'Tis So Sweet: Our "Brave" Weekend

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Russ and I have had a great weekend so far! I returned from a week long teaching workshop on Thursday, just in time for my family to come in town Thursday night. Russ had to work Friday, and Mama had two presentations Friday morning. So, Daddy and I spent the morning grocery shopping and picked up a few packages at the school. We met Mama for lunch and reminisced...or rather, THEY reminisced as we drove through parts of South Jackson passing by Mama's elementary school - Barr Elementary, Farrish Street - stopping at The Mayflower for coffee, and Mama's old house off Capital Street. They also pointed out other things that I just can't remember right now.

This is where the "Brave" part starts:

Friday night Mama's side of the family had plans to all attend the Mississippi Braves baseball game. Nonnie's aunt - more like a sister to her - was very close to my mom. Her daughter, Alice, invited us all to watch the game in a suite!! It was fabulous! This was the first time I had met some of the relatives. And, since Alice and I are both "baseball freaks" we both enjoyed the game immensely! (That's for you, Alice!) Now, this is what I call watching baseball!!

Pops, Mama, and Kristin

Pops, Mama, Kristin, Aunt Patsy, Clint, Derek, and Derek's girlfriend
(Derek and Clint are Alice's sons)

Aunt Patsy and Lee

Clint, Aunt Patsy, and Uncle Howard

Everyone visiting as people arrived - there were 19 of us total!

Jack, Clancy, and Russ

We even had our own waitress! She was great!

Jack and Daddy keeping cool inside the suite

Clint, Vince (Alice's brother), and Alice watching from outside the suite

Pam and Mama - I'm pretty sure they didn't stop talking until AFTER the game was over! Ha!

Pops and me

Me and my sweet Dr. Hubby

Mama + Alice = CRAZY!!!

After the game, we enjoyed a fantastic fireworks show! It really was one of the best I've seen...besides Disney World of course! I think we got home around 11:30 last night!

Once everyone was up this morning, my family headed to Julep to eat brunch. I had never been during the day, so it was a treat for me! It was delish!!! We ate so much, Russ and I didn't eat supper until 8:30 tonight!

After a wonderful brunch, Kristin needed to look for patio furniture at none other than the discounted Big Lots! Russ, Lee, and I were still full and in no mood to shop around. We found relief as soon as we entered the store!

Such a sweet couple, don't you think? Russ said we could put this in the middle of our living room!

We looked over to see that Lee had found a spot to rest too!

Another part of our "brave" weekend was our stop to the nursing home to see Nonnie. I never know what's going to be happening when we visit her there! So, it was a "brave" thing to do! Ha! And we came just in time to see some dancing - I think they called it "exercise!" It was such fun to see Nonnie enjoying herself! She always loved to dance!

Nonnie "cuttin' a rug" with the nurse. The room was filled with other residents, watching as she shook her booty to "Rock Around the Clock"!

After our fun visit to the nursing home, Mama and Daddy reminisced some more! We stopped by the Swinging Bridge. It is closed off to cars now, and has been since Mama and Daddy were in college. But, OH the memories that must have been made here! Ha! So we did it! We "braved" the Swinging Bridge!!!