Sassy and Southern

3/4" charms worn on a necklace!

1"pendant

Sweet thing! This mom is going to LOVE this!

Makes GREAT Mother’s Day gifts for any mother or grandmother!!!!!!  Email us at missyandtrisha@gmail.com

Trisha’s new baseball pendant…..

Baseball Mom Pendant!

We can do beads in YOUR team colors!  You NEED one for all of those games-trust me! 

I want to brag on a group of girls.  This group of girls is dedicated, hard-working, determined and I admire them ALOT!  This group of girls is the 2012 Battle Ground Academy Varsity softball team!  A little history-our sweet Katie Mc has played softball since she was 5 years old in kindergarten-it’s where she got her nickname “Katie Mc” because there was another Katie on the team for a couple of years.  It has always been her love-well, until last year!  Katie LOVED middle school ball and had a blast and had a great group of girls that she had played with for years!  She looked forward to playing on the high school varsity team for years!  She even played up in a few varsity games during her 8th grade year after the middle school season ended-she was hooked!  She worked all off-season that year taking more pitching lessons, hitting in the cages, preparing for her first high school season.  She couldn’t wait!  Well, it’s a LONG story, but BGA did not end up having a high school softball team Katie’s freshman year!  She was devastated (and as her parents, so were we!)  Katie had worked SO hard to become a better pitcher knowing that she was the only one that the team would have and now NOTHING!  Katie gave up-no more practicing or pitching lessons-she was done!  Winter came and BGA decided that they HAD to find a way to have a team this year-they hired a coach and made the decision that they would pull up all of the 8th graders and let anyone who wanted to be on the team join in and play!  (whether or not they had ever played ball before!)  Katie was NOT on board!  Her friends (and many of the older girls) that she had always played with had moved on to other sports and activities after not having a softball team their Freshman year!  Katie knew that she had not practiced enough to go out there and face 18 year old girls that had been playing softball forever as she was a 15 year old that had not played in a year!  She did NOT want to go out there!  WELL-BGA needed Katie-they needed a pitcher.  We MADE her join the team-our family had fought so hard to get a team back at BGA and she had invested so much time in the sport that we knew that Katie had to be a part of it to make it work.  She started working during the winter with her new coach and slowly began to get a better attitude and warm up to the whole thing.  When official practices began and the team came together we could tell that it was going to be a challenge-to say the least!  The coach was having to explain what a “force out” was and she was having to show girls how to hold the bat, etc.  Coach D is SO patient and understanding with the girls-she has been GREAT!  It took Katie a while to learn to trust a coach again but she has REALLY come around!  Our team consists of 2 Seniors, 1 Sophomore (Katie), 3 Freshmen and the rest 8th graders!  Katie has joined right in with the Seniors and become a true leader-we are so proud of her!  The Lady Wildcats started their regular season games last week being run-ruled in 3 innings 15-0!  That’s enough to bring you down!  The next game they came out and only lost 11-6.  Monday they lost 21-7 and YESTERDAY they WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  They WON a game!!!!!!  It may be the only game that they win this season but they WON!!!!!!  They won 11-9 in 7 innings and they all played their hearts out!  Katie pitched all but ONE inning of all of these games-even with a lumbar strain in her back-she knew she had to keep pitching for her team!  It was so exciting to see the smiles on the girls’ faces-they were so proud of themselves and WE were all so proud of them!!!  (Oh and Tim McGraw was there to see our victory!  Well, only because his daughter was on the opposing team but it makes a good story!)  These girls are hard-working, dedicated and determined!  I am so proud of them for getting out there and just giving it their best!  This picture shows the excitement…..

Katie Mc and her Seniors after the VICTORY!!!

Congratulations to this great group of girls and congratulations to our sweet Katie Mc-we are SO proud of you!!!!  Thanks to Coach D for standing by these girls and helping them learn the game-I know it has to be tough some days!  We are looking forward to seeing these girls grow and play over the next few years!!!  GO LADY WILDCATS!!!!

