Best BBQ in Memphis!

Voted Best BBQ in Memphis, Tennessee

Today was Nana's 62nd birthday, we loaded up in the car at 7:30 that morning and drove straight thru to Memphis Tennessee. We arrived around 8:30 that evening, gaining an hour and so this is where to boys decided to take their Mom for her birthday! On our way to find Corkey's the girls spotted a Newk's!! (Can you guess where I ate the rest of our trip?)

Tomorrow we are going to Graceland!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANA!

What a blessing she is to all of us!

LOVE that Lady!!!!

They had the best ribs!

Jamie even said "The best ribs ever!"

Caroline got pulled pork but wanted to chew on a bone! Ha!

Lauren giving them a thumbs up!

Lauren and Caroline did so good traveling today!

Corkey's was delicious!

Happy Birthday Nana!

WE LOVE YOU!

Lots more to come....

I will be posting more about our trip to Memphis and Tunica later!

~Franne

40, 50, 60 where we come!

This year Jerry Jr, Uncle Frank and Uncle Joseph turned 40, 50 and 60!

To celebrate we had a family combined birthday party at Nana and Papa's house.

They each had their own cake to blow out!

Caroline, Lauren, Jillian and Jamie

Papa, Nana, Uncle Joe and Aunt Jo

Aunt JoAnn and Nana

Time for cake!

Our sweet Papa!

The best husband in the world!

Time for a family game of Texas Hold'em

Uncle Frank and Jerry Jr

Let me just tell you the two of them are a mess! lol

The girls gather around to see what is going on!

I love to listen to them....they always have you laughing about something!

Gracie and Caroline getting into the ice cooler.

Laughing and having a good old time eating ice and throwing it.

We had a wonderful time celebrating birthdays! Made some great memories!

(Aunt Jo made Papa and Uncle Frank laugh really hard)

We are glad you are okay Aunt Jo and you didn't break any bones :)

~Franne

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Wednesday, March 2nd was Dr. Seuss's Birthday! We celebrated it at school by decorating doors, eating green eggs and ham and class parties!

We read 12 of Dr. Seuss books that week to our kids in our class. They love to be read too!

We had a lot of fun celebrating!

I had ordered this really cute skirt from Etsy made out of Seuss fabric! I was so excited until... we were in TJ Maxx Monday night and Caroline fell in love with this dress she has on. I hear her say "Mom look! How beautiful it is Dr. Seuss's pattern!" Usually I can say No! but it was just the tone in her little voice and how sweet she was I couldn't resist.

So we resold the precious skirt from Etsy to Braley. I was a little sad...but not Caroline she was proud of her find.

Our Cat in the hats our class did this week!

Can you tell I usually take our pictures before school starts! lol We always look like we have not woke up yet! However I love my sweet school pictures of my girls and love those moments like these.

Lauren has informed me she is getting too big for all of this stuff! Lol

Such a sweet daughter! I am going to miss her next year when she is at the middle school. I am trying to get as many pictures as can! (sniff sniff)

My students love to see Lauren when she comes in my room :) She is greeted by them all running over to her every morning!

We love you Lauren Seuss!!

Caroline Seuss

We ate "Green Eggs and Ham"

The kids loved them!

Mrs. Christy's and Mrs. Wendy's Door!

So cute!

Mrs. Heather, Mrs. Belinda and Mrs. Amanda's Door!

I loved it! So cute!

Our class door! Mr. Travis drew it out for us!

Thank you Mr. Travis!

We made pencils for Caroline's class for her party! We found them at Office Depot last weekend we Christy and I went to like 8 stories in 3 hours! Whew! That was fun yet alittle crazy! We were on a mission to find Dr. Seuss stuff our class party on Wednesday. We went to Hobby Lobby, Micheals, Office Depot, Dollar Tree, Kmart, Joann's, Wal-green's, Target, and the 24 hour Wal-mart. Some of which she sat in the car with the kids while I ran in! Ha! We then went home to stay up till 2:30 making favor bags and fabric pins for our class and Pre-K team!

(Christy, I had a lot of fun that night we might could make a reality show on shopping! lol)

Jamie's "33" Birthday!

Jamie's turned "33" on the March 1st, 2011

sorry I am just getting around to posting...we have been busy every night this week it seemed like.

We had a great birthday dinner at his parents!

Papa cooked steaks and Nana fixed the rest.

Rice, peas,(that granny hand shelled) mashed potatoes and asparagus.

Typing this makes me hungry all over again. Ha!

Jamie's parents are a blessing to my girls and me.

I love the example they set for Jamie and how they raised him to be a wonderful husband, father, friend, son, brother, co-worker, and employee. Nana and Papa are a sweet Christian couple who put God first in everything they do and it shows and is a witness to me.

Family is very important to them and you can tell it in their life.

So, on Monday night we ate dinner, sang Happy Birthday, blew out the candles, ate cake and sat around the table taking and laughing! I personally love to hear Jamie tell a story, it makes me laugh! I love to hear old stories about when they were little boys growing up in the chicken houses or old stories about Big Papa. It makes me wish I would have experienced that as a child too. But for whatever reason I didn't get to and my grandmother raised me! (Which I am very thankful for my life with her it is just hard to understand why sometimes I didn't get to experience a mother and father relationship) I am so thankful for Jamie's Godly Parents! I am so thankful for the many blessing God has blessed me with one of those being my Husband Jamie! He is my heart!

Our sweet girls!

Caroline insisted on putting her daddy's candles on the cake! Wow!

She said she made them into a dinosaur?? Not seeing it?

She told her Uncle Jerry and he sadly told her the same! lol

My Family! (Notice the party hats! While at Hobby Lobby the weekend before Caroline insisted on buying them for Lauren and her Daddy!) And one for her too of course!

I love this picture of Jamie

He was smiling while we were singing Happy Birthday to him!

We love you honey! XOXO

Oh and notice the fire on the cake? I bought some clearance candles from Hobby Lobby the same night Caroline had to have the Party Hats! Wow it almost burnt Jamie's eyebrows off!

However don't worry the family had a good laugh as I admitted that I had bought them on sale for 49c. for the pack. lol!

He was able to blow all of them out at once!

Brothers and Father and sons!