News For the Week of November 19, 2012

Hope everybody has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends. We expect to have all of our kids and grandkids home except for David, and we will try to talk to him on Skype sometime during the day. He always has a houseful of friends at his house for Thanksgiving and then he comes home to spend Christmas with us.

Congratulations to Dustin and Chi-Anna Johnson on the birth of their daughter, Avery Jane. Avery weighed 7lbs 6oz and was 19 ½ inches long. She is a beautiful addition to their family and I know big sister Brenley will enjoy helping her mommy take care of her.

Bob and I went to the Blue and White scrimmage last Friday night to watch both the girls and boys basketball teams and they really looked good.

High school basketball season has started again at Bradleyville School, next week the boys will be playing in the Forsyth Tournament and the girls will be playing at Mansfield.

My step-mom, Donna Sloan has spent a few days in the hospital. As of now they are running some tests to determine what exactly is causing her to be sick.

New Mansion Church had the final Chili Feed for this deer season last Saturday and was thankful for everybody that came and ate and donated sale items, food or money. All the proceeds went to the Vacation Bible School fund. Several of us workers probably gained a few more pounds while we sat around and visited and sampled every chili, soup, stew and dessert on the tables. They were all delicious.

The Getaway Gift Shop will be having their annual Holiday Open House on Friday, the 30th of November from 3pm until 7pm. Santa will be there from 4pm until 6pm and Ashley Mann will be taking pictures of him with the children. Cindy Dalton will be there with holiday florals and several other vendors will have their items for sale too. There will be discounts, food and holiday fun for all.

Birthdays for the coming week includes: November 21: Chelsie Brumfield, Denzil Roberts; November 22: Jennifer Flannery, Roger Hankins; November 23: Darin Hodges, Lacey Malcom; November 24: Tammy Pollard; November 25: Lisa Lux, Derek Rogers, Wendy Cash, Gina Smith; November 26: Julie Bettis, Denny Burkhart; November 27: Jean Robison.

Anniversaries for the coming week include: November 26: Chris and Julie Bettis; November 27: Kirk and Tammy Baird.