jumped in the car and took off. The other car pulled into the parking space directly in front of the picture so no one else could do this. By the way this is on the side of a Photographers Studio. Come on if you don't want people to enjoy your work don't plaster it on the side of a building downtown Indianapolis.
Will put more pictures up later in their own categories:)

Reveal false Unimportant Fact about me.

1. I like peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.True I know ewww but it is true
2. I have moved to houses down the street from each other more than once.True
3. My parents moved while I was at camp once and forgot to pick me up.False-It was a school out of town trip and Dad bought a new car and that threw me off.
4. I have lived in at least 12 different houses in 6 different cities.True-Momma likes to move.
5. I took swimming lessons at the YMCA when I was 5 and failed because I could not float.True-I didn't know I didn't pass the class because of the failure to float thing until I was in my late 20's.
6. Had a duck named Quackers.True-My Grandparents had a vacation place on Lake Miranda in Hardy Arkansas and I had a white duck there named Quackers.
7. I have ran smack dab into Michael W. Smith at Amy Grants home on New Years Eve.True-and how uncool was that.
8. Been shopping with Jody McBrayer (Avalon) at T.J. Maxx in Cool Springs.True
9. Last winter we had a blind calf with cleft palette. His name was Ray Charles.True
10. I have an Uncle called Toad, a Grandpa called Speed, an Aunt named Fannie, and my other Grandpa only has initials for a name (he is called Pete for no apparent reason since his initials are R.D.).True

10 Unimportant things about me....

Here are 10 unimportant things about me. One is not true.It is up to you to find out which one.

1. I like peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.

2. I have moved to houses down the street from each other more than once.

3. My parents moved while I was at camp once and forgot to pick me up.

4. I have lived in at least 12 different houses in 6 different cities.

5. I took swimming lessons at the YMCA when I was 5 and failed because I could not float.

6. Had a duck named Quackers.

7. I have ran smack dab into Michael W. Smith at Amy Grants home on New Years Eve.

8. Been shopping with Jody McBrayer (Avalon) at T.J. Maxx in Cool Springs.

9. Last winter we had a blind calf with cleft palette. His name was Ray Charles.

10. I have an Uncle called Toad, a Grandpa called Speed, an Aunt named Fannie, and my other Grandpa only has initials for a name (he is called Pete for no apparent reason since his initials are R.D.).

Memories of the Big Boy

On a road trip last week I spied Big Boy. The restaurant was Frischs. When I was a kid it was the Shoneys Big Boy.

I love the Big Boy!

So I made Mom get her picture made with him.
After this picture was taken, I thought about how many other people may have kissed him before me.
How the Big Boy got big! Loved the free suckers on the way out as a kid and now!
The food was not great but the memories were. Good to see you again Big Boy will try to catch you again sometime. He is still smiling after all these years and he still makes me smile too.