Orlando

The Magic Kingdom Aboard Epcot's Spaceship Earth

Animal Kingdom (Nick, Yevonne, Russ, Sydney and me)

What a great time I had at Disney with Sis, her husband Russ and her grandkids Nick and Sydney.

We visited 3 parks in 3 days ~ it is truly an amazing place.

Macon

We took a little trip yesterday to visit the Hay House. It was very impressive, with it's huge arched pocket doors and it's gold trimmed high ceilings. Of course no pictures where allowed inside. We toured 3 homes and a beautiful Catholic church that has recently had a 2 million dollar renovation.

Macon is very proud of Oprah's recent visit. The tour guide showed us this B&B where Oprah stayed while filming her Christmas show. He also showed us where she shopped for shoes (a shop owned by Otis Reddings relatives), a little restaurant where she had a couple of hot dogs, and of course the auditorium where the show was filmed---now you know we could have drove around town all day on our own and never known these facts!!!! We took a break in the middle of the tour to check out a place he recommended for chicken and biscuits, which really hit the spot with me, Bob had a veggie plate and even that is quite a challenge, since most veggies down here are seasoned with a little PORK! We enjoyed our visit and hope to return someday during their cherry festival.

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Beautiful Baby Boys

Our new grandson!! Mike and April's son, Joseph Frederick, born Jan. 20th. (More on scrappin' page.) Our new great-nephew~Jason and Leah's son~ Aiden Bradley, born Jan 21st. This little guy made mom a great-great grandmother.

What a Deal ~

Bob loves buying plants and flowers (especially in January), and when he finds a good sale, it's even better! He stopped at the little garden shop down the street and discovered they are going out of business. So..........

He bought azaleas and minature roses and he brought me this flat of snapdragons, they were FREE.

The next day the owner delivered four of these babies (complete with flowers) with his tractor.

And today these two plants appeared on the front porch.

While out for a drive a few days ago, we decided to drive by "the house that we almost bought". Before we found the house we are in now, we found this place. It was on about 15 acres, with LOTS of pecan trees and a pond. We spent a couple of hours wandering around the property by ourselves and went through the house twice with the realtor before deciding it just wasn't the right one. We were shocked to see it has burned to the ground.... we also see, and are thankful for, the divine intervention that steered us away from that house.

COLLECTIONS ~ Bob Finds the Cabinets ~ Jeri Fills Them

We bought this collection of dolls at a garage sale in Lexington. The lady selling them cried....and that made the lady buying them cry too. Mom helping me unwrap my collection of shoes.

When I was a little girl we would visit my mom's Aunt Maude. It seemed that everywhere I looked, windowsills, table tops, everywhere - I saw pretty little glass shoes.

I got my first shoe (the shell covered one on the left) in 1963. My newest shoe was given to me by my daughter-in-law Shelly, it is the cute little red shoe in the middle and on the right are some very special shoes that my cousin Janice brought to me from Finland. I wonder if she remembers them???

So we have arrived at our winter destination a couple of days ago. We got caught in some snow and slippery roads in Indiana. (Mom was ready to get a motel). We both had some minor problems with our vehicles ~ Bob was in the pick-up ~ Jeri, Mom and kitties in the Envoy. Thankfully we were being watched over and made it through a couple of scary situations without a scratch.

This morning we went out in the backyard and picked up this bowl of pecans.

Pecan pie anyone???

This evening we went out for an early dinner to celebrate New Year's Eve and now we just waiting for the ball to drop. With a couple of hours to go several people in the neighborhood are already shooting off fireworks.

A safe and happy 2008 to everyone!