Our First BBQ Competition

One of my college roommate, Aimee and her husband, Ken came to town (well, Pelahatchie) this weekend for a BBQ competition. They have a serious trailer and this is very serious business! We had a great time out at Camp Jellystone and already looking forward to next year.

We got to meet Yogi Bear.




Deciding which chickens are best to present.



I told you this was serious business.



It took us both for keeping him from jumping in the lake!

St. Patrick's Day Parade

We decided on Friday to head out to the St. Patrick's Day parade in downtown Jackson on Saturday. Jay knew that his friend, Jamie was out of town, so we called Merideth to see if she wanted to go with us. She did! The good news for us? She had TWO places we could go with a bathroom!!! This is a huge deal in the parade world. We drive over to Madison in the morning to pick her up and head downtown before the traffic gets bad. We land a place to park and she leads us to party local. OH MY - what a surprise. The lady lived in an old warehouse that had been re done and he balcony overlooked the parade route. Are you kidding me??? This was the fat hook up! Again, pics taken with my phone.



Our friend Drake with James




All smiles ready for the parade!

The Countdown has begun....

We are on the countdown for our flight to New Jersey to see our FAMILY! We cannot wait for all our nieces and nephews to meet James and I know they are excited too. Jay and I were just discussing that it has been a year since we have seen them. Because of the pregnancy and birth of James we were not able to visit at our normal time this past year. Judging from the Christmas cards that have arrived we are in for some "BIG" surprises!!!

This weekend has flown by. We have some down and also visited with friends over the weekend. Rob, an old friend from my W days came over to our side of town and had lunch with us at Corner Bakery. He's finally comfortable holding James! Here's a great pic of the two of them!