• Anniversary
    Life

    14 Years…Really?

    August 30, 2011 - By 

    Dear Rob, I just can’t believe it’s been 14 years since we tied the knot! I think back to through the years. It makes me happy to know that we’ve stuck through all the ups and downs through these years. What we’ve gone through in the last 4 years would be enough to test any relationship! For some, troubled times strengthens the marriage, for some it weakens the relationship, and for most, it breaks the relationship. During these troubled times, I’ve asked God, “Why me? Why us?” and as I sit and write this, I can say I think we’ve…

  • Life

    14 Years…Really?

    August 30, 2011 - By 

    Dear Rob, I just can’t believe it’s been 14 years since we tied the knot! I think back to through the years. It makes me happy to know that we’ve stuck through all the ups and downs through these years. What we’ve gone through in the last 4 years would be enough to test any relationship! For some, troubled times strengthens the marriage, for some it weakens the relationship, and for most, it breaks the relationship. During these troubled times, I’ve asked God, “Why me? Why us?” and as I sit and write this, I can say I think we’ve…

  • Life

    Wee Bit Wednesday 8.23.11

    August 23, 2011 - By 

    {one} what’s your guilty pleasure tv show? Keeping Up With the Kardashians The Bachelor/Bachelorette {two} ear piercings on men: yes or no? No, so old school {three} do you have dish or comcast? Cable, we don’t have Comcast here. It’s Charter. {four} what’s your favorite current fashion trend? Fashion trend? what’s that! ha {five} if you could learn to do anything, money not being an issue, what would it be? Cruise around the world. {six} red or white wine? White {seven} what type of food is your favorite (ex. italian, mexican, etc.) Mexican. I could eat it every day. {eight}…

  • Life

    Fill in the Blank Friday 8.19.11

    August 19, 2011 - By 

    1. My idea of pure perfection would be is a baby’s fingers and toes. Just love ’em. 2. Laughter is contagious. 3. If it weren’t for my college student workers work would not be nearly as entertaining 4. Bloggers are are interesting people, who don’t mind sharing thoughts, feelings, etc with the world! 5. If I had an iPhone, I would use inst.gram all the time! 6. I’m glad it’s Friday because I’m not feeling so great and I just want to go home and sleep. 7. Something I’m excited about is a friend of mine who is attending Emmaus…

  • Life

    Back to School {2011}

    August 10, 2011 - By 

    It’s back to school time already! Drew is moving from the middle school to the junior high! 8th grade, What? Alex is in 2nd grade. WOW! 2011 2010 2009 Here’s a collection of all my Back to School posts.

  • Life

    1st School Sporting Event

    August 26, 2010 - By 

    Drew had his first school sporting event today. He did a great job in his 1st ever cross country meet. He didn’t have his uniform yet and had only been to 2 practices. He ran a mile and half in 10:44. Trailing a high school kid Passed up the high school kid After his race, he ran back and met a friend of his so he could cheer him on. Love it!

  • Life

    Soccer Pics

    August 25, 2010 - By 

    I mentioned in a previous post that I have been super busy. Usually when I do the soccer pics for Drew’s Soccer League, I don’t get around to getting his picture. Well, this season he made sure that I did, because he wants to have new pics for his profile on the Thunder website. Thought I’d share… Tomorrow he is participating in his first school related sport, Cross Country. He’ll be running a mile and half. Go Tigers!

  • Anniversary
    Life

    Happy 13th Anniversary!

    August 20, 2010 - By 

    I wanted to wish my wonderful husband a happy wedding anniversary! 13 years! Here’s a pic of us at our reception, before it started pouring down rain. Here’s an anniversary prayer I found recently. Lord, help us to remember when we first met and the strong love that grew between us. To work that love into practical things so nothing can divide us. We ask for words both kind and loving, and for hearts always ready to ask forgiveness as well as to forgive. Dear Lord, we put our marriage into your hands. Amen.

