My sweet boy turned 3!!!!

A week ago today my sweet boy turned 3!  I cannot believe how fast time flies.  One day you are bringing your baby home and the next day he is 3 and as smart as a whip.  We spent all day today swimming in the lake and he learned how to tread water for the first time.  I picked up a life jacket for him and from just one day he is doing so well.  At first he kept saying "hold me Mama, hold me Mama" and by the time we were getting out he was saying "let me go Mama, let me go Mama".  My Mama has told me stories of me swimming like a fish from the first day.  She says I just jumped off and swam.  So he definitely takes after me with the water.  I LOVE IT!!!  I love you my sweet boy James Clark!!!!!

Please Vote for Photos by JeeJee and The Mather Company!!!

Please Vote for  Photos by JeeJee and The Mather Company!!!

5.25.2012

My friend Hart Trayer for the Mather Company voted for me as Best of.  So go and vote for Hart's boss Charlie, the Mather Company and me, Photos by JeeJee.  Hey everyone, this is Hart. Last year Hart posted on his blog, http://hartandvanessablog.blogspot.com/2012/05/please-vote-for-mather-company.html requesting y'all to vote for The Mather Company as real estate company of the year, and his boss, Charlie, as real estate agent of the year. Well, the company didn't win, however, Hart's boss did!

Well, the polls are open and voting has begun for the 2012 year. And I would greatly appreciate your votes! This is an annual thing our local newspaper does, The State. If we win, then we get featured in the newspaper. So it's great exposure for us.

The way it works is you'll have to go to the following website. There you'll see a list of 92 categories. In order to submit a vote, you must complete at least 30 of the categories. To make it easier for you, I'm providing a list below with some suggested categories. Of course, you are more than welcome to fill this out with your own choices. But I would greatly appreciate you putting Photos by JeeJee down as the Photographer.  I have highlighted my favorites that I am voting for.  

Ok, so here is the link to go vote: http://www.thestate.com/bestof/

And here is my list of suggestions:

The State Best Of
1 - Columbia Museum of Art (Art Gallery)
2 – EdVenture (Children’s Entertainment)
6 – Town Theater (Stage Theater)
9 – Miyos (Chinese Food)
10 – No Name Deli (Deli/Sandwich Shop)
11 – Chickfila (Fast Food)
12 – Divine Foods (Greek Food)
13 – Carrabas (Italian)
14 – Hibachi Express (Japanese Food)
15 – Casa Linda (Mexican Food)
16 – Bone Fish Grill (Seafood)
18 – Bojangles (Biscuits)
19 – Pawleys Front Porch (Burgers)
21 – Sonic (Hotdogs)
22 – Docs Bar BQ (BarBQ)
23 – DiPratos (Brunch)
24 – Zaxbys (Chicken)
25 – Cupcake (Dessert)
26 – Marble Slab (Ice Cream)
27 – Tony O’s (Pizza)
28 – California Dreaming (Salad)
29 – Bone Fish Grill (Steak)
30 – Taco Sushi (Sushi)
31 – Carolina Wings (Wings)
33 – The Sewing Center (Art Supply/Craft Store)

40- American Floral (Florist)

41- Paul D. Sloan Interiors (Furniture Store)

48- Bill Owings Custom Clothing (Men's Clothing store)
54 – Play it Again Sports (Sporting Good Store)
55 – Firestone (Tire Store)

56- Learning Express (Toy Store)

57- Initially Yours Columbia Luggage (Unique gift shop)

60- Kicks (Women's shoe store)
63 – Chucks Auto (Auto Repair)

64- BB&T (Bank)
66 – Constan Car Wash (Car Wash)
68 – Gilbert Studio of Dance Arts (Dance Studio)
70 – Trace Rutherford (Dentist)
71 – Bens Dry Cleaner (Dry Cleaner)

72- Yoga Masala (Fitness Center)

74- All American (Heating and air condition services)
77 – Covenant Birth Center (Place to have a baby)

79- Paul D Sloan Interiors (Interior design firm)
80 – The Mather Company (Real Estate Company) I photograph the Mather Company's real estate listings and they are a great company to work with.  I  would really appreciate you voting for them & Charlie below!
81 – Charlie Mather (Real Estate Agent)
82 – Home Pest Control (Pest Control)
83 – Photos by JeeJee (Photographer) 
85 – Kay Plumbing (Plumber)

Thank you all so much for taking the time to do this for me! I really appreciate it!

Bubbles, Bubbles, Lights & Tree Cutters

So the other day, my sister Missy gave James Clark a bubble gun that she got at Crackle Barrel. They have such great stuff there. If you have not been there in awhile you should go. I think that I am going to go do some Easter shopping at Cracker Barrel for James Clark's Easter Basket.

He has had so much fun playing all over the yard and down the street with this battery operated bubble gun. He loves that it is clear and has lights so he can see all of the moving parts. James Clark was leaving a bubble trail all down the road and when we made it to the bottom of the hill he wanted to step up onto the drain cover on the side of the road. We have done this so many times before I had no idea that my heart was about to sink. I hear the bubble gun bounce onto the pavement and down into the drain. My heart sank. So I take James Clark back home to Jeff because I was upset and mad all at the same time and afraid that if I tried to get the bubble gun out with him with me it could be dangerous. I would not be able to watch him and possibly get down in the drain to get the bubble gun. I know what you are thinking. It is just a bubble gun, but he had only had it for less than 24 hours and my sister gave it to him. I am very sentimental about those kind of things. I think that I was more mad at myself. How could I be so brainless to not think about the fact that the bubble gun could fall into the drain when I helped him up onto the top of the storm drain. Then I went back down the hill almost in tears (I know silly) trying to prepare myself for trying to fit into this drain knowing that I really did not want to get in there. Who knows what could be down there and how deep it was. I think I was preparing for the worst. I knelt down and thankfully I could see it, but I could not reach it. I found a stick and of course it was not long enough to reach it. So I sat there in tears not knowing how in the world I was going to get this bubble gun out of the drain. Then I heard someone say "can I help you with anything". All week we have had a tree company in the neighborhood cutting trees on the power lines. I told the nice man that my son had dropped his bubble gun down into the drain. I know I looked so silly crying about this gun, but he went and got one of the long tools that they were using to cut the trees and fished the bubble gun out of the drain. I thanked him and felt so relieved that he helped me because I really did not know what I was going to do. I know that I looked totally stupid, but I don't care because James Clark has his bubble gun back and is enjoying it immensely. And that is work looking stupid a million times over.

Then just a few days later James Clark dropped the bubble gun in a barrel of water!  It's just the way things go.

This is from February of 2011.