Peyton's First Christmas Pictures

If you must know I thought it would be quite easy to take a few pictures of a sleeping baby....

Well I was wrong...

Never knew the damage such a little person could do with his diaper off, lets just
say a baby with his belly full and no diaper on whom decides to sneeze equals a little fire power!

And did I mention the baby only went to sleep for about 2 minutes?

He sure gave me a run for my money but we managed to get some really good pictures out of it....










Blessings
M

Christmas Play

Just wanted to share a video clip of the kids singing in the Christmas play...(and yes Cassie's solo too) They all did such a good job!



Blessings!
M

Meet Peyton Thomas Turner

The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet




I am most certain these feet are blessed...a strong foundation for the things to come in his life....God has already mapped and planned his life and these feet are gonna take him places...

And be prepared...

Your gonna see this face alot cause I'm sure I'm gonna take a zillion pictures!

I must introduce you to Peyton Thomas Turner...



The miracle we have all been waiting for.



...all 6lbs 10oz of him..


And hows Mom you ask? Well she breezed through labor like a pro barley broke a sweat..no pain medicine...no epidural...only a faint quiet conversation with Jesus (where she said "Oh Jesus this hurts") and done...he was here and she had a Coke and a smile..



Darin (Melissa's husband) made it through the whole thing without hitting the floor, and he is all smiles...a very proud Daddy!



Love at first sight? Yep!






Blessings

M

Hello Stranger

Yes I know...I have been away for awhile, my computer at home has been very sick and blogging at work is near impossible. But thanks to someone smarter than I the computer is up and running (very slow but at least it works)

Lots has been going on here in Whoville, we've had Baby Showers, Birthdays, Thanksgiving, and a grand Parade to finish off the week! For those of you who are wondering my Sister (Melissa) is due to have her baby Dec. 18th....actually she is at the point she can go anytime, I am very excited about the baby and I'm sure he will decide to come in the middle of the night and I will have to show up at the Hospital with terribly big hair (this is my fear) my hair is natural curly and when I dry it at night I look like Medusa...it is a truly disturbing sight, so I pray she goes into labor during the day so my hair will look nice for the arrival (grin) And grey hairs have been added to the Medusa hair I have...I now have TWO sixteen year olds in my house, shew where does time go? Chad went last week to try for his permit and he passed his test with flying colors, so now I feel like "Driving Miss Daisy" I no longer am behind the wheel I am now actually under the dashboard praying lots (not really...he is a good driver)

And of coarse we had a great Thanksgiving with lots of food...lots of calories...many grams of fat..it was all worth the many extra miles I will have to put on the treadmill this week...no regrets!

And to end on a great note we finished our weekend off with the Marrowbone Parade it was great! I put everything together in a video for all to see! Blessings! M

Home

~John Ed Pearce once said "Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to."

My small hometown of Burkesville celebrated their 200yr. Birthday this past weekend I haven't seen that many people in Burkesville in a long time.

They brought back the Riverboat Review Show...something I was in when I was in school (I won't even share how long ago that was) And this year I had the honor of setting in the audience and watching my Daughter preform on the very same stage.

I understand getting older is a part of life that we all must except, but for some reason this weekend made that all the more real to me...

Faces of people I hadn't seen in years, and while setting in the audience listening to the speaker pay tribute to so many that loved this town that have now passed away...time truly does march on weather we want it to or not.

So I took it all in...

Wondering if anyone else was thinking that this is quite possibly the greatest place in the world to live...

I love my town and the people in it, they are most certainly my extended family.

Happy 200th Birthday Burkesville!!

I'm including some pictures from this weekend and a few videos from the Riverboat review Show (one of which is my Daughter Cassie Marie singing her solo "Blue Moon Of Kentucky")











Blessings
M

What do you get....

What do you get when you have a teenager with six bucks in his pocket?

Oh let me share with you what you get....or maybe it's just me.... and your teenager decides to take his six bucks and spend it on a sweet card for his dear Mother..ahem..

Last Wednesday night on the way to church...

Chad Allen: "Hey Mom, I bought a duck from a kid at school today."

Me: "Yeah right Chad tell me another good one."

Chad Allen: "Really Mom I paid him six bucks...and by the way he's dropping him off at church, that's why I have that cage in the back."

Me: .........<- that's me praying the kid doesn't show up at church with a duck.

7:45pm Church is over and I walk out into the parking lot to see a crowd of kids around my truck....with a faint "quack, quack, quack" in the back ground.

Cassie Marie barreling towards me screaming at the top of her lungs "Momeeeeeeee..we have a duck!!"

Yep....that's what you get when you have a teenager with six bucks in his pocket!

So Aflac is now offically part of the family, and pretty darn cute if I say so myself.

Blessings
M

The last first day of School...

As a Mom we find lots of things to get emotional about, seems like the older I get the more I cry...

I hear my Son (Chad Allen) say often "Mom really...are you gonna cry? Suck it up...REALLY MOM IT'S NOT THAT SAD!"

I can't help it, some things just get to me more these days.

Which brings me to my latest (at 7:15 this morning to be exact) melt down.

The last first day of School.

My boys are now older, Chase is 14 and in 8th grade. Chad and Kane are 15 and in 10th grade so the whole walking them into school thing on the first day of school would not be an option (they wouldn't even let me drive them to school this morning)
But Cassie Marie is still in Elementary School so she wanted me to take her and even ask me to walk with her to her classroom. Cassie is in 5th grade this year her classroom is located on the third floor, and as I climbed those steps I realized this is "The last first day of School" for me...with each step I became more emotional and thought I might have to have a melt down right in the hall way.
It was one of those fan your face repeat in your head over and over "don't do it, don't you dare cry." moments.
I spoke to Cassie's teacher told her to have a good day, and out the door I went...got in my vehicle and at precisely 7:15 while on my way to work cried..lots...

Yes, I know it's not like she graduated...
But there will never be another first day of school where I'm invited to walk hand in hand with my child...

Am I crying right at this moment you ask?

Yep.
I guess as the years have passed I have learned to take more in, listen a little longer, talk a little softer, laugh more often.

It all passes by so quick.

I have no idea where the time went, but I know I sure am gonna miss "The last first day of School."

Blessings.
M