Christmas Tree

A few weeks ago, I posted a question on facebook about whether or not I should put up a Christmas tree with Mason being so small.  Everyone said I was a scrooge for even asking, including Mike, so I decided to go with the flow.  Because our house is pretty much a pine box, literally, [...]

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Cool Weather Equals Outdoor Fun

Mason was invited to Beau Turner, Jr.’s annual Halloween Bash on Saturday.  It was held at the Beau Turner Youth Conservation Center in Jefferson County at a state-of-the-art facility that was donated by the Ted Turner family to the State of Florida.
Mom and Steve went with us, and we thoroughly enjoyed the first day of crisp Fall [...]

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Walker Smith’s First Birthday

Mom, Mason, and I drove over to Hilliard and Folkston on Saturday to help celebrate Walker Smith’s first birthday.  It was a very busy day.  Before the party I got to pop in and see my daddy, and I ran into my best friend Shana (Turner) Brannon and her daughter, Kirsten; my friend Sonny Waters; a [...]

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Mason Is Italian….

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Monticello Winery

Our friends, the Rubins, invited us to go grape picking with them early this morning at the Monticello Winery.  We had a blast!  Mason was a little sleepy, but he enjoyed pulling the leaves off the vines and eating them.  The vineyard is organic, so we did not mind too much.  We especially enjoyed watching [...]

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Bryant Family

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Family Pictures

 Sara, Audrey, Sam (with Mason), Savannah, Kayla, & Shawna
Front: Shawna; Middle: Kayla, Audrey & Savannah; Back: Me, Mason, Uncle Jerry, Susie, Chris, Kristin, Sara, & Samantha
 

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Shall We Gather at the River?

My niece, Kayla Popwell, was baptized today in the St. Marys River on the Georgia/Florida line.  She attends Moniac Baptist Church and was recently saved.  We very much enjoyed celebrating this blessed occasion with my entire family and especially enjoyed the old-timey feel of the river dunking.
Kayla is my first cousin Bobby’s little girl. 
Shall We [...]

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Papaw Bandy

I have been writing a lot about the Bandy side of my family and have posted a number of old pictures of my grandfather, fondly known as Papaw Bandy, recently.  It got me to thinking that the one and only picture I remember seeing of me and him was stuck in a random photo album [...]

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Mason Meets Samantha

Mike and I went home to Jacksonville this past Friday to attend the wedding of a family friend.  More on that later.  I asked my niece Samantha to babysit for us.  Samantha is actually my first cousin Susie’s daughter and thus Mason’s second cousin.  However, since Susie and I are like sisters, she and her [...]

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