Dreaming of Tomorrow

Well, I'm sitting here at work, hoping that the day passes by quickly because as of this afternoon....I'm on vacation for a week!!!!!!!! Earlier this year...we planned this trip with some friends. We've done quite a bit of traveling with these friends, but they've been telling us for years that we needed to go to one specific place. Well, we decided we would go with them in November (which at the time seemed like forever away). I can't believe it's finally here, and we are off to ST. JOHN tomorrow!!!! I can honestly say that I'm pretty sure I will not want to come home at the end of this week. We have heard so much about this place that I cannot wait to see what paradise looks like in person!!!!

My Little Fischer

Well, folks...this is what I've been up to this weekend!

We have been having so much fun with the newest member of our family - Fischer.

We drove 9 hours yesterday. We had to go pick up the little guy in McDonough, GA and come all the way back home. We were all pretty sleepy when we got back!

We are now in the full swing of potty & crate training. Today was better than yesterday - that's about all I can say about that!

That's all for now!

WHO KNOWS?!?!

All three are precious, but I wonder which one is ours?!?!?!

Welcome to Mac World

Well, I did it. I made the plunge! The result?

So far, my new mac has been a pleasure! I stayed up far too late last night trying to upload all of my pictures and saved info from my cd backups of my old computer. This takes a very long time. Unfortunately, because my computer was failing when the backups were made (i.e. I would make a cd and the computer would crash....it would finally start back up...I'd make another CD...and so on...) not all of the information on them is "readable." My poor mac is having a hard time with that, but other than that - we're very happy together :-)

What We've Been Up To

Well folks, we had a computer crash...the 3rd one this year!!!! My laptop crashed this summer (I got it reformatted), my desktop crashed about a month ago (I'm getting rid of it), and my laptop crashed again last week! ARGH! So, right now, I'm looking into buying a new computer. No small task. I'm actually being lured in by the new 13" Macbook Pro.

I've never seen myself as a Mac owner, but the more I research, the more I like them. My brother and sisters all have them, and I must say that - from what I've seen - they are pretty neat computers. Does anybody out there have one? Do you love it as much as my siblings do????

Our Bible Study went over to Amanda's house the other night and carved pumpkins.

Matt and Angela skillfully carved their very large pumpkin.

Jeremy and Sandra carved a pumpkin for Baby Colton - despite the fact that it was a very sweaty pumpkin. All Colton really wanted to do was check out the stem though :-)

Amanda showed us all up with her Martha Stewart pumpkin :-)

And Kevin and I carved our spider web pumpkin!

We had so much fun!

Since I don't have a computer at home right now, we've been getting a lot done around the house! The past 2 nights, we worked in the living room. This was the result.

Don't let it fool you...hanging pictures in a straight line is no small task. There are quite a few extra holes in the wall behind those pics :-) They are black and white pictures that I took in Europe of the London Eye, Westminister Abbey, the Colosseum, and the Eiffel Tower. I love them (here's a closeup).
I really love my curtains! I think they make the room feel more home-y! I took the red out of my rug. They are not the exact same color red, but they compliment one another very well....at least I think so!

On a different note, there's only a few more weeks before one of these rascals comes home with us! YAY!!!!!

Cloudy with a Chance of Blah!

It has been nothing but cloudy and rainy lately, and I can't help but feel a little blah and depressed. First of all, I HATE cold weather, and I know it's coming! I also feel like I haven't seen the sun in weeks...I'm a sunshine kinda' girl! Oh, how I wish I were in a place that looked like this:

On another note: Kevin and I are playing Rec League Volleyball this year and having a blast! Last night we won 5 out of 6 games! The one downfall to this is that it's every Wednesday from 6-10pm....it makes for a pretty long night, and it's always really hard to get up the next day! Other than that we have a blast! Here's a picture of the team...minus me :-) We are a pretty diverse group!

A Little Bit of This...A Little Bit of That

Click HERE to see our PUPPY @ 2 WEEKS OLD!!!

(We still don't know which one he is, but they are all precious!)

In other news:
Auburn is winning...we've been enjoying this football season very much!
I've been doing some decorating recently...remember what our kitchen nook used to look like??? Let me remind you...

Here's the new and improved version....These were heavily debated curtains. I have had my eye on them at Lowe's for the past few months. I could not decide if they were "Pottery Barn Floral" or "Old Lady Floral" :-) I finally decided that I really liked them and snatched them up! As I hand them to the slightly elderly redneck cashier, she says "I used to have this pattern all over my house, and it took forever to get rid of it all." ....My thoughts, "Oh no, If she is ridding her house of this pattern, WHY am I bringing it into mine..am I making a terrible mistake?????" End Result: I love them :-)

Stay tuned for fun with lots of picture frames! I'm going to be hanging LOTS of pictures soon (mostly black and whites from our Europe trip).

We've also bee doing a LOT of this recently.... Not sure why there is no que or balls on the table, but we've been playing a lot of pool! We bought a pool table and it resides in our garage (NOTE: this is a very different pool table that is much nicer than the one we purchased...and that is NOT our garage:-) This picture was actually taken on a mountain retreat we went on with the other couples in our Bible Study...here are some more shots from that weekend!The cabin was right on the Ocoee River in Tennessee - we had a lot of fun, but we shared unknown stomach flu germs with each other all weekend and upon returning home 6 out of 9 of us got sick!!!! Here's a picture taken at the cabin which I believe may have been a glimpse into the very near future for most of us!

We are all feeling better now, thank goodness, and loving the beautiful fall weather! Happy Fall!