Just a little something something

I haven't posted in several days so I figured I better get something on here. I spent the weekend in Indianola....again....and Mary Cecil had a Jamboree to cheer at. She attends Indianola Academy there and is a 5th grade peewee cheerleader. This is her in one of her many poses after she came home from the Jamboree.

And here is my little "guitar hero" with her very own real guitar. She's been strumming up a storm (and driving me insane!!) ever since we got it!! She's begged for one every time we go in Walmart so I finally gave in. What in the world was I thinking?? No, really, maybe she can teach herself to play and be the next Jewel!!! HAHA!!!

Can we say "bored"???

Well, it's a typical Friday around here in these parts...skeleton crew, nothing much going on since it's so wet out....Ah, boredom has set in. This is what we typically look like around here too when we're this bored. Our eyelids get heavy, our heads start to nod, until the blasted phone rings and scares the b-jeezus out of us and wakes us up wide awake!! It's a miracle we're this alert!!!

Two Generations Back

This is a tribute to the greatest, most wonderful and loving grandparents a child could ever have growing up. I was lucky enough to have Mamaw and Papaw Mills for 33 years in my life. I was lucky enough that my own children could spend time with them and remember them. They married July 18, 1947 when Mamaw was 18 and papaw was 23. They remained together until Mamaw's passing in May 2006. Papaw followed her home 8 months later. They now rest in Heaven together, hopefully looking down on all these grandkids and great-grandkids smiling. The two of them hold many memories for me, and the biggest part of my memories growing up. They are missed more than words can say.

Remember what they used to look like.....

Here is a personal favorite of mine that I created with pictures of various farms. Some are crops from Jason's fields, the others I had to snap out at the Steven's farm in Drew County since Jason doesn't grow rice or sorghum. Anyway, this is how I like to remember these particular crops BEFORE all the yucky rain. How pretty and green or golden and ready to harvest they lookED...But after almost 8 inches of rain just in Monticello I shudder to think what the result will be when it finally stops. And by the way, thanks to all this weather and storming rain and wind, the kids are out of school again today.....at home.....here with me....plus a niece. I took off to stay home with them (and get to sleep sorta late!) Yeah, thanks Jason and Brandon for calling me this morning....Jason--at the crack of dawn, and Brandon--just after 8am......AAAHHH!!!!

As you can probably tell, I'm bored. I've been on the "picnik" photo site messing around. Just thought I'd add a couple of photos of Jason's children Mary Cecil and Anna. His "crumb snatchers" (as he jokingly calls them) are 9 and 10 years old. Mary Cecil is 10, and Anna just turned 9 a few days ago. They live in Inverness with their mother and come spend every other weekend at their daddy's. His girls and Caitlin all get along (most of the time) and keep us hopping! If anyone has ever seen Jason you can look at these kid's pictures and there is no doubt he's the daddy!! Anna resembles him the most. She looks like he spit her out himself! Anyway, they are great little girls, very well mannered, and mind!! Maybe someday they'll be part of my crazy family over here in Arkansas!!!

The Goofiest family around Jennie!

Sunday was the Jennie Baptist Church Homecoming service.....which means we all sing and eat a bunch. Aunt Roxy and I had a duet, which was almost a disaster, to say the least. The audio guy turned our accompaniment CD off right in the MIDDLE of our song with our mouths gaped wide open ready to belt it out!!! But since it was Jennie, and we all grew up there, it wasn't too mortifying. They just started it over and we did it again before my solo. After all that it was time TO EAT!!! Here's Angela and our crazy daddy (when he finally sat down to eat...just like his moma Mamaw Mills.....sits down AFTER everyone else has fixed their plate and started!)

Then we have a beautiful photograph here of the original Mills family (no relation to the other set of Mills' in Jennie if you can believe that??!!). I remember one other portrait of us 3 girls with our parents back when I was a junior in High School.....no spiral perm this time though!! I title this picture "The Cullhanes" cause that's what moma and daddy have always called us ever since I can remember...I can't imagine why???!!! HA!

Now I can't exactly remember too many time that me and my sisters took photos all together at once, but I insisted on it this day. It's rare that we're all 3 in Jennie church on the same Sunday. I live in Warren, Amanda lives in Monticello and Angela is still in Lake Village. So getting there all at once is a task. But it always makes my parents so darn happy that we're there!
Oh this is a good picture of my daddy AKA Honcho with his little protoge' Spenko...I did a little doodling to their picture because it's just so fitting for them! I'm sure in this photo dad was asking Spencer if he's been studying for his driver's test or if he's been scrubbing his head (long story there)....

After all the eating and visiting, we gathered back at Mamaw Skippy's house so the Roark Sisters could visit a little. Funny how when all them Roark's get together, they all try to "out-talk" each other....It turns into a loud yammering event every time! It's hard to get a word in edgewise around there!

They are seated in birth order, from right to left....Mom 1952, Aunt Teresa 1953, Aunt Debbie 1955, and the supposed accident Roxanne 1968!! Well, that's about it for my input on the Jennie Homecoming! Blog ya later!!

Gustav...........darn it!

Well here we have some of the remnants of Hurricane Gustav at my house in Warren. Look at my poor tree! It was the only tree or shrub that had any color blooms on it in the spring, and now it's gone. Guess that's one less thing to mow around. Anyway, my backyard is flooded, some small limbs are down in the whole yard, and the rain is blowing around the flashers on my fireplace and coming in through the insert!!! The kids school was actually shut down today since most of Monticello was without electricity. Here in a little while I'm going to tour the crops in the county and check out the damage further.