This will be my last entry until we get back from the wedding! So STAY TUNED for lots of great pix!
OH! And P.S. I got an e-mail from AOL saying that they would be ending their AOL JOURNALS on Oct. 31! OH NO! (I will find another blogger, tho, don't worry! HAHA)!
Hello family and friends! Just a note to say good-bye as we are heading to Destin early Wednesday morning! Our baby girl is getting married this Saturday, Oct.4th at Sunset at Watercolor Inn. I can't believe the day has finally arrived! We are so thrilled and love Jon so much and, since they have known each other for 5 years, we already feel he is a part of the family!!! We are so excited that the Fry family is continuing to grow by adding sweet Jon to our family tree!!! 
HAHA) and also for the wedding week-end in general! We cherish your love and prayers for our sweet little bride and groom! 
What is it about child number one???? Poor things! The younger kids think the first kids "have it made"! NOT SO! They are the "experiment"! The one who does EVERYTHING, FIRST!!! The hardest to let 1. start kindergarten 2. go alone to b'day party 3. expect the best grades from 4. cry the hardest the day they leave for college!!!
Yes, I experienced all those things. You wouldn't know it by the time baby number FIVE arrived! But, yes, I felt all those things. Sometimes I still do with him! When he called to tell me that he and Rachel were expecting a BOY, I burst, once again, into tears!! Because I knew that HE would soon be feeling all those things I felt the day I heard I was having MY first son. All those wonderful things you can't explain to your child, they have to experience it for themselves. How can you even TRY to explain the love you have for your first born child?(and next borns, but TODAY I'm talking about the FIRST TIME feelings of motherhood!). I can't help but shed a few tears this morning as I look over the lake at this GORGEOUS sunset and think about my OLDEST son turning 36 years old today and my youngest daughter getting married this coming Saturday. The circle of life. So wonderful. So incredible. So moving. So sad. So beautiful. So exciting. So happy. So emotional. Some days it's just hard being a mama, whether you are a mom at 20 (like I was then) or a mom at 57 (like I am now). WHy? Because there are moments I just wish I could turn back the hands of time! To see Charles for the first time again. To watch him walk on his first birtday again. To see him get off the school bus. To stand outside his bedroom door an hear he and Michael whispering secrets when they were going to bed. To see him graduate again, from B'ham Souther and watching DADDY'S FACE. To see him get married. To see him watching Powell in the hospital.Just remembering and wanting to go back in time. For just that one moment in time. Oh the memories I have today. Just like last week, thinking about MICHAEL, this week is CHARLES' week. Next week-end I'll be feeling similar memories about Katie. And so on. And such is the stuff of life. Today, for now, I honor and cherish moments of Charles. To him I say, "thanks. Thanks for making me the happiest I had ever been 36 years ago. For YOU, sweet curly haired son, made ME a mom"! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I LOVE YOU!
*(Even when he was 3 1/2 he loved his SAILOR SUIT!!!!)....PATRICK! We are so proud of you!!!!! I can't wait to see you next week-end! WE LOVE YOU!
Here is Jon going through, literally,HUNDREDS of photos over the past 5 years that he has known Katie! He is putting together a video show for the family while we are at the beach. I can't wait to see it!....We are getting sooooo excited! ONLY ONE WEEK TILL WE LEAVE!!! WOW! For a year and a half, we have planned and planned and PLANNED for it all to come to next Saturday, Oct. 4!!!! HURRAH! ....as of today , we have finally finished getting rooms taken care of and everything is now READY. Have I mentioned I will have the WORLD'S BEST PHOTOGRAPHER make the wedding pix?? Well, we do! It's my COUSIN, JIMMY ASKEW, driving all the way from Virginia to come to make pictures of Katie and Jon on their wedding day! I can't wait to see the pix! If they are HALF as good as the ENGAGEMENT PICTURES he made of them last Fall, they will be incredible!.....All that's left for this MOB (Mother of Bride!) is to get over the SNIFFLES!
In case you missed it on Sunday , PatPat, once again, got in the NEWS! Here he is in the Birmingham News on Sunday in the "Travel" section of the paper! That PatPat! He's a sneaky little bear!!!
Yes, Saturday was a very good day!
Alabama beat Arkansas, so at least, for THIS Sunday, we can celebrate! Until next game day, of course!! Then, the nail biting continutes for the Alabama Crimson Tide! HAHA! For today, we celebrate! 
RIGHT, DAISY????
Today was my sweet Michael's 35th birthday!
GOSH, I can't believe it! HOW CAN HE BE THAT OLD?!!! He just left after having dinner here with us and it was so much fun! Another year older, wow, he's getting O-L-D! Now, for 9 days, he and his brother are BOTH 35! How funny is THAT?!....We had a fun dinner tonight with the Hornes/Frys! (Katie is in Auburn/Pat in Pensacola/Charles in Boston! So, it was a quieter birthday but still fun!!! Actually, it wasn't quiet at all ! HAHAHA! ...Lily/Kemp were so good as was Daisy, despite the fact that she has a bad ear infection and bad cold! .....HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOST PRECOUS PRECIOUS MICHAEL! I LOVE YOU!
Today I'm CLEANING OUT KITCHEN CABINETS! Helping Katie do hers last week-end got me INSPIRED! SO, that's what I have done all morning! HURRAH! It's DONE!!! I have thrown away plastic lids I've had for 8 years! HAHA! My kitchen looks so good I don't want to even cook in it!!!....Tonight is Katie/Jon's little "Around the House" party at Charles and Rachel's. It is going to be such fun! I can't wait! .....ONLY THREE WEEKS UNTIL THE WEDDING!!!! WOW, UNBELIEVEABLE!
!!! We went to Home Depot/Ross/WalMart!!! We drug poor little Kemp around with us, he fell sound asleep on the last run!!! Last night I almost laughed out loud when I saw him with a broom and a dust pan! He's just like his mama, loves a clean house! AND, like Aunt Cutie, too! Right this minute she's mopping the kitchen----AGAIN! We have been cleaning for 2 solid days! Tomorrow we're heading back with post notes left for Jon: KEEP CLEAN! HAHAHAHA!
Terry and I were invited to the Clelland's River house for Labor Day. We had such a great time! We ate lots of "Q" (thanks to Bobby's delicious ribs and chicken and Dianne's home made sauce!)and slaw and beans and tater salad! I brought the slaw (I have a great recipe for it!) and pound cake and Terry made some Jerk Chicken and brought the MOST DELICIOUS Maragrita mix from La Concina and we made them there! YUMMMMMM! And I even was NICE enough to watch the Auburn game! HAHA! Bobby wore his lucky AUBURN house slippers and I wore my WINNING Alabama house slippers! Guess both of those "lucky charms" worked b/c BOTH our teams WON!....We enjoyed having, not one, but 2 special little dogs on this trip! SKIP, of COURSE, and also Scarlett, the precious Scotty that belongs to Katie/Win....We had to cut our trip a little short as I wanted to get back in case the weather got yukky and to talk to Patrick and see if he was going to be evacuated from Pensacola. Luckily for the Alabama Gulf Coast, NO problems. And, Patrick didn't get evacuated either. He's safe and sound in Pensacola.....Anyway, we had a great time as always and I'm already wanting to return!
