Randy's Great-Grandmother, Hattie McLemore, is 106 TODAY....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMMIE!!!!

We have a baby in the house again...

..sort of. Landon has croup caused by a viral infection and is on breathing treatments every three hours round the clock. We had both forgotten how it was to wake regularly during the night. Thankfully, it will only last through the end of this week and we can get back to snoozing. I'm holding Halloween the culprit, he started "barking" Thursday morning.

5:41 AM

That's the time the computer read when I opened it to check the news/weather during breakfast this morning. I hurried through eating since I only had 45 mintues to finish getting ready for the 8 a.m. service, so I thought! In light of my booboo, don't forget to set your clocks back this morning or else you might show up for church an hour early like I almost did! If you're reading this blog early Sunday morning b/c you too were caught off guard by the extra hour, go ahead and get ready and join us at 1st Baptist Haughton. Today is Friend Day AND Open House AND Building Dediciation Ceremony. As a church, we've worked several years to make this day happen and would love to have you join us! Services are at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. with Sunday School at 9:30 a.m.

Phase One...nearly complete

Mr. Lord finished cutting the timber out of our yard this week. We don't have an exact count yet, but he took more than 60 pine trees plus lots of underbrush and saplings. We still have a ton of work to do before actually having grass, but we're a lot closer than we were three months ago when this project began. This 1st pic is of our house (yes it's back there) from the street before anything was cut. The boonies

Randy and the boys riding the 4-wheeler through a maze of tree-tops before their first burning. (yep, this is our yard too...)

They LOVED watching that blaze! Landon hid behind a distant tree.

Phase two will be clearing more underbrush and grinding ALL those stumps.

Can I play too?

Landon can't wait to be a Buc. He loves to play in Bear's helmet and share his "tote" (Coke) after the game.

Out with the old, in with the new

Now, I've enjoyed every minute of the past two months we've been celebrating Halloween at our house, but I'M READY FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!! Time's a wasting, only 8 more Saturday's until Christmas Day. I made my first gift order yesterday and picked up my Photo Christmas Cards today. With that said, Happy Halloween and Happy Trick-or-Treating tonight...

Three cheers for Johnny's!!!

We've been swept into this little 'tradition' of going to Johnny's Pizza every Sunday night after church with some other siblings in Christ from the church. We occupy the party room and the kids run wild between pizza bites! Mine LOVE this special fellowship time. Landon now thinks that every time we leave church, we're supposed to go to "Donyee's" Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings leave him gravely disappointed. He got so excited this past Sun. night when we pulled in the parking lot that he squealed, clapped his hands, and cheered, "Yeah Donyee's!!!!" over and over. We should all get that excited about the little things in life.

If you haven't broken bread with us yet, consider this you're formal invitation:
Johnny's Pizza
Sunday after the p.m. service
Be there or be square!
(call your order in from 1st BC parking lot so it will be ready when you arrive)

See you next Sunday Night!