Truly Wonderful News!!!

I had a wonderful afternoon here in our little town...Our Governor—Gov. Bill Haslam and many other Tennessee officials came here to announce a multi-million project that had literally just been funded!!! The federal funding had just been announced two hours prior to our meeting...That means JOBS to our little corner of the world...and boy do we need them...

Our largest employer (Goodyear) has just announced plans to leave this year (overseas). That leaves almost two thousand employees jobless!!! The project announced today has been “in the works” for over a decade!!! It is called Cates Landing and is a riverport in a neighboring county.

Lots of hard work and lots of prayer works!!!

Now to the fun stuff...There was a lot of professional press at this meeting!!! I asked and was granted the privilege to get these photos of Gov. Haslam and his lovely wife, Crissy... They were exceptionally nice to me and even asked another photographer to get a photo of me with them.

 

Tennessee Governor and Mrs. Bill Haslam

 

Governor Haslam announcing $7 million in state funding and

$13 million in federal funding for Cate’s Landing..

(Northwest Tennessee Regional Port Authority

Cates Landing River Port)...

This is truly a “Southern Lady”...

it is a pleasure to have you living in Nashville and representing our state Crissy!!!

Making Some Sunshine

Some days...you just have to make your own sunshine...

 

Yeah...my sunshine started out like this...

We had to turn a few cartwheels to get it to look like the top photo...

I even used Photoshop Elements 9...

 

See the Curly Willow...I cut a lot of branches off of my tree before Christmas...

I tied them up with some jute and put them on my front porch...no water...just bare branches...

Yesterday I snipped off some cuttings to put with my buttercups...

The branches were sprouting little green leaves!!!

Do any of you great gardeners know if they might root???

 

If you can’t find any sunshine...

just make some!!!

Birthdays

We’ve had a weekend of birthdays around here...

Justin celebrated his on Friday...

Happy Birthday today (Sunday) to my bff Jackie...

She’s the one with the big beautiful old house you see in many of my photos!!!

 

Let’s be thirty nine again this year also!!!

 

Monday is the BIG day for my Michael...yep my sweetie...

the man who wears my heart on his arm even though I had to put it on with Picasa...

The man with the plan...

He has always been the one that can

fix the unfixable and love the unlovable...

with a heart that looks so tough at  first glance

till it melts before your eyes

Happy Birthday to my Hubby!!!

Twenty-Five...

Happy 25!!!

Twenty-five  years have gone by so quickly...

 

Your love for life has given all of us

an intense love for you!!!

A sense of humor that you share with your beautiful sister...

A sister who would go to the ends of the earth for you...

In my entire life I’ve never known a brother and sister who have as much love and respect

for each for each other as you and Lindsey do!!!

Your Daddy,  Grandmother and Grandaddy would have been so proud of

the man that you have become...

 

Loving You...to the ends of the earth and back!!!

Sunshine

 

Some sunshine for my peeps!!!