Oh to be a Child again....

Some days I just want to wear this outfit to work...

Yes, My Name Is Melissa....

Yes, my name is Melissa and I am addicted to Facebook.

For those of you who are my friends on Facebook, you can testify that my name usually has a green dot beside it in Chat. For the most part, I don't Chat ALL day - I do work some; but for the most part I LOVE keeping up with friends. Here are a few interesting facts right now about my profile on Facebook:

I joined Facebook in February 2007. I had a MySpace page (still do, just don't keep up with it much) and found that there were more and more people setting up a Facebook Page - so I thought, what the heck....

I have 387 friends. WOW - Did not know that I actually knew this many people. My friends consist of High School Friends, 4-H Buddies, Former Co-Workers, Church / Sunday School Class people and family. I do not add anyone that I do not know personally.

I have 29 photo albums containing 752 photos. There are 24 wall photos that I have been tagged in and I have changed my profile picture 7 times.

I have 26 relatives that are my friend on Facebook and we keep up with each other that way. For example, while Elizabeth was in Maurtainia, we were able to keep up with her safety issues while she was in that country. (yes, no running water - but internet.) Now my cousin Jason is doing the exchange program in Ghana and hopefully we will be able to hear from him as well. (He just got there this week)

15 of my friends are available to Chat right now. It has been really nice to have some of my friends pop in during the day just to say hello. Don't get me wrong, we don't chat ALL day long but we do communicate and check in with each other this way.

One of my favorite things to do on Facebook is read the status updates of my friends. Here are some of my favorites. Hope you enjoy: (These are not my status updates - they are from different friends at random).

Now that the presents are unwrapped I'll spend all day with those d@#$ twist ties on the back of the toys. I really would love to meet the Einstein behind that. Oh, Merry Christmas everybody!

I left Seth in the truck while I walked into the store. Walk back out and he has a piece of paper up to the window that has HELP written on it showing it to people!

Please put this on your status if you know someone (or are related to someone) who is an idiot. Idiots affect the lives of many. There is still no known cure for stupidity, but we can raise awareness. 93% won't copy and paste this, many because they're too stupid to know how to copy and paste. Will YOU make this your status for at least one hour?

When life hands you lemons, squirt the juice in your eye..the stinging sensation will stop your whining.

is annoyed that he can't play UNO. The Mexican's keep stealing my green cards.

says Honk if you love Jesus! Text while you drive if you want to meet him!

Aliens are coming to Earth on Monday to abduct all the good looking and sexy people! Some of you will be safe!! I just wanted to say goodbye!!! :o)

I was caught at the kitchen table last week while we were eating "Facebooking" . Love my IPOD Touch! My husband said I set a bad example, and yes, I will probably have a fit the first time one of them is caught texting while we are at the table eating. It was then that I realized my problem. I have learned my lesson to be a better example. As a punishment, I have grounded myself from Farmtown this week. Yes, my crops have waisted away in the field and my flowers have died, but this is the only way for me to learn my time limitations. Just wish I could sell my farm on Farmtown and make some real money off of it. . .

Sorry to cut this short, but....Ah, I really need to get back to Facebook, I mean Work....

CHRISTmas 2009

So just where did the CHRISTmas season go this year? The Dixon family stayed extremely busy this year with church, school, and family activities. Mike did an outstanding job directing the choir and the "production" of our church cantata. It was held on a Sunday night and involved lots of people from our congregation. We enjoyed having desserts afterwards and ended up having over a hundred people there. Reagan missed it due to having strep throat, although she enjoyed the attention from Grandaddy. I was also battling bronchitus during this time and had been out of work most of the week before the cantata - (when it rains, it pours). The Saturday before Christmas was extremely busy for us. We left home around 10 am and headed to Vanceboro to visit Mike's Grandparents, we didn't find them at home, but did track them down at Vera's diner having lunch. From Vanceboro we headed to Kinston to pick up some presents for the girls from Aunt Ann. Then we made our way to Goldsboro to pick up a birthday cake for MaMa Hood's 86th birthday at Mickey's pastry. From there we traveled to "the farm" in Grantham to celebrate MaMa Hood's birthday and Christmas with Aunt Betty, Uncle Barry and Jason. We had a wonderful Ham dinner with some awesome homemade Mac and Cheese. LOVED IT! After the party, we headed to the Goldsboro Mall so the girls could see the bears sing (a Christmas tradition). Then, we headed home! Wow, what a day that was.

On Christmas Eve, we headed to Pamlico County to have Christmas with the Dixon side of the family. It is nice to see (most of) his cousins there. The girls enjoyed opening presents with all the Great Grand Children.

Christmas Day, I felt like I had to drag the girls out of bed! Although, what Santa brought didn't look like much, it was more than any of us deserved. We are so blessed! We served lunch at our house - Prime Rib, Broccoli salad, Mashed Potatoes, Pineapple Casserole, String bean casserole, Rolls, Apple Pie and Pecan Pie. We cooked the Primerib outside this year on the new grill Mike got for Fathers Day - boy, did the entire neighborhood smell soooo good! At lunch time we served the Pridgen and Hood families - Ma & Pa Pridgen, Ma & Pa Hood, as well as my mom and dad. Then at dinner, we served the Dixon side - Mike's Mom and Dad, Kenny, Melanie Sierra and Damian. We also enjoyed opening present all day long.

I am always reminding myself of how blessed I truly am. I have a wonderful husband, sweet children, great and supportive parents and in-laws and a God who never fails. Hope your family had a great Christmas too!

My Junior TopCat

October 2009

Raeanne and a friend from dance, Alli, did the Junior TopCat Program at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. This was Raeanne's 3rd year doing the program and Ali's first year. We traveled to Charlotte for 2 weekends in a row and stayed with Aunt Betty. Her mentor this year was TopCat Chica. She was great with the girls and so friendly! Raeanne performed during the half time show at the game between the Panthers and the Buffalo Bills. During their half time performance, the kicker for the Panthers - Kasey - came out and did some practice kicks. Raeanne just happened to be on the front row. It just so happened that ESPN was filming Kasey during half time and low and behold behind him was RaeRae! I have had several people tell me that they saw her on TV. I really thought they were pulling my leg until I saw the DVR of it later! How cool was that? Raeanne had a great time at Aunt Betty's and at the game. Aunt Betty always treat us to special stuff while we are there! Our seats at the game weren't the greatest - we were about 13 rows from GOD. I will try to save /earn enough money from my massage stuff to actually buy better seats next year! We still had a great time hanging out with our friends from Dance. Since it was a late game on Sunday evening, and we were traveling by ourselves, we opted to stay Sunday night and drive back Monday morning. What a great idea! (Yes, I am the bad mother who kept her daughter out of school for a day...whoop ti do!) We were not pushed to get back and actually stopped in Concord and walked around Concord Mills outlet as well as visited Charlotte Motor Speedway. We are already looking forward to next year's camp.