GA Farm Bureau Young Farmers Leadership Conference – Lake Blackshear, GA

The GA Farm Bureau Young Farmer Committee Members

This past weekend we had a great time at the state YF Conference.  The weekend was filled with fun, sun, friends, fellowship, and food!  This was a family conference, so we got to visit with lots of our friends and their kids! 

The conference didn’t start until Saturday but we went Thursday night so we could enjoy the grounds.  Thankfully our friends, Matt and Melissa, brought their boat and we got to get on the water!

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Later Friday, everyone started arriving for a fun weekend.  So what did we do next?  We ate of course…hehe!  Wings on the lake…awesome food, great fellowship, and an amazing view!   

I managed to get one good shot of them together!

My kids had a ball at Saturday’s outside games.  And what kind of farmers would we be without a Tractor Pedal Race for all the kiddos!  Whitman LOVED this event and was very upset that he couldn’t ride them ALL afternoon!  Vera Kate wasn’t feeling that well but still managed to participate.  Cora Jane’s favorite was the Sunflower Seed Spitting contest – and she did really good too!  It reminded me of the watermelon seed spitting contest I used to participate in at the Florida Watermelon Conventions…..Cora Jane did her Momma proud.  LOL!

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Mine and Cory’s priorities are God, family, church, and our business.  We are so blessed that GA FB Young Farmers feel the same way.  Sunday morning, Cory led the conference in a Praise and Worship time before the speaker.  I was so proud!  He did a great job.  God has truly blessed him with a gift of music!

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The Tyre Kids Invade Neptune Park on St. Simons

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The Tyre Water Bugs 2010

Tasty Tuesday

Until a couple of months ago I had never tried Key Lime Cake.  You’ve been keeping it’s deliciousness to yourselves!  So after I tried it I was determined to make one.

Well after several weeks I finally got around to it!  And I have to admit…..it was yum, yum!!  My family has unanimously decided that this cake is now their favorite!

1 lemon cake mix

1 1/3 cup of vegetable oil

4 eggs

1 (3oz) pkg. lime gelatin mix

3/4 cup orange juice

 

1/2 cup butter

1 (8oz.) cream cheese

3 tbsp. fresh lime juice

4 cups confectionary sugar

 

1. Combine cake mix, gelatin mix, oil, eggs, and orange juice.  Bake according to directions on box.  Cool.  Frost.

2. Frosting -  beat butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy.  Add lime juice and sugar.  Mix well.

 

Enjoy.  God is good…….ALL the time,

Jasper Marc Cannon is finally HERE!

Ok, on July 13, 2010, this sweet bundle of joy entered into our family’s life forever!  My brother, PJ, and his wife Amanda had their first child!  We are all so very excited that this precious baby boy is here and is as beautiful as ever!

 

So the day after he was born my troops and I traipsed off to Florida to see our Baby Jasper!  And the girls, of course, loved him up.  Whitman enjoyed the elevator and the room’s privacy curtains WAY TOO MUCH to have time for a baby!  Haha! 

 

Jasper has long fingers, a round Cannon face, his Momma’s nose, lots of dark hair, a dimple in his chin (we can’t figure out who it came from), he can spread his toes out so much he’ll be picking things up with them before too long, and he is the most alert newborn I have ever seen. 

Three generations.  Momma, my brother PJ, and Jasper Marc

 

Granny and her Grandbabies

I was so proud of my SIL!  After 9 months of lots of pain she made it through.  She was faced with lots more issues than us normal prego women and she came out like a pro.  I am very thankful that she is a strong, Christian woman, who takes pride in her job as Jasper’s Momma and my brother’s wife.  She has impressed me with her strength.  I pray for her. For I know the upcoming weeks will be ones of joy, sleeplessness, tears of happiness, tears of change, a time of bonding that you can never replace-a roller coaster ride that will forever change her life for the good.

We are so thankful that Jasper is apart of our family.  Every baby is a gift from our gracious Father above and Mr. Jasper Marc Cannon is no exception.  We love you baby boy!

God is good…..ALL the time,

First Official Sleepover

Ok, so I know I have been VERY slack these past few weeks with blogging.   But I promise its due to busyness and not laziness.  The kids have kept me going, going, going since we’ve come back from vacation!!  Plus there are some other BIG projects that I can’t wait to share…but later!

First of all, my girls went to there first sleepover party!  The week we came back from vacation, my bestie Lora, was hosting a birthday party for her little girl Lilah Grace.  Well of course my girls had to be there for their bestie’s partay!! 

I really wasn’t too worried about the girls not having fun, or even wanting to come home.  I knew they were in good hands. 

And they had a blast!  They did all the girly things that we as adult women still love to do.  They had sweets, talked, mani’s and pedi’s, and of course a good chic flick!  What girl could resist!?  I even wanted to stay..haha!

Happy Birthday Lilah Grace, we are so thankful God has placed you in our lives!

God is good…….ALL the time,

Cedar Key Vacation

 

Every year we go to Cedar Key for the fourth of July and it always turns into a week long family vacation.  This year, more so than others, we anticipated this vacation.  We have had SO much going on in our little family, business, etc. that for weeks prior Cory and I would dream of the vacation to come.

Cedar Key is not your typical beach vacation.  CK is a fisherman’s village with a few little beaches for the kids to enjoy.  The water isn’t the bluest but it is still gorgeous.  We love the private atmosphere and the peace only CK can give us.  This year we NEEDED this vacation.  And we are so thankful for it!  We had a great time visiting with family and friends, and soaking up the sun!  

 

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CK is were my brothers and their friends take the boat out and fish.  My brother Ned Henry likes  loves fishing and he was excited to have the kids there to show what he and his buddy had caught.  Whit wasn’t so sure about the fish.  In fact, he was scared to death of the thing…hehehe.  He was so funny running away from the fish!

We had so much fun chilling on the beach, looking for sea shells, and just taking it easy.  We are so blessed to be able to get away like this.  Next we’ll have pictures from our 4th of July.  We were in CK for that too and saw the best fireworks!

Let me know what you think of this new layout.  One of my blogging buddies showed me this new program and I am super excited over it.  Have a great weekend everyone!

God is good………ALL the time,

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Happy Birthday Grandma! We love you BuNcHEs!!!!

For Grandma's birthday we all got together to swim and eat ice cream cake...YUM YUM!

God is so good to give us FaNtAsTic Grandparents,