Jimmy Buffet

Hey Yall! Isn't that the greatest picture? I love it! Saturday, Frannycakes and Mr. Frannycakes went down to Jacksonville with the parentals to see my brudder and his adorable family. Good company! We converged on Tommy and Doris' house and had a shrimp boil for dinner and it was delish! Did I mention beer and margaritas? Delish! After the great dinner, we headed downtown to see Jimmy Buffett!!!!!! Everyone was having a great time in the parking lot tailgating. Some were having way too much fun. We had great seats and were able to sit down and see the concert. My standing up and dancing for hours days are so long gone. Come to think about it, I am not sure I ever had those days. Anyway, Jimmy (we are now on a first name basis) put on a fabulous concert and we are now close personal friends. Thanks Parentals!!!!! We had a great time!!!!!!
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Happy Valentines Day!

Hey Yall! I hope you are all having a wonderful Valentines Day! My Valentine and I had breakfast at Cracker Barrel which always starts the day good. Mr. Frannycakes has been working a 16+ hours night shift for the past two weeks during the yearly shutdown. He actually "volunteered" to work this shift. I guess he thought he was still in his 20's or even 30's. He has actually faired pretty well, you know, for his age.....hehehehehehehe......but I hope he doesn't "volunteer" again. But back to the story...His last night working was supposed to be last night, but he broke it to me at breakfast that he would have to work one more night. I am almost used to it now. So no big deal.

He went to bed shortly after we got home and I sat down to read the paper. I did a few more things and then my eyes started to get heavy. So I decided that I would just take me a quick little nap. Unfortunately, I couldn't get warm, so I went and got a heated throw and plugged it in and proceed to go straight to la la land. For a total of 4 whole hours. It was glorious.

I saw something Saturday in Savannah I have never seen before. At the corner of intersections, people were selling Valentine gift baskets. You know the kind, baskets filled with gifts and wrapped in cellophane and tied with a pretty bow. Obviously, I have seen gift baskets before. But one of the things in it was what I have never seen before. Of course you know that a dozen roses is a pretty standard thing to give to your loved one for Valentines. Right? And what happens after a few days (if you are unlucky) or a week (if you ARE lucky, real lucky)? They are gone, dead as a door nail. I love that saying. So instead of having to go out and buy these beautiful roses that may not make it till tomorrow, why not give something, that looks the same, but can be enjoyed for years to come? That's right! A framed picture of a dozen red roses! Now these framed pictures weren't small. They stood high in the baskets, so high that I could actually see it clearly from the far lane looking to the corner where they were selling them. And the scary part is, most of them were gone by the time I went back home. Somebody is enjoying their beautiful roses in a picture. They might actually be on to something there. But not at Frannycakes house. Never. You got that Mester?

I guess I better go....still kind of sleepy.....

Georgia Snow

Hey Yall! When we moved back down south, I figured I had seen the last of that thing we called snow. Hmmmmm. I guess not. It has been snowing for a couple of hours and will probably continue for another couple. Our yard looks funny covered in white. But after living in Maine, this only qualifies as wimpy. Sorry. Even Weezie wasn't impressed.

Talk to you later!

Who's Your Daddy?

Hey Yall. Who's your daddy? But I guess we already knew the answer to that one, didn't we.

Thank goodness for there is a dumb ass to give me something to blog about today. The natives are restless.

So Sorry...

Family Friday

Hey yall! We had an exciting day. Gran Gran and Vickie came up to Savannah to see the brand new precious darling "T" and visit with his parents and Debbie, who is his grandmother. Everyone loved on him! We had 4 generations here today. After visiting a while, we had taco soup (that Debbie brought), salad and bread. Since I was the hostess, it was my responsibility to hold precious while everyone ate. He was a little angel for Aunt Frannycakes! I wanted everyone to eat very slow so I could snuggle with him for a good long time. We had a nice visit and we took these pic's to share with you. Enjoy!

Grandmother Love

Hey yall! Frannycakes got a call this morning from "Sweet T's" grandmother. She loved the pictures we had taken of him when he came to visit. She did have one concern....that I had not made any mention of her, you know, the grandmother. Well, lucky for her, I actually have something even better. She is the one in the middle.




You are welcome!

Hmmmmmm.......

