Where'd the Weekend Go - Mother's Day

As usual - it was another weekend that went by WAY too fast!!

Though they may drive me crazy sometimes - I love my family and I got to spend this weekend with them.

After class at the gym Friday night, I (along with 3 dogs!) hopped in the car and drove south 3 hours to Jackson, MS to my aunt's house.  Thank goodness the dogs like to sleep in the car or it would have been a VERY unpleasant drive.  Once I got there, I was greeted by my mom, grandmother, aunt, uncle, teenage cousin and their 2 dogs.  Yep, you counted correctly.....that's now 5 dogs in one house for the weekend.  It was late and we were all tired, but all the dogs were WAY too excited to let anyone sleep at that point.  Here are my aunt's 2 dogs......

Meet Dixie.  The most docile Pitt/Lab mix you'll ever meet

This is Sophie - a 4 y/o Wheaten Mix that thinks she runs the house.

After a restless night of sleep (all the dogs wanted to be with each other) Saturday brought lots of family time.  My other cousin, his wife, and their 14 month old came up from Dothan, AL for the weekend.  I don't think I've seen BA (the baby) since New Year's.  They spent most of the day with us before heading to his mom's parents for dinner.  It was so much fun to see my 82 year old grandmother get to play with her great-granddaughter.

BA was interested in the TV.

After B, Katie and BA left we had just enough time to run and errand or two then get back to watch the Grizzlies.  I believe there were 3 tvs on in the house and all three had the game on.  I had told my family earlier last week that as long as I could watch the Grizz game at 4:00 I would be happy.  Well, we were all interested in the game, so we decided that we would grill out for dinner rather than go out to eat.  We all enjoyed some yummy steaks (dog included) and a great basketball game!!  The Thunder have been a thorn in the Grizzlies' side since this same series 2 years ago......maybe, just maybe the Grizz can pull it out this year.

This is what my dogs thought of the basketball game......

Sunday was church then more time for family and food.  After we got in from church we took the obligatory family photos (all the pics that I'm in were taken on my uncle's camera so I don't have any of those :( )  I mentioned in a previous post about the bond that my grandmother and my dog, Lily, have.  Here they are and they would stay like this all day long if they could.  The funniest moment was when my grandmother was holding BA and Lily had a fit.  She thinks she's human and somebody else had her Muma (what my cousin dubbed my grandmother when he was a child) and she was NOT happy about it.

Here's my teenage cousin.  He's a sucker for a dog just like I am.  Rose figure that out pretty quick and had him giving belly rubs all weekend.  We all think Will would make a wonderful vet, but he'd have to go to Mississippi State for that, and he's and Ole Miss fan......and trying to talk a 17 y/o into a school other than "his" just isn't happening.  Will and his dad were working hard on my aunt to adopt Rose.  My aunt spent the weekend saying no and as I left admitted that the reason that she didn't spend time with Rose was that she was scared that she would fall for her and give in on adopting her......yep, family full of suckers when it comes to dogs!!

B, Katie, and BA came back over for lunch on Sunday and we had a good ole Southern Fish Fry (clean eating for the rest of the week can't make up for this past weekend at this point!!).  They had to leave kind of early to head back to Dothan - it's a pretty good drive from Jackson and there isn't a good straight shot to get there.  We should get to see them again in 2 months when we all head to Perdido Key for a week.  (OMG - only 2 months until then?!?!?!?  I'm SO not ready to be out on a beach in a swim suit  Time to get my fat butt in gear!)

B (Benjamin), Katie, and BA

I still had a job to do before I could head back home.  Apparently I'm the one in the family that everyone looks to for help in cleaning out closets.  My aunt's neighborhood yard sale is this coming weekend so we headed to tackle her's.  I wish I would have gotten a picture of it!  We only got through 2 sections, while I was there and I probably got her to put about a 1/3 of it into the yard sale pile......then I saw the shoes. Don't even get me started on those.  It was an emergency situation.  I need to take her shoe shopping.  I swear there were only brown and black shoes in there other than some tennis shoes (mostly my old running shoes - she and my mom get my old ones when they aren't good for running any more) and the one pair of while sandals that I let her keep.

I moved last October, so I had already gotten rid of a lot of stuff at that time, but I decided to go through my closets and house and see what I could take to contribute to the yard sale (getting rid of things I don't wear and making money on it - heck yes!!!).  The back of my Tahoe was full - and this pics doesn't do it justice since the tables block the view of several bags of clothes.  The sad thing is that I did this in a rush and if I had the time to REALLY go through stuff I could have brought twice as much.....it will just have to wait until the next time!

I finally loaded the girls (dogs) up around 7:00 and headed back home to Memphis.  They were asleep in the car in less than 5 minutes and stayed that way until we turned into the driveway.  

I'm starting the week tired from the weekend and getting home after 10:00 last night.  The Grizzlies don't play until 8:30 tonight......at this point, sleep is just over rated.  I'll catch up on it at some point, just not sure when yet.  You miss too much when you sleep!!

~Kathryn