Well, if you are a fan of Jason Aldean you have heard his new single that talks about why God made the “Fly Over States” and there ARE reasons to actually see them and not just fly over them and we McDaniels did JUST that this past week!!!!  We drove from Franklin ALL the way to Las Vegas in order to see the GRAND CANYON!!!!!!  It was FANTASTIC!  We rented a car (well, not really sure if it was a car, a van, an SUV, a new kind of station wagon?????), we ended up with a Ford Flex which served us very well for our over 2100 miles that we drove to get there!!!!  (Luckily we knew we only had time for a one way trip so we got to fly home-not sure after the 2100 miles that we would have had it in us to do the reverse trip!)  We are all good car riders, but REALLY-we had had about all of the Flex that we could stand in a week!)  I HIGHLY recommend this trip to anyone who has not seen the Grand Canyon-none of us had!  We left straight from school when the kids got out Friday and drove to the west side of Little Rock, AR.  The next morning we were up bright and early and excited to hit the road!  We drove through the rest of Arkansas, the entire state of Oklahoma and on into the top part of Texas straight to Amarillo (from ANOTHER one of my favorite songs “Amarillo By Morning”-I’m seeing a pattern here!)  We saw ALL sorts of quirky things from my Guide to Route 66 book that I had gotten-a must have for this trip!  We had seen the Big Texan on the Travel Channel on Man vs. Food and knew we had to eat there!  Home of the 72 oz steak-if you eat the ENTIRE meal in one hour you get your meal free!  Well, WE didn’t try that but it was so fun to see that 2 people were trying it while we were there!  They have to sit up at an elevated table with a spot light on them and huge timer above them!  Neither one of them did it but everyone sure did have fun cheering them on!  A must eat if you are ever in Amarillo!  (Looks VERY touristy but the steaks were DELISH!!!!)  Our next day got a little hairy!  We had set out for Flagstaff, AZ and somewhere in New Mexico we get a call from Pop asking us if we had seen the forecast for Flagstaff?????  WEll, we had checked on The Weather Channel.com and it showed little snow flurries and 20′s!  Luckily we had packed some warmer clothes b/c we knew that it would be chilly there and at the Grand Canyon on Monday!  WELL——some crazy storm brewed and Flagstaff got TWO FEET of snow on Sunday and I-40 (our route into there) was CLOSED for 150 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  So, being the easy-going, fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants gal that I am, we just decided that we better stay in Albuquerque that night and wait to head to AZ the next day!  So, that’s what we did!  We were in ABQ on one of 3 days a year that they have these winds that are 40-50 mph and all of the dust in NM blows into your mouth!!!!!!  CRAZY!  We would call that a tornado here in TN!  Anyway-we enjoyed our time to relax and take our time and were ready to hit the road the next morning to make our way to Flagstaff-into the snow!!!!  Fortunately, the roads were fine on Monday and we cruised into Flagstaff with NO problem!  (we went through Winslow, AZ….of the “Sittin’ on a corner in Winslow, AZ, such a fine sight to see-it’s a girl my Lord in a flatbed Ford slowin’ down to take a look at me” kind of fame!)  and made a stop to see the Meteor Crater on the way!  We decided that we had to time to throw in a little extra trip to Sedona, AZ since we were already a little off schedule and the Grand Canyon would have to wait until Tuesday-SO glad we did-it was beautiful in the snow!!!  Tuesday was the day we had all waited for!  We spent the day at the Gran Canyon-HOW BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was really more than I had even imagined!  Well worth the drive!!!!!  It was not crowded at all-I recommend going there in the Spring.  I can’t imagine how crowded it must get in the summer!  There is only one main road that connects the different view points at the South Rim and I am SURE it must be bumper to bumper during peak season!  We left there at headed to Las Vegas via the Hoover Dam!  We were flying home from Vegas so we allowed 2 nights there to explore all of the neat hotels and see it all!  The kids LOVED all of the different hotels with their themes and neat restaurants!  We stayed at the Paris hotel but explored the Bellagio, the Mirage, the Venetian, New York, New York (where the rest of my bunch rode the big roller coaster on top), MGM Grand, Treasure Island, Luxor, Excaliber, Mandalay Bay and Caeasar’s Palace!  They are ALL sights to see!  Dancing fountains, gondola rides, roller coasters, full malls, great restaurants, wax museum, monorails, moving sidewalks, fun shops, etc!  I guess it’s a must-see-once kind of place!  By this point, we were exhausted and ready to get back home!!!!!  We took the red-eye home Thursday night and arrived home Friday morning after cat naps on the plane!  We were VERY thankful that Whitt’s baseball tournament didn’t start until Saturday morning-NOT sure he would have fared very well at a Friday night game!  We are finally unpacked and most of the laundry is done and the kids have headed back to school this morning and David headed back to work-it is pretty lonely around here!  I am used to having them around me 24/7 for the last week!!!!!  I guess Daisy Belle will have to keep me company this week!  Well, if you EVER get the chance to make this trip-it is a MUST DO!!!!!  Get a book of fun things to stop and see along the way-you can hop off of I-40 onto RT 66 at many places and it makes the drive much more interesting!  I TOTALLY recommend this!  As I told Katie (who was a little jealous that all of her friends were going to come back tan from the beach and cruises) we can go to the beach ANYTIME (headed there this summer) but this was a once in a lifetime trip!  They won’t be home forever to do this kind of stuff!  Katie only has 2 more Spring Breaks before college!  SIGH!  We are trying to take advantage of the time we have!!!!!  I hope that YOU made sweet memories this week as well!!!!!!

