Black Friday!
I love black Friday, its one of my favorite days of the year. Well actually this whole week was great starting this past weekend when mom kept MaryAnne and Olivia for us while we went to Pensacola. Great weekend, very relaxing and I got some scrap booking done. Then Tuesday was our Thanksgiving meal at church which is always delish. Our anniversary was Thursday and Buddy gave me the Henry Morris Defenders Bible. Pretty Sweet. My kids spent the night with his mom last night so we could get up at 3:00am to go shopping. Yes, we did. It did pay off with a free $15 gift card to Belk and some great deals. Although I didn't make it to Wal-Mart till 6:30am and everything I wanted there was gone. Poo! Needless to say I'm almost completely done with my Christmas shopping, besides a few gift cards. I pray the next few weeks go by fast. We don't leave again until December 27th. :(

Hard Drive Crash....Learning a lesson the heard way, as usual.

Last week on our trek home MaryAnne fell into Olivia's computer as a crazed fan into a mosh pit at a concert and desecrated the hard drive. We lost 6 weeks of Olivia's school work not to mention the 50-11 movies she had on there. How could she have been mosh pit diving in the back seat of the car you might ask? Well that was the lesson I had to learn, the $130 and 3 days of work way. Buddy told me to make sure she sits down when we are driving, her seat belt was malfunctioning so she couldn't be buckled up. I just blew off his admonishment and let her climb and jump and BLAMMO! There went the computer. So after apologizing to Buddy and my daughter and explain to her "even mommy needs to obey daddy." The situation is rectified. I am now humbled into the subjective state I am supposed to be in. Why do we only learn the hard way? Anyway we have been home for a week now and Buddy is working with my dad. He does not enjoy that but at least its work. We are headed to Pensacola to be at Smyrna Baptist Church for 3 days. That should be fun, although I hope MaryAnne's allergies and asthma doesn't flare up as they have been the last few days. Then Tuesday night is our annual eat yourself into a comma night at our home church which is always fun. Looking forward to that one. Then Thursday is our Anniversary and Friday is one of my favorite days of the year. Yes it's BLACK FRIDAY! Can't wait to post all the crazy deals I get.

We are finishing up 7 weeks of being out on the road. We left the 3rd week of September and went to Hot Springs, Va. That was a really beautiful town with a beautiful resort. (which we got to tour!) That was awesome! Then we went to North Carolina for a week to hang out with our friends Paul and Sarah Crow and preach in Newton which is near HIckory. That was a good week because we also got to see our friends Andrea and Chip Hoffer which we haven't seen in 3 years. Then we were on to Jesup GA to preach a Sunday and go to a preachers fellowship. We love the church there in Jesup. Northside Baptist in a great church and one of my best friends in the whole world Lydia Fisher is there and the pastor is great. Then we were back to North Carolina for a meeting in Hendersonville, NC. We stayed with our friends Jake and Jessica DeAndrea at the Smith's house. That was a great week. Then we went to Laurel Indiana and we got to see Paul and Sarah again there. That was a really nice church too. Then we went to Mountain City, TN with Jeff and Janine Wills. That was a good week other than the when MaryAnne had a really bad Asthma attack and had to go to the hospital. It was a terrible hospital. Now we are here in Georgia again about to depart again for home. I wish we didn't have to go back so soon because we'll be stuck there for 6 weeks. We do have one more 3 day meeting next weekend in Pensacola, FL. That's pretty sweet! All in all we have had a great 7 weeks. We'll see how Buddy does living at home with the mother-in-law for 6 weeks. Scary!