Ready for the weekend!!!!

So this weekend, one of my best friends and college roomie is coming for a fun visit! She is bringing with her, her WONDERFUL little boy Camden, and her new BF Jeremey. Bo and I are so excited to have them! This is our first time meeting Jeremey and we are really excited. We have heard nothing but wonderful things about him. I haven't seen Christi since Christmas (which is WAY to long for us), but I haven't seen Camden since his birthday in September. I hope her recognizes me. (haha he knows I always have presents, he knows exactly who I am). Everytime I talk to him on the phone he says "Aunt Prentiss when are you going to bring me presents?" This weekend he is going to get a fishing pole, because we are taking him fishing at Wildwood. I am hoping for a superman one, but I haven't gone to look yet. (His last request was for Superman presents). We can not wait for ya'll to get here!! YAY I hope to have lots of fun pictures to post next week of the weekend!

Christi and I right before my wedding

Christi and I on my bachelorette party at the beach

Sweet little Camden Payne

Spring is finally here....Hopefully to stay!

I haven't blogged in a while. We have been busy. We have many friends getting married over the next few months, and the wedding festivites have been ample. The last weekend in Feb. we had an 'Around the house' shower for Ginger and Baxter on Friday night, then on Saturday night was their Engagment party at Wildwood. The following weekend we went down to Jackson for Wesley and Laurie's 'Stock the Bar' party. Both weekends were a lot of fun, and two of the wedding fesivities highlites.

John, MKB, Me and Bo at Bax and Ginger's shower

Libbie, Me, and Fleming enjoying the shower

Mollie Walker, Sally, and me enjoying the Crawfish Hole in Jackson

This past weekend we had an 'off' weekend so we laid low. Friday night we went to see Kalin and Jacy's progress on their new house, and hung out for a little while. Saturday night we went to dinner at Pizza Grocery with Mary E and Garett. We had a LOT of fun with them. We haven't gotten to hang out with them in a while. Saturday during the day, however was not as much fun. With our wonderful house that we love, came this HUGE yard that we have absolutely no idea what to do with. Mrs. Barlett that lived her before us was a master gardner, so there is lots there it just needs to be managed. It has grown up a lot and needs some attention. The good thing is no gass which = NO MOWING which Bo was thrilled about. But, now we have about decided mowing would be much easier than this. So Saturday we decided to give it a go. We decided we would start by mulching. Well we got four 'scoops' (to those who are like me and have no idea how much a scoop is, I can tell you IT'S A LOT!!!) of mulch. And we didn't get done. We are going to need at least another 'scoop' maybe more. However, we did get a lot down. I took a few pictures today. Some of the plants/flowers are starting to bloom. Some of our buttercups are really lookng good, although some of them bloomed a little prematurly and we lost them to cold snap a few weeks back. We noticed yesterday our dogwood trees are begining to bloom. I love dogwoods!! We have several azalea bushes and I can not WAIT for those to bloom!! If anyone has a greenthumb and wants to share any helpful hints with us, PLEASE FEEL FREE!

A few of the buttercups blooming (notice the fresh mulch)

The flower bed around our patio

More signs of spring

One of the dogwood trees begining to bloom

Morgan is tying the knot!!

One of my best friends and college roommate Morgan Stotelmyer got engaged to her LLLOOONNGG time boyfriend David Myrick this weekend!! I am so excited. The will be getting married on June 27, 2009 in Hot Springs, AR! I am honored to be a bridesmaid in the wedding and I can not WAIT!! CONGRATS Morgan and David!

House of Blessings

JA of Corinth along with the Corinth-Alcorn Area Builders Association is raffling off a new home!! The tickets to win the house are $100.00. The house winner will be drawn on Febuary 21st. The $100.00 is tax deductible and the proceeds of the raffle go to the Junior Auxiliary of Corinth. JA does many wonderful things for the children of Alcorn County.

Each $100.00 donation to Junior Auxiliary of Corinth can accomplish the following for the children of Alcorn County:

• Teach approximately 1300 kindergarten and third grade children how to protect themselves from predators.
  
• Supply an underprivileged school aged child with one week's worth of new clothes and a coat.
  
• Educate approximately 500 high school children about sound money management principles in preparation for life in the real world
  
• Send a special needs child to camp for a week.
  
• Provide weekly assistande in teaching special needs children how to acclimate into all aspects of society.
  
• Make available college scholarships to Alcorn County graduates.
  
• Promote excitement and aptitude about reading to thrid graders at Biggerville Elementary.

Please contact me or any other JA member if you are interested in winning a house for $100.00!!!!

Tax Season

My best friend is an accountant, and this is the begining of tax season. I am a sad soul. She lives four hours away and will be working every Saturday. She came in this weekend for one last FUN weekend! We spent the night at her cabin and made a fun trip to Freddy T's with big group of friends. Can't wait for April 15th!

Congrats Breter and Kyle!!

So for New Year's Eve we went to Starkville. The reason was not only to celebrate NYE with my friends, but to celebrate the engagement of one of my friends KRISTEN BRETER. She is marrying an amazing guy, KYLE SKINNER! I love them both! They are perfect for each other. Kyle surprised Kristen by having all of us come down for NYE. She didn't know why we were all coming. On that afternoon they were going to "take family pictures" at the Chapel of Memories on campus, and Kyle proposed. So Sweet! She then thought she was coming to dinner at Old Venice to surprise us with the news of there engagement, but she was surprised that we already knew and had ballons and banners waiting on her. We had a great time that night. I am so excited for them!

Breter showing off her "bling"

Corinth girls group pict with the Bride to be

Merry Christmas!

Well the last few weeks have been busy busy! We had a great Christmas! On December 23 I went and ate with the girls I graduated high school with. We get together every year. There are 8 of us, but this year the number was cut in 1/2. We have found as more and more of us get married and work it is harder for us to get together. We had a lot of fun though. We went to have lunch at Pizza Grocery.

Season, Megan, me and Katy

Christmas Eve we had both our families over to our house for dinner after Christmas Eve communion. We grilled duck and had finger foods. It was a lot of fun and yummy. Christmas morning Bo and I got up and did our presents at our house. Then in our PJ's we went to my parents to open presents with them. For Christmas lunch we went to Bo's parents. My parents joined us as well as the Wilders. It was nice to have all our families in one spot for both Christmas Eve and Day. We are very blessed to be in the same town with both families and not have to spend holidays on the road. The day after Christmas we celebrated Butler Christmas out at MKB's house. It is always a lot of fun and entertaining. I think there were 25 people there this year plus 2 babies. SO FUN!

Bo and I Chritmas morning at my parents

On the 27th my two best friends from College (also my college roomies) came to stay with us. Morgan and David came on there way back home from Christmas in Huntsville with David's family. Christi came from West Point. There was the annual Corinth Christmas party that night. So we enjoyed dinner at Pizza Grocery before the party. It was a lot of fun! I love it when they come visit. I miss them so much!

Christi, me and Morgan