Sassy and Southern and other Sweet Things

We just got home from a trip to Florida and I am knee-deep in mail and laundry!  It takes me days to get my house back in order after a long trip and I am getting slower all the time!

I had the neatest gift sent to me just before I left on my trip that I wanted to share with you.

Two of the sweetest girls from Tennessee, Trisha and Missy, who have a custom photo pendants and charms business, wrote me and ask if they could make me a pendant.  I have had people approach me before and want me to advertise their things on my blog but have never accepted any of them after checking them out.

However, after reading Trisha and Missy's site, I was impressed with them and decided I would love to show all of my readers what a neat product they make.  Go to sassyandsouthern and check them out! 

Here is a picture of me just before I went out the door with my new pendant of my three beautiful granddaughters!  Their names and birthdays are on the back.  They can put pictures, Bible verses, dates or anything you like on the pendant.  I will be looking for a new chain for mine soon but you can also attach the pendant to a string of pearls or whatever you have!

This would make a great Baby gift for a new mother (or a wonderful gift for an old Nonny like me with the grands)!  A couples picture for a Valentine's gift or a wedding picture with the date on the back sounds so sweet!

So go over and give Sassy and Southern a look and tell them I sent you!

Our first stop on our trip was a quick trip to Dallas for a little family gathering to honor our newest grand baby.  Since my children do not want pictures of her on the internet I have a limited amount of pictures to show!!  Nearly every picture I made had her in it!

So I will just show the parents!

Carrie's aunt Louise and her cousin Ann were gracious host for a lovely brunch!

Here are a few more enjoying the good food!

I love this picture.  Since the parents wanted pictures of everyone with the baby, son Chris set up his "Sears Portrait Studio" and I took this picture of everyone trying to get the baby's attention as pictures were being made!  So funny what tactics we use to get a good picture!!

Hubs and I left there for a two-day trip to Destin on our way to Jacksonville for the pastor's conference at FBC.

Destin is a great place for a vacation but of course, it is the "off-season" and the beaches were vacant!  We had the whole beach to ourselves for a nice walk. It was also our 42nd wedding anniversary so that made it a special time for us to have some quiet time alone!

It was cool and windy that day but you could see forever!

Nothing but us and the seagulls!  What a great day!

Then on to Jacksonville for four days of hearing God's Word and listening to the best music this side of heaven!  The FBC choir and orchestra and all the special music was just great.  Travis Cottrell was leading the worship music and all you Beth Moore girls know who he is.  I did get a chance to say "Hello" to him and he was very gracious to take time to talk to an old lady admirer of his!

One of the highlights this year for me was the pastors' wives luncheon with guest speaker, Pam Tebow.  Of course, every one knows her as Tim Tebow's mother but she spoke very little about him actually. She was a beautiful, soft-spoken woman who spoke about how God has lead her to raise her children in His Word.

She spoke about the importance of having children memorize scriptures and how that Word is embedded into their minds and hearts and stays with them their whole life.  This is so true and the main reason for having programs for children in our churches to teach them to hide scripture in their hearts.

 "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word from God" .  Deuteronomy 8:3

"So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." Romans 10:17

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." Ephesians 6:17

"And the Lord said....Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My Words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and that they may teach their children."  Deuteronomy 4:10

The church in Jacksonville provided a beautiful luncheon for the pastors' wives after hearing Pam Tebow speak.

This is outside the Children's Building(imagine having a whole building just for the children!) where we were waiting to go in for the luncheon.

 Each table was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and the chairs had huge gold bows tied in the back....looked like a wedding reception!  The food was delicious also: fresh pineapple scooped out and filled with three different salads and fresh fruit on the plate with a blueberry muffin.  For dessert, dark chocolate cake that was almost too much for me....but I ate it anyway!!

They also gave us a bag of goodies consisting of five new books and jewelry from Premier Jewelry.

Believe it or not, I have never had a cross necklace and now I have one with three different crosses! Thank you so much, Jacksonville FBC,  for the ministry to us!  You may us feel special indeed!

We drove home and this picture was on the bridge over the Mississippi River.

We decided to drive home on the backroads through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi and we enjoyed it soooooo much!!

I loved coming through Georgia and smelling peanuts as we drove by the peanut farms.  What a great time.....you can't get that driving down the interstate!!