Pardon Johnny Cash

Finally! Something cool is coming to Starkville. I'm super excited about the Flower Pickin' Festival this weekend. There will be some great music and activites all weekend. On Saturday, the mayor will pardon Johnny Cash for his arrest for flower pickin' while visiting Starkville 4o years ago. Check out the schedule at http://www.pardonjohnnycash.com/.

Go Bulldogs!

Woo hoo! We're ringing our cowbells around here!

We are so proud of our Bulldogs' victory over Kentucky this weekend.
We are also proud of Uncle Reed. Good job, Coach!

We Got Some Dawgs Up In Here...Finally

This weekend, we FINALLY attended our first MSU football game as a family. Jason took a much needed break from studying for the PE, and we had a wonderful time. Emily, being the great mommasissy that she is, was very prepared for Anne Parks' first football game of the season. She had a bag full of pom-poms and a little cowbell just the right size for a little Bulldog.
Andrew and his girlfriend Morgan were with us to cheer on the Dawgs.

Anne Parks cheered so hard the first two quarters that she slept the entire second half. I don't know how she did it with all those cowbells, but she was OUT!

If All The Raindrops Were Lemondrops and Gumdrops...

You can't really tell from the picture, but it was raining. Anne Parks, Libby, and I played on the porch and watched the raindrops fall. Anne Parks would stick her arms out and let the get wet - giggling the whole time. What a fun day!

Our House

I can't believe it! The roof is on and so is most of the siding. Pretty soon we'll be working on the interior which is both exciting and overwhelming. I've torn out about a hundred pages from magazines trying to capture the look I'm going for, but I'm still not sure of what I want. I do know for certain that there will be a porch swing (or two). We'll have a great front porch and a back porch that overlooks a field full of horses. We hope to be in by Christmas. It will be just wonderful - a new year in a new house! The contractors have been excellent to work with. They've treated me like family!

Our State Fair Is A Great State Fair

It's one of my favorite times of the year! The fair is in town! I just love everything about it - the lights, the games, the rides, the food - I love it all! Jason and I, along with Uncle Drew, took Anne Parks for her first fair experience on Friday night. She was totally amazed. As we neared the midway, and she saw the lights, she started clapping and saying "yay" or just holding her mouth wide open. The first thing we saw a was little "big" top with a sign proclaiming "Circus Maximus!" We went in and watched the show. As you can see in the pictures, Anne Parks (along with the rest of us) was mesmerized by the performers. There was a clown, trained goats, trampoline and trapeze acrobats, and a juggler. Next, we enjoyed some chicken-on-a-stick, a free buscuit, and some taffy. We ended the night with Anne Parks' first fair ride. We'd planned to go with the carousel, but it was going around so fast, it made us dizzy to watch it! So, we settled on CONVOY a big-rig themed rollercoaster. Uncle Drew thought that semis might be too tough for his prissy neice, but she didn't mind. As soon as we started moving, she raised her hands and squealed with delight! What a fun night!
You can see more of our fair pics by clicking on the "October 7" photo albun link to the right.

The following is Marshall Ramsey's top ten reasons to love the fair. I agree!

1. Free Biscuit and syrup
2. Pretty Cow Contest (and the free ball of State Edam Cheese I get for judging it)
3. Antique cars
4. People watching
5. Seeing the stuff you can win as prizes. I saw a Rebel flag with a bass on it once. I'm still trying to figure that one out. The bass will rise again?
6. Chicken on the stick
7. Watching how fast the rides are put up every year
8. The strange mixture of rap and country music blaring on the Midway
9. The art shows
10. Seeing a wide mix of Mississippians -- black, white, poor, rich, country, suburban, rural -- all come to one place to have fun.

If you're happy and you know it, say "Namaste"!

Anne Parks is in her third week of Itsy Bitsy Yoga. It's yoga for kids that uses the "sing and do" method. If you know Anne Parks, she LOVES singing and doing. We both have a lot of fun at the class, but I think Anne Parks' favorite time is when she can come home and show her Daddy what she's learned. Some of her favorites are guppy pose (shown above), star pose, kissy feet, and toes-to-the-nose. We've been practicing each night before bed and I really think it helps her relax for bedtime. Here is the link to the Itsy Bitsy Yoga site, if you are interested, http://www.itsybitsyyoga.com/ Namaste!