Valentine order deadline is Sunday, February 5th!

Custom Photo Pendants

Perfect Valentine Gift

We were overwhelmed by the fabulous response to our “repinning” drawing! To show our appreciation, we would like to offer a 10% discount to all who entered the drawing. You had to “repin” one of our pendants between January 12-20. Please email us with details of your order. Include the code: PIN10

We just LOVE to have drawings at Sassy and Southern so we thought that it was time that we have another one!  Everyone is starting to think about Valentine’s Day a little so we thought that we would have a drawing so you could get YOURSELF a Valentine’s gift if you win!!!!  We are all about some Pinterest here at Sassy and Southern too!  Have you checked it out?  It’s  a little addicting-make sure you have a while to sit there when you first get on it.  There is ALOT to see and browse!  I have already tried several YUMMY recipes that I found on there during the holidays!  ANYWAY-our new drawing has 2 ways to enter-you can either “PIN” one of our pendants on Pinterest (you can pin them through our blog or our Facebook page-OR if you have a S&S pendant you can pin a pic of your own pendant with our blog address in the description) OR you can tell a friend about our blog/website and once they check out the blog/website they will email us and let us know WHO sent them and you are BOTH entered!  The more pins and the more friends you tell the more chances you get!  Let’s get this thing started!!!!!!  You have until next Friday, January 20, 2012 to pin away and spread the word about our blog/website!  Have your friends email us at missyandtrisha@gmail.com.  Our Pinterest pages are Missy McDaniel and Trisha Stanley and you can find pictures of pendants on our Sassy and Southern boards to repin!  If you aren’t “repinning” from one of our pages please email or FB us and let us know you have pinned us so we can get you entered!!!!  WOW-now I think we are READY!

Pendant/Charms sizes

It’s almost time for another drawing for a FREE Sassy and Southern pendant!  We are working out the details now and will announce VERY soon how you can be entered to win!  Don’t forget to “Like” us on Facebook and “Follow” Trisha and me on Pinterest!

We just wanted to drop in for a minute during our break and thank everyone for making 2011 a GREAT year for Sassy and Southern!  You have gotten our name out ALL OVER the country now!!!!!!  We couldn’t believe some of  the places we were shipping Christmas orders to!  Thank you, Thank you , Thank you!!!!!!!!  We hope that everyone LOVED their Christmas treasures that you had made for them!  We hope that 2012 is a WONDERFUL year for you and your family!  It is just unbelievable how quickly time flies!  Each of us have children that will be starting the last half of their Sophomore years in high school and we want it to SLOW DOWN!!!!!!!!  We are trying to savor every moment!!!!!

email a pic to get started: missyandtrisha@gmail.com

Happy Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!