  • Life

    Scattered Thoughts

    August 20, 2010 - By 

    Like I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been super busy with soccer league pictures. I finished up last night with taking the pictures. Now I’ve got to finish going through the pictures, editing, posting to galleries, sending emails, and placing orders. Then, start deliveries. Lots of work. I’m just happy that I was able to take all the pics on schedule. No rain outs! I’ve got several posts in the works, but I just gotta find time to get them finished up and posted. I was looking at my blog earlier and realized that my header has a Corgi…

  • Life

    Rosie: 1997-2010

    August 16, 2010 - By 

    If you follow me on facebook, you are aware of how the last couple of weeks have gone. So very busy with school starting and all that goes with that. I’m also taking Soccer league pictures last week and this week. On top of all that, Thursday August 5th, Rob had come home for lunch and wondered why he wasn’t greeted by Rosie. I had remembered letting her outside a couple hours before, but she usually makes it well known that she’s ready to come in. We sent the boys out to see if they could find her and she…

  • Travel

    Sailing on Sovereign of the Seas

    August 3, 2010 - By 

    This cruise was planned a little while after we found out we were expecting our 2nd child. We wanted to go ahead and bring Drew on a cruise, because we knew it would probably be quite awhile before we got to take him on one. Rob’s Mom and Step Dad joined us, which was nice. This trip was taken in October over a long weekend with a Columbus Day Holiday. We opted for a 3 day Royal Caribbean cruise to the Bahamas and the private island, Coco Cay. We left Thursday night and drove down to Orlando. We spent the…

  • Life

    Open House at the Kindergarten

    August 28, 2009 - By 

    I’ve gotten in a rut lately of not posting especially posting personal happenings. I really need to get back to that since that is what this blog was intended for. Anyway, last night was open house at the Kindergarten with Alex. I had already met his teacher at “Meet the Teacher Night,” but open house give them more of an opportunity to explain how things are structured, etc. I already had a good feel for how I thought she would run things, just based on how the room was set up and things that Alex had told me. Sitting in…

  • Life

    1st Day of School

    August 10, 2009 - By 

    Today was the 1st day of school for the 2009-2010 school year. Drew’s going into 6th grade, which means moving up to middle school. Alex is going to Kindergarten! One good thing out of being unemployed right now is that I got to take Alex to his first day of school ever.

  • Life

    Ramblings of My Life

    August 5, 2009 - By 

    You know, I haven’t actually written here in a while. Yah, I’ve posted stuff; menus, pictures, other random superficial posts. I haven’t talked about what’s been going on with me. I’m not sure you wanna hear it, but at this point, I have to remember this blog was started for me and for my family who are far away. I’ve spent the last few weeks, well really all summer, but especially the last few weeks, trying to find a teaching job. With no luck! I’ve only had 4 or 5 interviews. Teaching jobs in this is state are very hard…

  • Photography

    My Story In Photos: The Summer Edition {I Heart Faces}

    August 4, 2009 - By 

    This week over at I Heart Faces our challenge is to share your story of summer through pictures. So here you have it. This summer didn’t have any big trips or much exciting. We managed to do little things here and there so that it wasn’t totally boring! Summer started with sis-in-law’s graduation from SCAD Atlanta Then off to see a friend in North Alabama. We did some fun crafts. Lots of Lego playin’. 1st Boy Scout Court of Honor 1st year of swimming lessons for Alex. Summer nights in Auburn Flat top hair cut for Drew. Drew goes to…

  • Travel

    Early Anniversary Trip 2007::Charleston, SC & Savannah, GA

    August 28, 2007 - By 

    This has been sitting in my draft box for too long. Just decided to go ahead and publish it. Please excuse any typos! Columbia, SC Wednesday 7/25- Left at 5:00 and headed to Columbia, SC. Stayed at the Sleep Inn Thursday 7/26 – Drove through Irmo, where we saw where Rob lived with his Dad and he was even able to find the house. Stopped at Carolina Cider Co. and got Peach Butter and 2 different types of cider. Yum! Drove through University of South Carolina. Drove to Charleston, SC and went straight to the Cannonboro Inn, Room #2 Lunch…

  • Life

    Best concert ever…

    August 26, 2007 - By 

    Last night was AWESOME! I’ve never enjoyed a concert as much as this one. Foreigner was great as usual and did an abbreviated show that we saw back in June. Styx was ok. Nothing too spectacular there and it was quite upsetting to Drew that they didn’t play Mr. Roboto. Def Leppard rocked the house! They were just amazing. Lights and camera work added to the music that brought goosebumps and lots of memories for me. It was touching to see Rick Allen, the one armed drummer, who played bare footed and didn’t miss a beat. By the 3rd or…