Biddies and Easter Time

Well I can tell spring is in the air. Even though it comes about a month later than in south GA the trees and flowers are finally starting to bloom. Easter is coming. I do love this time of year even though the fall is by far my favorite. This is an exiting time of anticipating the death and resurrection of our precious Savior. It is also a time of Easter egg hunting, a new Easter dress and planting of our garden. This week has led way to the arrival of spring and Easter. On Wednesday, twelve new "organisms" became part of our family. Yes they are organisms as I teach science but these are twelve that I am not enthusiastic about. We have twelve biddies. That is twelve baby chicks. Now you may ask why is that so bad. Well it would not be to most except I grew up with two chicken houses containing about 52,000 chickens. Yes you read that right. Now don't get me wrong we never ran out of eggs but I hated those things. So much to my disagreeing, my husband and girls bought twelve. Haleigh's first question was "Momma when daddy goes out of town will you help me with the biddies?" It is hard telling your child no sometimes but this was quite easy. I said "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" They are cute while they are young but I know what they grow up to look like and smell like. Not interested. I will be glad to post pictures of the organisms when I figure out how to post pictures. In the meantime you can just imagine. A year from now we will have fresh eggs to eat.

Today we headed to Cleveland to watch the Easter Exstravagansa parade with Ms. Heather and her family, and Ms. Carrie and her family. Afterwards we were going to Babyland for the annual Easter egg hunt but it was too chaotic so we headed to the park to play. Apparently I assummed that because the sun was out that it was warm. Boy was I wrong. We headed home shortly after that for Zoie to go spend the day with daddy fishing. Haleigh got to go hunting in the fall twice so this was Zoie's day. I did not take pictures of this because I forgot my camera. Oh well maybe next year.

Happy birthday to my mom/Time spent with mama

Well maybe one day I will get this blogging down but I still can't add pictures or change anything so when someone is ready for a lesson I am willing to learn. Today is a very special day. It is my sweet mom's birthday. This past weekend my grandmother (mama) came to visit. She stayed Friday night with mom and then on to our house. She is the best. We always get to pick what we want for her to cook when we visit or when she visits us. I have finally gotten two recipes after 15 years of asking. My mama makes the best:
1. Sweet tea
2. pimento cheese
3. dumplings
4. and so much more

I got the recipe to the dumplings and her rice and tomatoes. Her cooking is special especially when it involves my girls and their great grandma. She let them help make the dumplings. What special memories for them! On sunday we just made it to church and then sunday night we had a birthday dinner with my mom in commerce. I thank God for these two beautiful women who have both raised me and made me the person I am.

I love you mom and mama

Finally My First Post as well as Christmas Memories

To begin our holidays we visited the new Babyland General Hospital the day after we got out of school. Our friends Laura and Lindsey and their families joined us. After Babyland we headed to the Tinsley house to make cookies. Below are pictures of our excursion.

So I am finally learning how to do this. Today we visited my sister after going to see a movie. For the past few years we have made it a tradition to travel to Discover Mills to watch a new movie. This year it was The Princess and The Frog. What a great movie. After the movie we traveled to Lenox to go ride the Pink pig which was a family tradition for me as a child. We could not find a parking place. Scott got frustrated so I said lets just leave. We finally arrived at Heather's house to do Christmas with her and her family. We were excited to see the new addition to the O'Dell house. His name is Hundley and no it is not a baby. It is a puppy. Pictures to come later. After dinner while the kids were playing Heather taught me how to use my blog. It was a long overdue lesson.

Christmas this year was really relaxing. I did not even get out of my pjs yesterday. It was great. We watched movies and played games all day. I made breakfast casserole like I usually do and we just hung out. Tomorrow we will go have Christmas with T and Mama.

My Sister's Blog

I am creating this blog for my sister, Noelle. She does not know it yet! I think (hope) it is something she will enjoy doing, but it can be a little overwhelming to set up, so I just did it for her! I wish I had a creative way to tell her about it, but I am still thinking on this one. My sister is graduating next weekend with her master's degree. I am so very proud of her. So, happy graduation, Noelle! Love you!