Tis the Season for Christmas Craziness!

Hey! It's JT - can Black Friday get any crazier? People camped out all night to get trampled to death and pepper-sprayed all in the hope of getting a $249 laptop or $500 Big Screen TV (But hey, it's 3D, right?). We spent Black Friday at Busch Gardens (see video on Facebook). The new Cheetah Hunt roller coaster is pretty cool, riders experience 4G's (one more than astronauts taking off in the shuttle who experience 3Gs). But the SHEEKRA is the best roller coaster I've ever been on. You are literally 200 feet in the air and drop at 70 mph into the Tampa skyline! It was great.

So now we return to the studio Monday (Nov 28) and are ready for all sorts of Christmas festivities in the area! It all starts Thursday Night with the Prattville Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony - we'll see you downtown Prattville by City Hall around 5:00pm! Then that same evening we'll be hosting the Taste of Home Cooking School at Alacazar Shrine Temple and the Baptist benefit concert featuring Point of Grace and Phillips, Craig & Dean at MPAC.

The Capitol City Christmas Parade in downtown Montgomery is Friday Night - Leanne & I will be riding on the Therapy Dogs on Call float preceded by the Mix 103 van. We are honored to have been asked to be part of this float which is going to be a front-runner for the design award this year thanks to our friends at Home Depot!

And Saturday December 3rd is full of events starting with the Jingle Bell Run at Huntington College in the morning, followed by the Millbrook Christmas Parade at 2pm (although the festivities begin on the Village Green at 9am). The Prattville Christmas Parade is Saturday as well at 4:30pm. We're going to try & make them all!

Tune into Mix 103.3 FM this holiday season - thanks to Pickwick Antiques, Capitol Filmworks, Eastdale Mall, Southern Union State Community College and Heidi's Fine Jewelry for being great sponors this year! Merry Christmas from our family (JT, Leanne, Ashlee, Kimberlee, Rebeccah Lynn and of course Pebbles, Bam-Bam, Freddie Jr, and Snickers)! See you soon!

Giving Thanks

As we enter the Thanksgiving season, I am reminded of an important lesson my mom taught me and that I have not done a good job at passing down to my girls. Writing Thank You Notes! Not texting, not emailing but going to the store and getting a card or a piece of notebook paper and handwriting a note giving thanks! In this day and age of technology and spam mail and junk mail, a handwritten note in the mailbox delivered by the mailman is pretty exciting for the person receiving it. I am going to work on setting a better example for my girls.

It is so important to take the time to give thanks, especially this time of year and speaking in a good way about technology, a lot of folks on Facebook are taking a moment everyday in November to post what they are thankful for. I love it and played catch up yesterday and posted again today. I am going to try to keep that up, maybe not daily but at least weekly. A weekly recap of the week, whether typed or written in a journal (is on my resolution list AGAIN this year) is a great reminder that God is Good and a reminder of how strong our bonds with family and friends are.

What are you thankful for? Ponder and Post!

Leanne