Thank you Sherri for doing this. I am so glad we have this blog. See you all in a couple of weeks. Ready for some good eating. Love you all!!!!

Thanksgiving Menu

Ok here is the list in case anywone forgets: Linda Burke - grape salad, pecan pie, cheesy potatoe casserole.....
Aunt Dee - pumkin pie, oyster dressing
Shelly - Cornbread dressing, corn casserole, apple cobbler
Sandy - mashed potatoes and fixings
Cheryl - all paper products, cups and plastic ware (not washing silverware this year) lol.
Missy - Cranberry salad and any cold salad
Aunt Deb - Double Apple salad
Kelly - Greenbean casserole
Aunt Pat - bean salad, cranberries, and dessert
Linda H - sweet potatoes, angel food cake, goosebery cobbler, ham for uncle fred
Melanie - dumplings, baked beans
Emily - greenbeans
Aunt Esther - turkey, dressing
Ellen - sweet potatoes, deserts,
Stephanie - noodles, greenbean casserole,
Chelby - corn, cofffe - ceamer and small cups
Alisa - turkey, dressing, mac and cheese cherry delight
Sherri - turkey, noodles, cornbread salad
Carrie - Rolls - corn
Karie - Dessert,
Auburn - Baby Carrots
Uncle Steve - whipped cream

Everyone needs to bring their drinks and bring enough food for 2 meals any questions call me @830-9096. Love to all....

Please keep Shawn, and his family in your prayers. I just got a text from Mel and they are all on there way to Texas. Shawn's oldest sister, Jodi, is in the hospital and not expected to make it through the night.

Ok, I am a little confused.
Lisa, I just got off the phone with Dad and he said that Aunt Dee told him she, your mom and Aunt Esther were all making turkeys. So you may want to get ahold of Aunt Dee and see what she is planning.
Also, I have the noodles made, so I would be more than happy to bring something else. I just need to know what. So please Wright family let me know what you plan on bringing. And again, ask the grown ups to (your parents) to find out what they are bringing also.
Love to all!!!!
xxxoooo

Thanksgiving

Hey family! I'm so excited about seeing everyone. Thanks Steph for stepping up to try and get us all fed. I'm not sure what to bring. Sherri are you bringing your noodles? If you are then I wont make dumplings. Just let me know. I'm going to make a big pasta salad. I'll bring a desert. I'll bring some drinks and can bring ice if needed. Lets all get on here and get this done so we don't have to go to Aunt Dee and Linda for help. My mom is bringing a turkey and all the extra's she usually brings. Desert, salad, veggie. Love you all

Hey Lindy,
Tell your mom that I would be more than happy to try to make the regular dressing. I think I can do it. But, I don't think I can make the oyster dressing, especially as good as her. Hers is the best ever!!! So, I think I can handle the regular. Let me know what she thinks.

Since Aunt Dee and Aunt Linda passed the spatula to the younger generation last year, which I think was due. And believe it or not, Thanksgiving is getting very near. I would like to get a list together of what you would like to bring. Please let me know when you can. That way I can put it on a spreadsheet and be a little organized. And that will give me an idea of what we will still need when Thanksgiving gets closer. Hope to hear from you soon. Love all of you soooo much, and can't wait to see all of you on Thanskgiving.


p.s. Please ask your parents (mothers) if they are bringing anything also, and let me know. That way I can put that on the list too.

Caleb's 1st day of School

What a cool dude!!



Ready to learn!!

Caleb outside his classroom.

I feel stupid

I was reading my last blog and realized I spelled paid wrong. I need to take more time. I know my family doesn't care but I just had the need to correct.



Love, Missy

Yard Work

I have been working very hard in my yard this year. I added a new flowerbed and I got all new mulch. It took forever to get it all mulched. I couldn't put all pictures on but here are a few.

We also added a new Victorian home for our rabbits, Chocolate and Happy. They live well.

Brian built an awesome fort for the kids. We did the plans on our own and saved about $1,500.00.

I love working in the yard. I would love to design others' yards as long as they payed for it.

Love to all ! Missy

Sweet Summer

Long time, no blog and I am sorry about that. We have had a very busy summer but a good one.

Meg had cheerleading camp and really enjoyed it. This is her second year. She is going to Girls, Incorporated here in town and is just being such a big girl.

Brady did baseball for the first time. He loved it and he improved with each game. He plays constantly at home. When Meg goes to Girls, Inc. Brady and I go on adventure to Chucky Cheese and he plays all the games.

Love to you all. Hope all are well.

Missy

Elijah, Caleb, and Aubrie had a great time playing in

Stephanie's hotel room.....

Sam Did It!!!

After years of hard work and dedication, Sam has completed
his Civil Engineering degree. Way to go, Sammy!!!!

