Good Read...

So there is a bit of tradition in our little city Long Beach within the high school during the week of homecoming. It never fails that some of the Middle school kids try and get in on the tradition. This "tradition" is the act of toilet papering "rolling" people's houses. (You might be familiar with this type of shenanigans) For this 1 week out of every year the police will not make arrest or try to intervene while youth roll people's homes. Usually it is a sign of appreciation and great love if your home is rolled. So...after working all day 2 weekends ago preparing for our cattle sale we came home to this -

This tree -----------^ has a HUGE bee hive in it so the rollers are lucking they did not get stung.

I'm not gonna lie...it was a good roll job; however, it could have been better had they used the whole roll of toilet paper.

I found this whole roll! You might be wondering how I could look sooo good at 1 AM, especially after working all day and evening at the farm...it's all natural.

The left overs. These people had so much potential, but fell short of what could have been even better! No good underachievers.

How do you get toilet paper out of the tops of your trees??? You set the paper on fire! WARNING: Do not try this unless it has rained recently!

So who were these underachievers...well at first we assumed it was my mother and all my siblings. Come to find out it was Lulu and James (my youngest sister and brother). Evidently my mom would not allow James to go rolling seeing as how he is only 13. Lulu; however, felt it was vitally important for James' development as a child to participate even though he is not in High school. So my mom suggested for him to roll "the middle school youth leaders house" i.e. my house.

Even though the idea was my mom's Lulu was indeed the ring leader and most at fault. So revenge was in order. This may not be funny to all those reading this blog unless you know a few things about my sister Lulu: 1) she is VERY concerned with the care and condition of her car 2) she is not happy with her current single status and the lack-age of a male relationship in her life 3) she would not appreciate the Vaseline under her door handles.

Notice the front passenger door window.

All is well that ends well. =)

Great Success

Praise the Lord it was a success! And thank the God for all our farm employees and those who came to help! I have never seen people work so hard!

Here is a picture of our family in the cattle ring the night before the sale.


Can you find the difference between the two pictures. Look really hard.

That's right we took some pictures with Zach and some without. You really have to plan for the future BOTH ways. Our family picture will likely be published in our 2008 sale catalog and with no ring on Marcie's finger we have to plan ahead appropriately. Although I would say we look better as a family with Zach...he does a great job of balancing the picture out.

For everyone who feels sorry for Zach right now...he completely understood. I don't know, however; if he understood why my lovely crazy one-armed uncle Joe kept going around at our pre-sale dinner Sunday night telling everyone "Marcie and Zach are just waiting for the preacher to get here so they can get married since everybody is already here eating". I'm so glad Zach got to meet uncle Joe.

Come'own yall...

Strap on your boots, tighten your belt buckle and get ready for the cattle sale!

Our first cattle sale takes place Monday and we are rip-roarin ready to go. We are expecting a good turn out and lots of food. So this weekend I will be a cowgirl and set aside all my city girl ways.

Don't get too excited I will NOT be cleaning the stalls! I'm going to be shaking hands, smiling and saying things like "Yall come'own and getcha some dinner", "My daddy raised some rite fine cattle." and my favorite "Yall come back now, ya' hear!"

Strap on your boots!

Please Pray

Please pray for our dear friend Mia. Her mom unexpectedly passed away.
My prayer for you Mia is that salvation will spring up throughout the lives of your family members because of this. As conversation will be on life and death may the Holy Spirit move within peoples hearts to want to know more about Jesus. I pray that you will be comforted by the Great Comforter Himself and that you will rest in the peace of knowing our God is just and righteous.
Love you Mia.

We took a little Holiday

Johnathon and I took a nice holiday to Atlanta, GA. We were invited by our church pastors to attend the Catalyst conference being held in Atlanta 10/3 -10/5 so we took a few extra days off and headed up there early to enjoy some time together.

So here are some pictures of what we did before the conference.




Doing what I do best when we hit the links.



Johnathon doing what he does best when we hit the links.

An amazing restaurant we had dinner at called The Sundial on top of the Westin Hotel in Downtown. 723 feet above the city. It has a revolving dining area so in the course of an hour you make a full revolution. It was so neat. This is a picture of the sun setting from our table. You really can't find places like this in Mississippi.

My love and I as the sun was setting in the observation area of the restaurant.

We ate at great restaurants, stayed at great places, experienced great shopping, beautiful golf courses and to end it attended one of the best leadership conferences I have ever been to.

Thank You Jesus for little get-a-ways!