Hey Yall! Me thinks somebody was in Maine a little too long.....

I'M IN LURVE!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Yall! I am just gonna let you know....I'm in lurve!!!!! In case you don't know what lurve means, well, I just gonna tell you. It means love. Only a thousand times more! We have a new baby in the family. I am just gonna call him "T" cause he is hardly big enough for his whole name. And he is beautiful and pretty and gorgeous and I just want to go and run away with him. Of course it would be a little rocky for a few days cause "T" loves him some "nursey". We invited his momma and daddy over for dinner last night cause we knew they would be bringing the little man with them. And they thought we wanted to see them! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I got to hold him while everyone ate and he went to sleep and I just lurve me some sleeping newborn love. Love it. Makes me want my own grand baby. I can't wait till that day. They will have to get a restraining order to keep me away. I am sure of it.

Here are some pic's we took last night.


"T" and his Uncle Mr. Frannycakes!



Awwwwwwwww! I think he lurves his uncle and wants to live with us!



Looks like cousin Julianne is in lurve too!



"T" and his momma



It take two to load little tiny "T"!



Lots of work to strap precious into his seat.



His momma and daddy said he screams when he gets put in his seat. Do you see screaming?



What about now?



Here?



I didn't think so! They are telling stories on him.


Are you in lurve now? I thought so.....

Christmas in St. Marys!

Hey Yall! Today we drove down to St. Marys to celebrate Christmas with the Fam! I told Mr. Frannycakes that today would be a first for us.....the very first time we would be able to drive down to celebrate Christmas and then drive home. This is FABULOUS!!!!!!!

We celebrated today with Mom and Dad, Tommy and Doris, Thomas and Hannah, Nancy and Dennis and Becky. We had a wonderful time visiting with everyone. Mom cooked a delish lunch and we all were very uncomfortable driving home. Very uncomfortable!

Hope you enjoy the pics!


The Parentals (Mom and Dad) laughing while opening their presents.



Chris and Thomas playing....who is having more fun?



The Parentals giving Weezie some love. Weezie is thinking, "Where is my present?"



Hannah and her Glamour Camper. I need to go camping.



Tommy and Doris taking it all in.



Daddy resting his eyes.



Chris and Thomas resting; well one of them is.



Daddy still resting his eyes.



Same song, third verse.....



Julianne and Hannah



Two pretty girls!


Talk to you later!

Christmas Morning in Georgia!

Hey Yall! I am just now getting around to posting our Christmas morning pictures. This is just a sampling of what we had going on that morning!



Someone is trying to sneak a peek!!!!



The children are ready to see if Santa brought them anything!



Grace Darling went straight to her stocking and drug out her present!



Lesley and her new "pink" stethoscope engraved with her name!



Jamie in his new footed pj's.


Oh my.....let's just be thankful for underpants.....



No Chris, you do NOT use a football to play golf!


Talk to you soon!

Christmas Pictures

Hey Yall! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We certainly did! It was so nice to get everyone together. And it pretty much stayed that way the whole week before Christmas. Linley (and Maeby Shea) had to go back to be with her parents and family. But we had Jamie and Lesley (and Grace Darling), Chris and Julianne here for the holidays. We did one day of touring downtown Savannah and a couple of days of the girls (without me) Christmas shopping. They had a great time together! Christmas day was very relaxed. Jamie and Lesley are heading out early, early tomorrow morning. We are going to miss them.

We didn't get our Christmas cards out as early as usual because we couldn't get everyone together for our annual picture. After attempting to take a picture out by the...ummm....Intracoastal Waterway....we decided to go inside because the wind was blowing to hard and messing up the girly's hair, not to mention distracting the doggies. It is hard enough trying to get the children all smiling and keeping their eyes open (yes, I am talking about you, Jamie!) without having to keep three dogs looking in the right direction. So we moved inside to the living room where we determined that our Christmas picture would not be taken at the house. So we drove downtown to Forsyth Park. If you can't take a good picture there, then you won't take one anywhere.......You know, they should write a song with that phrase....and low and behold, after about 50 shots, we got the one we were looking for. I am sharing with you some of the pictures we took that for reasons that will be obvious, we did not use. And you will also see some good ones. All of them are for your entertainment. Based on my comments, I am here to please you. Enjoy!