Amen!!!! My heart is broken for that family today. Like I said earlier, my problems seem so very very small today. And as someone else put it so wonderfully this morning "Heaven is such a happy place today celebrating the homecoming of one of God's children". I pray that her family draws strength from all of God's love during this very difficult time.

Please be praying for Savannah Scotts family. She is Tameka's friend who had cancer until this morning. She went to heaven today. I just don't understand it. I am just going to FROG (fully rely on God) it and know that God will be there through it all. I pray for comfort for the family. I'm so worried about her mom. When I first heard the news of her having cancer I called her mom to confirm it and she was so mad at God, and the world. She was just so devastated. I can't imagine going through everyday life without God let alone my childs sickness. It breaks my heart all around. I don't know if they will tell the kids at school or not. Tameka is going to be so sad. I'm glad that Tameka knows that she is in heaven and knows the promise that she can see her again. love to all.

Hey everyone. I need everyones Help. We are heading to the end of this night mare with the boys and it is getting very clost to them placing the children with one of the parents. I need everyone to pray for us. In case you don't know Andrew and Auburn are getting divorced and Andy has filed for custody. Cps will place the boys with in the next couple of weeks and the judge is very likely to stay with thier choice. We are terrified of this and it seems no matter what we do she always comes out ahead. Andy works 6 days a week in the coal mine. He pays for everything for his boys. He comes out everyday to see them and totally does everything they tell him to. She is on her third man, parties, supplies nothing and rarely even asks about her boys and she still seems to always come out ahead, She wont even hold a job so Andy is paying her car payments too. It is crazy and I don't mean to air our dirt on here but I feel I am losing my mind. I see my son get hurt more and more everyday and she has taken everything he has except for these boys. We fear for thier saftey if they are returned and I think only preayers are gonna help us now. Please let the family start prayers for us. I don't know how I will have the strength to send them back to her and her life style. Thanks for listening. Love you all. Sherri

There's a New Kid in Town!

There's been a new addition to the Jim and Deloris Burke Family.

Her name is Bunny. Coz she hops around spastically like a rabbit when she plays.

Her main function in life at this time is five-fold: She sleeps, plays, pees and poops, eats, and adds complete and utter joy to my parent's (and mine) lives. It's long overdue. Thanks, Bun-Bun.

And yup, if ya can't tell, she's a Boston Terrier like our infamous Toby from years ago.

Thank God for small blessings, eh? We already love her more than we can stand. :) Strange how quick these little creatures can crawl right inside your heart and fill it up with love.

Mom and Dad just loaded her up for her first Vet visit as I type this. Shots, ouch! Poor lil baby.

So, anywho, that's it for updates right now. It's a good one, huh? Yay.

Anyone wanting some puppy kisses should come by and see the Bunster.

But be prepared for love at first sight. She's a heart stealer.

Hugs and love! C-ya!

Caleb and Elijah On Easter morning 2009.

New Biz! New Ways to Save Bucks!!

Okay, listen up familial units! I have a new business venture up and running and everybody who partakes will save money.

All you have to do is go to Popcorn Trail Travel to see what I mean. If you're gonna travel, please check my site for prices on everything from the flight to the hotel to the rental car. You can also order flowers on there and buy tickets to concerts and games and all sorts of stuff!

It really is the coolest thing since, well...since popcorn, so please go check it out.

Now, as if that's not cool enough, along with that as part of my business, I can offer all you guys a free membership in the coolest online shopping system to ever hit the web! It's called Aisle19 and if you click right there you can learn more about it. Just suffice it to say, you'll save bigtime on all the things you were gonna buy anyways.

Stores, like Kohls, Walmart, Kmart, Staples, Home Depot, etc. I really did save 42 dollars the other day on my printer's ink. You guys know how expensive that stuff is. It was over 60 dollars everywhere I checked. I had to get all 4 colors for my new fax machine. Then, I remembered AISLE 19!! I shopped around on there and finally found it for $18.41 and that was including tax. Did I mention it was free shipping and I got it in 5 days. I bout died!

Thing is, you have to be invited on. No strings. Nothing but savings when you shop on there. Please, click here to check it out. Or just click here to go directly to sign up for your free account.

One more thing, PopcorntrailTravel is really like 2 separate businesses. One is to sell travel at PopcornTrailTravel.com and the other is to sell the travel sites at PopcornTrailTravel.biz where you can watch 2 videos: 1 describing the marketing opportunity and the other describes the company. It's pretty cool. Anybody interested in a home-based business with an unbelievably low investment may want to check it out.

Okay, that's all. I hope everybody is doing very well and I look forward to our next gatherin!

Hugs and love to everybody!