Good Golly....

Meet Molly!

Molly is the newest addition to the Patterson household. We got her on May 22 from our old neighbors in Starkville. For those of you who know she is Sparx's baby and Fiesty's niece. Sparx was the siamese looking cat with no tail. Molly does not have a tail either. She is very playful and has given me and the girls plenty of scratches all over. She is not as innocent as she looks in these pictures. We are glad we got her. She is keeping us entertained!

Sock Hop

Carlyn's 5th grade class celebrated their promotion to 6th grade with a sock hop last Friday. All the kids (and teachers) dressed up in 50's costumes and danced to 50's music, drank coke floats, hula hooped and cake walked. It was fun to watch all the kids having such a great time. Carlyn and her "date", Logan

Doing the Twist. Carlyn's teacher is on the right in the blue poodle skirt

Carlyn and a few of her classmates
Carlyn and a former classmate (she has moved to Hollywood and appeared in several commercials and movies)

DeSoto Central Elementary makes a big deal about 5th grade promotion because it is their last class in elementary school. 6th grade is in the Middle School. The promotion ceremony was held this past Tuesday. They also had a cookout on Monday. This has been a busy week! More posts to come on that!

Weekend in the Country

This past weekend was Memorial Day at Gore Springs United Methodist Church. My mother's family always gets together on this weekend and goes to church together where they grew up. We also get to spend some time with each other. We were out of Grenada at the site where my grandmother and grandfather lived with their 5 girls. My mom and dad have put a trailer where the house used to be (it burned a few years ago). The kids have a ball out here because they can play in the dirt, build forts in the woods, and swing across a small creek. Here are several pictures from the weekend. We all had a good time (except for the occasional allergy attacks!)

Noelle and Jett climbing on a dirt pile. (Notice Noelle's motherly instinct)

Bobby riding Stone on the 4-wheeler.

Uncle Bob riding 2 more monkeys on the 4-wheeler. (The monkeys in this picture are Carlyn and Noelle)

This is the rope swing across the creek that everybody loved. Stone really wants to go. "My do it!!"

Kate taking her turn.

Uncle Elwood, Jett, and "Uncle Dean" walking back from the swing.

Jett playing with "Uncle Dean" on the dirt pile.

Even Aunt Carole got in on the swingin'!

Had to get the close up shot of this!

Stone's not scared!

Corbin's turn!

And DD!

The peanut gallery.

DD got Noelle!

Climbing (or sliding) down into the creek.

In the backyard, lots of things to do...digging, playing horseshoes, playing in the airstream...etc...
Jett, Corbin, and Stone....planting....watermelons?
Kate and Michael pose for the crazy cousin with the camera.

DD, Stone, Carlyn, Carole, Dean and Noelle at the swing.

It was a fun day and great to see everyone.

Happy Mother's Day!

I probably won't be able to post tomorrow since I will be in Grenada, but I wanted to wish all the moms a Happy Mother's Day. It's the best calling in life. Enjoy the day!

Soccer Weekend

The girls and I traveled to Tupelo this past weekend to cheer for Carlyn's soccer friends. Some of her old teammates were playing for Starkville Soccer Association in the Northern District Tournament. Her coach from last year coached the pink panther team again and again they made it to the semi-finals. We had lots of fun seeing all our old Starkville soccer friends and watching some exciting games.

This team made it to the State Games again this year. The games are in Meridian. That might be just a little too far to travel for us.

Noelle was going to stow away in Mrs. Krista's trunk.

I can't wait to sign up for soccer here in Southaven. I hope we have as good an experience as we did in Starkville soccer. DeSoto County Soccer Association is in the same district as Starkville.

Maybe next year we will be playing in the Northern District Tournament again.

Happy Birthday to...

Marcus!

I am so jealous of all of you going to Disney. It is about time for the Pattersons to make a return trip to Orlando. Have fun and be careful on the way down. I can't wait to see the pictures!

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth....

Wow, how can it be that we have been here in Southaven for a month and a half? I still feel like we are on an extended vacation in somebody else's house and we will be packing up and heading back home to Starkville soon. The house is coming along but still needs more pictures hung, etc. Apparently my sister had her house unpacked and curtains hung in a span of about 12 hours. She moved three weeks after I did and was decorating while I was still unpacking boxes. I guess she has had more practice, I don't know. I offered to buy her a plane ticket to Memphis so she could come and finish unpacking for me.

I am still unemployed at the moment but attended an orientation session yesterday for substitute teachers. Their schedule is closest to the girls schedule. I would love to find a job working from about 9:00am to 2:00pm. That would be ideal. If anyone knows of a job like that, let me know.

We are learning our way around Southaven and Hernando. I go to the Hernando Walmart because it is closer to our house and doesn't have a steady stream of people from Memphis who come to Southaven to shop because of Mississippi's low sales tax. The Southaven Walmart is always crazy! I can't wait until July when they open a Target very close to where we live.

The girls are still settling into school. Carlyn wants to go back to Starkville because this school is a little more challenging than her old school. She is getting used to it but would rather not have so much homework! Noelle is doing fine. She has probably double the homework she had in Starkville, but she doesn't complain about it.

Thank goodness the Memphis Tigers lost in the championship game. I don't think I could have stomached any more talk about that basketball team. "This is our year!!" If I heard that one more time, I would have exploded! Apparently while the team was in San Antonio, their dorm rooms were robbed. Welcome to Memphis!

Well, I could go on all day trying to catch up on all the things that have happened during the last month or so, but I need to be working on the house some more. Cindy, Help!!