Ryan, today would have have been your 29th birthday. This is your first birthday without us and oh how you are missed!!! I wasn’t there the day you took your first breath and I wasn’t there when you took your last, but I was there for everything in between. I miss your hugs and those…

Sappy post alert! With all that’s going on in the world these days, it’s tough to recognize big events but life does go on. Amy and Tyler are moving on from Mobile, AL in their journey. Julie and I have come to like and appreciate the city of Mobile and all it offers, and not…

Every time I see the divinity candy at Priester’s Pecans I think about Sonya. I remember being really young and at church we were to bring our favorite recipe and it was going to be put in a cookbook of sorts. I may actually still have it somewhere, I’ll have to look for it the…

Since we are chasing the spirit of Christmas this year, we decided that we would check out the Christmas lights at the Birmingham Race Course. Since we didn’t know what to expect, we searched online to try to determine how long it takes to go thru the displays, but we couldn’t find any suggestions. When…

In October we went to one of Avery’s football games in Maryville. We knew that on this trip we wanted to visit the Capitol Theatre for ice cream. We’ve made several trips but this would be our first time to visit here and get ice cream. The ice cream parlor is inside the beautiful Capitol…

I have now seen Paw Patrol Live not once but twice. In January 2017, I went to Nashville with Sonya, Kaden, Ryan, Lisa, Sammy and Khalie-Ann to see Paw Patrol. In September 2019 I went with Lauren and Lori to the show in Birmingham. 2017 – When we got to Nashville there was a women’s…

My Mother-in-Love was one of the most precious people on earth. She loved to laugh and have fun. She loved her family BIG!!! and she loved her friends. She put her grandkids before everything!!!! She was absolutely in love with them and would do anything for them. If they asked for something she made sure…