I thought I would post Brittany's prom photo that i just got from Angela

Brittany is Charlie's granddaughter who is 16 and she is a junior this year. She is the last one on the right. Aren't they all beautiful??

Charlie & I went around in the "gator" today taking some photos...

All of my blackberry blossoms are in full bloom so I can only hope they will be ready for picking around Father's Day like last year. Remember last year I got the "chiggars" real bad so I have got to do something this year so i do not get them. I itched for WEEKS!!! When Charlie came back from FL last week, he brought back 2 things. Our pineapple we had planted over a year ago has finally grown a pineapple. It will be ready to eat when it turns yellow :). He also had not had much luck in growing a palm tree from a coconut ... until now that is. He brought that back too. We'll see how that does here in the Carolinas. Usually palm trees can't grow here as its too cold in the winter. We need to get our garden planted this week. I will post more photos after that is done :).

A whole week has gone by and my mom's best friend wants to know if I am ok ...

So Loretta ... this post is for you!! Yes I am fine, the kids are fine, the hubby is fine. This has been a uneventful week for the most part plus my internet has been going on and off for days. Not sure what the problem is with it!! The chickens have been keeping us busy gathering eggs. We get anywhere from 8-15 eggs EACH day. I think I gave out 4 dozen this week alone. Come this summer I think we will sell them but for now, the teachers at Nicholas' school are enjoying free eggs :). Emily has her 2nd drivers ed class tonight. 3 more to go ... She can get her drivers permit on her birthday which is June 25th (did I mention this already before?). Nicholas has a birthday coming up next week. Wednesday he turns 12! (how can that be?) He is still deciding if he even wants a party so we will probably have it late. He wants it at the Nascar Speedway Park at the Concord Mills Mall where they have go-carts, rock climbing wall, laser tag and lots of video machines!!! Its almost time to get our garden planted. I am pretty sure we are out of the danger of frost so I want to scope out Home Depot and Lowes and Walmart for squash, zucchini, and mostly tomatoes for those yummy tomato sandwiches I have GROWN to love :). So this note is really about nothing but I want Loretta know we are all alive and well. :)

Emily started driver's ed this morning ..

how is even possible my "little girl" is old enough to start Driver's Ed? Its just hard to believe. She will go 5 Saturdays in a row from 8-2 so that is 30 hours class time and will have 6 hours of drive time. Then she can get her driver's permit on her birthday (June 25th). She is so excited to get driving (I'm not so sure I am).

Charlie made it back last night. He said all the snow birds were headed north so traffic was really heavy. Most Canadian cars :).

Yesterday was a record day for bringing back eggs. I collected 15!!! And there was 1 I could not reach so I just left it there. I need to get a step ladder and leave it down there I guess. ha

I have been giving away eggs to Nicholas' school and to a few other people and I still have more than plenty.

That's it for now. I think I may go back to bed... this is too early to get up on a Saturday.

Its Monday ... I didn't post all weekend. How did that happen?

Saturday I went to a scrapbook/stamping convention in Winston-Salem. I met up with Debbie from the Stamp Shack there. It was somewhat of a disappointment. Not a whole lot of stamps at all, alot of scrapbooking supplies and alot of beads. So .... I did manage to buy some really cute stamps of what they did have so that was good. On the way home, I stopped at ACMoore, Joanne's and my favorite stamp store in the Carolinas. I definitely spent WAY TOO MUCH there!! But I needed new stamps and they had just gotten a whole bunch of new stamps in so it was wonderful! :)

I spent the morning with Robin this morning. She got news today the cancer has spread to her brain (again) so she goes up to Duke tomorrow to get another scan of her head to tell her more. She was crying, I was crying ... but she is the strongest person I think I have ever met. I just hope she can continue to beat it and stay strong but its so hard on her and her family.

It seems like winter has come back for a few more days. Where oh where did Spring go? It was 40 degrees this morning. I had to drag back out the winter coats. I am so ready to put them away till October.

Charlie left for FL for a few days. We got a written offer on our house down there on Saturday but it was way too low. Our realtor is showing it twice today, once tomorrow and a couple is coming back for their 3rd time to look at it on Wed. so at least we have alot of activity going on!!

That's all my news. I will try and come back and post sooner :).

Blog contest for my Shackie friends ....

Ok gals ... I have made a map of all of my Shackie friends from all over the world. I have 2 questions that you need to answer:

1) Which 3 states in the US has the most shackie friends in it? (this is according to my map and I am not sure its 100% right. LOL) but it must be close.

2) Name all of the people in each state. If I have multiple winners, I will put all winning entries in a hat and have Nicholas pick a name out of the magic hat. Now put on your thinking cap ....

The winner will receive .... something I buy new at the Winston-Salem stamp convention this Saturday. So I will not know what it is yet until I get home but I am sure it will be a great surprise!!!

Contest deadline is Saturday night 5 pm est.

Have you been feeding my pig and panda bear on my blog?

Nicholas INSISTED on getting these 2 so i took the llamas off for awhile. If you hold your mouse down on the pig and keep clicking, he starts to roll all over in the mud and then if you click the more button, you can wash him off with the water bottle plus you can feed him an apple or two. He gets hungry you know :). The panda bear will eat bamboo lying on his back when you click on him. Not sure what else he does, if anything else.

I came across this website for American Idol and you can download your own bobble head

on your blog. http://www.americanidol.com/games/bobbleheads/ If you click on Blake's head, it will bobble back and forth :). I want Blake to win!!!