Saturday, November 20, 2010

A Night Out at The Cultural Arts Center

This orchestra is made up of just plain ole' citizens from the community.
They get together twice a week to rehearse!

It was good to see so many out supporting the local arts!

I really enjoyed it !

At one point, they played the theme songs from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons -- I could actually remember the cartoon that the songs went with -- LOL !


Here's some of them ....

Houston County 4H Peanut Essay Contest -- 2nd place winner !

Well, Well, Well.... Jordan won 2nd place in the Houston County
4H  Peanut Essay Contest for Farm Week.
We were told that 58 students participated.
We were invited to the annual Houston County Agriculture Banquet
held at the Civic Center.

Tons of people were there!

Including the city's mayor, who hosted the night's events.

We were fed a fantastic Ribeye dinner ! (free!!!!)

They had the winning posters displayed.

 Jordan was publicly recognized, given a certificate and a $35.00 check!

She was proud and embarrassed all at the same time :-)
Good Job, Boo! 

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Alabama Snow........ Cotton!

There's a huge cotton field accross the street from where we live.  One day we drove by and saw all the cotton blooming --- it reminded us of snow.

Happy Halloween!

Since Jordan is at that age where I'm just her ride,
she had all-day plans with friends for Halloween and I have no pics of her other than this one.
This year she went to a friend's house as the cat in the hat
and started having fun at 10:00 am.
Here we are having breakfast at our community club house
before the festivities.

Later that night, Nana dressed up as
a cat and handed out candy -- cute!!

Peanut Festival


Ah! The Famous Peanut Festival !

Each year thousands (and I'm not exaggerating!) of people


travel to Dothan, AL just to go to the Peanut Festival.

There are tons of rides.....

and games....

and fun .....

and more fun.....

and even more fun....

And of course ... my favorite.... the funnel cake!

One of Jordan's BFF's came along ..... 
and boy did they have a good time!!!  LOL